Jim Blasingame celebrates International Networking Week by first revealing the two most important networkers in the history of networking, and offers six important networking tips, plus one bonus tip.

Kathleen Abernathy joins Jim Blasingame to report on the America’s Best Communities her company is honoring, along with several other corporate partners, as a way of highlighting the importance of Main Street America.

Cliff Ennico joins Jim Blasingame to discuss some of the fallacies that prevail around whether Big Box competitors really hurt small businesses when they come to town.

Cliff Ennico joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that one of the best strategies for small businesses to compete with the Big Box competitors is not to cut prices, but to focus on how to save customers time.

Cliff Ennico joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how Amazon's Jeff Bezos will put more big box retailers out of business, and how to work with this as a small business, as opposed to compete with.

Nick Choat joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what he learned about big data during his corporate tenure, and why small businesses have access to their own big data.

Nick Choat joins Jim Blasingame to reveal his path from corporate America, to becoming a small business franchise owner, and how that led him to write a book about small business marketing.

Michael Saltsman joins Jim Blasingame to report on the cabinet nominations and why that indicates President Trump will be a much more business-friendly president than Obama.

Michael Saltsman joins Jim Blasingame to report on the nomination of Andy Pudzer as Labor Secretary, and why that will be a great appointment for employers and job creators.

Michael Saltsman joins Jim Blasingame to report that in addition to the federal minimum wage, employers have to deal with dozens of state and local minimum wage imposed around the country.