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Do you know what your B2C customers really want? Jim Blasingame discusses the 21st century approach to customer loyalty, which is to get beyond the transaction, find out how and why customers do business with you, and give them what they want instead of what they think they need.

Can we defeat the regulatory nightmare for small business? Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to discuss some of the regulations the SBE Council is trying to rescind, including the 1099 provisions in the new health care law.

It's dangerous when the government picks winners and losers. Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the arrogance of politicians who think they know more than the marketplace about who should win and who should lose.

Is the President really becoming pro-business or is it an act? Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why President Obama's recent State of the Union address has very little in it for small business.

People want to be part of a community instead of just a demographic. Jonathan Salem Baskin joins Jim Blasingame to talk about creating online communities by envisioning what kind of communities you want to build rather than where they will reside.

Social media is not about new rules, just new tools. Jonathan Salem Baskin joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the history of social media, including the fact that business social media is just about building customer communities.

How can we end the regulatory crisis? Diane Katz joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how regulation affects small businesses and some of the ways to solve this problem, including sunsetting and re-approving every regulation.

Is the U.S. experiencing a regulatory crisis? Diane Katz joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the increasingly prohibitive compliance cost of regulation on small businesses, which is as much as 3X as much as big business.

What are the most essential entrepreneurial elements? Samee Desai joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the top elements every entrepreneur must have to start and grow, plus policy issues that hinder financing as well.

What is the connection between entrepreneurship and liberty? Samee Desai joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how entrepreneurship promotes liberty and how the two become symbiotic partners.