Robert Jordan guest goes public with the billion dollar ideas he discovered lurking in the minds of Middle American business people. We discuss what he learned from his book, How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America.

Sad news today. Mark Haines, anchor of CNBC’s Squawk On The Street, died suddenly today. Mark was a fixture of my morning routine for over 20 years. I will miss him.

Susan Schreter embraces President Barack Obama’s proclaiming last week National Small Business Week, but disagrees with what’s necessary to make small business stronger. We examine what she believes government can do to jump start small business to create new jobs from her website, TakeCommand.org.

Marc Harty is a marketing and public relations expert. Despite what many business owners believe, public relations is both easy to do and effective. He has a painless, 30-minute per day way to grow your publicity. We discuss his 30-Minute PR system.

Kathy Fettke is an expert on the real estate market. She is CEO of The Real Wealth Network—a real estate investing group. Despite what economists would have you believe about the economy recovering, we are not seeing signs of a recovery in our daily lives. We discuss whether the United States economy can have a recovery without the Real Estate marketing participating.

Michael Lee Stallard teaches leadership to organizations. He developed his theory of Connectedness out of his own experience and relates it to business success in his book The Connection Culture.