Jim Blasingame

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If you're a small business owner, time is not on your side. There are three clocks in small business that are working independently to impact your level of success. Jim Blasingame talks about how these three clocks work and what you can do to influence their impact.
President Obama has said he will choose judges who have "empathy" as they rule from the bench. Jim Blasingame knows first-hand what judicial empathy looks like and he talks about his personal experience as a business owner who proved his case in a lawsuit, but was denied justice because the judge made a final ruling - admittedly - based on empathy, rather than evidence, testimony, facts and the law.
Celebrating his 20th anniversary as a small business owner, Jim Blasingame reflects on why he became a small business owner, how he started up from scratch and how he got his first customers.
Celebrating his 20th anniversary as a small business owners, Jim Blasingame continues his reflections with his thoughts on what he didn't know when he started his business, and why this is an important part of the start-up process.
Celebrating his 20th anniversary as a small business owner, Jim Blasingame reflects on who to take advice from. You should definitely seek counsel from others, especially senior business owners, but in the end, you have to make the go or no-go decision. No one can make that decision for you.
Celebrating his 20th anniversary as a small business owner, Jim Blasingame reflects on what it takes to grow your business, including how to acquire and keep customers. Jim also talks about some of the things that will surprise you about being a small business owner.
For the 12th consecutive year, Jim Blasingame broadcasts his show in honor those who paid the ultimate price on behalf of a grateful nation. Jim talks about the contribution of America's small business owners all the way back to the Minutemen, and about the fact that freedom isn't free.
Since 1998, Jim Blasingame has helped the SBA celebrate National Small Business Week. In this his 12th consecutive SBW, Jim talks about his small business heroes, the SBA and how to get these two groups working more closely together.
Jim Blasingame talks about why small businesses should think about building customer communities instead of social media in The Age of the Customer™.
Capitalism has been weakened and is under assault by policies that are nothing less than socialistic. Jim Blasingame lists the reasons capitalism is the most logical "ism", and he identifies the socialistic assaults and why they are dangerous to the future of America.