The Bob Pritchard Radio Show: Recent Episodes

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95 percent of all businesses fail within 10 years. Most small to medium businesses struggle to make wages. Bob Pritchard is a highly regarded expert with a track record of identifying the issues facing businesses and determining simple solutions to make them highly profitable. Despite the glitz and glamor, Entertainment operates in the same way as any other business and as we live in a Celebrity obsessed society, people will enjoy this segment. Some of the best Business and marketing screw ups illustrate in a funny and impactful way some of the pitfalls that can be encountered in business, what went wrong and why. Every business discipline from leadership to corporate culture, marketing to customer service, seeking investment to using social media, sponsorship, hospitality and many others. Straight talking, nothing is off the table and nothing is taboo.

President Trump unleashed a tweet on Monday about the state of the economy, which he said is thriving. Highest Stock Market EVER, best economic numbers in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising”. Is it true?; Is CRISPR an exciting step for mankind or giant leap toward our demise? DNA “editing” has led to fears that such manipulations could alter the course of human evolution. It has also triggered warnings about “designer babies,” in which parents customize their IVF embryos by adding, removing, or changing genes for certain traits; . There is an old saying that the team is only as straong as its weakest link and that is why it is so critically important to take a lot of care to build your team. . If it is a finely oiled machine working to a strong compass, your company is well on the way to success. In our interview segment we have an interview by legendary Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper from his blog series The Startup Hero.

In the last couple of days, Bitcoin broke $2000, Ethereum broke $200 and other crypto currencies are also exploding. Bitcoin is up nearly 65% in the last month, and smashing the symbolic $2,000 mark for the first time ever this week and Ethereum has gone from $8 to $200 in three months. What is driving this phenomena?; Ever wonder what is next? Scientists have made see-through wood that is cooler than glass. is more durable, and has incredible strength; Recently we have been discussing the staggering rate of retail store closures, over 6000 in QI 2017 and another 6000 estimated in Q2 2017. Hundreds of malls have also closed. Traditional malls need to transform themselves to stay alive. So, what do we do with them? We discuss some ideas; Dr. Allan Frankel was a Clinical Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, for eighteen years and now is now one of the world’s leading authorities on dosed cannabis medicine.

Girls Who Code reports that by 2020, there will be 1.4 million jobs available in computing-related fields, but women are on track to fill only about 3% of these, a paltry 45,000 or so of these positions. That is really pathetic; While voice-activated innovation is important, Augmented reality will be even more significant with applications in the professional, medical and accessibility spaces; Now sensor technology is about to disrupt the fashion world with clothing tags automatically scanned at New York galleries, restaurants, bars, public transport etc to unlock certain perks; The notion that workers’ skills can suddenly become obsolete raises concern about whether institutions and social safety nets are equipped. There is a deep lack of preparation to help workers absorb economic shocks like automation, productivity gains, geographic shifts and, perhaps most importantly, deep economic downturns.

With the advent of social media, public pressure can influence politicians decisions like never before. North Carolina's bathroom bill, the law limiting LGBT protections will cost the state an absolute minimum of $5 billion in lost business over ten or so years. This loss of business in the state is solely a result of the public being mobilized through social media; Amazon’s terms and conditions for the Kindle is 320 pages long and 73,000 words long. If you read the terms and conditions for Amazon’s Kindle out loud it will take you 9 hours if you don’t take a break. How fucking ridiculous is that? What do they have to hide; If you are a retailer, are you ready for the disruptive changes heading your way or are you one of the tens of millions who bury your head and hope it all goes away?

Facial recognition systems that can verify a person’s identity have been around for years with security cameras and criminal databases. Now with big data analytics and artificial intelligence, facial recognition software is about to very intrusive. When you combine facial recognition technology with deep learning, you can identify a person half a mile away in a crowd of a million people anywhere. The risks to privacy and civil liberties are substantial with the technology being used to identify and track people covertly, even remotely, and on a mass scale, for example, identifying individuals at lawful protests. Emails are being used by marketers to communicate exclusive offers, customer support, order tracking, useful articles, apologies, warnings and customer service. I’ll show you how for every $1.00 spent on email marketing, your return on investment could be $44.25. Email conversion rates can be three times higher than social media with a 17% higher value in the conversion.

It’s the first card with store and website-level controls, meaning parents nominate a specific amount that their child can spend at a specific store or website, and only $4.99 per family per month.; For the first time last week, Lyft was downloaded more times than Uber by US users on iOS; Recently, new robotics, computational biology, gene-editing and gene-synthesis technologies have emerged to make synthetic biology efficient and cost-effective; The need for computing resources is exploding while desktop computers, laptops and mobile devices spend much of every day sitting unused. Is Blockchain the answer? My guest today is Greg Logan who has clients across the US, the UK and Australia with his new consultancy called The Definery which is helping small to medium businesses become brands.

Like most investments, investing in start-ups is risky, you definitely should do your homework. CrowdCheck found that almost none of the companies that have been listed so far on Crowdfunding are fully in compliance with even the basic rules set down by the SEC. About 40 percent did not get their financial results audited or certified, as is required by the rules.; IBM’s bold predictions for the next 5 years, are startling, but do not consider the effect of rapidly accelerating technology. over the next five years; Google has just divulged how it is fighting spam, bots and other problematic “ads” on its network, and in 2016 it took down 1.7 billion ads that violated its policies, more than double what Google took down in 2016. My guest today is Paul Amori, a very flamboyant character running for Mayor of Los Angeles.

The iPhone 10 years ago was primitive, but revolutionary. It still has a long way to go; Amazon has 45,000 robots in its warehouses and growing 50% a year; Amazon’s Alexa is the star of the 2017 CES in Las Vegas with an increasing acceptance of use in home appliances; Amazon Prime membership reaches 54 million, 46% of US householders driving the membership trends; This trend drives Alexa usage and subsequently Amazon Sales; The 2016 startups that raised very substantial investment. How will they fare? My guest today is Greg Wendt, expert advisor on the subject of sustainable investment.

Fewer and fewer people watch live television and only about 10% of these viewers actually watch the ads. I have been saying for 15 years that it is the only $80 billion industry where no one is accountable; Cities have been built for cars,, some 60% of our cities are paved, 31% to park cars that are only used 6% of the time. Autonomous cars are going to change that; Aeron Row clothing… buy a new one, return an old one, a fabulous idea; GoPro, from a darling at $80 a share to a dog at $10, what happened?; Start up founders, very optimistic for 2017. My guest today is Sarah Elliston, a self described pain in the ass employee.

Google’s data centers and offices for 60,000 staff will be powered entirely by renewable energy next year; Global Investment Manager Bernstein believe that the Age of industrialization is coming to an end and robots will destroy manufacturing jobs globally. Promises to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US are hollow, because these jobs no longer exist; Netflix share of IMDb’s top movies is decreasing and being replaced by ordinary “straight to TV movies”; Finally social media is acting to curb fake news and cyber bullying; Among startup founders, Elon Musk is the most admired leader in Technology. My guest today is Janine Darling, the founder and CEO of Stash Datacentric Security.

There are 13 red flags that will immediately turn off investors when you are making a pitch for funding. We discuss that these are; We salute three teenage entrepreneurs; Banks new app to try to stay relevant. Way too little too late; Whatever happened to choice? A handful of monopolies dominate almost every industry; Three new groundbreaking inexpensive medical devices; My guest is Dale Beaumont, CEO of BRiN, an Artificial Intelligence sales trainer.

We provide details of an extensive study examining why such an extraordinary high number of startups fail. We discuss the top 10 reasons; Fantastic disruptive idea, Bike Baristas, now in 62 countries; US graduation rates across all ethnicities is continuing to increase, that’s good news; Banks continue to tinker at the edges instead of facing reality…they are screwed, it is just a matter of time; Domino’s deliver by Drone in New Zealand: Facebook is heading all video, and fast. Todays interview is with Thomas White, co-founder of the C-suite network. One smart cookie.

Hackers now have a secret weapon in the increasing array of poorly protected internet enabled household devices: Women in tech…already pathetically low, tipped to dip even further: the decline of the banks both in terms of branches and employees…blockchain next to really sink the boot in:the most active celebrity investors in startups. Ashton Kutcher leads the way: The top 10 skills needed in the world, secure your future: Those interviewing for a job at Razor must be great at games. My guest is Jason Forrest, awarded top sales management trainer in the world.

3.53 million Americans were lifted out of poverty in 2015: Twitter has lost over 2 billion dollars in the last 10 years and doesn’t look like making money….close to a sale?? Suitors line up, Google the favorite?: A Silicon Valley guru really puts his foot in it, then walks it back…too late: A new partnership on AI has all the big players except Apple…what are they up to?? Now a bionic leaf, 10 times more efficient than natural synthesis: Snapchat changes company name to Snap Inc. and launches new product called Spectacles.. Todays interview is with Francis Della Vecchia, multi talented advisor to entrepreneurs and movies.

Startup growth is the US is very healthy, back to pre recession levels. Every city should be making promotion of startups a priority: Social media’s effect on direct marketing: Facebook exaggerates key metric to advertisers by as much as 80 Percent: Google addresses the worldwide illegal fishing problem through its new satellite based technology: Eat Café in Philadelphia, enjoy a nutritious meal and pay what you can afford, nothing if that reflects your situation. A wonderful initiative that we really hope catches on. Todays interview is with Brian Duncan, co founder of Chowley, a new technology to assist restaurants.

There is a huge battle for the world’s few autonomous car experts. Based on recent acquisitions the going rate for experts is around 10 million dollars each: Airbus to launch a flying driverless taxi that you summon on your smartphone: Brands are now more interested in where you are tweeting from rather than what you are tweeting…oh oh, I can feel annoying coming on: 1 billion dollar startup, raises 186 million, turnover 100 million, looses 7 million, closes doors. Pissed investors perhaps? Social media’s impact on direct marketing. Todays interview is with Sekou Andrews, America’s business poet.

A small shipping container can now produce the same amount of produce as four acres of farmland without the downside of drought, using 97 percent less water, no pesticides, no bugs and high quality merchandise. There will be a political battle about protecting the farmers…but they will lose: Even the top business apps cannot afford the marketing costs required. They will all have to do deals with incumbent tech companies with huge sales muscle: Google aims to own the virtual mobile space: Netflix on a growth spurt, blitzing all of the competitors: The WEF says blockchain will fundamentally change the way financial institutions do business. Todays interview is with Per Sjofers, CEO of Atenga.

Gangs of highly sophisticated cyber-criminals are recruiting people in telcos and service provider companies to allow cyber-attackers to gain access to network and subscriber data. 28 per cent of all Distributed Denial Of Service -DDOS- attacks and 38 per cent of targeted cyber-attacks involve skilled, knowledgeable, disaffected or just plain greedy employees: Flash sales sites are failing: The 20 reasons startups fail: Latina women are fastest growing entrepreneur segment in the US. Why a strong team is important to your startup success. Todays interview is with Michel Bayan, Direct Selling guru, CEO of Directech. cyber-criminals

We discuss the five key issues for marketers: The new Google Duo, what makes it so simple and convenient: The new generation USB-C…revolutionizing USB’s: The biggest risk you can take is not taking a risk, the technology world is changing so fast: Pizza Hut has a great new gimmick, the world’s first playable pizza box, Fastbrick Robotics, changing the way buildings are built. Todays interview is with Joe Resnick, CEO of Rmannco, environmental revolutionary.

Welcome to my 250th show. Thank you for your support. Why do 85 percent of all funding pitches fail? I discuss 7 easy to address mistakes that entrepreneurs make: Social media is certainly dominating how we communicate, our entertainment and our news. What are the major trends in 2016? Big news for the environment. Plastic Bag usage in England has reduced by 85 percent or 6 billion plastic bags in the last 10 months, an incredible effort. We salute the young surfers who invented the Seabin, a revolutionary ocean cleaning technology that sucks up plastic bags, paper, oil, fuel and detergent 24/7/365. Special 250th show interview with the legendary Mark Schulman, drummer for Pink, Cher, Beyonce and Billy Idol.

Pokemon Go has raised the bar for market penetration and participation with no sign of slowing down with tens of millions of people world wide staring at their smartphones and wandering around every square inch of their neighborhood: The four keys for getting from Average to Awesome' everyone can do it: 7 -Eleven delivers first food by drone, coffee stayed hot, Slurpees didn’t melt…Success: Moores law, pretty accurate for 50 years will soon be no more, but innovation will continue to increase speeds: Tesla fatal accident controversy. Interview today…electricity in a bottle… Gray Bright…WOW.

In 1899, the Commissioner of the US patent Office said “ everything that can be invented, has already been invented”. Today, people searching for a domain name tend to say the same thing. Twenty years from now, entrepreneurs will look back to today and wish they had been here when it was in its infancy: Hyperloop operating in Dubai in 36 months?; The world has gone nuts about Pokemon Go, Hear what all the fuss is about: Apps are dead, welcome to VIV; Our entrepreneur of the week, Cindy Whitehead; Disrupt your own business. If you don’t your competitor will. My guest is Andy Seymour of Betterreviews

Graphene is 1 million times thinner than paper and 200 times stronger than steel and conducts heat more efficiently than any other product ever discovered. Samsung has 405 patents on Graphene products, followed by IBM, Nokia, Google, SanDisk and Apple. Watch this space; Self driving robots delivering food and other products are in Europe already and heading to the US; Uber adds hot air balloon rides to cars, boats, planes and autos; There is now 169 private tech unicorns; Generating power from Bacteria; Facebook changes to rules for fundraising from individuals and to their Newsfeed; My guest is George Kansas, performance coach extraordinaire.

A 19 year old has developed a Robot that has challenged and won 160,000 of 250,000 parking tickets saving drivers over $3 million; Beginning of the Robot revolution; Tech companies in San Francisco being taxed for turning a slum area into a trendy upscale neighborhood, high paying jobs, reduced crime, reducing unemployment by 75%. Absolutely ludicrous; Mistakes we make when taking a new C-Suite level job; My guest is Shane Barbanel, Founder and CEO of Co-lab factory in New York.

Again, 10 new tech companies led the pack, not a legacy company in sight, Just goes to show how far out of touch these old style companies are: Impossible foods, plant based meat substitute that could change the world,; Idiotic customer satisfaction surveys do more damage than good; Hyperloop for Moscow; Pew Research Centre reports on media…very troubling signs for democracy; My guest is Ken Kragan, who has managed some of the world’s most important entertainers, including Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie, Trisha Yearwood, Olivia Newton-John and The Bee Gees among others.

How do we guide ourselves and our companies through the plethora of new technologies bombarding us every day? Awesome customer service is a sure fire way; How can you become one of the 9% of American adults who are millionaires. Here are three ways to start; Starbucks are holding over $1,25 billion on their loyalty cards…that would make them a medium sized bank. Great business (and profits ) in loyalty;$ unbelievable kid entrepreneurs demonstrate that age and environment are absolutely no barrier; My guest is Mark Schulman, drummer for Cher and Pink…and a whole lot more.

Microsoft’s $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn provides Amazon with a powerful new challenger in the cloud computing space and the potential to dominate the business networking space when Microsoft’s Outlook and Skype is factored in: Skin gun…the revolutionary new way to treat burns: Your cars electronic key fob, easy and convenient for you to start your car, just as easy for someone planning to steal it; Blockchain verses traditional banks; Snapchat blitzing Twitter; Amazons dominance in Mobile; Uber introduces UberBIKE; Uber and Lyft leave Austin, TX, and 8 companies fill the void immediately. My guest Russell Phelps…master copywriter and marketing maven.

Crispr technology allows the “editing” of DNA to eliminate some diseases. Now, the technology allows the editing of RNA potentially eliminating many more diseases; the patent fight over CRISPR; Peeple…free speech or a license to destroy reputations; Khloe Thompson from California…9 years old and entrepreneur of the week; An Uber moment on its way for banks; Snapchat is eating twitters lunch; Amazon is annihilating the Big-box retailers: Uber adds Uber Bike to its plethora of services; My guest Phillip Cook…investment banker, serial entrepreneur, investor, developing new Blockchain technologies.

Goldman Sachs report on the benefits of Blockchain showed that in just 5 industries annual cost savings and benefits could be around $40 billion: We salute 9 year old Khloe Thompson from Southern California who set up Khloe’s Kare to provide bags full of products to homeless women. It is now becoming much more. Go girl; Privacy is close to coming to an end. Combine wearable technology and face recognition technology and everyone you pass in the street will know everything there is to know about you; The huge current debate about refugees is nothing, An earth temperature rise of four degrees will result in ten times the population of the US being displaced, over 150 million in the US. Good luck building walls. My guest Darryl Purpose…blackjack, drug money, Russian mafia, Santana. charity.

Four Universities have begun working on the first Masters degree in Biofabrication. The Universities will eventually have 10 students each. A giant step forward in Medical development; Uber joins Google, Ford, Volvo and Lyft in a coalition to urge lawmakers to pave the roads for self driving technology: A new coding University in Silicon Valley, a giant leap for US education; Apple stores generate almost double the square foot sales of any other stores: Uber’s thirst for your data: How Hyperloop is planning to change transportation. My guest Nick Hardcastle is the epitome of passion, dedication and commitment.

