Wednesday - June 01, 2016

Lennox Cornwall
Lennox Cornwall joins Jim Blasingame to share his story on how he reinvented himself from corporate exec to entrepreneur and what he learned along the way.
Lennox Cornwall
Lennox Cornwall joins Jim Blasingame to reveal reasons why successful entrepreneurs are comfortable with the concept of failure as it is the harnessmate of success.
Ruth King
Ruth King joins Jim Blasingame to explain some of the signs to notice when and employee is stealing from the company.
Ruth King
Ruth King joins Jim Blasingame to identify several best practices that will deter an employee from stealing from the company.
Ruth King
Ruth King joins Jim Blasingame to reveal several ways to check behind an employee to see if they’re stealing from you through the manipulation of accounts.
Ilise Benun
Ilise Benun joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the good and bad about making your pricing available on your website.
Ilise Benun
Ilise Benun joins Jim Blasingame to reveal three things to do to encourage customers to have a pricing conversation with you that contributes to acquiring the right kind of customer.
Nellie Akalp
Nellie Akalp joins Jim Blasingame to reveal several tips and parameters to consider when deciding what to name your company.
Nellie Akalp
Nellie Akalp joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the legal and online issue and resources to consider when naming your business.
Nellie Akalp
Nellie Akalp joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the online parameters and resources to consider when choosing a name for your business that also works online.

Thursday - June 02, 2016

Michael Bungay Stanier
Michael Bungay Stanier joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power of becoming a coaching manager, and how to ask the right questions that will put you on the coaching track.
Michael Bungay Stanier
Michael Bungay Stanier joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how asking the right questions the right way can make you a better coaching manager.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Diana Furchtgott-Roth joins Jim Blasingame to report on the Labor Dept.’s Persuader Rule, which, incredibly requires any company to report any activity with any labor advisor, who then has to report their entire client list. 1984 anyone?
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Diana Furchtgott-Roth joins Jim Blasingame to refute most of the positions President Obama makes about the current state of the economy with specific examples of economic assaults coming from this administration.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Diana Furchtgott-Roth joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the new overtime rules by the Obama administration is an assault an employer’s ability to manage its workforce.
Vicky Oliver
Vicky Oliver joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the worst job interview mistakes applicants make including being late and being uninformed.
Vicky Oliver
Vicky Oliver joins Jim Blasingame to reveal more mistakes to avoid when seeing a job, including inappropriate dress and appearance and using unacceptable language.
Judith Glaser
Judith Glaser joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the science behind why cold calling is a losing proposition now more than ever.
Judith Glaser
Judith Glaser joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the science behind the human reactions prospects have when a salesperson tries to make a cold call.
Judith Glaser
Judith Glaser joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power of setting the stage for prospects to have a warm feeling about you before you ask them for the business.

Friday - June 03, 2016

M. Tamra Chandler
Tamra Chandler joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the weakness of classic performance management and offer suggestions on a better way to evaluate and lead people.
M. Tamra Chandler
Tamra Chandler joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that it’s not just the millennials who aren’t responding well to performance management practices in the 21st century.
Rick Maurer
Rick Maurer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that the most important question to ask about whether your organization can change successfully is to yourself: Am I willing to be influenced?
Rick Maurer
Rick Maurer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what you have to do to set the stage where employees will contribute to change to the level that it changes the boss’ thinking.

