Insight On Business the News Hour

We love doing what we do because we meet so many interesting people along the way...and Alyza Bohbot is no exception. Alyza is the founder/owner of City Girl Coffee Company based in Minneapolis. And the Alakef Coffee Roasting Company.  She is in Des Moines today making some media rounds and celebrating a bit that her product has been picked up by HyVee. Click through to hear an amazing family story about coffee, Israel, Morocco, France, Florida and Duluth...I know...right? Meet our newest friend by clicking through. 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 4:30pm here on Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday at 2pm on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

Each week we bring our lifestyle contributor Jeff Pitts from Cityview Magazine into the studio to get you all ready for the weekend. He's got lots of things going on starting tonight and going all the way into next week. Have some FUN already and click through.. 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 4:30pm here on Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday at 2pm on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

It's the Business News Hour for Wednesday the 6th of June...thanks for clicking through. On the broadcast today we'll check the numbers from Wall Street first then get into vegetarian fried…chicken. No Really! We've got some news about booze and Mexico and Walmart and Wine. Drink up! Then some sobering news about home prices and wages. We've also got a look at who is running for Iowa Secretary of State in the November election. Those stories and Phil K. James and Michael get into Marketing for Business Episode 17 talking first cars, Musicl.ly, LipSync Live and the start of the Mars Cafe. Come along for the ride...and click through.

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 4:30pm here on Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday at 2pm on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

Each week Michael partners with Phil K. James from Good Milkshake Digital in Marketing for Business - Episode 17. Here we start out talking about "first cars". Fun stuff. Then get into Musical.ly which started out as an social media project aimed at Tweens and has quickly become a huge platform launching several careers. We also talk about how Facebook just ripped Musical.ly off and created Lip Sync Live with some additional features. That is the article from Tech Crunch. The launch is not platform wide...just yet.

We then talk about the start of Mars Cafe based in the Drake Neighborhood it was something Phil and his brother created with zero experience in the restaurant industry. How they marketed and what MySpace was to them at that time. Fun stuff in this segment with a shoutout to Gary Vee! 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 4:30pm here on Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday at 2pm on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

Thanks for clicking through. We'll kick off today with a look at what happened on Wall Street then share where Wells Fargo is closing shop. How important is Howard Schultz to Starbucks? Investors took note of that today. Guess which social media platform will join the S&P 500...those stories and more along with our guest Ben Crosby from Tero International and a marketing tip from our ad agency about Feeding the Beast. Click through the news is just ahead. 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 4:30pm here on Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday at 2pm on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

This is really good stuff. We all seek to persuade people. It could be to buy something we selling or to talk our spouse into a golf game or go out to dinner. Here Ben Crosby from Tero International talks about tips to make your point more persuasive and what you need to do even before you try. Seriouslly good advice from a pro. 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 4:30pm here on Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday at 2pm on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

From time to time we offer up a marketing tip from our advertising agency, Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. Today it's about Feeding the Beast. Once you have given it a taste you gotta keep shoveling. Click through and thanks for listening! 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 4:30pm here on Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday at 2pm on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

Global tensions? Trade War? Nah....forget about it!  It's the Business News Headlines for Monday the 4th of June...thanks for clicking through. We'll look at what happened today on Wall Street, we'll shy "goodbye" to Howard Shultz as well as Monsanto. Some airline news and an Iowa company buys Chris Craft...the iconic boat builder.  Those stories and more coming up today...just click thorugh for the business news on  your time. 

Each week we offer up Insight on Business the News Hour Week in Review. Here are the stories we aired on Sunday 3 June on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. First up a state that will pay you $10,000 to move there and why. The jobs report came out last week, unemployment ticked down, wages finally starting to tick up and more. Trade talks and how they impact you and your family budget. Jobs that pay $80,000 a year that nobody really wants. We’ll also introduce you to Roger Hargens who with his wife Jane started Operation Middle Ground for returning veterans…it’s a jobs story and more. We’ll check the markets and the economic calendar and then a conversation about puppy mills in Iowa with Mary LaHay. It’s a shocking business story.  Click ahead to the segment you want to hear.  Thanks for coming by. 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 4:30pm here on Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday at 2pm on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

As we said earlier… A stronger-than-expected jobs report pushed stocks higher this past Friday as Wall Street recovered some of the losses seen in the previous session. Let’s check out what happened last week in the markets. Click through to listen to what happened last week and our economic calendar for this week. 

The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 4:30pm here on Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday at 2pm on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.