This Week's Show Schedule

Jim Blasingame reveals three of the questions you need to know as you begin to think about asking a bank for a business loan.

Jim Blasingame reveals why, after a decade of deleveraging, small businesses are probably ready to start borrowing again.

Debbie Meyer joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the difference between management and leadership.

Debbie Meyer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that if you’re doing your job as a leader, the people you lead will do your managing for you.

Debbie Meyer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that you must teach your managers how to become leaders in their own right.

Adam Witty joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the elements that are required if you want to achieve greatness in your business, including having core values and putting your people first.

Adam Witty joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that establishing values and principles in the culture of your business, and requiring zero deviation from them, are keys to achieving greatness.

Joan Pryde joins Jim Blasingame during Breast Cancer Awareness Month to tell her story of discovery, diagnosis, treatment and 18-year survival of breast cancer.

Joan Pryde joins Jim Blasingame during Breast Cancer Awareness month to relate her own treatment experience and the improvements that have been made over the years, leading to a higher survival rate.

Joan Pryde joins Jim Blasingame during Breast Cancer Awareness month to offer her advice and suggestions on early detection and why that, and the new treatments, are the key to her 18-year survival.

Jim Alampi joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how to achieve the right growth in boom times.

George Magnus joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why Xi Jinping’s China is in Jeopardy.

Matthew Owenby joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the importance of maintaining a healthy workforce.

Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the upcoming midterm elections.

Jennifer Dantzler joins Jim Blasingame to report on her award-winning work serving people with autism and to report that research shows there is more autism today than in decades past.

Gary Davis joins Jim Blasingame to report on the increasing incidence of cyber-crime down-market and that small businesses aren’t keeping up with their protection practices.

Vicky Oliver joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some dos and don’ts for employees, including why you shouldn’t ask for a raise before you’ve earned the right.

Robert Levin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that with all of the exciting new media marketing options, especially social media, the email workhorse is still the old reliable for many reasons.

Susanna Mittermaier joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the concept of perfection pops up in an entrepreneurial organization, and how to minimize it by instead delegating for excellence.

Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on a heat shield made into an umbrella to be used to help space craft penetrate the atmosphere friction, instead of the current ceramic tile method.

Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the brands of very small businesses are typically tied to the reputation of the owner, and how to manage that connection.

Chris Bishop joins Jim Blasingame to report on the geeky tech content you’ll find at most artificial intelligence conferences, and the need for more intuitive interface help for business people.

Angel Gambino joins Jim Blasingame to acknowledge that frustration continues among many small businesses about improving the return on their social media strategies.

Adrian Ott joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how her closed-loop system of discovering what customers want and expect can now be in the hands of small businesses.

Mark Babbitt joins Jim Blasingame to offer suggestions on how to deal with situations when your business world gets muddled with the politics of the day.

Dr. Eric Cole joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the evidence that shows the cyber-bad-guys are coming down market to breach the cyber-world of small businesses.