Are you feeling overwhelmed by all the new marketing options today? Ed Abel joins Jim Blasingame to help put all of the marketing and social media options into perspective so you can make decisions that produce results for you.

You don't have to perform unnatural acts to adjust to the new marketing resources. Ed Abel joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how to keep all of the new marketing and social media options in perspective with your existing practices.

Get someone to help you with your social media strategy. Ed Abel joins Jim Blasingame to recommend hiring professional and young employees to help you develop and execute a social media strategy that compliments your traditional practices.

How well-developed is your networking activity? Ed Abel joins Jim Blasingame to identify three kinds of networking activity - structural, strategic and social - and how to use each one productively.

What does your New Year planning look like? Ed Abel joins Jim Blasingame to recommend that your New Year planning should be to ask yourself and your team questions that will help you focus on at least three main areas to work on.

Are you executing your business plan? Ed Abel joins Jim Blasingame to encourage quarterly reviews of your plan for the New Year, plus begin by working on the low hanging fruit to make progress and get early success stories.

A proposal is the best worker bee you can leave behind with a prospect. Ed Abel joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how to get prospects and customers to remember you after you're out of sight and mind.

Are you delivering enough proposals? Ed Abel joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why delivering proposals is the best way to insure that you have the maximum opportunity to get more sales, including why they matter as a leave behind document.

What's the best way to deliver a proposal? Ed Abel joins Jim Blasingame to offer best practices on the different ways to deliver a proposal, including when it's okay to not deliver it in person.

Why do small businesses make customer service so difficult? Ed Abel joins Jim Blasingame to talk about why too many small businesses actually think they're really good at customer service - but that's not what their customers would say.