Jim Blasingame

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Jim Blasingame discusses why you should take the Paycheck Protection Program money and why his three-decade championing of community banks is proving to be good advice during a pandemic.
Jim Blasingame offers his thoughts on historic global vulnerability, why the current time is another of those periods, and what we should all do to save ourselves from further harm.
Jim Blasingame reveals some of the issues to expect to deal with, including timing, as you expect to receive financial assistance from the government during the pandemic period.
Jim Blasingame reveals what will have to happen for the SBA to distribute the money Congress has set aside for small businesses in the CARES Act.
Jim Blasingame reveals how emergency, government stimulus cash can go directly to your small business, why your banker is waiting on you to ask for that help, plus why some of that loan will be forgiven.
Jim Blasingame reports on why our experience with Y2K over 20 years ago is the best perspective to assume as we deal with ending the coronavirus pandemic.
Jim Blasingame reveals some of the institutional hurdles the Fed and the SBA will have to jump over in order to get quick emergency cash to Main Street businesses.
Jim Blasingame explains the relationship between COVID-19 and the novel coronavirus, plus he reveals the three things we have to hold on to as we deal with the current pandemic situation.
Jim Blasingame discusses the pandemic challenge we face and why how we deal with it must not create more problems than the disease.
Jim Blasingame reveals six more too-common mistakes business owners make when seeking investor capital, including staging your information sharing from small to large, as requested.