Monday - June 06, 2016

Tom Asacker
Tom Asacker joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the illuminating power of your mistakes, and why you shouldn’t be afraid to make them.
Tom Asacker
Tom Asacker joins Jim Blasingame to report on a customer care fail by a major corporation and how they delivered a clinic on how to NOT treat customers.
Ramon Ray
Ramon Ray joins Jim Blasingame to report that the cyber-bad guys are increasingly looking down-market to see what kind of damage they can do at the Main Street small business level.
Ramon Ray
Ramon Ray joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how he sought and got help with professionals who helped him better understand the financial management of his company.
Ramon Ray
Ramon Ray joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the importance of understanding the analytics of your online activity as Google reports will tell you, and how to get help with this.
SC Moatti
SC Moatti joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the present and future of mobile computing and what you have to do to get your business ready for mobile prime time.
SC Moatti
SC Moatti joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the three major criteria to use when developing a mobile computing strategy, including how to deliver on customer expectations from their body, spirit and mind.
Jim Blasingame
Jim Blasingame shares his thoughts on how he defines intellectual honesty and laments the fact that it seems to be short supply today.
Jim Blasingame
Jim Blasingame reveals his intellectual honesty formula for talking with people who are on the other side of an ideological or philosophical debate and still be friends.
Jim Blasingame
Jim Blasingame reveals his thoughts on why Americans have become so polarized politically, and what it will take to recover from this very dangerous condition.

Tuesday - June 07, 2016

Charles Wheelan
Charles Wheelan joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that many people misunderstand that money is not wealth, like a house, but, as Adam Smith said, has value in exchange, but not use.
Charles Wheelan
Charles Wheelan joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that international currency fluctuations could have an impact on your relationships with large customers who do business overseas.
Sam Norwood
Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the indicators that you need to take your financial management capability to the next level.
Sam Norwood
Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that a growing business needs to maintain a high level of financial management to be prepared to fund and maintain that growth.
Sam Norwood
Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the critical financial reporting that will be required in order to get crowdfunding investment, which man mean you have to upgrade financial management.
Olalah Njenga
Olalah Njenga joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that your internal systems and operations may be to blame for poor sales performance.
Olalah Njenga
Olalah Njenga joins Jim Blasingame to report on the ugly consequences that will befall small businesses if the Obama administration goes forward with its ill-conceived overtime rule making.
Arky Ciancutti
Arky Ciancutti joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the steps to take when a formerly good relationship suffers a broken trust stage.
Arky Ciancutti
Arky Ciancutti joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that the best way to handle a broken trust situation is to be true to yourself by behaving in an authentic way and close every commitment.
Arky Ciancutti
Arky Ciancutti joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how to identify when your organization is experiencing broken trust and how to eradicate it before it takes down the company.

Wednesday - June 08, 2016

Mitzi Perdue
Mitzi Perdue joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how one person’s abiding fear of failure prevented him from following his dream.
Mitzi Perdue
Mitzi Perdue joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the power that fear of rejection can have over you, how it may be holding you back, and how to deal with it.
Pamela Harper
Pamela Harper joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the difference between being disrupted and being the disruptor and it depends upon your attitude about being a game changer.
Pamela Harper
Pamela Harper joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that when you experience a game-changer the force behind it will be the expectations of your customers.
Pamela Harper
Pamela Harper joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power and non-negotiability of having conversations about expectations with stakeholders inside and outside your organization.
Jim Blasingame
Jim Blasingame reveals why in-person contact is an old school fundamental that is new school cool and should never be minimized.
Jim Blasingame
Jim Blasingame identifies the names and his memories of three friends who died in Vietnam, and to lament the fact that we’ve lost thousands of Americans in wars politicians weren’t committed to finish.
John Harrison
John Harrison joins Jim Blasingame to offer some tips and best practices on how to protect and extend the value of your money and credit during vacation season.
John Harrison
John Harrison joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how a new Department of Labor ruling will hurt investment advisors as well as their clients.
John Harrison
John Harrison joins Jim Blasingame to dispel the myth that you should sell stocks in May and go away by saying you may pick up some good buys during the summer doldrums.

