Melinda Emerson joins Jim Blasingame to offer tips on how to run your business so you can sustain it during the slow and fast times.

Melinda Emerson joins Jim Blasingame to offer suggestions on how to help black entrepreneurs claim the business ownership component of the American Dream.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the paradox of full employment in the U.S. which at once produces great national income for millions of workers, but also, by definition, limits economic growth that depends on more workers.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame with the NFIB Index of Small Business Optimism, which shows hiring and compensation are up, and yet inflation is still down.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the strength of the U.S. economy, that there is no indication of even one negative GDP quarter on the horizon, let alone two, and that we need to start celebrating 2.5% growth in a $21 trillion economy.

Ilise Benun joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how to be an intrapreneur – entrepreneurial employee – in your corporate job, if you can find a corporation that will allow that.

Ilise Benun joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how to approach a connection on LinkedIn with a sales pitch, and how not to do it.

Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to report on their recent policy expo that covered bi-partisan legislation opportunities as well as some issues that won’t get solved in this Congress.

Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to report on the Browning-Ferris issue in front of the NLRB that could become problematic for small businesses doing business with large customers, as well as the franchise industry.

Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to report on the possibility that a bi-partisan deal could be struck to reform health care, including some aspects of Obamacare.