Hi, everyone, im jj ramberg and welcome to your business. The show dedicated to helping your Small Business grow. We all know that meeting a deadline can sometimes make or break a business. But when the pressure is on and the due date cannot be moved, how do you keep calm and do your best work . Last month we went down to mobile, alabama for mardi gras to find out how the men and women behind all that noisy merry making get everything done on time. Its show time . It is so show time. Everyone here is feeling the pressure because they know, you know, if we dont make a deadline, whats that going to mean . Are we going to lose a contract. Theres always a deadline, nothing but a deadline. Steve and ron are used to High Pressure deadlines. Im working seven days a week, 10, 12 hours a day, trying to get some sleep. Its a good time to lose weight. Steve is the owner of merth company. He builds these enormous Mardi Gras Parade floats in mobile, alabama. This season he and his staff completed a
Your business on nsnbc. Hi, everyone, im j. J. Ramberg. Welcome to your business. We all know that meeting a deadline can sometimes make or break a business. But when the pressure is on and the due date cannot be moved, how do you keep calm and do your best work . Last year we went to mobile, alabama for mardi gras to find out how they get everything done on time. This is show time . It is so show time, enerin here is feeling the pressure. There is always a deadline, there is never not a deadline. Being used to High Pressure deadlines. I work seven days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day. Trying to get sleep. Steve builds these enormous floats in mobile, alabama. This season he and his staff completed 76 floats. You have to work on it, you cut all of it, all of the extraneous stuff out, and get down to the heart of the matter. In the weeks of carnival leading up to the final day of mardi gras, they were responsible for 31 grand events like this. How many people are you expecting . Out here i
Welcome to mtp daily. 81 days now until the Republican Convention in cleveland but the clock is about to strike midnight on the stop Trump Movement. They dont have months they dont have weeks to figure this out. Barely talking days for them. Just over 120 hours now until the voting is done in the state of indiana. If trump wins the hoosier state, this republican race is basically over. The map and the math do not lie. We are going to game it out on the big board in just a moment. Let me tell you, the devil is in the details on this one. You are looking live, mean while, at south bend, indiana, its the home of the university of notre dame. Also, Carly Fiorina speaking now and where ted cruz is about to take the stage as his campaign, as their campaign now, fights for survival. They are desperately trying to unite conservatives in a lastditch alamostyle stand against donald trump. We begin with, perhaps, the furthest thing from unity. The former republican speaker of the house of represe
In new jersey near President Trumps golf club in bedminister. Kristin, bring us up to speed, if you will, on the situation in puerto rico and the growing feud that were now seeing between the president and the mayor of san juan. Reporter well, kelly, things really started heating up last night when the mayor of san juan essentially accused the bureaucracy and inefficiency of the u. S. Government of killing puerto ricans. That did not sit well with President Trump. He responded this morning in a series of tweets. Heres a few. Quote such poor leadership ability by the mayor of san juan and others in puerto rico who are not able to get their workers to help. They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 federal workers now on the island doing a fantastic job. So hes really lashing out at the mayor of san juan, accusing her of poor leadership at a time when there are millions of people in puerto rico who are still without food, power, clean water and
Alabama loss, repeal and replace died again. He has not been winning a lot lately. Is his ambitious tax plan that win . The president a few moments ago also making a bit of news on health care and some other topics. Well have that for you in a few moments. Meanwhile, cries for help. Breathtaking rescues in puerto rico as the desperation there deepens. Long lines for Bare Necessities like food, water, gas. Why whats happening there would likely never happen here. And bribery scandal. Reports that Legendary College basketball coach rick pitino has been fired in the wake of that bribery scandal involving several elite ncaa programs. Theres a new conference set to happen any moment now. Were keeping a very close eye on that. We will pass along pitinos fate. Meanwhile, we start President Donald Trump trying to put a series of stinging losses behind him from health care to his candidate in that Alabama Senate race last night. Hes trying to secure the first big win. This time tax reform. Pres