Jim Blasingame is President and founder of Small Business Network, Inc., which produces and distributes multi-media small business content worldwide. He is the creator and award-winning host of The Small Business AdvocateSM Show, the only nationally syndicated weekday radio/Internet talk show in the world dedicated to small business. Jim conducts over 1,000 live interviews every year with small business experts and entrepreneurs. He is also the founder and nexus of the world’s largest community of small business experts, called The Brain Trust.
Jim reaches millions of readers each year through his prolific writing, including a syndicated newspaper column, his weekly ezine, The Small Business AdvocateSM NEWSLETTER, and dozens of other print and online publications. He’s the author of the best-selling book Small Business Is Like A Bunch Of Bananas, now in it’s fifth printing. His next book, to be published in 2006 is titled, Three Minutes To Success.
For the past three years, TALKERS Magazine has named Jim one of the “Heavy Hundred,” the 100 most important talk show hosts in America. The SBA honored Jim with the 2002 Small Business Journalist of the Year Award and he’s a member of the SBA’s National Advisory Council. FORTUNE Small Business magazine named Jim one of the 30 most influential people in America representing small business, and one of the nation’s top small business resources.
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