About Jim Blasingame

*Jim Blasingame is one of the world's foremost experts on small business
and entrepreneurship.


*He is president and founder of Small Business Network, Inc., a media
company dedicated to serving small business. 
*Jim is the creator and award-winning host of The Small Business
Advocate(r) Show, the world's only weekday radio talk show dedicated to
small business, nationally syndicated since 1997.
*He conducts over 1,000 live interviews annually with his Brain Trust,
the world's largest community of small business experts. Jim reaches a
national radio audience, plus worldwide listeners on his Internet
simulcast and archives.
*Jim is a syndicated columnist and the author of two books, Small
Business Is Like a Bunch of Bananas and Three Minutes to Success, which
have sold over 90,000 copies combined. Jim also authors the Ask Jim(r)
column for Entrepreneur's Startup magazine and contributes to many other
publications on small business and entrepreneurship.
*Jim is the creator of the unique small business knowledgebase,
AskJim.biz(r).
*The U.S. Small Business Administration recognized Jim as the 2002 Small
Business Journalist of the Year. He is a member of the SBA's National
Advisory Council.
*The Association of Small Business Development Centers recognized Jim
with the 2008 Champion of Small Business Development Award.
*Talkers magazine recognized Jim as one of the most important talk show
hosts in America.
*Fortune Small Business magazine identified Jim as one of the 30 most
influential people in America representing small business interests.
*Google ranks Jim as the #1 small business expert in the world.
*As a high-energy keynote speaker, Jim talks to small business audiences
about how to compete in the 21st century global marketplace, and he
talks with large companies about how to speak small business as a second
language.
*Jim leverages his multi-year relationships with organizations and
communities that support small businesses to help corporations build
their own mutually beneficial relationships with these groups to
accomplish a common objective: Reaching and supporting small businesses.