There is some atrocious pieces of advice given to start-ups and we discuss nine of the worst: Is it possible that Chinese non performing loans could initiate a major financial downturn?; One hour pot delivery; Do you do a background check of prospective stakeholders, employees and partners? If you don’t, you are leaving yourself open to potential grief; Mobile messaging now bigger than social and the potential is enormous. An interview with the female dynamo Screaming Rachael Cain, a formidable talent and business woman.

Every entrepreneur and really, every business, needs mentors, we discuss how you can attract the right mentors for your business. Google’s great initiative to help Entrepreneurs create startups; Founder lawsuits… Yik Yak follows in the footsteps of Facebook, Snapchat, and Cruise; Ransomware attacks are becoming extremely common, how to protect yourself; Swear on Chinese Internet and cement your carreer. A great interview with Wayne Berry , Top Gun Sales Coach

2016 is the year for Virtual Reality. From games to video entertainment, medical through to commerce in general, virtual reality is here. Three big VR systems have, or are about to hit the market and priced from $400 it is a very exciting development: Netflix under attack from slow growth, increased prices and a raft of competitors: Every entrepreneur needs mentors, we discuss how you can attract the right mentors for your business.. A great interview with David Saxby , CEO of Spark Communications.

We discuss 5 of the many major issues facing small business in todays market: The good news, it is possible with technology to measure every aspect of a business: A young entrepreneur who turned a teenage interest into a $230,000 a month business: Remarkable advancements in contact lenses and glasses technology: Is Facebook eating Google’s lunch?: Every entrepreneur needs mentors, we discuss how you can attract the right mentors. A must not miss interview with Stephan Spencer , internationally renowned SEO expert.

When you are looking for investment, one of the first questions that crosses your mind is “what are investors looking for?” Most entrepreneurs’ first response is “a good return on their investment”. But that is an outcome; it is not going to help you put your pitch together. We discuss some of the elements that go in to the investors decision: Was this week a turning point is how retail is conducted?; 3 very cool new inventions: The 11 keys to producing great results from any communication. Great interview with Brendan King is the CEO of VendAsta.

There is an absolute plethora of business books in the market. Some are written by experts who know what they are talking about, others are written by people who have never been at the coal face and don't have a clue. Which books should business executives, entrepreneurs and college graduates read?: An incredible robotic development that will change countless lives: Over the last six weeks we have been discussing the 18 keys that will guarantee the success of any business. Today we are discussing essential keys 17 through 18; Why it is critical to understand digital and social media: Without passion and commitment you will likely fail. Great interview with Dave McLauchlan, CEO of the Buddy Platform.

There are lots of traps when growing and scaling a start up in a foreign market. Making a move that is deemed as offensive, failing to protect intellectual property or simply being unable to penetrate your target market, a lot can go wrong. Over the last four weeks we have been discussing the 18 keys that will guarantee the success of any business. Today we are discussing essential keys 14 through 16; New research shows that the failure rate of ALL business is now 96% and the failure rate of startups is at 99%; introducing processes into finance, operations, staffing, and sales and marketing can significantly help overcome the challenges of running a small business. Great interview with Evan Hackel, creator of the concept of Ingaging Leadership.

Over the last three weeks we have been discussing the 18 keys have is that will guarantee the success of any business. Today we are discussing essential keys 11 through 13; New research shows that the failure rate of ALL business is now 96% and the failure rate of startups is at 99%; know what really motivates customers; you must differentiate your business to prevent being commoditized; adding value to every interaction with the customer can increase your sales by up to 43%; how to deliver the great customer service required to really build your business. Great interview with David Frood CEO of The Thinking Corporation.

New research shows that the failure rate of ALL business is now 96 percent and the failure rate of startups is at 99 percent. Research also identifies the major reason that businesses fail is lack of business knowledge of Management. Only 11 percent of management have done any business courses or learning since they finished college, despite the tumultuous change that have taken place. Extensive research and studies of thousands of companies have identified 18 keys to the success of any business as a minimum and to be successful, business leaders must have at least a good understanding of each of these keys. Today we discuss keys 7-10 of the 18 essential keys that will guarantee your success: The six disruptive technologies that will transform how business is conducted. Great interview with Andrew Fischer, CEO of Choozle.

New research shows that the failure rate of ALL business is now 96% and the failure rate of startups is at 99%. Research also identifies the major reason that businesses fail is lack of business knowledge of Management. Extensive research and studies of thousands of companies have identified 18 keys to the success of any business as a minimum and to be successful business leaders must have at least a good understanding of each of these keys. This week we address the first four of these critical keys; what advantages are there to small companies using cloud computing? Great interview with leading intellectual property attorney Jeffrey Kravitz.

Why Legacy companies fight back against the disruptive innovators that are dominating our business landscape. If you are a legacy company and an innovator is looming on the horizon then you need to take three steps immediately. We discuss what they are. Record numbers of voters are tipped to turn out for this year's caucuses and primaries, what is driving them? Where are they getting their information from? How important is social media? Why is adding value important… And how can you go about it. The advantages of cloud computing for small businesses. Great interview with Lloyd Marino, CEO of AvettaGlobal.

With all the attention on social media and technology we have tended to forget about some of the tried and true methods of building sales, margins and loyalty. Today, we revisit Added Value, an exceptional low cost technique that is guaranteed to show great results; building your personal brand, does it bring value. Great interview with Nolan Bushnell, the guy who discovered Steve Jobs and mentored him throughout the years, creator of Atari, Chucky Cheese and Brainrush. One of the real pioneers.

Your business will help you define your goals and your mission, identify your strengths and weaknesses and it will help you to refine your business model. It is your first line of attack to investors, potential partners, perhaps even to employees. So what questions do you need to ask as you pull your business plan together; Great new products, the RxTimerCap, the iCap and the ISorter. Perfect examples of a product created to solve a very widespread consumer problem. Our entrepreneur of the week is Jen Scalia who lost her job and decided never to be at the mercy of others ever again. Now, effectively two years in after taking the plunge, she is making $500,000 a year. Great interview with Christian Roszenich, CEO of ClickWorker

11 Research Institutes in 7 countries combine on the groundbreaking Wize Mirror which can monitor your health and diagnose any cardiovascular disorders in your own bathroom: How do you get a YouTube video to go viral? I will disclose the secrets on todays show: We discuss another great entrepreneur and a terrific idea: Getting rid of that office, create a team with the best people in the world, how to keep everyone motivated and on track: 2015 was a bust for tech IPO’s, so how will 2016 fare? Great interview with electric and autonomous vehicle expert, Paul Scott.

Bank headcount to reduce by 50%, profitability fall up to 60%, a tsunami for banks is imminent. The new wave of tech savvy startups can do things better, faster and cheaper than the big banks and will totally disrupt their traditional business like leaving, payments and wealth management; US shoppers used their smartphone, tablets and PCs in record numbers on Black Friday breaking all records. Unfortunately Neiman Marcus website crashed, costing them dearly; shock, surprise, horror, Apple watch owners are using their devices primarily to tell the time. Who’d have thought: Targeting installing Beacons in LED light bulbs to track and guide shoppers through stores. Great interview with 15 year old whizkid Anneke DiPietro.

With startups there are many, many ways to fail and very few ways to succeed. 97% fail. You have much better odds playing craps, we discuss why; Barcinno, the innovation hub for Barcelona’s entrepreneurial and technology community has created “10 Slides for a Perfect Pitch Deck”, we discuss what they are. Once you have this down, raising funds becomes much easier: Why isn’t there a higher percentage of women working in tech, becoming CEO’s in tech companies, or on tech boards…it comes down to one word…risk: How do you make people like you immediately on contact? It is easy if you know these simple rules. Interview with EB-5 Investor program expert Robert Whyte.

Do you have what it takes to be a great leader? The type of leader that people follow and really gets things done? We discuss ten disciplines you require if you want to achieve your true potential as a leader; There is a huge imbalance in the number of women in executive positions and on boards of technology companies. There is also a discrepancy in pay. Today, another example. Forty eight percent of gamers are women but the geniuses at the industries Game Awards only have one female out of 32 on the judging panel. Are they just plain stupid?; Five simple rules to sell to millennials…traditional media isn’t it.; Kutcher invests in Moovit; Uncle Sam wants top tech talent. Interview with Jumpwire founder Gavin McGarry.

It is worth putting in the time to get the right name for your business. We have a formula that can help you to get to that name. The Formula is S.M.A.R.T., Short, Memorable, Available, Repurposable and Timeless: New 9/11 virtual reality app which lets you experience the events of 9/11 from the perspective of one of the workers in the North Tower: Facebook’s 2G Tuesdays…a great customer service initiative; Interview with Big Bear Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Pam Scannell.

Branding is a real pain for entrepreneurs. But it is more important than your idea or product: The new richest man in the world…not an American but from Spain…worth $80 billion: Two entrepreneurs who began with nothing and faced a lot of Adversity, John Paul DeJoria and Richard Desmond, now both Billionaires: Brandon lived very thriftly, in a truck parked in Google, his employer’s, parking lot: Startup raises $37.5 million…closes down, unable to determine a business model: The top 5 apps in the world. No surprise, 4 of them are owned by Facebook: todays guest is Brendan King, CEO of VendAsta.

We each make thousands of decisions every day, and being intelligent beings, we really believe these decisions are rational. In reality, many of these decisions are in fact not rational because we all have inherent biases that skew our decisions one way or another. We discuss 20 of these biases; customer service is absolutely critical to running a successful business, building a loyal customer base and repeat business. We discussed 8 things that you should never say to a customer; You Tube has been turned into a moneymaking machine by a number of resourceful entrepreneurs. Find out who the top money earners are on You Tube. We interview serial entrepreneur Terry Drayton

One of the biggest changes taking place in the world, is the advent of the shared economy. What are the pros and cons where do we go from here? Summarizing the 7 major points you need to know about crowdfunding: The Space X competition to design the Hyperloop pod attracts over 1200 entries; Writing code, how to get started. Great technology to reduce bicycle accidents; Ten terrific design technologies of the past year or so. We interview copywriter legend Russell Phelps.

Crowdfunding is the greatest boost to entrepreneurs in history but less than 40% work. We consult with Josef Holm who helps us to understand everything there is to know about crowdfunding and how to increase your chances of success; At last, finally, history and geography are becoming dinosaurs, being replaced by coding classes; We love entrepreneurs and discuss how two entrepreneurs attracted 7 million Facebook fans in a year and about 40 million unique website visitors. Ashton Kutcher is not just a great actor, he is a very successful investor. He has 3 simple rules for investing, we discuss them. We interview nutrition superstar Samantha Gowing.

We discuss why entrepreneurs cannot remain as CEO and why they need to give up possibly 90% of their company to be successful; #yeswecode…helping 100,000 underprivileged youth to code to a high proficiency; The American Institute of Sales, Marketing and Management; Two great Entrepreneur stories, the first…from $11 an hour to $9 million a year and the second, a 16 year old who has developed a remarkable medical discovery; a 40 foot tall 3D printer for houses; Is GoPro a dead duck? If you love Rockn Roll you will love the interview with Candace Stewart.

Most entrepreneurs operate their start-ups with very little funds and they know that it is no use having a great product if nobody knows about it. We discuss 15 ways to market your small business on a shoestring budget, or even with no budget at all; the stock market has been going through a huge rollercoaster ride and many investors have lost a lot of money as the market fell 3000 points. How long will it take for this sell-off to affect investment in private companies, especially in Silicon Valley ?; Bricks and mortar begins to fight back against retailers with digital tools that enhance the bricks and mortar shoppers experience; Google Photos, a wonderful way to not only store your photos for posterity, but also make it easy to search thousands of photos in an instant. My guest is Gordon Tredgold who makes complex business easy.

We discuss the 15 worst mistakes made by twenty somethings, however if you have grown out of your 20s you should still pay attention, because it's never too late to reverse a bad mistake; #yeswecode, an organization teaming up with technology, celebrities and politicians to promote the goal of training 100,000 low opportunity youth to become a high-level computer programmers; last week we discussed six of 11 scientific backed strategies to get people to like you and give you what you're after, this week we discuss the final five strategies. My guest is the entrepreneurial disruption specialist in the education sector, Pamela Donnelly.

We discuss six of 11 scientific backed strategies to get people to like you and give you what you're after; 1 billion people used Facebook last Monday, that is a truly extraordinary number; 10 reasons why you should become an entrepreneur; #yeswecode is an amazing charity that plans to train 100,000 low opportunity you to become high level computer programers: court papers reveal that Michael Jordan has earned $430 million from Nike. My guest is the business superstar Jeffrey Hayzlett.

Changes to Indiegogo and what the SEC’s approval of Title 111 and Title IV, expected in October will do for fundraising for startups. Watch crowd funding really take off; Graphene is close to revolutionizing smartphone batteries… And a bunch of other amazing advances; how much has Michael Jordan been paid by Nike and you'll never guess how much Lebron James gets paid per character of a tweet; dramatic changes in how we track driver's performance. My guest is the business juggernaut Ken Rutkowski…amazing stuff.Indegogo

Here are 11 science-based strategies to get people to like you, buy your stuff, and to give you what you're after. We discuss six of these strategies in today's show and another five in next week's program; Are you still using that prehistoric power plug to charge your phone. The cool people are charging their phones with their jeans: we discuss two great 3-D printing medical advances; how do ads perform on the various social media networks; who works the longest hours…the French or the US? Who are the most productive…the French or the US? If you said the US, you would be wrong.

Google Translate gets smarter and expands its languages, becomes a must for travelers: Research proves that sexy advertising no longer works, in fact, often decreases sales; Facebook revenue from Mobiles jumps 25% to over 75% of total revenue: Doing these 9 uncomfortable things will help you develop and bring benefits for ever: The 5 skills that are required to make you a great listener.

The six elements to capture data and create sales on your website… Reciprocity, commitment and consistency, creating like, provide authority, give social proof and suggest scarcity; McDonald's is going high-tech; Windows 10… will it be the death of the password?: … Hacking cars is the most recent in a long line of hacking; What fonts are the best to use?: Great interview with Mairi Wickett from Witt.

Entrepreneurs are optimists, and realists. By almost every measure the world is a much better place today than it ever has been in history, less war, less hunger, falling homicide rates, better health across the world. Optimists do much better in life and are much happier than pessimists. Still, a lot of people think the world is going to hell, citing the level of conflict, poverty, climate change, adversarial political systems, ISIS, technology and so on. They seek out conspiracy theories and they're easy to find, just go to FOX News; Big data to solve the health cost crisis; the five powerful reasons why 95% of all businesses fail.

It is tempting for a busy CMO to pass SEO off to a twenty something who “understands this digital stuff” and the digital agencies want “way too much money”. If you fall into that category, think again; There are nowhere near enough women or minorities on boards and instead of leading the way, the “progressive” companies in Silicon Valley should be ashamed; There are 4 ways to get reach, one is a fluke of nature, one sucks, one is marginally better and one is golden. What are you doing with your life?; Change clothes? No, hit the app.

When you consider the number of startups, particularly in technology, the amount of venture capital, the number of patents registered and the cost of manufacturing, there is no question that the United States will lead the world for quite some time to come; don't shoot down your neighbors drone, no matter how appealing it may appear; huge shift in viewing habits from TV to online services, what does the future hold; will today’s one second addition to the clock cause computer issues?; Nine attitudes you may need to change if you want to be successful.

There are a lot of important aspects to being a successful entrepreneur or business person. Not the least of which is ensuring that you understand precisely what it is that your competitors are up to. The first thing everybody in business should do every morning is look at their competitors websites, it is amazing what accidentally gets posted. Apart from that there are a number of free tools that can be of great assistance; is the next social media multimillionaire a four-year-old?; Are you a member of the American Institute for Sales Marketing And Management? Why you should be.

It was Apple's big day yesterday, what they announced and a very informative interview for all businesspeople with Alex Roland.

It is critical to communicate your message with clarity. You have limited time to present and entice investors, you must present with passion, simplicity, strength and a powerful risk/return ratio. We explain how to create each of these 10 critical slides; millennial’s are single-handedly destroying traditional retail because they don’t give a damn about owning anything. You enjoy life without being a slave to monthly payments; it’s time again to name the eight most valuable brands in the world. Will Google again takes first place? The short answer is no, they got blitzed; I’ll bet you wouldn’t have guessed that people aged 55 to 64 comprise the highest rate of entrepreneurship over the past decade. An extremely informative interview with Jumpwires Gavin McGarry.

With over 90% of all startups failing, it is difficult enough to begin a startup in your own country. It is much more difficult in a foreign country. We give you seven pieces of advice that you really need to heed; Apple filed a patent last week for a hotspot device that will bring data connectivity to portable electronic devices. Does this mean that you will no longer have to take your phone with you to use your Apple watch; how strong are your password memory joggers, if you are like most people, they are pathetic; we salute Danielle Bernstein at 22-year-old blogger who gets paid $15,000 for a single Instagram post: if you can find a bug in United Airlines system they will give you up to 1 million mileage plus reward miles. A really terrific interview with Terry Drayton.

