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How to make sure you hire the right person for your company. Vicky Oliver joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the best practices that will help you make a successful employee acquisition, including a trial period.

Young employees have lots of content, but not much context. Peter Weddle joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how to help young employees understand that they need the context from a mentor to support all the content they have acquired.

When you train employees, you invest in them. Peter Weddle joins Jim Blasingame to talk about teaching employees how to be innovative through the right kind of training, and show that training is an investment in them.

Are you guilty of being a helicopter employer? Peter Weddle joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how you could be a "helicopter employer" by the way you train and prepare employees how to manage themselves professionally.

There are four forces that are future constants. Cecily Sommers joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the four constants that small businesses can use as a framework for forecasting what the future will look like for your business.

Can you connect the dots to see your future? Cecily Sommers joins Jim Blasingame to talk about some of the tools and perspectives futurists use that small business owners can apply to help them develop their future strategy.

What do your customers want from you? Kirk Cheyfitz joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that customers expect competitiveness from you, but the differentiator is how relevant you are to them before and after they buy.

Customers are responding to their friends referrals more than your ads. Kirk Cheyfitz joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that customer communities are becoming more powerful than ad campaigns, and why you should "serve first - sell second."

Why would a small business thank Walmart? Cinda Baxter joins Jim Blasingame to explain that the biggest threat to their success is their own practices, not the Big Boxes.

Don't drive by Main Street businesses on the way to Big Boxes. Cinda Baxter joins Jim Blasingame to explain how the 3/50 Project helps consumers understand how they can get great value by supporting Main Street businesses.