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Greeted by this sign, not so friendly reminder of romney campaign, that the comment with small businesses is a sticking point with small business owners and one is gene marks, founder and owner of the marks group and joins us right now. goods to see you, gene. >> hey, doug, how are you. >> well, thank you. tell me what you made of that speech you just heard? >> first of all, i think it sums up completely why i'm actually enthusiastic about romney's pick of ryan. you know, ryan himself is all about the economy and all about balancing the budget and fact that he goes into the largest senior livi...

Track to receive the first payment within 30 daes of the end date and would receive the final within 60 days and we had to do things like invoice factors as a young company. you're paying terrible amounts of interest. but if you want do get the ball rolling it might be the alternatives 689. >> the company was let you put the invoice in early. start it through your process? >> we would say in order to get this, woulding and up and running, we want to put a certain amount of money down now and start the system. we realized it's not going to be cash on delivery, but we would receive milestone-bas...

Retail sales for 2012 compared to 2011's 4.6%. and number one, remove every potential barrier that will keep someone from purchasing. make sure to have an easy to navigate website, adequate parking and clear signage at your store. getting customers is something many of us struggle with. we've brought gene marks to the studio for some tips. he's a small business columnist for "the new york times" and president of the marks group. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> retail stores say they got more customers. that's good news. >> yep. >> but there's more to do. >> i'll tell you something su...

To ask them what they think about the upcoming election, and the issues they believe are critical in 2012. in the months ahead, we'll send questions to this panel, and ask them to give us a reality check on what they think is important. we'll also post these questions on our facebook page and our twitter feed to see what you think. so please be sure to chime in. in this first installment of small biz sounds off we have three entrepreneurs with us. gene marks is the president of the marks group and a small biz columnist for "the new york times" who is based in philadelphia. he voted for preside...

One of the sort of moments when somebody hits a nerve, and gene marks wrote "if i was a poor little black kid." he has a talent for what we call trolling, which is to toss the material out there and let the views pileup, and he had a article "why most women will not become ceo," and he bragged he is a freak guest on tv and radio shows, and the lame column that he wrote occasioned a whole bevy of brilliant xlcommentary. i thought you guys would have something to say about it. the article basically, for the