Friday - August 01, 2014
Joel Libava joins Jim Blasingame to report on why every new franchise buyer must take the time to understand the Franchise Disclosure Document, even if it seems like homework.
Joel Libava joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how understanding the Franchise Disclosure Documents when you buy a franchise will help you protect your investment.
Pete Sepp joins Jim Blasingame to report on the debate over two Internet tax issues, access and sales, and what it will take to resolve them.
Pete Sepp joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that even though the 113 Congress didn't accomplish much, it still managed to add over $1 trillion to the federal budget.
Pete Sepp joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how future Congresses will look at spending in light of deficits and national debt.
Jane Pollak joins Jim Blasingame to report on how and why she took 90 days away from her business to take an around-the-world journey.
Jane Pollak joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what she learned about herself when she got outside her comfort zones during a 90 day voyage to 13 countries.
Dan Poynter joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how he overcame a fatal diagnosis associated with a rare chromosomal condition.
Dan Poynter joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how he's written 130 books, all about thing he knows, and how you can do the same thing with your first book.
Dan Poynter joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the power of telling stories can be the foundation of your first book.
Monday - August 04, 2014
Mitch Free joins Jim Blasingame to reveal two business strategies to incorporate into your business and market strategy, including customer expectations and other humans.
Mitch Free joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power of embracing technology in order to execute virtually all strategies.
Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to report on the history of entrenched, legacy business models resisting in non-competitive ways, new tech-driven disruptors.
Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to report on the controversy between ridesharing, tech-driven transportation companies, like Uber, and legacy taxi industry, like Yellow Cab.
Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to report on how politics and policy is being used to defend legacy industries against disruptive ventures, instead of competition.
Tom Anastasi joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the opportunity many small business owners may be passing up by not calling on corporate customers.
Tom Anastasi joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the good, bad and ugly of doing business with larger, corporate customers, especially when it comes to cash flow.
Brendan Ross joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the underwriting standards that a business must meet in order to borrow money from a crowdfunding community.
Brendan Ross joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how a crowdfunding loan happens and whether it's the right step for you.
Brendan Ross joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the process and communities involved in order to make money available as a loan from crowdfunding.
Tuesday - August 05, 2014
Janet Christy joins Jim Blasingame to explain why words we use with customers should be very specific and accurate, and how saying things like “No problem” is a big problem, instead of "You're welcome" or "It’s my pleasure."
Janet Christy joins Jim Blasingame to reveal all the different ways we initially communicate words to prospects and customers and why what we say at that point are so critical.
Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the extra effort our Constitutional Framers took to strike the right balance of power for the executive, but they never anticipated having an ideologue for president.
Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the dangers of having a president who is an ideologue as he interprets his constitutional powers.
Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to report on the apparent plans by President Obama to convey amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, in violation of his Constitutional powers as the executive.
Jim Blasingame begins a three-part series on how crowd funding is morphing into crowdfunding, a new term and new rules for old fashioned fundraising and venture capitalization. This one is about contributions and fundraising.
Jim Blasingame makes the connection between the foreign policy of exceptional nations like the U.S. and the perpetuation of our liberty.
Anita Rosen joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some thoughts on how to not be intimidated by all the new online shiny objects and stick with your plan, as long as it’s working.
Anita Rosen joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that you still have to manage the traditional marketing strategy in conjunction with increasingly integrating new media options.
Anita Rosen joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how any small business can execute new media marketing steps and strategies in a way that gets customers to respond.
Wednesday - August 06, 2014
Bill Schley joins Jim Blasingame to explain what positioning can do for your business strategy, especially establishing market positioning.
Bill Schley joins Jim Blasingame to reveal tips and best practices on how to establish positioning in your marketing plan.
Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the challenges that we will begin to face as a result of the U.S. national debt now being more than the size of our economy.
Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some reasons why we may be facing high inflation in the near future and what we can do to protect our small businesses.
Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame to recommend business practices that will help you weather a future with high interest rates and high inflation.
Bob Bly joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the cycles small business owners get in with regard to their marketing activity, and how to become disciplined to always be marketing.