Your idea is so great that as soon as you mention it to a potential investor they will write you a check. Wrong. Raising funds no matter how good your idea is very difficult and so is creating a good elevator pitch. This is 30 seconds where you describe the problem you are setting out to solve, how you are going to solve it, how big is the market, and how do you intend to capture it… in 30 seconds. It take some practice; then you need to get your business up and running and begin soliciting for investors. We discuss how you do it; We have a great ode to entrepreneurs; Instagram plays a valuable role in Nepal; Ikea’s great new promotion; Apple's new big-screen iPad revealed; per per yesterday Membership models for business. A great interview with Jessica Rose from We Rehearse.

We discuss three of the biggest issues that entrepreneurs say they have: finding great staff that stay with them, attracting growth capital and how to build a scalable platform in a business that could fire when it hits critical mass; extraordinary 4D printers make 3-D printers look like child's play; at last, dramatic changes are taking root in America's education system; we discuss the various aspects of drones, the new B4UFLY app, the potential use of drones for evil, new drone detecting technology and where Amazon is planning to go with delivery drones; we also talk about driverless cars and trucks. A great interview with Per Sjofors

We are all used to tips like go the extra mile, be the first to arrive in the last to leave, don’t be afraid to fail and so on but there are eight more great tips that nobody will tell you, but we will; issues with the Apple watch; there are 3500 new apps for the Apple watch already, we discuss some of these; Are Apple watch sales as hot as we are led to believe?; We discuss the next big thing in seminars across the world, Humagrams. A novelty or revolution? One of the best interviews we’ve ever done with the extraordinary Miko Branch.

Which of these five key success factors is the most important? Most entrepreneurs are wrong; celebrate the eight-year-old YouTube entrepreneur who is making $1.5 million per year net; the 21-year-old college dropout who is on track to make over $1 million in 2015. His is a great lesson for all entrepreneurs; What are the 12 key elements that will enable you to meet your goals; We also have an excellent interview with Scott Yancey, CEO of Cloudwords.

Google today announced a large update to its search engine that will almost certainly impact you negatively if your site is not mobile friendly. How to determine how suited your site is to mobile; big data has been all the rage in recent years, we discuss some unusual applications you have probably never heard of; the investment in digital ads worldwide has exploded, how many of the millions of ads you have seen do you remember? Which ads work and which don't; the phenomena that is Netflix is changing television as we have known it for 50 years; there is an old saying “it's not about who did it first, it's about who did it right”. We discuss a few of these that did it right”. We have an excellent interview with Barry Monies, Internet hacking expert.

Cop Watch, Five-O, I’m Getting Arrested, Stop and Frisk, Panic Room. Great names… and great apps for recording and sending information regarding police activity. Also, know your rights when recording the police: Fantastic Medical advancements… Prosthetics, brain:computer interfaces, using patients own cells to grow organs, face and limb transplants, 3D printing of body parts; Banks are the next big disruption. Millennials hate banks.

Privacy is a huge issue, not just from Big Brother but also from foreign governments and criminal hackers. We discuss some things that will take you 15 minutes and make you very much more secure: 3D printers are extraordinary devices but it is the PancakeBot that is catching the imagination: The first head transplant is on its way. Extremely difficult, 36 hours, 150 medical experts and $11 million. Makes a boob job look pretty tame.

Many investors, particularly those that have been used to investing in traditional companies are always urging entrepreneurs to minimize burn rate. They also urge entrepreneurs to minimize the salaries they pay the startup team to minimize costs. A number of studies have shown that neither of these actions are in the best interests of e-commerce companies. For companies with a great business idea and a path to profitability, striving to increase burn rate, in order to increase milestone right is usually best; Microsoft at 40; what to do if you get a Cease and Desist letter; Stanford grads can earn $500,000 a year almost straight out of college.

A new 3-D printer for pancakes enables you to make the most intricate pancake designs; not to be left out some bars are 3-D printing ice cubes in the most extraordinarily intricate design such as guitars in intricate detail including strings; anatomy of a well thought out startup… CQS International.

Before he became a millionaire at 28 and then progressing to PayPal, Space Ex and Tesla and a net worth of $12 billion, Elon Musk lived off just one dollar a day; we discuss the eight digital archetypes and the ways they innovate and disrupt various markets; despite all reports, Google glass lives on; Amazon gets FAA approval to test delivery drones.

We also discuss the four ways to build a database, the benefits and the pitfalls. We have an excellent interview with Jabu, an extraordinary South African artists.

He came to the US with $26 from Romania, sold his startup for half a billion, now on his way to a second one being worth another half billion: Facebook saves the eyesight of three year old girl: Failed start-ups fuel lots more startups that don’t need the training wheels: Wow! 3D printers, a quarter the size of football fields can print 10 full size homes a day for a fraction of the cost of regular building:

We also discuss that 90% of the world’s data was created in just the last 12 months; what you need to do to have customers identifying with your brand. We have an excellent interview with Patrick Rettig…. Business savior and old time rock n roller.

Superhuman vision, robotic blood cells, living superglue, Nano particles in the body's blood stream, it's all on the way; why is the US on a level with Third World countries in so many areas?; People who achieve extraordinary things are actually just very ordinary people like you and I; SXSW, where it is all happening this week.

We also discuss the power of You Tube stars and what you need to do to have customers identifying with your brand. We have an excellent interview with Mark Goulston…. Who or what is keeping you hostage?

Graphene… 1 million times thinner than paper and over 200 times stronger than steel… All of the big tech companies are scrambling to incorporate it in their products. Samsung has 405 Graphene related patents. The European Union is spending €1 billion to fund Graphene research… Graphene chips are 10,000 times faster than today’s standard chip; The new Apple watch is a game changer for Apple… Projections for 2015 are up to 45 million units; could you pick the apple logo from a lineup? Easy right? If you can you will be one of the very few; the CIA is desperately trying to hack Apples Encryption. A threat to national security??

WPP spent $2.9 billion on Google in 2015 yet only spent $2.5 billion with Fox and News Corp. combined; the growth in the drone industry; six elements that will impact future business; interview with Eric Rice.

Being an entrepreneur is difficult, wearing a number of hats, trying to juggle several balls in the air, it is really easy to miscalculate with your finances. We discuss the common financial mistakes that entrepreneurs must avoid.; Google pays $25 million for the .app web domain; Apple make a big splash in Vogue for the new Apple watch…particularly the 18kt rose gold version priced at about $5000. We also discuss the 10 considerations you need to make when designing a logo. We also have a great interview with activist, filmmaker and entrepreneur Josh Tickell

24 people applied for jobs at KFC, 23 were accepted. Jack Ma lost out. He tried to get a job in the Chinese police…rejected. With Alibaba attracting 100 million listeners a day, I guess Jack had the last laugh; Its official, entrepreneurs are born and not bred. They don’t crave security, they have broader business knowledge and they are a damn sight more interesting: College dropout Ben Kaplan is now the hottest thing on college campuses… find out why.

We have two great entrepreneur stories, both beginning with an avalanche of setbacks and both ending in triumph. Two stories of vision, focus and determination… both with very little to no luck. We also have a great interview with William Guy.

Just 6 months ago, William Nobrega was living in a small room, with no windows in Hong Kong. He had no money, but a well thought out vision, determination and commitment. Today he has a business valued at over $100 million and growing rapidly. What is his secret?; what will the office of 20 years in the future look like; The Google Glass implosion…straight from a soap opera; Strange looking vans with all sorts of technology running around California, they belong to Apple. Self driving cars or a retooling of Apple maps?

We have a discussion about how entrepreneurs can raise funding and our popular email segment.

At CES over 900 companies showed their Internet of Things Products and Solutions. But there are a multitude of problems, not the least of which are expensive technology which needs to reduce by 90% to be viable, Telecoms can’t meet the requirements of billions of low power devices that need constant power to send negligible data, security, with most appliances being unable to handle heavy encryption, not to mention privacy and snail pace government regulation.

We discuss the importance of Beacons to retailers trying to win back bricks and mortar world sales; Snapchat now enters the Internet production business as new media lines up to take on the old guard; Tim Cook has been a miracle worker at Apple. The SuperBowl winners and losers…the Patriots, Budweiser. I give you my scorecard.

We discuss the 10 passwords you should never use and how you can check your password strength; can you believe it’s 30 years tomorrow since the recording of We Are The World we have the music legend responsible for that mammoth event on the show today; the new app… the invisibleboyfriend… Now we’ve heard all; a surprise report that shows men are the power shoppers on smart phones and tablets; Facebook set to generate over $7 billion from mobile advertising in 2016; Apple’s new stylus?; and how many times should you update your business app every year?

We also discuss how to do research on limited budget and our regular highly popular email segment where we answer entrepreneurs questions.

Over the past few years marketing has changed dramatically creating a challenge for most CMO's and CEO’s alike. Neil Patel is an expert and he believes that 2015 will continue to produce major changes in the way we market our goods and services. We discuss 10 marketing predictions for 2015 and if you follow them we are confident that you will remain ahead of your competitors. We also discuss what is probably the ultimate in the shared economy, the new app Airpnp.

We also discuss how to survive in a really tough market when your prices are really being squeezed and how to do research on limited budget.

We have our extremely popular email segment where we answer questions from entrepreneurs

We discuss five mobile apps for business, both Apple and android that make you totally organize your day way you want it organized. EasilyDo, TimeFul, Team Viewer, Doodle and WPs office will make your life a lot easier, both personal and business; technology is enabling athletes to really enhance the performance and reduce the chance of injuries. Some of the advances are incredible. We are against blood doping and using all forms of stimulants, but injecting chips into your body is okay. I think I'm missing something; a hacker in Germany has found that it is easier to hack fingerprints than it is to hack passwords. Oh well, back to the drawing board. brbr We also discuss how to create successful social media marketing campaigns and viral videos and how to do research on limited budget. brbr We also have our extremely popular email segment and answer questions from our listeners.

A great idea, if not acted upon in a disciplined and earnest way will not succeed. If it is your dream to be entrepreneur, you need to balance out your dreamer and doer traits; Instacart, a simple idea, is now valued at $2 billion and growing very rapidly; venture-capital boomed in 2014 with London, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles Silicon Beach reporting substantial growth not only in the number of projects but in funds raise;. 2015 is shaping up to enjoy even greater growth and be the year of instant delivery gratification and the beginning of a huge surge in the shared economy.

We also discussed how to get your employees totally committed to your business, increasing morale and productivity and how to do research on limited budget. We also have our very popular weekly segment where we answer emails from listeners.

When America flourishes world flourishes and the US last quarter grew at an amazing 5% and a little under 50% of American consumers believe 2015 will be a great year. In a consumer economy, that is great news; The Interview becomes Sony's number one online film of all time in less than a week; Bitcoin and the Russian ruble have the dubious honor of being the worst performing currencies of 2014. Is Bitcoin just one big Ponzi scheme?; The delivery economy, long popular in New York, is now spreading rapidly across the country; Google officially becomes a car company heralding a huge change in the way we look at car travel and we salute 71-year-old Len Smith who has just become an entrepreneur. It is never too late.

We have our extremely popular email segment and our interview with my guest Scott Page who as an entrepreneur formed Walt Tucker Productions, co-founded 7th Level, Inc., then New Media Broadcasting Company, a social media and collaborative communications enterprise.

YouTube have been told by lawyers representing thousands of music superstars that they had better remove 20,000 videos from its site or face a $1 billion lawsuit. The new legal group Global Music Rights has told YouTube that it does not have performance right to thousands of songs by 40 of its clients including the Eagles and John Lennon; Mobile is growing faster than all other digital advertising formats as advertisers are rapidly allocating dollars to catch mobile first users; Sony screw up, then back down; why smart watches are a dud: the most sought after skills by employers in 2014.

We discuss difficult it is to be a jack-of-all-trades in your own small business and finally, the advantages of cloud computing. We have our extremely popular email segment where we answer questions from our listeners

Most businesses are now using social media marketing, however the majority are still focusing on Facebook and Twitter while ignoring probably the most effective vehicle of all, YouTube and other video sharing sites. We show you how to create video content that works; secondly we look at email marketing and we have determined seven email marketing mistakes that most people don't even realize they are making; at last, and not before time a smart gun has been introduced into California. This gun is impossible to fire by anyone apart from its owner.

We discuss how hard it is to be in a two-person startup, missing the input of ideas, the vigorous discussion and the energy of working for a larger company, and what to do about it; how difficult it is to be a jack of all trades in your own small business and finally, the advantages of cloud computing. We have our extremely popular email segment answering questions from entrepreneurs.

In a pretty extraordinary admission Facebook has stated that only a little over 40% of the ad is that it runs are seen by anybody. Find out what it is that will make your ad viewable; a few small rocks in the way of the avalanche that is Uber. Some cities are prepared to cast aside progress for the sake of a hopelessly inefficient and often obnoxious taxi industry and the governments grab for taxi license fees: we salute three amazing young entrepreneurs from MIT. brbr We discussed above the line, below the line and through the line strategies, what they are and how they work and also talk about some of the world's best business quotes. We also have our extremely popular email segment and our interview with my guest Ben Baldwin, the founder and co-CEO of ClearFit which is described as the app that fixes hiring.

Social media marketing today is a very serious job. It must be an integral component of any corporate marketing program. Discuss how to manage and budget your social media strategy. To do it right you should expect to invest a significant amount of money and a considerable amount of time. It is not a part-time role; we discuss Coca-Cola using drones to make things a little easier for homesick foreign workers in Singapore; we salute a 14-year-old entrepreneur, Maya Penn who has quite a resume, entrepreneur, CEO, philanthropist, eco-friendly fashion designer, coder, illustrator, writer and animator.

What can you do to build your retail business when advertising gets you a very poor return on your investment. We also have our extremely popular email segment.

A Los Angeles restaurant uses big data and algorithms to drive $85,000 in business in a week; what is business disruption?; A new product to make Vagina’s smell like ripe peaches; Amazon Prime Instant Video doubles its share however Netflix still commands over 30% of the market; Amazon’s Black Friday now runs for eight days to combat the Thanksgiving sales programs from Walmart and Kmart; the new smartphone figures are out and still 84% of smartphones are Android. Apple’s iPhone 6 pushes Apple share up 1%.

What is the sharing economy, we explain and give suggestions to really build a retail business. We also have our extremely popular email segment where we give answers to listeners questions about their business.

There is more opportunity than ever before to become a millionaire before the age of 30, it no longer seems like some distant dream. Let me give you 10 steps that will guarantee that you are a millionaire at 30; the US Justice Department are scooping up mobile phone data from unwitting Americans as part of the sophisticated airborne surveillance program is designed to catch criminals; 25-year-old Nick Walter does something that all of us could've done and makes up to $70,000 a month doing it; Nestle Japan is hiring 2000 robots to work as sales clerks at stores across Japan, so much for unemployment numbers. brbr How important is it for you to build your own personal brand as well is building the brand of your company, we will find out; we continued the discussion about the number of ways you can go about protecting your IP.

Taylor Swift, the most successful recording act in the world has pulled her songs off music on demand service Spotify. Four days later her new album sold 1.3 million copies in a couple of days. There was a lot of neck behind this apparent madness; will smart watches finally drive wearables, what the public are looking for; oops, Google stock falls nearly $100 below its 52 week high. Is this just an aberration or is it the start of a trend.

Why cause marketing helps you sell product, and a lot of it. More importantly, this trend is accelerating; is it important to build your personal brand as well as your company brand? We look at the arguments for and against.

The six motivations for buying anything are critical to everyone, not only those in business but they also apply in every facet of life. We discuss each of these motivations how this can help you close every negotiation, from selling a business product to convincing your kids did you something that you want them to do; a new innovation that allows you to operate any of the Internet of Things with just your smart phone. Xped have just listed on Kickstarter and we will tell you how all this came about. brbr We also discuss whether it is harder for a woman in business today than it is for a man; how you stop someone from stealing your intellectual property, what are the various methods of protecting your intellectual property and how you go about it.

I have worked with hundreds of startups and well over 90% of them fail. I see the same mistakes being made over and over again so I have compiled the major 21 reasons for this failure. This segment is so important that it takes up almost half the show and it is a program that no startup or early-stage business should miss. brbr We also have a discussion about why ascertaining the lifetime value of customers is so critically important: we also discussed is the a formula for establishing prices for your products; and finally, is it harder to be a woman in business than it is for a man. We also have our extremely popular email segment and our interview with my guest, Paul Bennet, an international champion aerobatic stunt pilot. Wow… This is a business where you cannot make too many mistakes, in fact you can't make any.

Social media is still going from strength to strength however the demographics of who’s on what social network are shifting with the older social networks reaching maturity, while the newer social messaging apps are gaining younger users fast; Apple iPhone sales soar, up 16% and Apples revenue increased by 12%, who said Tim Cook couldn't cut it; leaked information… three new wristbands for Fitbit, one is described as a super watch; big sentences for Internet trolls in the UK, the US should follow suit; the silly season is here with online sales expected to boom and everyone, both online and off-line, trying to deliver same-day.

We also have a discussion about the best apps for keeping up with the news and the importance of your image and your logo. We also have our extremely popular email segment and our interview with my guest, Nikki Vescovi is a powerful communication expert who shows how you can not only dramatically change your business, but also your life.

