Dave Larson has spent nearly 40 years as an entrepreneur and worked for such major corporations such as DuPont, American Express, Kodak, Gerber Scientific and Agfa.

He’s the author of several books and sought-after for his expertise in marketing, promotions, sales, distribution and operations. Today David is the President and Co-founder of the Small Business Company. Founded in November 2002, —- the company provides affordable and powerful products (books and interactive CDs) and services to over 50 million small and home based business owners.

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.

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 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.

Katie K. Snapp comes from a corporate business environment and technical production, where the daily grind was less than inspiring, until she found the hidden secrets in transforming work into creative prospecting. After leaving the engineering world 21 years ago, she became a Leadership Performance Coach and a nationwide speaker. She thrives in interacting with groups and training teams to be more productive while having fun.

Our guest on this edition loves to turn small businesses into big business. Clate Mask is the CEO of Infusionsoft—- the “Inc 500 company” is a leader in marketing automation software for small businesses and is now revolutionizing the way small businesses grow. Clate is a pure entrepreneur through and through…

New York Times best seller and international best selling author, Jeffrey J. Fox, is releasing his tenth book, Rain: What A Paperboy Learned About Business. Rain is destined to be a business book classic. And Rain, a thirteen-year old paperboy, the book’s central character, is destined to become business fiction’s first positive hero. Rain,a business fable, is Fox’s first foray into fiction. The story is a series of challenges and adventures that Rain solves in surprising and clever ways. Rain deals with mean dogs, bullies, customers that won’t pay, and growing his business and his paper route. Rain’s challenges are metaphors for the problems facing business managers everywhere.

On this segment we’re joined by Carol Chapman and we’ll be talking about an approach to brand development that is often not considered. Carol is a principle at The Brand Ascension Group—-her company works with businesses to discover their one true brand from the inside out. They call it brand DNA. She’s been in the field for more than 30 years, is a speaker on numerous topics from driving culture change, building the brand from the Inside Out, and author of Getting Your Employees on The Brand Wagon e-book and co-author of an upcoming business novel, to be released later this year,