How is this recession and following recovery impacting start-ups and home-based businesses? Is this a good time for home-based businesses? Bill Topaz joins Jim Blasingame to talk about this issue, including capitalizing a start-up.

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.

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.

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 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.

It's great when someone becomes a new customer, but it's better when they come back and buy something from you again. Jim Champy talks with Jim Blasingame about how to inspire customer loyalty.

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.

What are the keys to successfully leveraging the Internet as a valuable part of your overall small business plan? David Brown has been there and done that, and he reveals the secrets with Jim Blasingame, including his thoughts on SEO and the future of social media.

When is it a better time to buy an existing business than to start one from scratch? Russell Brown and Jim Blasingame talk about how to decide the best course and how to accomplish the decision you make.

What's it like to start a small business from scratch? Jeff Zbar and Jim Blasingame talk about their experiences as they both started their small businesses from nothing in 1989.