Bob Bly joins Jim Blasingame to offer suggestions on how to allocate your time, talent and funds toward a successful marketing plan.
Ramon Ray joins Jim Blasingame to report on a recent survey of small business owners that indicated that entrepreneurs fall in one of four categories.
Ramon Ray joins Jim Blasingame to identify two of the four kinds of entrepreneurs based on a recent Infusionsoft survey, including the freedom seeker and the passionate creator.
Ramon Ray joins Jim Blasingame to identify two more of the four kinds of entrepreneurs based on a recent Infusionsoft survey, the struggling survivor and the legacy building.
Thursday - August 07, 2014
Matthew Owenby joins Jim Blasingame to discuss both the employee and employer perspective on benefits and how they impact a small business.
Matthew Owenby joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why small business owners are hiring at a slower pace than bigger business.
John Harrison joins Jim Blasingame to offer principles of successful investing.
John Harrison joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the stock market and why we may be looking at returns well below average in the future.
John Harrison joins Jim Blasingame to offer some counterintuitive tips for investing, including diversifying your investments to different asset classes.
Bill Treasurer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the leadership foul balls that all managers must avoid.
Bill Treasurer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal several leadership strikes every manager must avoid.
Pierce and Jane Howard joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what it looks like when someone has a dark side to their personality.
Pierce and Jane Howard joins Jim Blasingame to reveal recent research on the idea that dogs have a sense of time when it comes to their owners.
Pierce and Jane Howard joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the things to look for when an employee is exhibiting a dark side to their personality, and how this person can hurt your business.
Friday - August 08, 2014
Leah Hollis joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how our brains --and therefore our productivity -- benefit from taking a break, whether for a nap, a day off, or a vacation.
Leah Hollis joins Jim Blasingame to report on how the U.S. stands compares to the world with regard to workplace bullying laws, including in higher education.
Catherine Kaputa joins Jim Blasingame to discuss some of the things women need to do to stand up for their own personal and professional brand.
Catherine Kaputa joins Jim Blasingame to discuss a Harvard Business School study that looked at why women are less likely to speak up about their own ideas and opinions than are men.
John Fox joins Jim Blasingame to talk about his work in teaching high school seniors about tax policy as part of citizenship curriculum.
John Fox joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the current rate of corporate income tax and to debate whether lowering it would repatriate trillions of dollars of overseas earning back to the U.S.
John Fox joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the benefits of lowering the tax rate for income generated by small businesses, plus would flat tax be the best policy.
Monday - August 11, 2014
Bob Prosen joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that while there are many reasons why customers seek goods and services, there are not that many different reasons why they buy from one business or another.
Bob Prosen joins Jim Blasingame to point out that if you don’t have enough customers, it’s probably because you aren’t being human enough, not because of the recession.
Rick Newman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the with the trend away from robust startup creation, American businesses are getting older and fatter, but are you taking advantage of this trend.
Rick Newman joins Jim Blasingame to explain that while other businesses are getting fatter, here’s how to get your share of the profits.
Rick Newman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why a downward trend for startups should be good news for established small businesses.
Tom Garr joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what the Favor Bank System is and how to make the right kinds of deposits to your account with customers.
Tom Garr joins Jim Blasingame to explain why the Favor Bank System can be used to produce the Holy Grail of business, the referral.
Bryan Mattimore joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how partnering creation works and why it can be an excellent way to grow your customer base.
Bryan Mattimore joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the connection between creative partnering and trust, and how this factor can turn into long-term customer relationships.
Bryan Mattimore joins Jim Blasingame to stress that a creative partnering strategy is not just for big companies, and how it can be used to increase sales.
Tuesday - August 12, 2014
Bob Negen joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power of your guarantee to customers as one of the last true differentiators, not that virtually everything else has become a commodity.
Bob Negen joins Jim Blasingame to explain why a full guarantee to customers for all that you do is not an expense consideration, but an investment in the future of your business.
Bob Negen joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why small business retailers must provide a mobile computing experience for their customers.
Jim Blasingame continues his series on crowdfunding, this time he explains how a crowdfunding business loan works and puts it in context with other loan options.
