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Should your approach to sales be different in a recession? Paul Cherry talks with Jim Blasingame about some of the ways to approach your sales strategy and customers that might be a little different in a challenging economy.a

What are some of the critical small business public policy issues currently being debated in Washington, D.C.? Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to talk about these issues, including tax increases and unionization.

How will the new banking policies by the Obama administration handle the toxic assets and get the banking industry going again? Joan Pryde and Jim Blasingame talk about this issue, plus the challenges of new European democracies, among other topics.

Is 2009 a year that will stand alone? Will we learn anything in 2009 that will help us in 2010? Will we look back at 2009 as "the lost year?" Jim Blasingame talks about why he thinks about 2009, why this year is different and what that means for the operation of your small business.

What do you have to do to get your small business plugged into the pipeline that is going to deliver the government's economic stimulus money? Janet Christy talks with Jim Blasingame about how a small business gets access to this money.

How technology is changing your relationship with customers and how they are allowing you to reach them. Ramon Ray talks with Jim Blasingame talk about the push and pull of 21st century sales and marketing, including changes in culture and technology.

Selling in a recession is more about what customers need than what you have to sell? John Patterson and Chip Bell talk with Jim Blasingame about how to have the courage to focus more on finding out what customers need than on what you need to sell today.

Selling in a recession is more about what customers need than what you have to sell? John Patterson and Chip Bell talk with Jim Blasingame about how to have the courage to focus more on finding out what customers need than on what you need to sell today.

More and more, we will do business through cloud computing, which is buying and creating services delivered over the Internet. Cherie Carter-Scott joins Jim Blasingame discuss how she has created an international coaching business using this concept and cloud computing.

What are business managers seeing in the economy? Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the recent month's Tatum Survey of economic conditions, which are mixed. They also talk about the dangers of the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, which is legislation that promotes unionism.