Is Apple about to launch Apple Pay this week? It will replace wallets, and cash, and credit cards but the question is “how long will it take?”; I facilitated a think tank in São Paulo Brazil for new online insurance company Kiseguro. A fantastic success getting 15 of Brazil's smartest independent minds in one room for a full day. The information and initiatives that came from that meeting were amazing. All companies should have a think tank at least once a year; what colors are hot in advertising this year; instead of photos of your genitals disappearing off Snap Chat for ever, hackers have ensured that they will be in full color for all to see forever; Amazon is going physical in New York opposite the Empire State building… Monopoly?

We also have a discussion about the future of PayPal after its separation from eBay; how to make $500,000 a year on Twitter. We also have our extremely popular email segment

The first Gen X’s turn 50 this year and are poised for greatness. The average age of an S&P 1500 CEO is 50 and 68% of the 500 CEOs are Gen X’s; Google is working on technology that allows users to integrate multiple screens to create giant television screens of various shapes and sizes; some new astonishing figures about social media, among them 21% of people use social media on the toilet; and

We also have a discussion about Facebook's foray into health care; eBay and PayPal to go their separate ways. We also have a new segment called “How you can help the entrepreneur’, this week a company that makes controlling the Internet of Things child's play. We also have our extremely popular email segment and our interview with Peter Friedman, a social media visionary and veteran with 18 years experience in the social content marketing space at LiveWorld and another 12 years at Apple.

Facebook has changed its algorithm to favor news and content from friends over that of brands. The result is that companies have seen their posts essentially disappear. So what is the next big thing… this may be a surprise but it is email! Marketing companies are seeing up to 40% opening rate for emails; 155 new billionaires in the last 12 months, where were they from?; We are experiencing an explosion of same day deliveries from online retailers, what does this mean for bricks and mortar stores; Generation Z is driving e-commerce with 10% of their expenditure online; banks face major threat from tech giants, is this the end of banking as we know it?

We also have a discussion about the huge role that emotion plays in business, even with the tough bunch on Shark Tank. We also have our extremely popular email segment and our interview with Darren Kavinoky who is no stranger to the television cameras, the courtroom, or the speaker’s podium, or to pain and misery – he is a recovered addict, an accomplished trial lawyer, a well-known television host and legal analyst, and a compelling keynote speaker. A great story.

Hacking of cardholders data from major corporations seems to be a daily occurrence, but scientists have developed a security system that is uniquely yours…your heart rhythm; Mark Cubans six tips to becoming successful: the 19 year old developer who turned down a job offer from Apple;

We also have a discussion on the projected huge growth in the use of drones for commercial use. The floodgates will open in 2015… We also have our extremely popular email segment and our interview with Neil Gaydon who became the President and CEO of SMART Technologies in October 2012. He is an innovative, results oriented leader, focused on delivering exceptional growth in highly competitive markets and turnaround situations.

Some 70% of smartphone owners have not downloaded an app in the last month, 1% of apps earn more revenue than the other 99% combined and the average app makes less than $500 per month; one of the easiest things to hack… Traffic lights. We heard last week how easy it is for hackers to get access to all your data by hacking your refrigerator, your garage door or your toaster. Just how vulnerable are our files, our homes and our country's infrastructure. By the sound of it, not very; because of the stupidity and the slowness of American legislators, Amazon is beginning its drone trials in India; great news this week, the Gene R. Cohen entrepreneurial scholarship is expanding to other colleges.

Words of advice on the keys to success from Mark Cuban: how to add value in your business; how to develop your small business with no marketing budget. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an interview with Scott Cohen about Forgetnic which enables your emails to be not only deleted but all trace of them horribly erased within 24 hours.

Amazon has moved into the credit card processing service with Local Register, putting it in direct competition with Square, PayPal and Intuit; murderer finds out all the great places to hide a body… From Siri; Uber is set to be the big disrupter in package delivery with Corner Store, an on-demand product delivery service in Washington DC; Google went public 10 years ago today, the comparison of the company in 2004 and 2014 is extraordinary; Walmart's big-box stores are losing popularity, the future is in their Neighborhood Markets; WeChat hits 236 million users; 15 year old Google global science fair finalist develops a way to stop Alzheimer's patients from wandering at night, and predictions are that Apple’s iPhone6 will be an absolute blockbuster due to pent-up demand for the larger iPhone.

We also discuss beacons, what are they and how do they work, how they present an incredible opportunity for retailers. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an interview with Jeffrey Hayzlett a brilliant speaker, marketing legend and radio host. We are going to chat about how Jeffrey is using the latest in OTT to build a media empire from the ground up.

Email is a very powerful and very inexpensive marketing tool, a great way to increase your database and rapidly grow your business. But if you don't do it correctly it could cost you. We discuss the do’s and the don'ts of successful emailing; a UC Berkeley study shows women are easier to mislead and are more likely than men to be lied to during negotiations. Surprisingly both men and women lie to women more often than to men; 100% of Chinese high school students can write code yet only 6% of American high school students can write code. Google, Facebook and AT&T are working to change that with a program called Girls who Code, a terrific initiative ; the latest list of the 10 American brands with the most positive buzz, how the hell did Ford, Walgreens and Lowes make the list?; HP study shows the Internet of Things Is a hacker's dream.

You should not miss this segment on how to measure the business outcome of the work we do in content marketing. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an interview with Jen Laska, who is the perfect guest for this show. She created a product, bootstrapped it to the point where they have widespread national distribution, and she has done all this while being fully employed in a day job. That sounds like the modus operandi of an extremely successful entrepreneur. Now, due to her efforts in single-handedly building a new grocery category, the $76 billion dollar global giant Nestle is taking her on. This is true David and Goliath stuff, and my money is on David

A SWOT analysis, an honest, objective appraisal of your company's Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats should be conducted on a semi regular basis to ensure that your company is always prepared to seize opportunities or to mitigate weaknesses and threats: how much privacy can you expect when you're using Google services like email? The answer is none… is that a good thing or bad thing?; Grolsch beer comes up with a great idea to build customer engagement by linking their bottles to smartphones through a bottle-cap Bluetooth beacon: the most successful startup are those that are simple and solve a real problem, a few examples; Musks Hyperlink to the future or a boring fast train…the Government screws up again.

You should not miss this segment on how to measure the business outcome of the work we do in content marketing. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an interview with William Nobrega, Founder of The Conrad Group, a global professional-services firm that is the recognized leader in emerging market investment advisory services. He recently founded CQS International, an emerging-market, focused, Internet-based, E-Insurance Company that will become the largest E-Insurance company globally.

Most entrepreneurs look to venture capital for funding, are they looking in the wrong place?; What words in the subject line will get your email opened?; Apple acknowledges that it has the ability to extract personal data including text messages, contact lists and photos from iPhone's; Avoid the traffic, you can now buy a flying car for $137,000; Who is shopping online? You may be surprised; How to become a star in 37 seconds… The Shawn Mendes story;

If you're in sales, you should not miss this segment on what questions you should ask in order to close a sale and how to measure the business outcome of the work we do in content marketing. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an interview with Tony Engberg from Pink Zulu Labs. He is a great guy and has more than 35 years of experience and leadership in driving profitable business growth while helping companies transform and disrupt in the rapidly changing digital world.

The overwhelming majority of entrepreneurs fail, what can we learn from these failures? We discussed a number of common mistakes that entrepreneurs make; when raising funding, never give up, keep knocking on doors. Pandora's founder was rejected by more than 300 investors; the amazing success of messaging and social apps; is Amazon launching a Netflix for books?; The Internet of Things heralds a new era of financial prosperity; Are peer to peer payments the next major disruption.

Google and Novartis combined to bring an amazing new technology to diabetics; how to measure the business outcomes of the work we do in content marketing. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an interview with Jay Parker, Vice President for the Live Events sales organization at Daktronics. Jay has the world's coolest job, in providing for sports and concerts. He is a great guy and I'm sure you'll enjoy the interview.

There is no doubt that apart from Germany, Adidas was the star of the 2014 World Cup. How their incredible social media campaign came together, how they extended it to live outdoor projections and to retail stores across the world, a lesson for anyone using social media; 80% of CEOs simply do not trust marketers which explains why they have become an extinct species on company boards. We discuss seven things that marketers can do to gain back respect in the C Suite.

There is no doubt that traditional marketing has changed dramatically in this technology environment. We discuss fourteen things that all businesses need to know about marketing communications today in this brand-new world. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an interview with Mike Southon a serially successful entrepreneur, mentor, best-selling business author and a Financial Mail columnist in the Mail on Sunday. Mike is co-author of several best-selling business books, including The Beermat Entrepreneur and Sales on a Beermat.

12 ways to determine if you were born to be an entrepreneur, if you have these traits go for it. If you don't, you'll probably save yourself a lot of heartache and financial pain by working for a boss; the wearable market is heating up; Google is banning the promotion of porn; we are being buried in data, but most companies are not using it; a great new idea, pop-up bus routes determined by big data and social media; no big surprise, the world's CEOs say they simply don't trust marketers, while 90% of them trust CIOs and CFOs.

We also provide a number of tips on how to address the issues that many small businesses face. We also have our extremely popular email segment and a terrific interview with Hana Abaza, who creates inspired tech for companies big and small. Want to know something about using social media, this girl knows it all.

Google have reportedly developed micro bots that are small enough to fit through human capillaries and can detect diseases in the blood and trigger an RFID reader which in turn talks to your watch. These micro-bots can detect things like certain kinds of cancer. Wow!; New research released this week disproves a number of theories about what contributes to the effectiveness of a brand's Consumer Purchasing Benefit. We look at the 10 most popular CBP’s and also the 10 most remembered; Isn't it time that the discussion about whether a CEO is gay or straight is relegated to the “why the hell are we talking about this” basket; Online video advertising is growing much faster than TV and search; A great promotion from Uber and the Supreme Court ruling on Aereo.

We also provide a number of tips on how you can increase sales in your retail store and how to address the issues that many small businesses face. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an excellent interview with Yoav Schwartz, the founder and CEO at Uberflip, a company that creates fantastic content hubs that convert visitors into leads, and leads into customers.

We are in an era of disruption and every day there are new industries where technology and outside the box thinking are game changers. We have been inundated with so called rules about how we should do business. The problem is that most of them are not rules at all, they are simply anchors around our neck, they hold us back and deny us access to success. We discuss a number of companies that have broken the rules, disrupted industries and become enormous successes; We also discuss WPP's $100 million confidence in Twitter; did you know that the ads in the World Cup are over four times more popular than those of the Super Bowl in terms of time spent?

We also discuss the areas of your business that could cause you grief, external threats, internal threats and management threats; great software that helps you monitor how your staff uses their time.

We also have our extremely popular email segment and an excellent interview with Simon Jordan who went from a 20s death wish, to setting up his Marketing company and establishing his own highly acclaimed online TV channel sharing marketing tips to a global audience

The race is on with Google planning this week to launch a new health service called Google Fit as a direct challenge to Apple's HealthKit which was announced last week. Microsoft is reportedly launching a health Smartwatch as an addition to its Health Vault platform; we finally get a glimpse of the new Samsung line of tablets, which are apparently very thin and light but more robust than previous tablets, but with Samsung’s fabulous digital display: Amazon is expected to launch a smartphone which will close the gap between the impulse to buy and the completed act. They have pretty much everything else in place, providing an end to end service that Walmart, eBay, Apple and Google cannot match; the LAPD apparently think that hockey games are as subversive as hostage situations, barricades, and suspect searches.

We also provide some tips on words and phrases to use and those never to use. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an excellent interview with indie film producer and serial entrepreneur, now EVP of Fragmob, Michel Bayan.

On average there are 1,500 stories that could appear in your Facebook news feed every time you log on and if you have lots of friends you can receive 15,000 potential stories every time you log on. Facebook's news feed ranks every story and displays approximately 300 that they believe are the most relevant to you; Tinder, the location-based dating app will let users share Snapchat like photos that will disappear in 24 hours; Do we need the new precision guided firearms app that allows the shooter to take aim and fire from around corners and behind walls when daily gun deaths in the United States are already 10 times higher then the daily death toll in the Vietnam war; The wearable war… Will Google or Apple take the initiative and own this space by making it easier for developers to create apps.

We also provide some tips on how to make a great first impression, how to get the relationship off on the right foot, after all, you only get one shot at a first impression. We also discuss words and phrases to use and those never to use. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an excellent interview with Jamie Beckland, VP of Marketing and Customer Success at Janrain.

The new payment technologies will create new winners and losers in the giant credit card industry as Silicon Valley moves into the space. The new technology payment companies straddle the off-line and online worlds. The legacy companies are not gone yet but like the dinosaurs, they will become extinct sooner rather later: Apple's developer conference starts this week and they really need to pull a rabbit or two out of the hat. What do they need to do?: Attorney. General slams Australia as the worst offender in the world when it comes to piracy: Ballmer buyers Clippers, let's hope he does better with them than he did with Microsoft: Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are to be applauded for their support of Bay area public schools: Uber eyeing driverless cars and Instagram continues to be the rising star.

We also provide some tips on how to be a great public speaker, words and phrases to use and those never to use. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an excellent interview with customer Service guru John Tschohl.

The Internet of Things marks a major change in the global Internet economy. From current household giants, to startups specializing in home automation to large Silicon Valley based tech companies, they are all poised for a huge battle over this new consumer space estimated to be worth $2.5 billion by 2020: Smart Things, the specialist Internet of Things company which has a great platform to connect everything in your home rather than just one-off products, is on the march; Cisco CEO, John Chambers, believes that the rapid pace of change in technology is going to create a blood bath among both the major tech companies and almost every other company on the planet. Of the top five tech companies, possibly only two will survive; Mobile now makes up 12% all e-commerce sales.

We also discuss whether people are more productive at some times of the day than others. Not all hours are created equal. Some hours produce more net value than others. You need to rank your activities over the course of the week into three categories: High Value, Low Value and No Value. When you are planning to start your own business, should you begin now when we are coming out of a recession or should you wait until the economy picks up before you leave your job and give it a go? We also have our extremely popular email segment and an excellent interview.

Most entrepreneurs try to maintain more than 50% shareholding in their startups. They don’t want to lose control, they want to maximize the money they will make. We discuss why the founders of most successful startups end up with less than 10% shareholding in their own companies and are happy about it.; we discuss why Uber will overcome the challenges and become a $100 billion company: Where to for Drones?....they will change the way we do business in so many ways…commencing in 2015; What’s with AT&T’s takeover of Direct TV… a smart move or the death rattles of a dinosaur; Facebooks new App, Slingshot, competition to Snapchat which is now a lot more than just a pest.

We also discuss a new entrepreneur in Australia that is about to save citizens of the 500,000 population Gold Coast region a massive $40 million a year in fuel bills, they are our entrepreneurs of the week; where you should be spending your advertising dollars and how to make those decisions. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an excellent interview.

We talk to Ron Kaufman, world’s leading authority on customer service, author of 14 books, whose new book ‘Uplifting Service’ is a sensation. Making transformation his mission, Ron is one of the world’s most sought-after educators, consultants, thought-leaders and customer service speakers on the topic of achieving superior service. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today.

The good reputation that you have worked hard at and built over many years can be destroyed on line in an instant, it is as critical to running your business as monitoring your financial statements; Apple takes a giant surge in online sales to take the number two spot behind Amazon; Ondot credit card control.. another great entrepreneur to salute.

We also discuss how to maximize your presence online as more and more people use the Internet as the first port of call; where you should be spending your advertising dollars and how to make those decisions. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an excellent interview.

We talk to Martyn Etherington who is the chief marketing officer of Mitel a leading provider of unified communications software solutions. Martyn has oversight responsibility for all aspects of Mitel's corporate marketing strategy and programs globally. He has more than 25 years' experience with multinational technology companies including IBM, Sequent Computer Systems and Digital Equipment Corporation and at Tektronix where he most recently held the position of vice president worldwide marketing, Martyn is an awarding winning marketer known for his digital marketing expertise.

Chances are that in the next 10 years movies will have a very short theatrical run before they go to your watch, Smartphones, PC or tablet and from then on you may be paying according to the size of the screen; tablet shipments on the wane; Samsung to one up Apple in the mobile health space? And shopping cart abandonment is on the increase.

We also discuss why small businesses should use social media… the five primary reasons; and is giving away free samples of your product a good marketing strategy. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an excellent interview

We talk to Ron Kaufman, the world’s leading authority on customer service, author of 14 books, whose latest book ‘Uplifting Service’ has been a huge success. Making transformation his mission, Ron is one of the world’s most sought-after educators, consultants, thought-leaders and customer service speakers on the topic of achieving superior service. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today.

Smartphones, wireless networks, Internet, connectivity, bandwidth capacities, the huge popularity of smartphones and cloud computing will bring a divergence of tools that can be readily applied to medicine. This digital revolution will reshape the world of healthcare. We discuss some of the amazing initiatives; and he will afford about how much money the big technology companies make in profit every second? The results may astound you; whatsapp, whatsnext?; an App for prostitution!

We also discuss the nine things that separate entrepreneurs from everyone else. While most people think “why me”, entrepreneurs think “why not me”. If you think about it there's no real answer, because when you are truly willing to not just dream big but also try incredibly hard, there are no reason you can't succeed, or at least not reasons that matter to you. Why do entrepreneurs face the vulnerability, the emotional ups and downs and the risk of public and private failure?