Jim Blasingame talks about the death of Robin Williams and reminds us to be careful coveting the lives of celebrities and wealthy people as having something more valuable than your own life.
Richie Bernardo joins Jim Blasingame to report on a study of the 150 largest municipalities in the U.S. and explain how the top 10 are succeeding while the bottom 10 are essentially bankrupt.
Richie Bernardo joins Jim Blasingame to report on the failure of municipalities and how the recession revealed their leadership failures rather than caused their financial failure.
Stijn Hendrikse joins Jim Blasingame to reflect on how far we’ve come in staying connected with customers, from the landline, to mobile, to now a cloud-based multi-media switch small businesses can afford.
Stijn Hendrikse joins Jim Blasingame to explain how his cloud-based call center incorporates traditional and new media contact from customers and routes them to you and your people in real time.
Stijn Hendrikse joins Jim Blasingame to explain how to set up your own cloud-based call center and connect all of the ways customers can try to connect to you in real time.
Wednesday - August 13, 2014
Tom Asacker joins Jim Blasingame to reveal his ideas on why TED talks, or any type of behavioral/motivational instruction doesn't seem to change people's behaviors.
Tom Asacker joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why watching TED talks to improve your life usually doesn't make you cahnge your behaviors because you only do what you desire.
Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to report on what he's going to say to a Congressional, which is that we have the greatest to fear from climate change zealots.
Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the profession of climate change ideology, and why these zealots refuse to recognize carbon reduction by the marketplace.
Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to debate whether the U.S. should have a national energy plan that covers supply, demand, research, innovation, regulations, carbon and renewable sources.
Thursday - August 14, 2014
Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to talk about why professional and corporate reinvention being is relatively new but is now non-negotiable in order to sustain success.
Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how your small business can reinvent itself, including a story about how one family business did just that.
Ken Gronbach joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the markers of Generation Y and why they’re the most different emerging generation in history.
Ken Gronbach joins Jim Blasingame to report on some of the issue that the workplace and marketplace are experiencing as Generation Y takes its place in society.
Ken Gronbach joins Jim Blasingame to offer suggestions on how small business owners should hire, mentor and manage Gen Y employees.
Chris Mead joins Jim Blasingame to talk about his new book, “The Magicians of Main Street” which chronicles the way local chambers of commerce have impacted U.S. history since the 18th century.
Chris Mead joins Jim Blasingame to report on the ACCE 2014 in Cincinnati where hundreds of chamber executives meet to improve their skills in promoting and supporting local communities.
Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to share the lessons taught by the late Dr. Jim Harper, including the power of leading by example.
Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to share leadership principles of the late Dr. James Harper, including how to deal with difficult people and what can be learned by mistakes.
Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the life-long learning principle that allowed Dr. James Harper to contribute and be relevant right up to his death at age 91.
Friday - August 15, 2014
Charles Wheelan joins Jim Blasingame to identify some of the Senate candidates supported by the Centrist Project and why they’re needed.
Charles Wheelan joins Jim Blasingame to point out that the opposite of an ideologue is someone who is intellectually honest, and why we need more of the latter in Washington.
Rich Horwath joins Jim Blasingame as the CEO of your business, it’s your job to develop the strategy that creates an innovative environment in your business.
Rich Horwath joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how your competitive advantage is heavily dependent upon how well you develop a business strategy and an innovative culture.
Arky Ciancutti joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the role that trust plays in a purpose-driven organization.
Arky Ciancutti joins Jim Blasingame to explain that dealing in good faith in business relationships and negotiations is how to demonstrate the power of trust.
Arky Ciancutti joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that trust was present at the birth of markets and is even more valuable today than 10,000 years ago.
Adam Witty joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the concept of A employees and B employees, and why you have to keep working until you get all A players on board.
Adam Witty joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the steps to take to let B employees seek employment elsewhere, to make room for new A employees.
Charles Wheelan joins Jim Blasingame to reveal his ideas about cultivating and electing Senate candidates who have centrist views, instead of party ideologues.
Monday - August 18, 2014
Chip Bell joins Jim Blasingame to make the connection between what your customers are expecting from your business and the kinds of changes you’re going to face as a result.
