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Jim Blasingame
Achieve sustainable success by applying Blasingame’s New Law of Customer Relevance: If you want to have customers for life, help your customers help their customers. » More
Jim Blasingame
The revenue growth of fast-growing companies depletes cash dramatic, but predictable ways. So, remember, growth-funding fundamentals must be monitored for sustainable growth, because it is possible... » More
Jim Blasingame
Some of the great actors, like Sir Laurence Olivier, overcame extreme stage fright and became legendary. Today's small business salespeople can also become legendary by overcoming call relutance. » More
Jim Blasingame
Entrepreneurs think about the world differently. They consider challenges, imagine outcomes, appraise risk, project potential, and measure all of that against their resources and themselves. And wh... » More
Jim Blasingame
After this last installment of the three-part series covering The Five Financial Mysteries of Small Business, you should have a better handle on the relationship between cash, profit, accounting, a... » More
Jim Blasingame
This is the second of three articles on how to prevent your firm from becoming part of the increasing mortality statistics of U.S. small businesses. Hint: Profit and cash are not the same things. » More
Jim Blasingame
This is the first article in a three-part series on how to prevent your operation from joining the increasing mortality of U.S. small businesses. Remember Blasingame's 1st Law of Small Business: It... » More
Jim Blasingame
Without a healthy interest in business fundamentals, the passion for what you do has only slightly more value than a dream. But when you deliver on the fundamentals, you become a high-performing, p... » More
Jim Blasingame
Growing up on a farm provided many valuable lessons that transferred beautifully to my life in the non-farming marketplace, because before there were cities, farmers were discovering and sharing po... » More
Jim Blasingame
Each New Year deserves to have the maximum opportunity to be successful, so have the discipline to set up your New Year for a clean and fast start, while pushing the current year over the goal line... » More