Ruth Hedges is a founder-partner of Unismart Capital Software Inc .and creator of the Funding Roadmap Electronic Business Plan and Due Diligence Reporting System.

Our guest on this addition a 15-year veteran radio host and entrepreneur. He started his first business at age 21, which he built and sold a few years later. Kent Covington has been providing radio and marketing consulting services to various organizations ever since. He currently serves as President of Embark Business Advancement, a company that provides guidance and marketing services to small and midsize businesses.

Jon Wuebben is a copywriter, speaker and online marketing leader. He is the President and CEO of Telegent Media, LLC, Encore Publishing and Custom Copywriting, one of the fastest growing online content providers in the industry, having written copy for the Fortune 100, small startups and hundreds of mid-sized organizations. Top companies call upon him for online marketing consultation. Jon has an MBA in International Marketing from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management and a BS in Management from California State University, Chico. He is the author of Content Rich: Writing Your Way to Wealth on the Web and speaks at business conferences and association meetings around the country.

Nationally known as The Small Business Professor, Bruce Freeman is a syndicated small business columnist for Scripps Howard News Service. His column, Ask the Small Business Professor, is distributed to 400 newspapers in the US and Canada and read by more than 20 million people. In 2006, Bruce received the journalist of the year award (NJ) from the US Small Business Administration. He’s the co-author of Birthing the Elephant, and has received awards for teaching excellence at the Stillman School of Business.

JD Heiden makes his living pinching pennies, and the economic downturn has business booming at his four-year-old Miami-based company, a franchise of the global Expense Reduction Analysts. (ERA) The firm specializes in cutting expenses for corporations in non-core areas, such as telecommunications, office supplies, merchant credit card fees, freight and package shipping, equipment leasing, uniforms and utilities.

A leading sales strategist … a thought leader in B2B sales … author of a bestselling book … an in-demand sales speaker who provides much needed wake-up calls to sales organizations … and a passionate spokesperson for turning the sales force into a competitive advantage. Jill Konrath joins us in this segment to discuss how to sell to big companies.

Our guest on this segment is an expert Business Analyst and Consultant Author, Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, Columnist, and Radical Sales and Marketing Professional. Tom Marquardt, The Profit Repairman helps small businesses start up, grow up, turnaround, survive and succeed. His new book is entitled, MY LITTLE BLACK BOOK TO SUCCESS.

Our guest on this segment is the founder and President of eBoot Camp, Inc., an education company that provides people with the knowledge and skills to effectively market their business on the Web.

John McIntire is the Founder and CEO of PixelFish, a technology-driven provider of award-winning video advertising solutions for small and medium-sized businesses and their partners. John has more than 16 years of management experience in the Internet and telecommunications industry. Prior to PixelFish, John was Co-Founder and CEO of Affinity Internet, which is now half of the largest web hosting company in the U.S. He grew the business from start-up to more than $35M in three years, attracting $60M in investments. Previously, John led marketing and product development for Interliant, Inc., an online applications hosting provider, which he helped grow from start-up to IPO in 12 months. He also worked as a management consultant for the firm PRTM focusing on designing and implementing product development processes in the telecommunications industry. John holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University. He has been a featured speaker at Internet and entrepreneurship conferences and trade shows.

Our guest on this segment of the Smallbiz Brain is no stranger to advertising for small business. Jeff Dostal is the President of Marketing Firepower, a company that helps small business owners better understand how to use advertising effectively—-this is an area that clearly remains challenging for small and micro enterprises.