Thursday - June 09, 2016

Jeff Zbar
Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the process he’s using to decide what kind of a laptop he wants to buy next, whether a netbook or a traditional type.
Jeff Zbar
Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to reveal his thinking on whether to choose another Chromebook laptop, or a PC or Mac unit.
Dawn Fotopulos
Dawn Fotopulos joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that many small businesses fail because, incredibly, they don’t send customers invoices every month.
Dawn Fotopulos
Dawn Fotopulos joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the twin challenges every business owner has to deal with, which is whether to focus on cash or profit.
Dawn Fotopulos
Dawn Fotopulos joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how to rank customers based on the amount of gross profit they allow you to produce from their business, and why this information is critical to your success.
Adam Levin
Adam Levin joins Jim Blasingame to report on the online hacker world based on how they stratify along government, industry and business size targets.
Adam Levin
Adam Levin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the best practices to follow in order to minimize the fact that if a hacker really wants to get inside your online world, they can.
Josh Wright
Josh Wright joins Jim Blasingame to report on the disappointing May jobs numbers and explain what that means in terms of economic growth.
Josh Wright
Josh Wright joins Jim Blasingame to discuss whether America’s poor jobs growth performance is due to structural changes in the global economy or jobs killing policies from Washington.
Josh Wright
Josh Wright joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the difficult job the Fed has in it’s role as the central bank of the U.S. that also has to consider global economic forces.

Friday - June 10, 2016

Shawn Murphy
Shawn Murphy joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that motivating employees in the 21st century requires some classic, Old School fundamentals combined with New School employee expectations.
Shawn Murphy
Shawn Murphy joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the fact that all employees want to have meaningful work, but that is not the same thing as expecting to be entertained.
Ryan Gilliam
Ryan Gilliam joins Jim Blasingame to share his story about how he traded his football uniform for a suit and became a successful business person, and how he discovered unexpected costs.
Ryan Gilliam
Ryan Gilliam joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why the different generations in the workplace have a lot of work to do to appreciate the value both bring to the table.
Catherine Kaputa
Catherine Kaputa joins Jim Blasingame to report on the difficult environment college graduates are going to find when they look for work this year.
Catherine Kaputa
Catherine Kaputa joins Jim Blasingame to report on some of the things college graduates will need to expect when they go looking for a job and how to overcome the tight jobs market.
Catherine Kaputa
Catherine Kaputa joins Jim Blasingame to offer tips on how college graduates should prepare to find work and how to conduct themselves when they ask for the job.

Monday - June 13, 2016

Daniel Gorfine
Daniel Gorfine joins Jim Blasingame to report on this new online lending industry organization created to create lending language and offering standards, and educate borrowers about their options.
Daniel Gorfine
Daniel Gorfine joins Jim Blasingame to report on the current condition small businesses are finding the online lending environment, including how his company is doing it.
Hector Barreto
Hector Barreto joins Jim Blasingame to review his organizations participation in this year’s Small Business Summit with the host, the U.S. Chamber.
Hector Barreto
Hector Barreto joins Jim Blasingame to review some of the oppressive regulations being pushed into force by the Obama administration, including the new overtime rules that limit employer-employee flexibility.
Hector Barreto
Hector Barreto joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the electoral influence of Hispanic voters and how it will impact the 2016 election.
Morag Barrett
Morag Barrett joins Jim Blasingame to address the fact that what some people think is conflict at work, is really just a failure to communicate or someone getting their feelings hurt.
Morag Barrett
Morag Barrett joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that the first step in conflict resolution may be to determine if the issue at hand is really a conflict, or a management decision.
Chad Moutray
Chad Moutray joins Jim Blasingame to report that U.S. manufacturers have lost tens of thousands of net jobs just in 2016, which can’t be a good sign for the overall economy.
Chad Moutray
Chad Moutray joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the economic headwinds produced by the Obama administration, specifically the newest version in the form of overtime rules.
Chad Moutray
Chad Moutray joins Jim Blasingame to discuss what is called, Brexit, which is Great Britain voting on whether to stay in the E.U., and the implications for the global economy, and even implications on terrorism.

