ramberg and welcome to your business.very week we gather talking to talk entrepreneurship to give you tips, advice to help your small business grow. for more than 100 years, the trooper family has run an amusement company on the boardwalk of ocean city, maryland. i went down to find out the trick to surviving through so many generations and to running a decidedly old school business in today's modern world. >>> for brooks and christopher and aunt stephanie, taking over the rides on the boardwalk in ocean city, maryland was as much destiny as choice. >> it's what we do. we don't really know any different. >> my grandfather called, wanted me to be involved with the family business. >> it is probably my heart and soul. >> the company was founded by daniel tripper who visited from baltimore and then never left. >> many things here on the property, movie theaters, amusements, mini golf, tank battle. >> it has games, restaurants, and other attractions. as the ocean city boardwalk grew over the last century, so did the company.

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ramberg.come to your business, where every week we gather together to talk entrepreneurship and give you tips, advice and a little inspiration to help your small business grow. for more than 100 years, this family has run an amusement park on the boardwalk of ocean city, maryla maryland. i spent a day with them to find out the trick of running a decidedly old school business in today's modern world. >> for brooks and christopher trim per and their aunt stephanie, take over the rides on the boardwalk in ocean city, maryland, was as much destiny as choice. >> it's what we do. i mean, we don't really know any different. >> may grandpa called and wanted my to be involved with the family business snooimts my heart and soul. >> it was founded in 1890 by daniel. he visited ocean city from baltimore and never left. >> we've had many things on the property from movie theaters to dance halls, amusements, arcades, mini golf. >> today it includes an amusement park, games, restaurants and other attractions

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ramberg and welcome to "your business," the show dedicated to giving you tips and advice to help your small business grow. when we think about main street, we think about the heart of a community, a place where small businesses usually the focal point and you expect something special like great customer service or a terrific cup of coffee or to be greeted by your first name. so how is main street america doing in the economic ups and downs this country has been facing? we decided to travel country to find out. our first stop, galina, illinois.ena, illinois. welcome to main street, usa, a series we're doing about companies on main streets across america. today we near galena, illinois, a community rich in history and beautiful 19th century architecture. but it's a town that has had to reinvent itself many times, from a lead or boom town in the 1800s to a farm community in the 1900s, today it's a tourist destination. but it's been through a lot of ups and downs. if you'd come here about 25 years ago, there were lots of vacancies and there was a bar pretty much on every corner. so what d

i'm jj ramberg.come to your business, the show dedicated to giving you tips and advice to help your small business grow. it's been three years since e-commerce optical brand launched and disrupted the world of prescription eyewear one click at a time. why are retail stores a part of their expansion plan? we head to their brand-new flagship store in the heart of soho in new york city to find out why this online business is also going off line. ♪ >> when classmates kneel blumenthal, andrew hunt, jeffrey raider and david gill boa launched this site, it shook up the world of prescription eyewear, selling under the price of typical fashion glasses and doing it all online. >> we said what if we can create our own brand, design glasses ourselves, sell them directly to consumers through a user friendly website, we could offer the same quality glasses that cost $500, $600, but do so for $95. >> the idea quickly took off. >> we were featured in vogue and gq. we basically sold out of our inventory and had a wai

jj ramberg, host of "your business" sundays at 7:30 a.m., right here on msnbc. josh barrow from business insider, robert reich from the university of california berkeley, thank you all. that is "all in" for this evening on this cyber monday. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> as long as we all move into the manufacturer and retailing of robots, problem solved. see? done! >> problem solved. and cable news. >> yeah, doing that is very important. thank you at home for joining us this very, very important cable news hour. >>> mississippi. mississippi is not only a great state in its own right, mississippi has also for a generation, no, for a century, no, for the entire existence of our country, provided a great service to the rest of this country. number one, mississippi has forever helped american schoolchildren get over their native fear of spelling long words, because m-i, double s-i, double s i-is fun to say. so, you can smell mississippi and then you can spell anything. mississippi also helps us stay patient when we are counting off s