Chip Bell joins Jim Blasingame to emphasize the imperative that your business must have an innovative mindset and that your next innovation will be determined by your customer expectations.
Wayne Crews joins Jim Blasingame to report the shocking statistic that since the election of President Obama, regulations on small businesses have increased almost 25%.
Wayne Crews joins Jim Blasingame to report that the direct cost of regulatory compliance by businesses adds an additional 50% cost of government and is almost completely funded by businesses.
Wayne Crews joins Jim Blasingame to discuss possible approaches to reign in out of control regulatory costs, including sunsetting every regulation in some future date, unless it’s re-approved.
Jim Blasingame reveals the fourth form of crowdfunding as coming from investors, and why this type is having problems getting through the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Jim Blasingame reveals the results of a recent poll which asked what are the greatest concerns of small businesses, and he offers his commentary on what was reported.
Tim Berry joins Jim Blasingame to dispel the entrepreneurial half-truth that success will happen if you love what you do.
Tim Berry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal when having the attitude of “Never giving up” can be a dangerous half-truth that can create a lot of misery.
Tim Berry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why having a good idea is no more than half of the truth when it comes to being a successful entrepreneur.
Tuesday - August 19, 2014
Mary Cantando joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how to think about pricing strategy as a CEO duty, and how to test the market to see if you can raise prices.
Mary Cantando joins Jim Blasingame to tell you that your prices aren’t high enough if customers aren’t pushing back a little, and to not apologize for your prices.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame with this month’s NFIB Index that shows small business optimism continues to be closer to pessimism.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame with this month’s NFIB Index which shows that small businesses are hiring, but only slightly, and are still not investing in growth.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to explain why loan demand by small businesses continues to be almost zero, and connects that fact to uncertainty and a slow economy.
Bob Phibbs joins Jim Blasingame to report on a trend by companies to pay workers more than the federal minimum wage.
Bob Phibbs joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the options small businesses have that makes the federal minimum wage unproductive.
John Bradberry joins Jim Blasingame to report on his work helping global corporations become more entrepreneurial as they seek to be relevant to customers.
John Bradberry joins Jim Blasingame to report on the challenges large organizations have with honesty and candor in dealing with their organizational dysfunction.
John Bradberry joins Jim Blasingame to explain that big corporations envy the entrepreneurial traits of small businesses, but are you using these advantages to your maximum benefit?
Wednesday - August 20, 2014
Kelle Olwyler joins Jim Blasingame to reveal several indicators you will experience if you’re business is growing too fast for your capital and organization.
Kelle Olwyler joins Jim Blasingame to talk about her virtual assistant company is designed to support growing small businesses with resources in a more efficient way.
John Harrison and Olalah Njenga join Jim Blasingame to talk about their basic attitude about the shooting in Ferguson, MO, as black Americans who are not disenfranchised.
John Harrison and Olalah Njenga join Jim Blasingame to discuss the different forces that have injected themselves into the Ferguson MO police shooting case, and whether they have been unwarranted and counter-productive.
John Harrison and Olalah Njenga join Jim Blasingame to talk about the empowerment that comes with business ownership and how increasing black business ownership could contribute to better race relations.
Lida Citroën joins Jim Blasingame to report on the statistics that shows our military veterans have a higher level of unemployment than the rest of the population.
Lida Citroën joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the reasons every employer should consider veterans for any job opening they have.
Gerald Celente joins Jim Blasingame to report on his quarterly event where futurists and trend trackers reveal history before it happens.
Gerald Celente joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the way American society has “defined deviancy down” to the point where we have lost important parts of American culture.
Gerald Celente joins Jim Blasingame to offer suggestions on what we can do to turn around the decline in American society.
Thursday - August 21, 2014
Josh Costell joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why you need to think about your business having a career path, like an individual.
Josh Costell joins Jim Blasingame to discuss if your business were on a career path, what elements would it be missing, and what do you have to do to acquire them?
Josh Costell joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power of training as a key component of your business’ career path.
Tracey Hope-Ross joins Jim Blasinagme to reveal research about empty-nesters, women over 45, with regard to their new expectations of businesses.
