Ricky Chavez of RMars Media Group is on the Small Business Celebration podcast this week and he’s going to guide us in the importance of:

1. How to understand what your value is.

2. How to determine the value of your media spend through the value of your community.

3. How to find the value in your business while doing your day job.

Kevin Caudle, pastor of Christian Life Assembly, is on the Small Business Celebration podcast this week and he’s going to guide us in the importance of:

1. It’s about the atmosphere of community.

2. It’s okay to talk about your shortcomings.

3. If you steward God’s money well, he’ll honor you in return.

Yahne Adams, owner of B.I.G. Consulting, is on the Small Business Celebration podcast this week and she’s going to guide us in the importance of:

1. How do know your client’s next move.

2. Why you should embrace your B.I.G.-ness!

3. Learn how your skills can be used to better communicate with your customers.

Brian Conner, CFO of Bolthouse Properties on the Small Business Celebration podcast this week and he's going to guide us in the importance of:

You have to have emotional intelligence as well as financial intelligence.

How do you operate “above the line”.

Your numbers are telling a story, learn that story to grow your business.

Kevin Burton, Admin. Director Business Development and Governmental Affairs at Klein DeNatale Goldner ~ Attorneys at Law is on the Small Business Celebration podcast this week and he’s going to guide us in the importance of:

1. It all starts with relationships.

2. You want to target your market with what you practice in.

3. You have to make yourself available at all times.

Laura Hill, Dan Klingenberger, and Denise Montencino of the Kern County Society for Human Resource Management (KC SHRM) are on the Small Business Celebration podcast this week and they’re going to guide us in the importance of:

How do you get your employees engaged?

How your business is impacted by the A, B, C test.

How to make sure your business comply’s with wages and hours.

Kyle Brown of the Bakersfield Business Networking Group is on the Small Business Celebration podcast this week and he’s going to guide us in the importance of:

1. How to effectively bootstrap your business.

2. Keep your eye out for opportunity.

3. It’s okay to be “a little off center.”

Bob Meadows, Business Development Director with the City of Shafter is our guest on the Small Business Celebration podcast and he’s going to guide us in the importance of:

1. Why you should consider moving your business to Shafter.

2. Know the story behind your numbers.

3. Are you a fountain or a drain?

Robert Moseley of House of Moseley is on the Small Business Celebration podcast and he’s going to guide us in the importance of:

1. How a new location gives you the opportunity to reinvent yourself.

2. Make something out of nothing for the price you are given.

3. Acknowledge what they have purchased and you can build on what they have.

Rosco Rolnick and Sarah Rolnick of Guarantee Shoe Center is on the Small Business Celebration podcast this week and they’re going to guide us in the importance of:

1. The Golden Rule applied.

2. You can’t be just a taker, you have to be a giver.

3. Business will change, you have to change with times.