e-mail us at yourbusiness@msnbc.com. go to openforum.com/yourbusiness. we put up today s segments, plus a whole lot more for you. and connect with us on our social and digital media as well. and our podcast business there. built that. i interior view the most interesting founders and ceos and business decisionmakers. i promise you will be entertained awe whole lot. i m jj ramberg. until then, remember, we make your business our business. so that s the idea. what do you think? i don t like it. oh. nuh uh. yeah. ahhhhh. mm-mm. oh. yeah. ah. agh. d-d-d. no. hmmm. uh. huh. yeah. uh. huh. in business, there are a lot of ways to say no.
the only problem i need to solve is who is the person that can help me solve this problem. so recognizing what you can t do. that s great. that s what i do when i m up at 3:00 in the morning worrying about something in business. i love this kind of almost self-help-y kind of stuff. as i talk to more and more business decisionmakers i realize that that is the part that often is the hardest in running a business. yeah. you feel alone. and you feel like be. orem bearsed. orem bearsed. that s something people don t talk bit. you re in the spotlight. you will say dumb things every once in a while. hopefully not on a show like this. if you do, we ll take it out. all right. thank you both. this week s your biz selfie is from alexander donaldson and little helper. it is a mover for residential
on board and who is not on board. that will help you either get to the next level or keep you stagnant where you are. furthermore, you have to do one thing a day to scale. whether it s making one additional call, whether it s waking up one hour earlier a day, calling one or prospect or attending a networking event. you have to do that one extra thing that will set you apart from your competitors. so determine what you re going to let go of, understand how to let your team on board, and do that one extra thing that will set you apart from the competition. that s how you scale. it s time now for the brain trust where we get to ask real business decisionmakers how they get things done. we have jamie kern lima. so nice to have you on the show. thank you. it s wonderful to be here. it cosmetics you started out of your bedroom and then sold to
we re 44th in overall health status. reporter: it is expected as many as one-half to 2/3 of small business health care policies in this country are likely to be canceled over the course of the next year because they don t meet obamacare standard which experts say will have an impact. it will be a surprise especially for sort of smaller, younger, entrepreneurial firms who often have healthier employees than the mean because they will be faced with higher premiums on the new, on the new small business exchanges because you know as you know, like in the individual market, there will be a lot of redistribution from healthy, from sick to healthy, from old to young. reporter: some business groups are predicting that a large number of business decisionmakers are planning to drop health care coverage, instead opting for a fine for their employees. jon? jon: mike emanuel inside the
process. a stopgap measure that avoids damage to the economy. or does that also hurt? does this economy need a long-term solution? having this thing hang over the economy, hang over the markets for the next couple of months, that s not welcome. that s bad for business decisionmakers if you re a company trying to decide whether to hire, whether to build a new plant, something like that. that s something that weighs on you. and having that uncertainty loom out there isn t good. that said, it beats going off the cliff. it beats having a situation where there s these massive tax increases on everybody, where there s dramatic spending cuts on defense and other things. if that were to all happen at once, even for a few weeks, i think it would be very damaging to the u.s. economy. very likely a recession. even if it s just a couple of weeks? even if we get this out in january, they fix it up back from holiday break and get done by february 1st you think the damage would be done? i think