Think back 50 years, before computers, the Internet, even mobile phones, and now imagine what the world will be like 50 years from now. What changes do Americans expect to see in the next 50 years, the answers might really surprise you; are Americans optimistic or pessimistic about the changes they expect to see in the future; products we thought were so cool just 15 years ago, kids today can't work out how to use them; it is time for a single interface across all screens irrespective of their size; and is online gaming potentially as addictive as drugs, alcohol or gambling.

We also discuss how you determine what you should charge for your products and which part of your target market you should focus on and when is the best time to leave the safety of your job and become an entrepreneur? We have our extremely popular email segment and an excellent interview

We also talk to Liesl Capper CEO of MyCyberTwin and the Innovation and Information Industry Association “ICT Woman of the Year”. Her latest venture MyCyberTwin allows companies to make a software clone of their best customer service representatives. The result is a virtual human, which lives on a web site, or any online environment and replace contact centre staff. They are intelligent, consistent, friendly, and every aspect of the conversations with clients can be measured and tracked. MyCyberTwin has a growing stable of major international companies.

Americans discard wearables after about three months because of a multitude of reasons. We discussed the ways that entrepreneurs can change this dynamic; we discussed how tech ventures are biased towards younger people; the average age at founding of billion-dollar businesses is just 31 years old, while CEOs commence their tenure at S&P 500 companies at 53; we introduce the three teenage entrepreneurs who have launched Thinkspace for schools and colleges, continuing our practice of saluting teenage entrepreneurs.

Effective communication today, irrespective of whether you use snail mail, traditional media or new media, it is absolutely critical. We discus each of the 10 elements that are absolutely essential for effective communication and assign a relative weight to each of these elements. This is a session that any businessperson needs to hear.

We also talk to Chris Adams, Global CEO and Executive Director of online video streaming syndication company, Spondo. Chris has world-class, groundbreaking credits that go on for pages and pages. So I will just tell you a little bit. He is an internationally recognized new media pioneer, media, entertainment and technology executive with a history including Facebook, amazon, lycos, HBO; Comcast Cable and Interactive; and Glam.com where he built GlamTV. He was involved with movies that were nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and has also just published his third childrenʼs book which is narrated by Hugh Jackman and all profits will benefit The Global Poverty Project and World Vision.

Why you need to use video to dramatically increase your positioning on Google, and the 12 steps you need to take to make it really work for you; sensational new figures from Whatsapp and the world's 10 most powerful brands.

How to add value to your retail store, increase traffic, increase profit and return on investment and reduce your marketing costs; the advantages of cloud computing. We have our very popular email segment where we address the issues that concern business no matter where they are in the world.

We also talk to Tim Draper, described as the Prince of Silicon Valley, the billionaire behind Hotmail, Skype, Baidu and a host of other major successes. He coined the phrase ‘Viral Marketing’ and used it to drive Hotmail and others. He launched DFJ Global Network for early stage venture funds in 30 cities around the world. He was 52 on the 100 most influential Harvard Alumni and #7 on the Forbes Midas List.

Tim also set up the Draper University of Heroes in Silicon Valley, which is an unconventional world-class residential and online school for the brightest young entrepreneurs from around the world.

Snoopy is a hacker drone that seeks out mobile devices with Wi-Fi settings turned on and when it connects it to you intercept everything you send and receive: Google is trying to get Google wearables attractive enough to want to wear; is Apple letting Samsung own the smartphone space-the large-screen Galaxy phone wins hands down and printing of 3-D car in five days, plus much more.

We also discuss the importance of high school students learning code; Chinese companies might not initiate but they are beating many Silicon Valley success stories hands down; Is a small store compete against the big boxes; how to really add customer value if you're a retailer. We have our very popular email segment where we address the issues that concern business no matter where they are in the world.

We also talk to Jay Samit, who pioneered the first video on computers, the first Internet auction, digital distribution of music, ebooks, and group video chat on mobile devices. Jay has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, sold companies to Fortune 500 firms, and taken companies public.

Jays last company ooVoo, with 100 million registered users, was named the 2012 Venture Company of the Year and his video chat app was named best app technology in 2013.

If you get negative publicity on the web or in social media, you can run and hide, try to delete them, respond in kind or tackle them head-on. Which is preferable? Believe it or not over 55% of brands do not have a strategy in place to deal with negative comments on social media; there are only two reasons why people fail, they either can’t or they won’t. If they can’t, that is easily fixed but if they won’t then they are destined to be a failure.

We also discuss the importance of salespeople, without a sale you have no business; how much is great customer service worth; how to do a SWOT analysis and how the local retailer can take on the big-box giant. We have our very popular email segment where we address the issues that concern business no matter where they are in the world.

We have a fun and educational chat with Dr. Cathy Cramer, the founder and managing partner of the Cramer Institute in St. Louis Missouri, whose practical and logical advice is now employed by over 300 major corporations, 60 hospitals and the United States Air Force.

We discuss how Google Glass is being used in hospitals to provide doctors real-time patient charts and medical information, already saving at least one life: Apple’s iOS 7 update… the first step in dominating mobile commerce? ; where are the most billionaires in America?; we salute four teenage entrepreneurs that have really made a difference.

We discussed the importance of perseverance and gives some examples of mega-successes that overcame persistent knock backs; with all the focus on online, you should not forget good old-fashioned off-line promotion and the benefits of cloud computing. We also have our extremely popular email segment where we address the issues that concern business no matter where they are in the world.

We interview one of my favorite people, one hell of a nice guy, Tim Draper, the man describes as the Prince of Silicon Valley, one of the worlds biggest Venture capitalists and the man behind Hotmail, Skype and about 50 other major success stories. This time we are talking with Tim about his audacious plan to divide California into six states and how he hopes to have it on this November's ballot.

We discuss the critical importance for every entrepreneur to understand the cost of customer acquisition and the return per customer. lt is amazing how many established business owners do not know these essential details. We discuss the how, when and why; the G2 crowd rankings of social media management products; Instagram grabs another hundred million dollars from traditional media; Staples and RadioShack to close the newly 1500 stores due to online competition; Apple versus Samsung… The next product could be the decider.

But we also discuss how to address an increasingly multicultural business landscape, not only in America but across the world. We also have are extremely popular email segment where we address the issues that concern business no matter where they are in the world.

We interview the amazing Robert Stock, the Founder, Co-Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of the Robert Graham Empire has disrupted the way men and women dress for the last couple of decades. We discuss what is important in becoming successful.

On the program today we discuss Backpedal, the new app that allows you to remove images and messages from all social sites where it was shared; the 10 household name brands that will disappear in 2014,… including some surprises; Galaxy S5… has the iPhone finally met its match?; Mark Zuckerberg's plans to buy a drone company called Titan Aerospace in his quest to connect everyone in the world by the Internet.

We also discuss NLP; Shark Tank and how to reach a multicultural audience. Our regular and very popular email segment where we answer emails from around the world.

We have a terrific interview with Scott Page, serial entrepreneur and a member of Pink Floyd, Supertramp and Toto, three of the biggest bands in the history of music. He also raises millions of dollars for charity.

A new survey shows that people across all age groups say that there are eight things that they could not live without… Sex didn't come in the top eight… you would be surprised at the things people think are far more important. Even worse, 62% of women admit to checking their smart phones during sex; we love stories about teenage entrepreneurs and in todays show we feature three more young business superstars; we ask whether wearables are the next big financial bonanza; a bad week for Twitter and Bitcoin.

We also discuss the importance of building your personal brand; how to hire great candidates and avoid a disaster, or worse still, avoid infecting your business with a cancer; surrounding yourself with mentors… ensuring you get great advice.

We also have an excellent email segment where we answer questions from small business all over the world and a terrific interview with Carole Spiers, the CEO of the Carole Spiers Group in London, one of the leading stress management experts in the world, and author of the best-seller ‘Show Stress who's Boss”.

Have you ever wondered how some struggling startups seem to get bought for millions of dollars by a Facebook, Yahoo or a Google while others struggle until they fail or the company breaks up. Is that just luck, or is it because they are so much better than other startups, or is it because of who they know? We discuss how to become a great speaker and well you should really work on this skill: we also salute four more teenage entrepreneurs.

What does Above The Line, Through The Line and Below The Line mean?, How to differentiate your business from your competitors; creating the perfect Consumer Purchasing Benefit.

We have our extremely popular email segment, and a great interview with Constance Freedman, the Managing Director of Reach, a technology accelerator program which is of great interest to entrepreneurs with a startup or early stage business.

We discuss the dramatic effect that color can have on increasing response from marketing initiatives, increasing sales at retail and in presenting and packaging your products; we also discuss Kickstarters 2013 results, funding 12,911 projects; the ascent of Netflix; entrepreneurs need an abundance of perseverance; and we salute a number of young entrepreneurs.

We discuss where your competition is likely to come from the future; how you get customers to return again and again; what to do when business becomes really competitive and tough; the critical need to differentiate yourself.

We have our extremely popular email segment, and a great interview with Arshed Mohammed, the founder, and Amira Alaoui, the designer from the incredible contemporary Spirit of Arabia brand from Dubai.

The car of the future, self driving, self parking and fully connected through mobile. Also, your car will be telling the authorities every mile you drive, everywhere you go. We also talk about the new YouGov Brand Index survey which contains a lot of surprises, but indicates how precious brand equity is to every company. This is highlighted by the collapse of technology companies brand equity because of their alleged cooperation with the government on information gathering and companies like Target that were the subject of credit card hacking. We also discuss three entrepreneurs who gave up looking for a job and set up very successful businesses.

We discuss how to complete against bigger competitors and how to keep up with the rapid changes in the marketplace and in the way we communicate and maintain our clients. We have our very popular email segment, and an interview that I believe is of paramount importance to all entrepreneurs.

Find out what is new at the international CES show and how this year's show is different than previous years, why is there a record number of automakers exhibiting this year; new research on how often consumers switch between smart phones, tablets and desktops; the numbers will astonish you, and why this is critical to Google, Facebook and advertisers; billionaires who didn't finish college and who give generously to charity and one who can afford to, but is more interested in his own pocket.

We also have another great entrepreneur story and how if you employ market research, have persistence and a “give it a go” attitude you will prevail. We also discuss how you do market research without a lot of money. We also have our regular email segment answering emails from entrepreneurs across the world

We have a great interview with Dan Shyti, a leadership advisor and trainer, an author, speaker and mentor. He is the founder and president of 4 Power Leadership, a company that provides leadership training for corporate and government clients.

In today's show we make a number of predictions about what business can expect in 2014 and we have New Year's resolutions from a number of the great guests we have had on the show in 2013, including venture capitalists such as Tim Draper, Academy Award winner Eva Orner, Scott Ross who headed up Industrial Light and Magic, Jamie Power of JD power and Associates fame, and academic Linda Maddox from George Washington University and a host of others.

We also have a wonderful interview with John Maddox who I think has one of the best initiatives to assist entrepreneurs that I've heard in all my years in business. Instead of just investing money in projects, John has put together an extraordinary team of technology and software specialists who develop the project for the entrepreneur at no cost, in exchange for a shareholding. Not only does their fantastic expertise enhance the project but they also commercialize it for the entrepreneur.

Homeless in New York, sleeping on the streets in freezing temperatures, has a choice between hundred dollars cash and lessons on how to code. Takes the lessons on how to code, a recycled computer and his new App for carpooling has just been released. A great story coming into Christmas. We also discuss how to reward employees without giving cash; YouTube revenue dwarfing that of many cable networks; and the social networks that really connect with their audience.

We also discuss how to use marketing to get people through the doors of the small business; using incentives at a base salary to drive your business; and how to drive research with very little funds.

Our interview this week is a true entrepreneur story about Jen Laska who set up the very successful Jen and Joe's individual serves cookie dough that is now carried in over 150 major stores across the country. She set the company up with her husband, have taken no investment and are still both working full-time jobs to support the growth of the business. More importantly, the cookies are sensational with great flavors like White Chocolate Wasabi. This is a story that tells what being an entrepreneur is all about.

2014 is shaping up to be a great year, China to boom again and the United States is poised to use its financial muscle, technology superiority and more self reliance on energy to drive strong growth; Pinterest’s future is looking extremely bright; Bitcoins future also looks very promising; the Internet of Things; the brilliant Ron Burgundy/Anchorman 2 marketing campaign; social media is now in place for TV and video.

We also discuss how it is essential to differentiate your business from your competition and how to achieve it, whether to obtain funding for an early-stage business that is not yet profitable or whether to continue to bootstrap the business until it does achieve profits.

Our interview this week is with Kim Mordarnt, the writer and director of the brilliant new film set in Laos in Asia called The Rocket. I had never heard of this movie, but Wow, what a surprise, it is an absolutely wonderful film which has won major awards throughout the world and is receiving best foreign film Oscar buzz.

In the past 10 years, global wealth has risen 68%. According to Credit Suisse, 75% of this increase was in the United States; of 1.8 million new millionaires created in the last 12 months, 1.7 million of them were also in the United States; mobile marketing in high gear over the Thanksgiving weekend; we salute two new entrepreneurs; Amazon to deliver parcels by drone; prime time cable and broadcast on the skids; a look back at 100 years ago and new figures show that there is only 11 minutes of actual play in a three hour and 12 minute NFL broadcast.

We also discuss the Internet of Things, what is it, how does it work and when will it be here and the effect the rapid change in technology will have on the community as a whole.

Our interview this week is with Ben Baldwin, the founder and co-CEO of ClearFit which is described as the app that fixes hiring. Apart from being the CEO of ClearFit, Ben spends a lot of his time mentoring others as a Wall Street Journal startup guru, as an American Express open forum advisor, and a mentor with Extreme Startups. He is also membership director of the Entrepreneurs Organization which encourages entrepreneurs in 38 countries to learn and grow. This guy is not called the startup guru without reason, he is really in tune with not only the employment scene but is also an absolute expert on entrepreneur's and startups.

The United States is gearing up to spend about $70 billion next weekend, with retailers offering very deep discounts In fact five days out, people were already queuing up outside the major retailers. We also discussed how small retailers can make the most of their opportunities while people are in this mood; the fantastic new invention called Coin; the rise and rise of 3-D printers and the extraordinary products that are being produced and the most liked retailers, musicians, television shows, and causes.

We also discuss whether to charge an hourly or project fee for your work; the largest social media; Google Glass and the effect the rapid change in technology will have on the community as a whole.

Our interview this week is with Simon Treselyan, a fascinating guy who was a deep undercover operative for the British Secret Service, now a best-selling author, an in demand speaker and is in Hollywood for a month or so to lock up a film deal for his latest book. Simon also leads a group of former Special Forces operatives who go into countries and secure the release of children who have been kidnapped or sold into the sex trade or into child labor.

Tonight we discuss three studies that show that the majority of employers say that college graduates today lack communication and interpersonal skills, can't think critically and creatively, can't solve problems or write well; Google's investment in alternative energy; another Publicis/Google advertising deal… another nail in the traditional broadcasters coffin; are the valuations put on startup companies with absolutely no revenue an indication that the market has gone crazy.

We also discuss the Internet of Everything; most common pitfalls in setting up the small business and where to for Google glass? We also have our very popular email segment.

Our interview this week is with Jeff Winsper, CEO of Black Ink, who is a marketing and entrepreneurial veteran and has developed a reporting suite based on software for service which delivers the hard data that marketing has been asking for. It enables the determination of ROI of everything the marketing team puts in place.

Tonight we discuss how the explosion in local mobile data is rewriting the rules for marketers; the Internet of Things; the demise of Everpix; when reaching for your goal, don’t allow yourself to be ignored and we also cover the topical news of the day.

We also discuss the myths of email marketing and also the mistakes to avoid when establishing your own business. We also have our very popular email segment.

Our interview this week is with Robin Jay, an award-winning author, a professional speaker, the president and founder of the Las Vegas Convention Speakers Bureau and most recently she was a producer of the personal development movie “The Keeper Of The Keys” which stars Jack Canfield, John Gray and Marcy Shimof. She has been featured on MSNBC, Newsweek, CNN, BBC, the New York Times and a heap of other media too numerous to mention.

On this show we discuss the importance of conferences and training to maximize employee commitment and performance; tablets below $100 and laptops below $300 before Christmas; and how most online businesses are failing at customer service and a discussion of those who do it well.

We also discuss the best ways of getting investors for startups and early-stage businesses as well as some simple tips for retailers to utilize social media.

We also have our regular email segment and a great interview with Herb Mitschele, the CEO and cofounder of Shodogg. Herb is a guy who gave up a fantastic career to move to New York and become an entrepreneur. The result is a tremendous business product which enables instant connections between content and people by allowing users to access digital content stored in the cloud with any mobile device and direct that content to any number of web enabled screens simultaneously without any boxes, wires or dongles.

We discuss why the technology giants are concerned about the environment, treat their staff well, provide healthcare but have an appallingly low number of women in board and management positions; on the two-year anniversary of Steve Jobs passing we reflect on some of his more memorable comments and Nielsen now measuring TV related tweets.

We also discuss consumer purchasing benefits and why product, price, brand awareness and satisfied customers are no longer important in today's business. We have our regular email segment and a great interview guest.

