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How is your negotiating strategy connected to your small business strategic planning process? Peter Johnston talks with Jim Blasingame about how to tie these two critical management tasks together to become a better negotiator with your customers.

Are we seeing the end of capitalism? Will entrepreneurs be able to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again? Stephen Moore joins Jim Blasingame to talk about our economic problems and the new ones the government is creating in the name of stimulus.

Innovations are launching and paradigms are shifting all around us. How is your small business handling all this change? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame with insight into what the future holds, including new pavement and energy storaage innovations.

Is this a good time to start a small business? Bill Topaz joins Jim Blasingame to talk about this issue first and then move on to discuss the challenges of managing employees during a tough economic time.

Recession or not, if you're going to survive, you have to acquire new customers and keep existing ones. Charlie Fewell talks with Jim Blasingame about the steps you have to take and the attitude you have to have in order to get business when the economy is down.

Jim Ostroff and Jim Blasingame talk about current events as covered in this week's <i>Kiplinger Letter</i>.

Is President Obama trying to channel FDR and his New Deal policies? Dr. Burton Folsom joins Jim Blasingame to compare the economic challenges and proposed solutions of President Obama with those of President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s.

High unemployment is a classic engine for new small business creation. But what do you have to do to make that leap? Jeff Zbar joins Jim Blasingame to talk about some of the key small business start-up principles.

What's the key to increasing sales revenue? Skip Miller joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the three key sales strategies that you must use, including disqualifying and making better "touches."

Are you communicating effectively on the social media sites? Do you have a social media strategy? Debra Fine talks with Jim Blasingame about a few social media strategy ideas, including a few things not to do.