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Branding Your Main Street: Find Your Unique Characteristic

Do you think branding is just for mega-corporations? Jeff, Kristi and this week's panel of experts tell you how important it is to not only brand your business, but how to brand your Main Street. What...

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April 9, 2016

Main Street Nation talks about the Local Food Movement

From Farm-to-Fork – The local food movement is in full force. Dan Carmody, President Eastern Market Corp and Chef Rennie from 12 Farms in New Jersey share with the local business owners what Farm-to-fork means...

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August 8, 2015

Main Street Nation Radio is on the air

Do you own a business on Main Street? Then Main Street Nation Radio is the show for you! Jeff and Kristi talk with Suzanne Perrault, executive director of the Lake Orion DDA, and Al “Bubba”...

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July 11, 2015

Village Green CEO Jonathan Holzman: How to Purchase Your First Apartment Building

CEO Jonathan Holtzman is the Chairman of the Board of Village Green. He has an extensive background and significant expertise in luxury apartment development, construction, management and ownership throughout the Midwest. He is the third...

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June 20, 2015

Main Street Nation Radio Is on the Air

Our new monthly show “Main Street Nation” takes over StartupNation this week! Jeff Sloan and our Main Street Guru Kristi Trevarrow focus on Community, Culture and of course, the small businesses located on Main Street....

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June 13, 2015

Sunscreen Mist goes Toe-to-Toe with the Sharks on Shark Tank

Potential moguls in the consumer convenience business, the brains behind Sunscreen Mist Josh Kaplan and Tony Fayne join Jeff and Norm on this edition of StartupNation Radio. Josh and Tony share with us their experience...

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May 23, 2015

How to Create the Vision to Reshape an Entire City

Join Jeff and Norm as they interview one of the key players in rebuilding the city of Detroit. Jim Ketai joins us in studio showing us why Detroit is the number one place to be...

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May 9, 2015

Understanding What Your Metrics are Telling You

Today we talked with Robert J. Moore from RJMetrics on what key metrics all businesses should be monitoring. We also had in-studio Nancy Oram from StaysOnEyewear and Mike Keith from The Office Coffee Shop in...

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May 2, 2015

Take Advantage of Downtown Business Associations

Are you taking full advantage of what your Downtown Business Associations have to offer? Kristi Trevarrow from the Rochester, MI Downtown Business Association and Darrin Wisniewski from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) share how...

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April 11, 2015

What every Startup Needs to know about Creating a Website and Marketing

So you just opened your business on Main Street, now it's time to open up on Cyber Street. Alexandra Jona from www.BrandBarr.com and Blake George from www.bmgmedia.com will walk you through everything you need to...

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March 28, 2015

Professional Athletes turned Entrepreneurs

From doing great things on the football field to doing great things in the business world, Ron Bartell and Mark Clayton show they have what it takes to be outstanding entrepreneurs. Ron Bartell, who played...

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March 21, 2015

Emagine Theaters with Paul Glantz and Jon Goldstein

Hooray for Hollywood, but where would Hollywood be without Emagine Theaters? Jeff digs deep into the movie theater business on this edition of StartupNation Radio! Emagine Theaters Founder and Chairman Paul Glantz and Jon Goldstein...

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February 28, 2015

Start Your Own Business: Lose Your Excuse Now!

Are you keeping yourself from being successful? Are you finding every reason under the sun to NOT start your dream business? Our guests Jennifer Raybaud and Melissa Emanuel from loseyourexcusenow.com, winners of the Home Based...

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February 4, 2015

StartUpNation 2014 Home-Based 100 Competition Winners

It’s great to see that that the StartUpNation is alive with all kinds of talent and great ideas. Jeff talks with our competition winners: Scott Zalkind from Lucky Dog Hot Sauce, overall contest winner and...

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January 24, 2015

Albert Scaglione Founder and CEO of Park West Galleries

This was one of those shows where Jeff and Norm didn't have to do too much work. They gave Albert Scaglione, founder and CEO of Park West Galleries, a topic and he ran with it!...

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January 10, 2015

All about the Non-profit organization with William Abrams from TrickleUp

Non-profit seems to be counter-intuitive to all of us at StartupNation, but it is fascinating to see how many entrepreneurs TrickleUp creates with a $100 startup fund! Jeff, Norm and William share the secrets and...

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January 3, 2015

Are you born an entrepreneur or can you be taught?

Were you told early in life that you were a leader? When it comes time to go out with your friends, do they look to you to get things going? Do you always see the...

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December 13, 2014

Business Longevity: How long will your business live?

So you just started your business. Maybe you had your first anniversary and that first year flew by or was the toughest year of your life. Either way, imagine your company being around for another...

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November 15, 2014

How to Make a Living at Blogging

Join Jeff and his co-host, Norm Pappas, as they interview Blogging experts, Amy Lynn Andrews and Matthew Loomis. Our two experts provide advice to Tiffany Henfling as she is 2-years into her blog site and...

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November 8, 2014

Launch Your Startup!

The show focuses on what it takes to launch your startup and features founders of companies that just launched on stage at the Launch Conference in San Francisco, the largest startup conference in the world....

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March 1, 2014