Tuesday - June 14, 2016

Marsha Egan
Marsha Egan joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that when you’re encouraging and praising employees be specific about what they did well, instead of just saying “good job.”
Marsha Egan
Marsha Egan joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the reasons ethical behavior is not merely determining what’s black and white.
Steve DelBianco
Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to report that in spite of years of efforts, it looks like the forces behind an Internet sales tax will become a reality soon.
Steve DelBianco
Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to report that he believes checks and balances have been put into place to prevent any entity from taking over the Internet as the U.S. divests its control over ICANN.
Steve DelBianco
Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to report that he’s concerned about the future of the Internet as it continues to be assaulted by government attempting to control and tax it.
Jim Blasingame
Jim Blasingame reveals several tips and best practices to help you thrive in the face of big box and cyber-box competitors.
Jim Blasingame
Jim Blasingame talks about some of the issues around the Orlando terrorist attack and why America has to have a gut check about how we’re going to deal with the fact that radical Islam has declared war on us.
Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that in his definition, ego is self-confidence that has gone too far.
Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday joins Jim Blasingame to reveal examples of when ego is not a productive behavior, and that we’re all capable of demonstrating ego to some level.
Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that, not surprisingly, men are more likely to demonstrate their ego, but sometimes that’s not all bad.

Wednesday - June 15, 2016

Henry Hutcheson
Henry Hutcheson joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that since almost all small businesses are family businesses, conflict is inevitable, and offer tips and best practices on how to resolve them.
Henry Hutcheson
Henry Hutcheson joins Jim Blasingame to talk about using meta meetings as a way to prevent and/or resolve conflicts that arise in every business.
John Swanciger
John Swanciger joins Jim Blasingame to report on the new progress on equity crowdfunding for small businesses and whether this will be a widely used capital source in this sector.
John Swanciger
John Swanciger joins Jim Blasingame to report on the new overtime regulations that will create more challenges -- for both employers and employees -- than help for those it purports to help.
John Swanciger
John Swanciger joins Jim Blasingame to reveal a new, higher level of support for Manta’s community members that delivers a personal touch to help with marketing decisions.
Drew Neisser
Drew Neisser joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that successful marketing has both science and art elements and that focusing on what you do best for customers is the best way to determine the direction of your marketing strategy.
Drew Neisser
Drew Neisser joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that hiring people who fit the goals of your business is key to success, and then let them help you manage the data your activity produces to help you focus on customers.
Bob McTeer
Bob McTeer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that the Fed doesn’t have much ammunition remaining to influence the economy one way or the other, and that they won’t raise rates this month, but maybe next month.
Bob McTeer
Bob McTeer joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the upcoming vote by England on whether to remain in the European Union as a trading partner, and what are the implications if they leave?
Bob McTeer
Bob McTeer joins Jim Blasingame to offer suggestions on possible benefits of England leaving the E.U., as a trading member, plus what are the implications of negative interest rates.

Thursday - June 16, 2016

John Patterson
John Patterson joins Jim Blasingame to talk about why every small business should be providing a guaranteed warranty of excellent customer experience for life.
John Patterson
John Patterson joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the steps you have to take in hiring and training to guarantee delivery of an excellent customer experience.
Kathy Perry
Kathy Perry joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how a company having trouble finding its way, like LinkedIn, gets another desperate company like Microsoft to buy it at double the price.
Kathy Perry
Kathy Perry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some good news from Facebook regarding how you can benefit from selecting the business network option when advertising with Facebook.
Kathy Perry
Kathy Perry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal a new feature with Instagram, which will help advertisers be more effective and successful with this platform.
Charles Collins
Charles Collins joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why we’re seeing more snoring and sleep apnea problems and how Dr. Keith Thompson turned inventor/entrepreneur to solve this medical challenge and create a great company in the process.
Charles Collins
Charles Collins joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the company he runs has used outsourcing at multiple levels to get the most out of other firms so his company, Airway Labs, can focus on their core competencies.
Joel Barker
Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to reveal new technological improvements in the operation and safety of magnetic-levitation system for mass transportation.
Joel Barker
Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the details of how researchers have discovered breakthrough findings that will enhance manipulation of our DNA, reduce cholesterol and test for future possibility of having Alzheimer’s disease.
Joel Barker
Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that your next medicine could be printed by your local pharmacist, breakthrough success with stem cell therapy, and how the coal industry could provide the U.S. with precious rare earth elements.

