Jim Blasingame

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Jim Blasingame, author and business expert

Jim Blasingame is an American small business consultant, radio talk show host, author, syndicated columnist, keynote speaker, and president of Small Business Network, Inc., a media company serving small business. [1] He is the creator and former host of the nationally syndicated talk radio show The Small Business Advocate Show, which focused on small business and entrepreneurship issues. He is the author of several books including The 3rd Ingredient: The Journey of Analog Ethics into the World of Digital Fear and Greed, The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance, Three Minutes to Success, and Small Business Is Like a Bunch of Bananas.

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Career

After more than 20 years as an employee/manager/executive of big businesses, including multi-year tenures with Sears and Xerox, Blasingame founded his consulting firm in 1989 to focus on supporting small business CEOs.

In 1997, Blasingame founded a media company, Small Business Network, Inc. (SBN).

The company's initial medium was radio, as Blasingame began broadcasting his nationally syndicated weekday radio program The Small Business Advocate Show, in November 1997. Two months later, in January 1998, he began simulcasting his program on the Internet. For over 23 years, Blasingame conducted over 1,000 live interviews annually with business experts on topics relevant to the challenges and opportunities of 21st-century small businesses. These live radio interviews resulted in the production of 10 separate Internet podcasts every weekday and 2,600 annually.

On November 19, 1999, Blasingame added another media channel, this time for his writing, with the launch of The Small Business Advocate Newsletter, which has been distributed every Sunday since its founding. In 2002, Blasingame published his first book Small Business Is Like a Bunch of Bananas (SBN Books), and in 2006, his second book Three Minutes to Success (SBN Books), which have sold over 90,000 copies combined. His next two books have won numerous awards and sold approximately 100,000 copies each: The 3rd Ingredient: The Journey of Analog Ethics into the World of Digital Fear and Greed (SBN Books 2018) and The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance (SBN Books 2014). [2]

Blasingame is a syndicated newspaper columnist and is a contributing columnist to BizJournals.com, [3] Forbes.com, [4] NASDAQ.com, [5] and American Express OPEN.com. He has a blog at JimsBlog.biz. He has made TV appearances on Fox Business [6] and MSNBC, [7] and has been quoted in such publications as Fortune Small Business, [8] CNN, [9] New York Enterprise Report, [10] U.S. News & World Report, [11] and the Los Angeles Times. [12]

Awards and recognition

Publications

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