Jim Blasingame

Jim Blasingame, The Small Business Advocate, is the president of the media company, Small Business Network, Inc. As the creator and award-winning host of the Small Business Advocate Show, the world’s only weekday syndicated radio talk show dedicated to small business, Blasingame is considered one of the world's top experts on small business and entrepreneurship, and "the voice of small business."

On the air since 1997, Blasingame conducts over 1,000 live interviews annually with experts on topics relevant to 21st century small business success. At over 600 members, Blasingame's Brain Trust is the largest community of small business experts in the world.

Blasingame founded and created SmallBusinessAdvocate.com, offering thousands of small business resources, and AskJim.biz, the world's most comprehensive small business knowledge base.

Blasingame is a high-energy keynote speaker, teaching big business how to speak small business as a second language and small business how to compete with big companies. He's a prolific writer, including his syndicated weekly newspaper column, daily blog and weekly ezine, plus two books, "Small Business is Like a Bunch of Bananas" and "Three Minutes to Success", which have sold over 90,000 copies combined.

In 2002, the U.S. Small Business Administration named Blasingame the Small Business Journalist of the Year. He has been a member of the SBA's National Advisory Council since 2004.

Google ranks Blasingame first among small business experts. "FORTUNE Small Business" magazine identified him as one of the 30 most influential people in America representing small business interests. "TALKERS Magazine" recognized Blasingame as one of the most important talk show host in America three years in a row.

Blasingame has conducted business at all levels of the marketplace across the United States, as well as internationally, doing business with firms ranging from Fortune 100 companies to the smallest sole proprietorships, as well as all levels of government.