Friday - June 17, 2016

Patricia Harden
Pat Harden joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the potential impact of Yelp on your business and how to turn it into an advantage.
Patricia Harden
Pat Harden joins Jim Blasingame to recommend you become a subject-matter expert with your local media, whether print, online, video, etc.
James Barrood
Jim Barrood joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what his technology counsel is, what it does, how many others are around the U.S. and why that’s information every small business owner should know.
James Barrood
Jim Barrood joins Jim Blasingame to report on the success of his tech council with the first venture capital fund and their plans for a second one.
Gene Marks
Gene Marks joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the overtime regulations the Obama administration is planning to implement for all employees of all employers, regardless of size.
Gene Marks
Gene Marks joins Jim Blasingame to debate the justification for the new rules by the Obama administration on which salaries workers should be paid overtime.
Gene Marks
Gene Marks joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the practical and economic arguments against raising the minimum wage, particularly since it won’t help the low wage sector and will create problem for employers.

Monday - June 20, 2016

Michael Dermer
Michael Dermer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what he learned about entrepreneurship and why he thinks whether you succeed or not as an entrepreneur is more about your perspective than your business plan.
Michael Dermer
Michael Dermer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what he learned about the Four Ps of being an entrepreneur when his company went through the financial crisis.
Gordon Chang
Gordon Chang joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the real reason why China has tried to prevent the sale of Apple’s iPhone 6 in that country.
Gordon Chang
Gordon Chang joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the current trend toward a regulatory and capital constrains environment in the U.S. as we now see in China and the Euro Zone?
Gordon Chang
Gordon Chang joins Jim Blasingame to share his thoughts on the implications of Great Britton leaving the EU and what’s behind China’s activity of building islands in the South China Sea.
Pam Danziger
Pam Danziger joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that only making customers happy with their experience with your business will they become loyal, not your products, prices or anything else.
Pam Danziger
Pam Danziger joins Jim Blasingame to talk about several specific steps you should take to get your business to “pop” with customers over and over again.
Gerald Celente
Gerald Celente joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that the incompetence of the Obama administration is a major reason the U.S. economy is still languishing after seven years.
Gerald Celente
Gerald Celente joins Jim Blasingame to talk about whether there will be global upheaval if Great Britain leaves the EU and whether this will open the door for the dissolving of that compact.
Gerald Celente
Gerald Celente joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the possibility that a third wave of voter group sweeping other parts of the world could be happening in the U.S. this year.

Tuesday - June 21, 2016

Chip Bell
Chip Bell joins Jim Blasingame to talk about what to do when a crisis happens in your business that could affect customer relationships.
Chip Bell
Chip Bell joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the concept of treating customers like they’re getting no respect anywhere else and they’ve come to you to turn their day around.
Wayne Crews
Wayne Crews joins Jim Blasingame to explain how the Obama administration used an executive “guidance” tool to push their transgender issue to any entity connected to government financial support.
Wayne Crews
Wayne Crews joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the concept of executive “guidance” that imposes rules on businesses without a law being passed or a regulation being vetted by public review, and how these are hurting the economy.
Wayne Crews
Wayne Crews joins Jim Blasingame to reveal an Obama administration executive order that was essentially going to regulate every tiny stream and wet patch on your property.
Pat Hagen
Jim  Simpson
Pat Hagen and Jim Simpson join Jim Blasingame to explain why they created a technology resource that helps commercial renters and landlords get together more efficiently.
Pat Hagen
Jim  Simpson
Pat Hagen and Jim Simpson join Jim Blasingame to report that the commercial real estate industry is in good condition after the 2008 financial crisis, and what impact teleworking is having on that industry.
Nicole Gelinas
Nicole Gelinas joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the way England became part of the E.U. and how that was different from the other members.
Nicole Gelinas
Nicole Gelinas joins Jim Blasingame to report on why so many English citizens are not happy with the way they’re being treated by the EU leadership, and how that will manifest in the upcoming exit vote.
Nicole Gelinas
Nicole Gelinas joins Jim Blasingame to talk about some of the implications, locally and globally, if the English vote to leave the EU.