Eva Orner is an Academy award-winning producer and director who has a new riveting and challenging documentary, Network about the creation of Afghanistan's first free media in this war-torn country. The network, TOLO TV was also groundbreaking in that it features a large number of highly talented women in a country where women's education and employment meets violent response from the Taliban.

In this show we talk about the seismic shift in America's viewing habits. Breaking Bad pulls in in a record number of viewers, but not on network, on cable. Yet this is dwarfed by audiences for You Tube shows and by Facebook who attracts double the audience every night of both cable and network television combined. We also discuss the most valuable brands in the world, the new crowd funding legislation and how to use social media to drive your retail sales.

We discuss the eight key elements in creating any form of print communication, as well as the reasons why your product, your price, your brand awareness and satisfied customers are no longer important in today's economy. We have our regular e-mail segment where we answer listeners e-mails from across the world and we have a great interview with Will Wiegler, who heads up the global marketing team at the TAS group (targeted account selling). This is a must interview for anyone in sales.

This 100th edition of the show is being broadcast from the incredible India Retail Forum being held in Mumbai, India where Bob Pritchard is the keynote speaker. The event attracts the top 2500 retailers from across the Central Asian region, 175 specialist speakers from across the world.

We celebrate 100 shows, 370 topics we discussed, 164 interviews, and the 190 emails we have answered from listeners.

We discuss the great entrepreneurs of all time, Twitter's public listing and creating a smart media strategy.

We also discussed why product, price, satisfied customers, and brand awareness are no longer important in this new communication environment. We have our usual email segment and an interview with Hunter Pritchard discussing a wide range of issues from the young entrepreneurs perspective.

In this program we discuss how Apple needs to get the big vision back to maintain its market share, McDonald's you mobile app, Zuckerberg attracts major partners to bring the Internet to the world, our traditional salute to an entrepreneur, this week Niall Foudy from Ireland, and Uni Messengers splash at TechCrunch Disrupt.

We also talk about the likely success of wearable gadgets, from smart watches to connected fitness bands and eyewear and how to create great print advertising that works, whether it is for newspapers, magazines or flyers.

We also have our extremely popular email segment and an interview with Scott McKain who is an expert on delivering the ultimate customer experience. Scott has been recognized by Social Media Marketing Magazine as one of the 50 most influential marketing authors on Twitter and Glenjuice. He also achieved the number one slot on the Amazon.com list of business bestsellers with his excellent book Collapse and Distinction. My second interview today is with Donald Cooper who began his career sweeping floors and went on to win seven awards for excellence in marketing, service and business innovation.

A great sign for the still sluggish US economy - manufacturing is really beginning to pick up, aided by extraordinary technology and a highly skilled and productive workforce. We are still a few years away from manufacturing really hitting its bootstraps, but it is on the way. We also salute a nine-year-old app entrepreneur and talk about the monetization of Instagram.

We also talk about Apple's Passbook app and how retailers can use it to their advantage and also how to use social media to increase interaction with customers and how to develop better relationships and deliver a positive customer experiences.

We speak with Marie France Lévesque, a prima ballerina who danced with Baryshnikov and Nureyev until a tragic car accident 14 years ago. Now, at 50, she formed the Los Angeles dance company and has a wonderful production in Los Angeles in November. We also have a great interview with INXS legendary saxophonist, guitarist and singer Dirk Pengilly. INXS has sold over 40 million albums.

In this program we discuss the 10 top crowd funding sites; the national student advertising competition; Yahoo surpasses Google in share of US web traffic; Amazon hurting?; 3-D printers; the switch by major retailers to online from traditional marketing methods.

We also discuss how to differentiate yourself in a totally commoditized industry and we also have our extremely popular e-mail segment where we answer questions from across the world.

We also interview Artem Gassan, founder of Whale Path which is a marketplace for business research, connecting postgraduate students from top universities with small businesses that need research now. A great idea.

In this program we discuss advice on various aspects of business from some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world; Ashton Kutchers “Jobs”; the coming dramatic changes to the distribution and delivery system in society and how Facebook selects what content to show individual users.

We also talk about the seven most popular social networks; how to maximize in-store marketing using Facebook and how to conduct effective workshops at your business.

We also have our extremely popular email segment and an interview with video guru Michael Litt, the CEO of Vidyard, a video marketing platform that helps marketers to drive great results online.

In this program we discuss how to use data to increase open rates, click through rates. dollars spent and conversion rates from your e-mail marketing; is Apple doomed?; Placed, the leader in location and analytics incredible growth; how successful are Facebook's clickable hash tags; and lessons for entrepreneurs seeking investment.

We also talk about how to get more sales and how to deal with bosses who are a pain in the ass.

We also have our extremely popular email segment and an interview with communication expert Nikki Vescovi who has trained some of the most powerful people in the world to be effective communicators. What makes Bill Clinton, Jack Dorsey, or Marissa Mayer, such great communicators. Listen in to find out.

In this program we discuss how to get investors to put money in your enterprise rather than in the thousand other options that they have and we discuss the most expensive apps on the market;

We also talk about how mobile marketing works for the retailer and the shop; how to reduce and prioritize the emails that you receive and five points that every salesperson needs to know.

We also have our extremely popular email segment and an interview with Craig Rispin, one of the most successful and well-known futurists and innovation experts in the world.

We discuss the six ways that bricks and mortar retailers can use mobile against their online counterparts; the amazing success of Dumb Ways To Die; Facebook's giant Q2 2013 results; predictions for advertising growth for social media in the next 12 months; and how to increase the potential of your app being discovered amongst all the clutter.

We also discuss how small business can compete against giant competitors and how to keep up with the rapid changes in the marketplace and in the way we communicate and maintain clients. We also have our very popular email segment.

We have a great interview with Alan Colman who teaches business professionals how to identify high-quality prospects, get face-to-face meetings and close sales. We all know that without sales, we don't have a business. This is one interview that anyone in business, or anyone trying to sell anyone anything should not miss.

We discuss how to increase your email open rate, both through the words you use in the subject matter and in the strategy that you utilize; we identify the one characteristic that all entrepreneurs share; some new trick toys we have found and why Richard Branson thinks that social media is so important.

We talked about what makes a good speaker and various other subjects in our email segment. We have a great interview with Sheila Murray Bethel who has worked on special projects with four US Presidents, including the Bush White House, as well as governors, members of Congress, the Justice Department and the military. She also walks the walk having built three successful companies in the fields of health care, training and development and financial services

We discuss the Hyperlink Transport Concept that will be able to take us from Los Angeles to New York in 20 minutes; common mistakes made by entrepreneurs; maximizing business growth using social media; creating a great viral campaign-Dumb Ways To Die.

We also have our regular email segment and a great interview with Dr. Lynda Maddox, Professor of Marketing and Advertising at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Dr. Maddox was recently recognized by her peers and awarded the prestigious American Advertising Federation Distinguished Advertising Educator Award

We analyze the tremendous results that are being obtained by small businesses using social media and give some advice on how to maximize those results. We also continue our discussion on how the institutions of business, education, banking and government are mired in the past and cannot possibly cope with the changes we will experience in the next 20 years; the new figures on the chances of entrepreneurs getting funding is really depressing. We also discuss things not to say and things you can do to help your chances. The creators of the new Androidly watch are convinced it will replace the smartphone.

We also discuss how to make your deck memorable and further discussion on what makes an entrepreneur successful. We have our regular Bob‘s Thought for the Day segment and we answer listeners email questions.

We have a great, educational and fun interview with Al Gini Professor of Business Ethics and Chair of the Department of Management in the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University in Chicago. Gini has also been the resident philosopher on NPR for 26 years and is a best-selling author. It is a challenging interview with Gini revealing some information about past presidents that may surprise you.

We also have a popular Make a Pitch segment featuring Firefly Capital Management who in the last 12 months have returned 52% to investors.

This week we discuss how the institutions of business, education, banking and government are mired in the past and cannot possibly cope with the changes we will experience in the next 20 years; predictions for the year 2030; how a 21-year-old raised the largest seed round in Silicon Valley history, $25 million with just a prototype; and the dangers of WebCams.

We also discuss how to create the perfect logo and what makes an entrepreneur successful. We have our regular Bob‘s ‘Thought for the Day’ segment and we answer listeners email questions.

We have a tremendous interview with Won-G, a dynamic, charismatic hip-hop/rap recording artist who has built an entertainment, fashion and branding powerhouse called Real Sovage. Apart from being a hugely successful performer he has serious smarts when it comes to understanding the marketplace and running a successful business.

We also have a popular Make a Pitch segment featuring Firefly Capital Management who in the last 12 months have returned 52% to investors.

We discuss global predictions for the year 2030, a presentation by Salim Ismail from Singularity University, unique ways to differentiate your business and new mobile marketing research by RetailMeNot.

We also discuss what entrepreneurs need to do to attract investors and simple mistakes that entrepreneurs make. We have our regular email segment, a great interview with Benjamin Oberman, an entertainment executive, former producer, writer and director who thought outside the box and has established a unique way of getting audiences for excellent independent movies.

Our Make your Pitch segment features Firefly Capital, a fund manager that only invests in apps and is generating returns of 52% per annum.

Today, we discuss how a critical part of bricks and mortar business is embracing mobile, the fastest growing technology in history, we have our business experts advice on the importance of customer service, we discuss your reaction to my claim last week that most marketers get paid under false pretenses and why entrepreneurs who are seeking either funding, joint ventures or licensing are idiots if they think they can achieve a result using a business plan. We also discussed the importance of using video in marketing and the most important tool for salespeople to utilize today. We also have our regular e-mail segment and a great interview with Don Ferguson, who has created an extraordinary product called MobileTrec which has to be the ultimate high-tech safety solution for every situation that could confront our kids and elders.

Only 12% of marketers sit on company boards. The reason for this is because the performance of marketers in the majority of companies today is pathetic. They haven't kept up with technology, they still rely on traditional marketing whose performance by comparison with digital and social is expensive and ineffective. So marketers have to play second fiddle to the boring financial people who control boards, are conservative and are dream takers. No wonder the US economy is growing at 2.5% per annum. We also discuss why putting all your personal information and photographs on Facebook and other social media sites is idiotic, the National Student Advertising Competition in Phoenix, the need to clearly differentiate yourself from your competitors, and the need to provide information rather than sales skills in order to close clients. We have our usual “Bob's Thought For The Day”, and our regular e-mail segment. With the number of listeners who are looking to do business with China and the summit between Pres. Obama and President Xi Jinping, it is appropriate that we interview Lindy Chen of China Direct Sourcing, one of the world's foremost experts in getting products developed and manufactured in China.

We discuss the genius that is Elon Musk, particularly the Hyperloop; the best predictors of success from the perspective of Business Insider and Deloitte's CEO and how to raise funds from investors. We also discuss the people you should immediately fire, and the reason why you should focus on emotion in your marketing, not on features or benefits. We also have our regular segments Bob's Thoughts For The Day and our e-mail segment. We also have a great interview with Christopher Cooper, and early stage entrepreneur on the trials and tribulations that entrepreneurs face.

We discuss the most valuable brands in the world for 2013; the success rate of entrepreneurs at the Y Combinator startup school in Silicon Valley; the challenge to make great employees a great leader and manager and the minimum steps you must take. We also discuss the effectiveness of video in marketing your business, product or service today and why you need to focus on emotion rather than benefits or features in all your communication vehicles irrespective of what they are. We also have our regular Bob's Thoughts for the Day segment and a great interview with Dian Buckley, an operatically trained singer with a wealth of experience in singing, writing, recording and performing in English, French and Italian who has dedicated her life to using the performing arts and a personal journey/discovery program to help special children who may have autism or Asperger’s syndrome to Shine.

Online video is the perfect vehicle for corporate profiling, product demonstrations, advertisements and how-to instruction. They are also critical for raising funds on crowd sourcing sites like kickstarter. We also discuss the importance of customer service, US education, particularly when it relates to the STEM subjects and Elon Musk's Tesla electric car. We also discuss the need to continually reinvent your business, how to keep your company on track and increasing your sales in a tough environment. We also have our regular Bob's Thought For The Day segment and address e-mails from around the world. Our guest today is Jamey Power who was senior vice president and strategic advisor at JD Power and Associates, one of the global authorities on customer service for more than 50 years

We discuss how to use social media to create sales, the best ways to use Facebook, twitter, linked in and like; since we have so many students finishing high school and college we also discuss the best ways to make an impression at a job interview; and we have our regular segment where we highlight some of the biggest goofs made by the legends of commerce.

We talk about the importance of marketing and sales tool business, how to maximize employee creativity and productivity and how to do research without spending a huge amount of money.

We have our regular email segment and our interview. This week's interview is with Alexander Westgarth who is an expert in investing in wine. Wine investments produce a much better return than the stock market or property. It is also not only an investment vehicle for the Beverly Hills/Malibu crowd. $5000 can get you in the game.

In this weeks show we discuss how to use social media to improve your customer service, we have Bob's Thought Of The Day segment, we discuss Facebook's announcements during the week, and the American advertising Federation college competition. We also discuss how to build a strong added value policy for your business, the elements you need in a successful print ad and how to conduct research in small business without spending a lot of money. Of course, we also have our e-mail segment. Our interview guest today is Scott Ross, a legend in digital media and entertainment. Along with James Cameron and Stan Winston he founded Digital Domain, creating imagery for some of the greatest movies of our time and winning three Academy Awards, including Titanic, What Dreams May Come and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. He's worked with the world's greatest film directors, including Cameron, Howard, Scorsese, Coppola, the Coen Brothers, Spielberg and Jackson.

We discuss the relative effectiveness of tablets and smart phones on mobile commerce sales, classic ridiculous predictions made by some of our illustrious business leaders as well as the American Advertising Federation competition for colleges across the country. We also talk about what is potentially the next step for Apple to arrest the decline in share price. In our e-mail segment we provide some tips that can turn businesses around and how to do research for your business on the cheap. In our interview segment we speak with Adrian Webster from the UK who was a riot policeman, milkman and a salesman but honed his skills and recently addressed business leaders alongside former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Swiss economic forum.

The importance of, and how to use social media, the surprise decrease in venture capital in the first quarter of 2013, at a time when we all should be confident about the future of the economy and industry leaders views on customer service. We also discuss how to use LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook as well as how to build your personal brand. We have our regular segments Bob's Thoughts For The Day and our worldwide e-mail question-and-answer segment. Our interview today is with a hugely success entrepreneur who has had a hand in many of today's success story tech companies and is now CEO of spondo.com, a company that will absolutely revolutionize the distribution of programming through their unique syndication model. The next half billion dollar plus company?

In today's program we discuss online banking, particularly mobile banking, as well as discussing a dozen ways you can provide unique benefits and perks to motivate employees and increase productivity.

We also discuss the benefits of cause marketing as well as building both your own personal brand as well as your business brand. In addition, we have our usual email segment as well as two fabulous interviews.

Professor John Adair who is the Chair of the United Nations Strategic Leadership and also Kirk Pengilly the guitarist and saxophonist with INXS, who was with the band for 35 years, sold over 30 million records and performed over 4000 shows with the band.

Research shows that data driven triggered email campaigns can produce a 70% increase in unique open rates, a 55% increase in unique click through rates, a 300% increase in dollars per email delivered with a 225% in conversion rates. We discuss the need to obtain extensive data on your clients, how to gather it and the increased performance you can expect. We also discuss the need for an excellent Consumer Purchasing Benefit and how to create one, as well as the pros and cons of developing a strong personal profile.

We also have Bob’s Thoughts For The Day, as well as our usual email segment and a terrific interview with Adam Hudson who is the guy responsible for those sensational cartoon and animated company promotions you see on websites, in presentations and on You Tube.

Thinking outside the box, a critical ingredient in the success of every business. We also discuss how the recent changes to You Tube make your business life a lot easier and make it simpler to get your message out there. We also have “Bob’s Thoughts for the Day”.

We examine how mobile marketing works for small business, the trend towards offbeat titles, do they work or don’t they; our regular email segment and a great interview.

Our guest today is Don Levy who has served on the front lines of the digital transformation of entertainment. For 17 years, he led the communication efforts for top visual effects and Digital animation studio, Sony Pictures Imageworks. He was recently a keynote speaker at TED.

In this program we discuss the way that mobile devices are changing the way we access information, provided education, the way we communicate with each other and is leading to democratization across the globe.

For the first time, this is a revolution that is not restricted to countries with the highest GDP, but is universal. We discuss how mobile communication will develop in the near future.

We also have Bob’s “Thoughts for the Day” as well as discussions on why cash flow is an issue in all businesses, successful and not so successful as well as how you can protect your IP.

Our interview today is with Emmy award winner Rick Kellard who is a successful Hollywood writer and producer. Our “Make Your Pitch” segment features Andre Etherly of eMedicalfusion.com.

I share with you my sales thoughts of the day; seven tips to ensure that your emails don’t get deleted without being read. We also discuss the new Pebble wristwatch app that notifies you and previews all the calls, texts and emails that you receive on your phone or tablet; a couple of examples of tweets that caused a great deal of pain and anguish; why cash flow is so important; and how to protect your intellectual property.

My interview today is Jeff Hayzlett a global business expert. Jeff is highly creative with a unique ability to cut through the bullshit, working with some of the world’s biggest companies. Jeff believes that fear, apathy and lack of personal responsibility turns a good company into a dead company.

