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j.j. ramberg and welcome to your business where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. treasury secretary timothy geithner talked about a decline? consumer spending and a drop in small business optimism during an appearance before the house small business committee this week. the focus of the hearing was the difficulties small businesses are having getting funding. geithner blamed the recession, specifically citing the impact on construction businesses and community banks. the secretary said the administration is trying to help pass things like tax breaks and regulatory reform. he urged congress to help give owners more access to credit. >> we've already approved ten states for the state credit initiative including the announcement today that kansas will receive funding to spur more than $132 million in small business lending. these capital programs are one of the most cost effective ways we know that congress can help encourage small business lending. every dollar of capital tal that congress provides can be leveraged to support lending that's many multiples of the gov

j.j. ramberg and welcome to "your business", where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. often the business owners we feature on this show focus on new products. this week we meet two sbreep neuros who aren't doing that. they've figured out how to streamline the delivery of some products out there. as a result they mite change the entire bathroom remodelling industry. >> about three years ago i undertook a fairly massive remodelling project. >> i had been through the terror and frustration of doing a couple of bathrooms. >> we had german faucets, an american bathtub, italian tile and here we are sitting there trying to figure out how to put all these parts and pieces together that were not standardized or thought through in any way. >> i was walking down the street with a sink with my wife trying to go to three different stores to match it up with the tile she wanted. >> i said there has to be a more efficient way to put a bathroom together than this. >> there had to be a better way than that. >> those words, there had to be a better way, launched a new business for these