Wednesday - June 22, 2016

Sarah Hiner
Sarah Hiner joins Jim Blasingame to report on two areas of medical importance: the best and worst ways to treat heartburn, and how to blend your Medicare enrollment with your employer benefits.
Sarah Hiner
Sarah Hiner joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how your family is treated if you delay Medicare enrollment, plus how to improve your credit score with one phone call.
Bill Dunkelberg
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to compare the reality of the current economy and the victory lap President Obama took recently.
Bill Dunkelberg
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the NFIB Index that shows after seven years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy is barely moving forward in hiring and investing.
Bill Dunkelberg
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the NFIB Index that shows capital expenditure isn’t increasing, plus what are the implications of a possible EU exit by Great Britain.
Jim Blasingame
Jim Blasingame reveals the steps of an economic cycle, and why it’s important to differentiate between a recovery mode and an economic expansion.
Jim Blasingame
Jim Blasingame reveals the dangers of failing to tell the truth about what causes mass attacks and killings, especially that people hurt other people because of what’s in their heart, not their hands.
John Dini
John Dini joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that both parties make up the political class and as such, have become one of the four great corruptions in the U.S.
John Dini
John Dini joins Jim Blasingame to report on two of America’s great corruptions, the healthcare industry and higher education, and how they endanger our future.
John Dini
John Dini joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the corrupt connection between Wall Street and Washington and why they’ve become America’s oligarchies and now are blatant about it.

Thursday - June 23, 2016

Jeff Zbar
Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to report that after raising three kids over 25 years as a home-based business owner, his last one is leaving the nest and he’s contemplating how his daily schedule will change.
Jeff Zbar
Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to contemplate how his home-based work schedule will change now that his last child is off to college.
Leo Haviland
Leo Haviland joins Jim Blasingame to share his thoughts on what would be the global implications if voters in Great Britain choose to exit the European Union.
Leo Haviland
Leo Haviland joins Jim Blasingame to report on some of the key elements that could destabilize China’s future, including significant debt and demands for political reform.
Leo Haviland
Leo Haviland joins Jim Blasingame to report on some of the causes of global economic stagnation, which he ascribes more than anything to the policies of the global central banks.
Jonah Berger
Jonah Berger joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that there are many people and forces that influence customer reaction and support of your business, and what you need to know about this.
Jonah Berger
Jonah Berger joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how invisible influence works, and how you can harness that power as a tool and minimize any negative influences.
Shawn Murphy
Shawn Murphy joins Jim Blasingame to reveal a best practice that will help you create a feedback culture, including four steps that will get you on the right track.
Shawn Murphy
Shawn Murphy joins Jim Blasingame to encourage managers to create a culture of feedback that serves as tough love with the goal of seeking excellence.
Shawn Murphy
Shawn Murphy joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that providing feedback to the Millennial generation is different than for other generations.

Friday - June 24, 2016

Susan Solovic
Susan Solovic joins Jim Blasingame to encourage you to develop a mission statement that will inform your vision and behavior for where your business is going for the next five years.
Susan Solovic
Susan Solovic joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that by producing a 1% edge in various parts of your business, the aggregation of these will take your business to the next level.
Skip Miller
Skip Miller joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that thinking outward, devotion to metrics and leading change are the three key metrics of a successful sales culture.
Karen Cortell Reisman
Karen Cortell Reisman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the concept of a conversational GPS, which when monitored, will tell you when to stop talking.
Karen Cortell Reisman
Karen Cortell Reisman joins Jim Blasingame to report on her recent trip to India, including how the marketplace looked and how the people treated an American.
Greg Kozera
Greg Kozera joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the dynamic between the price of crude oil and the price of gasoline and where is the equilibrium price point that will serve the economy, consumers and the industry.
Greg Kozera
Greg Kozera joins Jim Blasingame to report that the U.S. has one of the highest reserves of natural gas in the world that can be harvested by fracking for years to come.
Greg Kozera
Greg Kozera joins Jim Blasingame to report that the U.S. is one of the solutions for climate change, not the problem, because of natural gas.

