One of the biggest issues facing small business owners is health care insurance, and our guest on this segment is an expert in this area. John Arensmeyer is the founder of the Small Business Majority and joins us on the line to give us an update on where we are with health care with respect to small business— John welcome back to the program…

Many small business owners are facing losing everything as they struggle with the health care crisis. Our guest on this segment knows the plight of small business owners well-John Arensmeyer is the founder and CEO of The Small Business Majority-the non-for-profit organization was co-founded and is run, by small business owners to present a more accurate, pragmatic and centrist view of public policy issues affecting small business. The organization is currently focused on finding a solution to the dramatically rising health insurance bills small firms have been facing over the past several years.

Congrats from Smallbiz America go out to our contributor, Bruce Freeman. Thanks for all you do, Bruce!

In this segment I visited to get a preview with Rick Frishman about Author 101 University which is a huge upcoming educational seminar coming on October 30 and 31in Las Vegas.

Our guests on this edition are blazing a new trail in how social networking and relationship technology can work for entrepreneurs around the globe. Adrie Reinders and Marion Freijsen are the co-founders of E-Factor—-a fast-growing, vibrant online community and virtual marketplace designed for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.

In this segment, we’re joined by Charles Duhigg, reporter for the New York Times, and the author of the “Golden Opportunities“series, which began in December 2006 and for which he received numerous awards including the George Polk Award, the Sidney Hillman Award, the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and several others.

KC Blake is the Director of Business Development at the Entertainment Technology Center at the University of Southern California (USC). This was founded with the help of George Lucas in 1993, and brings together the top entertainment, technology and consumer electronic companies to evaluate what consumers really want, which is then translated to the companies that make technology products.

Current companies participating include: Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Viacom/Paramount, Warner Bros., along with Alcatel-Lucent, LG Electronics, Inc., Cisco, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, Inc., Lucasfilm Ltd, Sharp, TATA Consultancy Services, Thomson and Volkswagen of America.

Returning to the Smallbiz Brain is Bill Kasko—-he’s President and CEO of Dallas-based Frontline Source Group, and provides both temporary and direct placements for technical services, IT, accounting/finance, HR, legal, admin/clerical positions. In this segment we discussed the current jon markets, trends he’s seeing on the street, and a new project called jobertalk.com.

In this segment with David Hallerman, Senior Analyst at eMarketer, discussed trends, observations and talks about how and what works in the world of internet marketing and advertising.

I just discovered this powerful series designed to help small businesses boost their sales and their bottom line. After speaking with Jill Konrath, the producer of this event, I was happy to help her get the word out about this to our SBA Members. I think this could be a valuable experience for us all.