In the “Make Your Pitch” segment tonight, Wolfgang von Loeper discusses MySmartFarm, using technology to revolutionize farming.

Major companies require innovation to continue to develop, but they unintentionally kill them off. Almost all of the disruptive innovation comes from a newcomer, not from the traditional market leaders. We discuss why that is. We also have three more “Bob's thought for the day”, a terrific customer service example and the effect showrooming is having on retail. In our e-mail segment. We discussed how small retailers can really compete with the big malls and how to reach your multicultural markets. In our interview today we feature Jessica Kizorek , CEO of the company Badass Business Women. This dynamo has authored six books, been profiled on CNN’s Young People that Rock, she takes on the most daunting challenges……. and wins.

Today we discussed the need for off-line promotion, no matter how proficient you are online. We also discuss more great customer service disasters, the alternative names that were considered for the iPhone, the soon to be announced Google Shopping Express Service and how to be considered an expert in your particular field. In our e-mail segment we discussed the importance of having a great salesperson, how to do a SWOT analysis and how a local retail store can beat the malls and big box stores. We also have an interview with fellow METal member, Grammy award nominee Freddie Ravel who has written and performed with the likes of Madonna, Prince, Earth Wind and Fire, Quincy Jones and a host of others and who is also a great business speaker.

While there are a number of contributing factors, the reality is that 97.4% of all businesses fail because they don't earn enough revenue to meet their costs and make a profit substantial enough to sustain and grow the company. Therefore, your sales people need to be exceptional, because to a large degree your future depends on it. We discuss the characteristics that make a salesperson great. We also discuss some examples of atrocious customer service, how to do a SWOT analysis of your business, 3-D recognition technology and how to be profitable in small retail.

We discuss how even a basic understanding of NLP can help you to negotiate positive outcomes in any business situation, internal or external. What characteristic are you? Are you visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. How you can tell the characteristic of the person you're dealing with in order to modify your presentation and delivery to develop a strong rapport. Men and women act very differently on the phone. How? The results will surprise you We also discuss Customer Service, Big Data and the best way to learn. We answer our listeners e-mails from the United States and across the world. You Our interview today is with Ben Newman, business coach, author and international speaker.

Mobile Shopping is huge and getting bigger rapidly, Facebook commands over 25% of app time…….the other 2 million plus apps share the rest. Follow up to the importance of emotion in business…….the best ways to learn.

Your emails and feedback from my Superbowl Ads critiques.

Interview with David Goldman, CEO of Comedy Time, the biggest provider of comedy to mobile networks.

A look at the NFL Super Bowl sponsors and advertisers – from the great leveraging done by Pepsi to the brilliant Oreo’s blackout tweet, the good Oprah Jeep commercial, to the dreadful Go Daddy and Calvin Kline ads, that really missed the mark.

We also discuss how perseverance is a key ingredient in sales success, how online marketing needs offline support and Cloud Computing.

A great interview with Jamey Power from JD Power and Associates, and the popular email segment.

The pros and cons of artificial intelligence avatars, the future of phone numbers, Cloud computing in our popular email segment.

Great interview with Olympic Gold Medalist Steven Bradbury in the midst of a 20 city tour in The United States.

In today's show we discuss 15 ways we can help prevent cyber crime; six ways the government can boost small business; how to keep our businesses relevant; why shows like Start ups: Silicon Valley and Shark Tank don't really help entrepreneurs, and the future is in the cloud. Also, our very popular e-mail segment.

A fabulous interview with Liesl Capper, the Innovation and Information Industry Association's “ICT Woman of the Year” and CEO of MyCyberTwin, one of the world authorities on artificial intelligence and software clones.

This week we discuss presentations by two great speakers. The first by Marc Goodman, a senior adviser to Interpol, whose presentation about terrorism and cyber crime and how organized crime is using technology to become incredibly well-organized, creating business systems and adapting technology faster than law enforcement can keep up, would spook any audience. In this program we discuss some of organized crime’s techniques. The second was a presentation by Sir Ken Robinson, the internationally acclaimed expert on creativity, innovation and education. He was as funny as hell, which enabled him to get across his powerful message on how we need to change our education system to encourage creativity rather than teach people how to do a job. We also discuss how you get customers to find your business, how much does luck play in your success and why you should use the cloud? We also feature our popular e-mail segment and an interview with Mitchell C Baldwin, a corporate consultant and an executive coach.

Just 50 years ago, Virginia City was a ghost town. By building on its history, folklore, using the entertainment contribution of Errol Flynn in “Virginia City”, Marilyn Monroe in “Misfits, TV’s “Bonanza” and of course the wonderful tall story telling of Mark Twain, leveraging and restoring all of its assets, and attracting major events, the city now attracts over 2 million people a year. This is a great marketing story.

We also discussed the relevancy of CES in Las Vegas, how to add value to your customers and the advantageous of cloud computing. We also interview American Western music legend David John.

Today we discuss the fact that all decisions are made emotionally and then justified pragmatically. If you haven't made an emotional connection with your potential customer, or your potential investor or your potential joint-venture partner, then your chances of securing a deal are diminished considerably. We also talk about some of the most common questions posed by our listeners throughout 2012; how to keep motivated, stimulated and educated in a small start-up; to be successful in small business demands you be good at everything, but unfortunately we can't be, what to do?; cloud computing. We also have our regular e-mail segment and a great interview with Keith Chambers, one of the great advertising men in America.

In order to summarize your input into the show in 2012 I have reviewed the thousands of e-mails we have received over the past 12 months and have determined the major issues from your perspective. We discuss a number of these this week and will complete reviewing the most common issues next week. This is a fascinating insight into the challenges that entrepreneurs face across the world. We also discuss how to differentiate yourself from your competition; the challenge of developing your business or product against the need to constantly generate investment or sales; how will the Internet continue to affect or influence retail sales. We have our popular e-mail segment and we have a great interview with Vernon Hill II, who took one retail outlet with little capital and built it into a company he sold for $8.6 billion.

How can entrepreneurs close investors, convince companies to become joint venture partners? We discuss ways to improve your communication skills. We also discuss the best places in the world to begin a startup; when should you quit your day job and become a full time entrepreneur; in a recession should you increase your product offering or reduce it; what is the future of bricks and mortar retail.

We also have a great interview with Scooter McGruder, former Cornerback for the New England Patriots and his life after football.

We have our very popular segment where we answer listeners emails.

We look at 4 ways you should definitely utilize to keep track of your competitors; The importance of customer service and steps you should take so you won’t commit one of the cardinal sins; being successful is tough, you must be persistent and committed to succeed; why introverts often make better leaders and the explosion of women entrepreneurs.

We have our regular email segment and our guest, the guy USA today and Time Magazine recognize as “The Customer Service Guru” … John Tschohl.

We discuss the common mistakes that lead to the failure of 97% of startups : articulating the vision, lack of focus, cost estimation, hiring the right people, failing to step aside when the time is right, ineffective IP protection, getting the wrong people involved.

We also discuss insuring you make a profit and how to price your product.

Our popular email segment and a great interview with Jeffrey Hayzlett, former Marketing Director of Eastern Kodak and author of “Running the Gauntlett”.

We discuss why companies that have lawyers and documentation in place are more likely to succeed than those that don’t. We look at what can go wrong; between partners, with IP protection and more. We discuss partnerships, LLC, C corporations and S corporation options.

We also discuss why CEOs today are more collaborative; more open and have a greater emphasis on risk and innovation; why you should have a blog; the keys to achieving excellence in business and my endorsement for President.

My guests are Rob Dickins the former Chairman of Warner Music and Scott McKain who teaches businesses how to deliver the “Ultimate Customer Experience”.

Every day there are extraordinary new inventions, some of which change our lives, some of which merely improve them, and others which simply amuse us. Today we discuss several new products that address all of these. We spend a lot of time on the program-discussing entrepreneurs, especially young entrepreneurs, this time a 14 year old who is making a difference. We also discuss Corporate Social Responsibility and obtaining Venture Capital.

We also have two great guests, Corky Newcomb a unique profession creating, packaging and marketing inventions – his seminars “How to Turn Your Inventions into Gold”. We also had on the line Siimon Reynolds who has won almost every advertising award in the world for business excellence.

On this week’s Bob Pritchard Radio Show we discuss the difference between truly differentiating yourself from your competitors in the mind of your potential customer and merely creating a difference in your product from your competitors. We also discuss the positive small business outlook for 2013, the fact that only one patent in every 3700 becomes commercially successful, the mistakes entrepreneurs make when soliciting investors and why a great idea and funding is only about 30% of the battle to be successful. In our e-mail segment we also discuss corporate social responsibility and the three stages required to close an investor. Two great guests in today’s show, Stephen Monaco, the driving force behind the most successful PC data communications software of all time and Tay Zonday who became a worldwide sensation on You Tube with Chocolate Rain.

Integrating traditional and new media to consumers that are rapidly globalizing is an extremely difficult challenge for marketers. In fact only 15% of marketers believe they are equipped to deal with the rapidly changing consumer and digital landscape, and only 8% believe agencies now effectively support their client’s brands.

We discuss the issue of where marketing is going in the next five years and what marketers need to do to keep ahead.

We also discuss the technology explosion in the workplace, Corporate Social responsibility and how to pitch to an investor.

Two great guests on the program, Caspar Berry who talks about ‘risk taking’ and decision making, and Kenny Anderson who analyses the common denominators required for success.

In the future successful businesses will get 80% of their sales from repeat business and word of mouth. The key to word of mouth?

Adding value. We discuss the ways you can add value; through the environment, sensory elements, personal contact, customer requirements, information, delivery, financial and follow up.

Added value doesn’t have to cost much, just needs to be of significant advantage to the customer.

We also discuss how to get your team to think outside the box, how to maximize pay per click and the most important skill sets for an employer to learn.

Two great guests – Rowdy McLean, an expert on growing your business and Jeff Davidson, work – life – balance expert.

In this show we talk about the importance of differentiation to prevent commoditization of your category, increase your first recall brand awareness, increase customer loyalty and return on investment, while decreasing marketing costs. We also discuss the scientifically proved need for regular vacations to recharge not only the brain cells, but the energy and enthusiasm level. How to motivate employees and how to come up with that next big idea!

Our guest is a lawyer to the major corporates as well as movie and music heavyweights, Keith Berglund.

We discuss what entrepreneurs need to do to succeed, the reasons why 72% fail, we follow up on Caine Monroy and the fantastic 9 year old’s continuing success story, why email marketing should be the first choice for most businesses and the case for encouraging you to have a mentor.

We also discuss how to protect IP and whether it is worth it, importance of delegating and getting your team to think creatively.

There is one reason all businesses fail: they don’t generate enough income to pay the bills. Only one interview this week because it is such an important topic. We have America’s advertising guru with us.

We know that we can get so much more done, much more efficiently and much more effectively if we plan. We need to plan a year, two and five years, but we also need to plan days and weeks.

In this program we discuss how you can plan and prioritize your day, how to plan your office space to be more productive.

We also discuss the need for differentiation, why you should check out your competitor’s websites every day, and how to encourage our staff to think outside the box.

We also have our email segment and two great guests, screenwriter Brian Clopp and Tom McGrath who is pioneering Zero Organic Waste into zero emission energy.

In todays show we discuss a number of ways that can help start-ups and early-stage businesses stretch their budgets and improve collaboration. We also discuss the fact that most entrepreneurs believe the reason that over 97% of businesses fail is because of the quality of the project or lack of funding when in fact 72% of these companies fail because of a poor business model, business strategy, leadership, management, human resources, marketing, finance, operations and sales. We discussed the need for more training for entrepreneurs in these areas, the need for entrepreneurs to surround themselves with mentors and successful business people in different areas of endeavour and for a private/government partnership to provide training. We also give you the reasons why the first thing you should do each day is to check your competitors websites and how you can get your team to be much more creative and really think outside the box.

The most powerful marketing tool a company has is their customer service. PWC studies show it can be four times more effective than advertising and promotion in creating ROI and growing a business. It also reduces marketing costs, builds loyal customers, and increases profitability.

We discuss what can be done to assist the 97% of companies that go out of business in the first 10 years. The reason? Not ideas or money but leadership, Management, HR, marketing, finance, operations and sales.

We also discuss succeeding at retail, and how to get your staff motivated to think outside the box. We also have our email segment.

Two great guests – Jim Johnson, the magnificent basketball coach who became a national hero and Mike Tristano, the Armourer, who’s latest work Stars Earn Stripes debuted to rave reviews last night on NBC

We have a 2 speed economy – 21st Century high paying jobs with continual learning and 20th Century low paying jobs with no learning. Most of the unemployed belong to the latter category. These jobs are never coming back. What must we do to get the Government and private enterprise to support and encourage entrepreneurs and early stage and startup businesses? Its simple, its logical. Lets motivate that 1% to spring into action and save this economy!!

It is not red tape that kills entrepreneurial businesses, it is their lack of knowledge of how to do business. Don’t miss this discussion.

We answer your emails and feature two great guests – Richard Bangs, tour organizer for the rich and famous and Ben Arthur, singer, songwriter, novelist and video program producer.

80% of all start-ups fail before they even begin. We discuss 10 strategies that will assist you to avoid being one of those awful statistics. As we have discussed many times before, having a great product or concept is only about 15% of being successful. Having the money to do what you need to do is another 15%. Unfortunately, too many entrepreneurs forget about the most important 70%. The reality is that if you get the 30% right, even with a fantastic project, you will likely fail. However if you get the 70%, even with an ordinary project, you will likely succeed. For some reason it is very difficult to convince entrepreneurs of this. We discuss why employers can't find good employees. We argue it’s not a skills shortage at all. Rather it’s a shortage in the number of employers prepared to invest in training their workforce. We also talk about how to get employees to become innovative, to think outside the box.

Most entrepreneurs think that all they need in order to raise funds is a great idea and a business plan. Nothing could be further from the truth. We discuss the eight important issues that every entrepreneur needs to know. We also discuss, and celebrate, Marissa Mayers appointment as the CEO of Yahoo!. With only 20% of Fortune 500 boards containing a woman and only 4% of women in CEO positions, we hope that Marissa's appointment encourages other women to go for the top jobs and demonstrates that having a family is not an impediment to being a business superstar.

We also discuss the reason that 98% of start-ups fail. It is not because of lack of a good idea, or lack of money. In the majority of cases it is simply a total lack of business knowledge and experience. We also discuss how you can encourage your team to think creatively and outside the box.

We have our normal answering e-mails segment and two great interviews.

Great ideas are a dime a dozen, they are only 15% of the battle to be successful. We discuss the things that are more important than the idea. We have a great success story that revolves around two kids from California and Sir Richard Branson. Why entrepreneurs must push their limits and take risks. You need to make mistakes, for an entrepreneur it is almost compulsory.

We also discuss some simple promotion ideas that won’t cost you money, and how to teach your team to think outside the box.

Our usual email segment - and a great opportunity to exert serious influence on the Hispanic community.

Today’s interviews are; Kevin Kelly…. breaking sales records around the world. His new challenge to corporations… Xceptionalize. Also Eddie Salcedo from eHabla, creating an umbrella organization through soccer to influence up to 10 million Hispanics in the US.

This week we discuss a new look at how we prepare people for the workforce, a strictly academic pathway is not the solution. We also discuss “How to be a better boss” and how should you go about hiring the right people. This is practical advice that is applicable whether you have two staff or 200.

We also talk about “Why people with low confidence can be more successful than those that are supremely confident, how to get all of your staff on the same page, Facebook’s new email service, and how to get your team to really think outside the box.

PLUS: we answer your emails.

Two great guests: Ashton Bishop, one of the world’s leading predatory marketers and Joyce Gioia, a strategic business futurist.

In this program we discuss how to maximize your results using Facebook, Twitter and You Tube, and when you should be using them. You may be surprised to learn there is a big difference in results from not only the days you utilize these mediums but also the time of day. This is a do not miss segment.

We also talk on Crowd Funding, successful entrepreneurs, Social Media spending, a great example of customer service, the 5 things you must be doing on LinkedIn, what to do if your summer internship sucks, and Facebook’s new email service.

It is an information packed show.

My guest today is also sensational. Her name is Jessica Kizorek and her companies “BadAssBusinessWomen’ and MakeThemBeg.

She is a dynamo, have a listen………

In this program we discuss how important motivated employees are to your business and how to achieve it, some great new apps and some future apps. We also discuss why you should reassess your marketing spread die to the accelerated growth of social media and crowd funding.

In our email segment we talk about how to be more effective and efficient in how you run your business and the three things we need to know about how to run a business.

Two great interviews today – Allan Fine, New York Times Best Selling author of “You Already Know How to be Great”, named as “Best Leadership Book of the Year”. Also on the show is Jay Rankin, former Las Vegas Casino doorman who wrote the best selling tell al book “Under The Neon Sky”.

46 out of 51 product categories are commoditized. This means the customer not only has no compelling reason to buy from you, they have no reason to buy from you. When you clearly differentiate your product you build brand, brand equity, loyal customers, increased margins, increased ROI and you reduce your marketing costs. Hear all about it on today’s show.

We also talk about “keeping employees enthusiastic”, the wonderful movie “The Big Fix” an expose Big Oil featured at Cannes, “Establishing Your Green Credentials”, why most businesses fail.