Tracey Hope-Ross joins Jim Blasinagme to reveal the ways that tech-savvy empty-nester baby boomers will use mobile computing in their consumer activity.
Daniel Burrus joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what hard trends and a soft trend are and why we have to prepare our businesses for both.
Daniel Burrus joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that there are soft trends in your future that will either be valuable or perilous, and you have to prepare for both possibilities.
Daniel Burrus joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that just when you thought new media would take over old media, you realize they’re not more compatible than ever.
Friday - August 22, 2014
Leerom Segal joins Jim Blasingame to explain that big data allows companies to become relevant to customers by learning their preferences and customizing their experience.
Leerom Segal joins Jim Blasingame to explain how businesses can you big data to execute and evolve faster by personalizing each employee's work experience.
Greg Link joins Jim Blasingame to explain that trust is the lifeblood of business and small businesses can't afford to have untrustworthy people on their team.
Greg Link joins Jim Blasingame to define low-trust, plus he explain that people are hardwired to trust & desire to be trusted, but business has lost the essence of trust as a best practice.
Greg Link joins Jim Blasingame to explain that if you do what you say you're doing to do as a small business owner and build a reputation around that, you will be trustworthy to customers.
Karen Cortell Reisman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how the 180 Rule works and how to use it to help you get over your fear of speaking and become a successful thought-leader.
Karen Cortell Reisman joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how to use the 180 Rule to overcome our natural tendency to have a negative bias toward public speaking, and transition into a powerful speaker.
Jack Uldrich joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the increasing direction of "things" being connected to Internet, and what that means for people connected to the Internet.
Jack Uldrich joins Jim Blasingame to reveal advantages of having the "Internet of Things," -- the world around us, machines, for example -- increasingly connected to the Internet.
Jack Uldrich joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the challenges and potentially negative implications as the "Internet of Things" increasingly becomes part of our world.
Tuesday - August 26, 2014
Brett Lauter joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that compiling, tracking and believing the data behind your e-commerce activity is the key to making necessary adjustments and find success.
Brett Lauter joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the business model of his online company, Decluttr.com, and offer lessons from how this business was launched in the U.S.
Amity Shlaes joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why Calvin Coolidge, America's 30th president, is perhaps our most underrated president because he actually decreased the size of government.
Amity Shlaes joins Jim Blasingame to reveal three reasons why President Coolidge should be considered a great president, he reduced the size of government, lowered taxes and reduced regulations.
Amity Shlaes joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why Calvin Coolidge's philosophy of thrift and saving would not be a successful message in the current political landscape, plus why small business owners would have voted for him.
Jan Andersern joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how small business owners should balance using the free social media platforms, like Facebook, while limiting the exposure to policies that are negative to your community.
Jan Andersern joins Jim Blaisngame to reveal technology that will allow small businesses to create their own social media platforms and communities on their websites, so prospects don't have to leave.
Robert Brands joins Jim Blasingame to explain why your attitude about innovation has to be forward looking and connected directly to customer expectations.
Robert Brands joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the roles that concept and market testing are two of the eight big steps in successful new product development.
Robert Brands joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the key elements of pricing your newly launched product so that it sells in a way that is profitable.
Wednesday - August 27, 2014
Jay Baer joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the balance between using social media platforms successfully without putting all your customer relationship eggs in their baskets.
Jay Baer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the changes Facebook has made that impact how many of your followers actually see your content and offerings.
Jay Baer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal four options businesses can use to maximize the effectiveness of marketing on Facebook while growing a customer list.
Dale Sexton joins Jim Blasingame to talk about growing up in Livingston, Montana and operating two small businesses in Big Sky country.
Dale Sexton joins Jim Blasingame to talk about his two small businesses that are dedicated to helping people get outdoors and enjoy Big Sky country.
Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how Obamacare was pitched as reform and would bend the cost-curve down, and that we now know all of that was a big lie.
Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to report on recent research that shows how small businesses are changing their growth and employment plans to avoid as much Obamacare damage as possible.
Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the likely next effects of Obamacare and what it will take to rid ourselves of this monumental government takeover of our lives.