Monday - June 27, 2016

Doug McCormick
Doug McCormick joins Jim Blasingame to explain how to use business practices to improve the performance of your career and therefore your family prospects and finances.
Doug McCormick
Doug McCormick joins Jim Blasingame to explain how to manage your family budget similar to how a business uses financial reports, plus some retirement advice.
Jim Blasingame
Jim Blasingame explains some of the details around the Brexit vote and whether it will impact Main Street small businesses.
Jim Blasingame
Jim Blasingame shares a letter he wrote to President Obama about taking credit for good economic conditions that simply aren’t in evidence.
Jim Blasingame
Jim Blasingame joins us to offer evidence of anti-business, anti-job creator behavior produced by the Obama administration.
Jim Dewald
Jim Dewald joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the definition of entrepreneurship and explain how an organization can be entrepreneurial and innovative.
Jim Dewald
Jim Dewald joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the challenges publicly traded companies have in being entrepreneurial, and whether that’s going to be a challenge for them in the 21st century.
Patricia Greene
Patti Greene joins Jim Blasingame to report on the state of growing small businesses and how their big challenges are finding qualified employee applicants.
Patricia Greene
Patti Greene joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the results of a study showing small businesses that want to grow are opportunity obsessed, are continually innovative, and focus on training.
Patricia Greene
Patti Greene joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the challenges growing small businesses have in accessing capital, including getting terms they can handle, as well as using alternative lending sources, like crowdfunding.

Tuesday - June 28, 2016

Ilise Benun
Ilise Benun joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the good and bad about making your pricing available on your website.
Ilise Benun
Ilise Benun joins Jim Blasingame to reveal three things to do to encourage customers to have a pricing conversation with you that contributes to acquiring the right kind of customer.
Nellie Akalp
Nellie Akalp joins Jim Blasingame to reveal several tips and parameters to consider when deciding what to name your company.
Nellie Akalp
Nellie Akalp joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the legal and online issue and resources to consider when naming your business.
Nellie Akalp
Nellie Akalp joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the online parameters and resources to consider when choosing a name for your business that also works online.

Wednesday - June 29, 2016

Joel Peterson
Joel Peterson joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the laws of trust and explain why trust is the lubricant of everything we do in life and business.
Joel Peterson
Joel Peterson joins Jim Blasingame to report on the deterioration of trust at the Corporate America level, why this has occurred and how to recover from this dysfunctional condition.
Tim Berry
Tim Berry joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the intention and commitment we have to have in order to have some separation between our businesses and our personal lives.
Tim Berry
Tim Berry joins Jim Blasingame to talk about ideas that you can protect and how to do that, and those ideas you can’t protect and why that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Tim Berry
Tim Berry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how long you can be a business owner before you’ve crossed the Rubicon into a state of being unemployable.
Mitzi Perdue
Mitzi Perdue joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how one person’s abiding fear of failure prevented him from following his dream.
Mitzi Perdue
Mitzi Perdue joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the power that fear of rejection can have over you, how it may be holding you back, and how to deal with it.

Thursday - June 30, 2016

Michael Glauser
Mike Glauser joins Jim Blasingame to report that entrepreneurship in the form of new startups is down in recent years, partially because the Millennial generation is not starting businesses at the rate of past generations.
Michael Glauser
Mike Glauser joins Jim Blasingame to report that the key to the future success of the U.S. economy lies in our ability to promote entrepreneurship at the Main Street level.
Rick Mathieson
Rick Mathieson joins Jim Blasingame to remind you that most emails are opened on a mobile device and to make sure your email marketing campaigns take that into consideration.
Rick Mathieson
Rick Mathieson joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the tips and best practices for building a loyal following for your email marketing strategy.
Rick Mathieson
Rick Mathieson joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that being and staying relevant to your audience in the content you send to them is the most important element of your email marketing strategy.
Marsha Egan
Marsha Egan joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that when you’re encouraging and praising employees be specific about what they did well, instead of just saying “good job.”
Steve DelBianco
Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to report that in spite of years of efforts, it looks like the forces behind an Internet sales tax will become a reality soon.
Steve DelBianco
Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to report that he believes checks and balances have been put into place to prevent any entity from taking over the Internet as the U.S. divests its control over ICANN.
Steve DelBianco
Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to report that he’s concerned about the future of the Internet as it continues to be assaulted by government attempting to control and tax it.