It is an information packed show with two great guests.

Neither the government or big business is going to solve this country’s debt problem, or put people back to work. Time to stop the gridlock and unite behind what America does best…entrepreneurship. The people who can change this country’s future and do it relatively quickly are entrepreneurs. We discuss entrepreneurship, what can be done to assist them, from college students to returning veterans. We discuss the experiences of several people, crowd funding and some examples of how entrepreneurship can change low income communities. Also the opportunities that exist for small business right now despite our current economic malaise and some of the reasons why small businesses struggle. Our guests include Jason Kadlec who has had four successful start-ups in just 10 years… and Berny Dorfmann who is an expert on crowd funding and contributed to the writing of the new laws which take effect next month. Crowd funding is anticipated to inject in excess of $1 trillion in the US economy.

Lots of people who email or call me, want to know how to become a professional speaker. It is glamorous, well paid, you get to go to fabulous places and meet extraordinary people.

What could be wrong with that?

Well, there are 50,000 speakers to compete with, it takes 2 days to research and put together a 1-hour presentation, the travel is tiring, but it is still exhilarating and enormously rewarding.

So how do you become a speaker and what does it take to become and remain successful? In this show I give you the true lowdown.

We also discuss why a risk reversal is so important and also whether now is a good time to start a business.

I have two great guests, Speakers Bureau legend Jonathan Wygant and the former Chairman of Warner Music, Rob Dickins, CBE who I caught up with in London.

Internships are an excellent way for college students to get an understanding of the work force, and get an appreciation of specific industries and companies.

Today we talk about paid and unpaid internships, the benefits and the pitfalls.

We discuss the power of word of mouth, not only by our customers but also by our staff. A passionate dedicated staff stay longer, work harder, use more initiative, and go the extra mile. This makes for happier customers, more repeat business, higher margins and reduced costs. Also discussed is the importance of location, location, location and whether or not now is a good time to start a new business.

This is the show for entrepreneurs, startups, early stage businesses and SME’s and on today’s show we discuss: • What to look for in a mentor • The importance of your online presence • How to make a great first impression • How to present at a meeting or a sales pitch • Crowd Funding and the new JOBS legislation • How this will unleash billions of dollars to entrepreneurs • Being effective with your time • Is now a good time to start a business We have some great editorial on entrepreneurs, our two great guests Berny Dohrmann, who through CEO space has raised billions for entrepreneurs, and Phil Poulson, sales trainer extraordinaire. An information packed show…don’t miss it

We feature an interview with a New Zealand entrepreneur who talks about the recovery effort after their massive earthquake. This extraordinary interview describes the management as top heavy, totally dysfunctional, megalomanic, totally incompetent, with cronyism, nepotism and a mini dictatorship.

Makes the response to Katrina look good.

We also discuss a number of ways that you can get extensive free publicity for businesses online. These ideas include media releases, using the public’s interest in ‘green’, organizing events, charity tie-ins and a host more.

We also discuss the need for focus in today’s environment and the shrinking customer base. What to do?

We also have an interview with Jon Briggs, the BBC voice over superstar who is the voice behind “The Weakest Link” and Suri on Apple iphones in the Uk. He is huge demand for conferences.

America has enjoyed unprecedented prosperity because of the effort of entrepreneurs. It is now time to invest, money and mentoring into entrepreneurs like never before. Whether it is high tech or opening a dry cleaning business, we need to do a hell of a lot more to support the entrepreneur.

In today’s show we discuss 5 fantastic entrepreneurial endeavors:

• The Draper University in Silicon Valley • METaL • Marketforce One Mentoring Program • Georgetown University Entrepreneurial Program • New Orleans state tax breaks for entrepreneurs

We also discuss motivating staff and getting exposure for early stage companies on the web.

Today’s guests: Jim Beach – co-founder of the ‘School for Startups’ and the book of the same name.

Lindy Chen, global authority on getting your products manufactured in China. He new book titled ‘Import From China. How To Make A Million…and Not Get Burnt!’

Being successful in business is tough and no matter what business you are in, or where in the world you are, there are certain challenges that we all face. We discuss these challenges in the program and we look at how we can address and overcome them. Once you address these issues you are on your way.

We also discuss how important it is to get more support for entrepreneurs, not from the government but from those most able to give it and those with the most to gain….. the top 1% who have successful businesses, both in terms of investment and mentoring.

We talk about mentors, when have they have outlived their usefulness? Also discuss what percentage of revenue should be invested in marketing and what percentage in advertising.

In this show we discuss how China is experiencing extraordinary growth, the growth of patents coming out of Asia, and the need for a paradigm shift in American structure to compete internationally. Bob also discusses his experiences in a recent 10-day speaking tour in Iran to business leaders and MBA students. Other topics include the need for mentors, Crowd Funding, how to attract venture capital into your business, great business quotes and our email segment.

We have two terrific guests on the program, Dianne Helbig, who is an expert on how to add value to your business and also Lynton Harris, creator of attractions at major theme parks across the world.

Unless your business or product has a value proposition that clearly differentiates you from your competitors, and creates a desire for potential customers to select you over your competitors, you will have to compete on price. Businesses that compete on price ultimately fail. In the program we show you how to differentiate.

We also discuss:

• Getting advice from global experts at low cost • Why crowd funding is important for entrepreneurs • Our favourite business quotes • Your emails

Two great guests: David Hooker – “New Gold Standard” for business Kirk Pengilly – Rock Star extraordinaire INXS

One of the major problems facing today’s SME’s is their inability to write compelling marketing and advertising copy that will get potential customers interested in the product and motivate them to purchase.

I give examples where professional written and laid out copy increased sales by up to 50 times. We discuss how institutional advertising is useless, how ads should be threefold; increase sales and increase brand equity. We also talk about how customers don’t give a damn about you, they only care about themselves, that features are useless, only benefits sell, the need for differentiation and to clearly articulate your value proposition.

Two great guests: Scott McKain – one of the 50 most influential marketing authors on Twitter and Tod Whipple – CEO of Startup Addict –a Crowd Funding Company

Serial entrepreneur, author and business speaker, Dayna Steele travels the world to improve performance, create strong teams, increase company sales and grow businesses with her Rock Star Principles of Success. Dayna is the author of Rock to the Top: What I Learned about Success from the World's Greatest Rock Stars and her forthcoming book is 101 Ways to Rock Your World: Everyday Activities for Success Every Day.

This week’s show joins in the current debate on how we measure return on investment (ROI). In a highly competitive environment it is critical to measure the effectiveness of every aspect of our businesses and no one has been worse at doing this than marketers. The simplistic analysis - What did the campaign cost and what revenue did it generate is not sufficient any more. What is? We also discuss: • The need to work on your business and not in it; • How to increase your price and margins by differentiating yourself and increasing your value proposition; • Above the line, below the line and through the line marketing. We have two great guests on the show today, Simon Jordan who launched his own online TV show and Errol Michael Henry (Warpspeed Training Solutions UK )

Today’s show focuses on how we can support young entrepreneurs. 15% of young people started a business in college. Facebook has created 450,000 jobs. Why is there no Government support and little corporate support for entrepreneurs, 88% of young people believe that the government does not support them. We need to support startups, forgive student loans for entrepreneurs with business in college. Its time to encourage the Millennials.

We also discuss low cost expert advice for startups and small businesses; Risk reversal policies that close sales and Above the Line, Below the Line and Through the Line Advertising.

We have two great guests Ron Creevey of YuuZoo and Errol Michael Henry who created WARPSPEED training solutions

The Bob Pritchard Radio Show is for entrepreneurs, SME’s and early stage businesses. This show includes segments on six important business elements:- Technology, Attracting and keeping employees, Maintaining your professional knowledge, Maximizing your value proposition, Looking after staff and keeping current.

We also have segments discussing ‘working on your business and not in it’, as well as ‘understand what it is your customers are buying’.

Guests today are: Donald Cooper – Customers bottom lines. Jay Rankin author “Under The Neon Sky’.

Today's show discusses; it's not the size of the budget, but the size of the idea that counts; teenagers whose ideas have made millions; the need to upsell; why you need a mentor; getting people back to work; conducting a SWOT analysis; obtaining low cost, expert advice for small businesses.

This program features a great rags to riches story, very motivating and a great lesson for all businesses; How to make it easy to do business with you; building your personal brand; attracting good staff and how to get expert business advice at low cost. This is a must listen to show.

Two great Interviews:

Google expert Monte Huebsch. Monte holds the Google Analytics Individual Qualification and he completed the first Google Apps training at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA in 2008.

If it has anything to do with Google, Monte knows it!

And…….. PR person extraordinaire Jackie Lapin. Jackie is a master publicist at Jackie Lapin Media Relations. She was one of the pioneer women sport writers in America writing for the Washington Post, New York Times and Sports Illustrated among many.

Today’s show contains the 9 tips for entrepreneurs in 2012, the goals to never loose sight of and a segment on another major business failure – Failure to capture your customer and prospects names and addresses. We also discuss how to motivate staff, why you should not cut prices in tough times and how to develop loyal customers and get them to come back again and again.

We have two wonderful guests, Siimon Reynolds who built a business to a staff of 6000 in his 20’s, made $500million dollars and has won almost every advertising award in the world for creative excellence.

My second is Tina Jordan who was Hugh Heffner’s partner in the Playboy Mansion and now has a multitude of strings to her bow.

Today’s show highlights why companies who don’t test products, packaging, marketing strategies and advertising against other internal options are setting themselves up for failure. One of the keys to success is to test, test, test. It is better to invest a few dollars at the start than lose a heap of dollars down the road. We also have extremely popular ‘listeners emails’ segment where I answer any questions that you may have.

In today’s show we discuss why the US economy is about to rebound in a big way. Kodak in bankruptcy, and two of the big mistakes that the majority of companies make. The first is failure to realize that business is about the customer, not them. The customer doesn’t care a damn about the company. So, look at the Newspapers, TV, and Radio etc. every advertisement is about the companies. How stupid are they? The second mistake is that most companies have no clue who their customer is…… no wonder research shows 95% of all advertising is wasted. Today’s guests are great.

Businesses whether large or small are being affected by the state of our economy……. Or are they? Today I address a number of issues that businesses tell me are their primary concerns. Getting and keeping customers, the economy, getting the right advice and many others. There is a trillion dollars circulating in the US today, so the overall state of the economy should not affect your business at all. Don’t contract your business because the 24 hour news cycle tells you the economy stinks. More millionaires are made in recessions than in good times. Just go out there, be aggressive and get new clients.

Two great interviews, New York Times Best Selling Author Dr Bob Kriegel (Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers) and Olympian Gold Medalist Kerri Pottharst. In this Olympic year Kerry gives great advice for businesses.

How often do your ads not get the result you expect? That’s because too often we use the wrong medium or our ads are not structured correctly. This program discusses when and how to use TV, Radio, Print, Billboards, Social Media etc. as well as the 10 critical elements in every ad and their level of importance.

Two great guests Stephen Monaco, Social Media superstar and Dayna Steele, the first Lady of Rock Radio. WOW!

In this program I discusses Cause Related Marketing, one of the fastest growing marketing and sales techniques of the past 20 years - about the pros and cons, the exceptional results that can be obtained, and how to go about it. I’ll provide excellent examples in various applications and how, when executed well, can bring benefits to both the sponsoring corporation and the cause.

I’ll also discusses recent privacy issues, with the revelation that Carrier IQ software has been installed on more than 140 million Android and iOS phones and is feeding back to the company, and their carrier, every piece of data you have been transmitting by email, SMS or other applications.

We’ll answer listener’s emails and present two great guests.

These are the keys to success in any endeavor, be it business, sport, entertainment or any other field. In all areas of endeavor the differences in the skill sets of the people participating are very similar. The person who becomes the most successful wins the gold medal, wins the Oscar or the chess title, is the one who wants to win the most; the one with the most passion, dedication, commitment and perseverance. This show discusses each of these qualities and provides great examples. I also interview an entertainer and a gold medalist who epitomizes these qualities.

Bob has developed 15 keys, which will guarantee the success of any business, irrespective of what it is. In this program Bob discusses 12 of these keys to success, so that businesses can work on them over the holiday break to get off to a flying start in 2012.

He reiterates his offer to refund the cost of his new book “Business and Marketing Secrets” and to provide you with additional help if these 15 keys don’t dramatically change your business.

Bob also discusses the challenges facing small business in 2012 and touches on sponsorship. There are two great guests, Tom Thimot a Silicon Valley Professional, who has a unique concept to monetize social media and Michael Clarke – a great entrepreneur from Canada who discusses how to attract funding. He has been a content management architect for large scale and secure document systems with Clients including BP Energy, and BHP Billiton

Can America survive the deep interrelationship between its politicians and its major corporations and the absolute greed of both?

We keep printing money while piling up trillions of dollars in debt and devaluing the currency day by day against gold, oil and almost every other currency.

We have major debt crisis, entitlements are exploding, our rights are being eroded and through campaign financing and the cozy interrelationship between corporations and politicians, major corporations run every aspect of government.

When are we going to have the guts to say enough?

I also answer listener’s emails and cover some of the controversies of today

My two guests are Ziad Abdelnour – CEO of Blackhawk Partners, New York. Getting astonishing reviews for his new book “Economic Warfare; Secrets of Wealth Creation in an Age of Welfare Politics”. and Layne Beachley - 7 Times ASP Womens World Champion and a tireless worker and spokesperson for community causes. Married to INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly

A lot has been said about Multilevel Marketing both for and against. Lots of people have made lots of money and strongly embrace it, others including economists, claim it is a very flawed system.

I look at both sides of the argument and determine that in reality it is not much different in performance, success and failure than other channels of marketing.

My issue is the way MLM is marketed to attract distributors and the results that are claimed by its exponents.

A controversial subject, and if you’re considering MLM or just interested in a good debate - a program you must listen to.

I have two great guests, Linda Blum Huntington, a business dynamo who‘s a huge success in the music business and now enjoying terrific success with MLM company Arbonne!

Second guest is actor Elise Angell who gives us a glimpse into the life of an actor when not on stage or in front of the camera.

We also look at Coke’s ill fated experiment with the white can, marketing screw ups and answer listeners emails

This week's broadcast from Hong Kong concerns the use of New Media for a host of business applications including Public Relations, Customer Support, Market Research, Brand Marketing, Promotions, Customer Education, Sales, Product Development and CRM. For many reasons including the fact that; it allows dialogue, is real time, can be assessed in the recipient's own time, is inexpensive, and is immediately measurable, new media is superior to traditional media.

We also have an interview with Feras Alhlou, Analytics expert from e-Nor in Silicon Valley.

We discuss how a Consumer Purchasing Benefit can increase your sales exponentially and give you a number of excellent examples.

Our second guest is Jonathan Wygant, President of Big Speak Speakers Bureau. We discuss how you can become a speaker, and also how to hire a speaker.

We'll also have our regular segment of major business screw- ups and I'll answer some listener's emails.

Only about 5% of businesses and entrepreneurs seeking capital actually raise funding. Angel investors say there is plenty of capital out there but there is a lack of good projects. That is rubbish! There are good projects, but most of the submissions I receive for investment are not worth the paper they're written on. A business plan won't cut it. You need a specific type of presentation. I will tell you what needs to be in the proposal, and what form it should take. Tip 1: Most entrepreneurs think that they are CEO's but couldn't run a meat raffle. This kills the majority of proposals. Investors wouldn't lose their money if they did their homework correctly. I'll give clues for both the entrepreneur and the investor. My guests are Jay Turo, CEO of Growthink, one of America's largest strategic advisory and investment banking firms in the entrepreneurial space, and Rick Kellard, Emmy Award winning producer and writer. Also - some great marketing screw ups and I answer listener's questions.

Research shows that between 85% and 95% of all marketing and advertising does not work. In the US over $100 billion is spent per annum and some $90 billion is wasted! Why do we keep doing it? There is a better way! Over the past twenty years there’s been monumental changes in the number and variety of marketing vehicles, the viewing, listening and communication patterns of the target audience, and rapid changes in technology. Yet, most agencies and their clients do not understand what marketing is, far less how to use the new media; what works, what doesn't in today’s environment. I’ll tell you what works and what doesn't.

I have two great guests, Tim Draper, The Prince of Silicon Valley, the creator of viral marketing and the force behind Hotmail and Skype; and Mary Bird, former entertainer and writer who worked with Gene Simmons from KISS and is getting amazing publicity with a product called Car Masutra. We also address great marketing screw ups and answer listeners' questions.

Bob provides critical information for every business, particularly those with less than 200 staff. Bob’s 15 Keys have changed the fortunes of companies throughout the world.

Today we address the first key. 48 out of 51 categories of businesses are commoditized, you must be the customer’s first choice. If not, the purchase decision will be made based on price, margins will be cut and you will go out of business.

Bob Pritchard editorial and comment, Superstar guest Tim Draper, responsible for Hotmail, Skype and the creator of viral marketing. Entrepreneur Lynton Harris whose empire includes attractions in theme parks across the world.

Final quadrant of the show, a discussion about some of the great business and marketing screw ups of all time and what we can learn from them. Bob wraps up the show answering listener’s questions about their business and marketing issues.