Small business owners may not see the need for project management. It’s time to reconsider that decision as project management can help your small business in a number of ways. From improved team communications to deadline expectations, project management can help keep you one step ahead.

Our guest on this segment of the Smallbiz Brain has owned retail businesses, restaurants and consulting practices. Today Mary Pat Kavanagh’s specialty is teaching her clients to create strategic, profitable, long-lasting relationships using social networking.

Our guest on this segment is a dynamic leader, successful entrepreneur. Ken Wolf is the President, CEO and co-founder of Revelwood .The company provides performance management solutions to Fortune 1000 and mid-market companies, and is a top growth company on the Entrex Private Company index. Revelwood’s performance management solutions bring ease, speed and flexibility to enterprise planning, reporting and analytics.

In this segment I visited with Dave Scammell, he’s the CEO of Sohonet—-the company provides connectivity for the feature film industry and has an international presence.

Our guest on this segment of The Smallbiz Brain left the corporate world to pursue her dream of coaching fellow-entrepreneurs toward redefining their visions so they too can make a “big splash” in their lives and businesses.

Lorin Beller Blake is the founder of Big Fish Nation, a year-long business development program that leads entrepreneurs toward maximizing their lives and business goals. She’s also the author of the book, From Entrepreneur to Big Fish: 7 Principles to Wild Success.

Since 2004 she’s has been fulfilling her own dream—to share her Big Fish principals with thousands of entrepreneurs nationwide through her innovative program which as been promoted nationally as ‘a Zen approach to business.’ Big Fish Nation and Lorin Beller have been nationally recognized by Investor’s Business Daily —She was named one of the Top 30 Female Executives of 2004 by Female Entrepreneur Magazine.

This segment features Eric Keiles & Mike Lieberman, co-authors of Reality Marketing Revolution: Transform your business into a money making machine!

Ron Mattocks is passionate about building financially sustainable nonprofit organizations. His lifetime of service in the nonprofit arena has focused on all aspects of enhancing fiscal viability through business development, marketing, fundraising, and expense management.

No doubt, small businesses and mid sized companies have a lot of areas of concern—-increased competition, recession, sales, cash flow, employee and client retention. Gary Harpst is an expert who has identified THE ONE problem, that, when addressed, makes solving all the others problems easier to solve. Beyond that and even better—he has a solution.

Matt Phipps has enjoyed an impressive career in the creative, brand building and operational part of the business arena. Today, his entrepreneurial talent and experience are what drive him to continue to create the vision and direction of his company, Blendz.

This segment features my interview with Mark Waltzoni, expert, trainer and coach in the area of leadership and change.