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How does a small business qualify prospects in the age of social media? Joanne Black joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how to gain qualified referral prospects by incorporating the right mix of face-to-face with social media.

How do you avoid letting the urgent overcome the important? Gary Harpst joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how to at least reduce, if not eliminate, crisis management by having a strategy that helps you avoid letting the urgent become the enemy of the important.

What are the keys to successfully growing your business by acquisition? Jack Mitchell joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how his family-owned business combined their "hugging" philosophy to grow their business through acquisition.

How has the Internet changed traditional advertising practices? Robert Bly joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how new technologies and changes in human behavior have impacted the traditional way small businesses attract prospects through advertising.

Are you afflicted with the "I'm different" syndrome? Ivan Misner joins Jim Blasingame to talk about why you may think networking is not for you because you're different, but that's just an excuse. Listen as Ivan delivers the cure for this professional malady.

Reporting on the September 2010 Tatum Survey of business conditions, Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame with this month's report, which indicates that business managers are still not feeling positive about the current and near-term economic conditions.

How does a small business use the quality process to build a values-based reputation? Leslie Kossoff joins Jim Blasingame with suggestions on how the quality process can help you maintain a great reputation with customers through the values you project as you do business.

What do we do when it becomes obvious that the government can't save the economy? Charles Wheelan joins Jim Blasingame talk about why the marketplace has to save itself and stop expecting the government to save the economy.

What are the keys to small business self-promotion/ Jane Pollak joins Jim Blasingame to talk about something that many small business owners are not comfortable doing, self-promotion, and to offer suggestions on how to do it successfully.

Looking at the future through Joel Barker's crystal ball. Futurist, Joel Barker joins Jim Blasigname to reveal new ways to think about growing food, helping the disadvantaged, space propulsion and the endangered oceans' primary food source.