In the small business response to President Obama's State of the Union Speech, Jim Blasingame identified several areas that sound good for small business, more money for bank loans, capital gains cuts, etc., but which will be of little use against the big challenges facing small business owners.

Jim Blasingame reports that what President Obama doesn't understand is that as he attempts to influence the creation of small business jobs, his own policies on health care reform, cap and trade, and unionization proposals are his own - and our - worst enemies.

Jim Blasingame reports on small business in The Age of the Customer™, as he explains how control of the relationship between your business and your customers has now shifted completely to the customer's side, and he explains how you should respond.

Jim Blasingame explains why the community building aspect of social media resources will give small businesses a huge competitive advantage over their big business competitors.

What will it take to operate your small business successfully in this new era we're entering? Jim Blasingame says it's blending the new stuff with the fundamentals, and he talks about the latter with eight key points.

What will the new year look like for small business owners? Jim Blasingame reports on his predictions for 2010, including banking, politics, customers, the economy and even Iran.

If you are able to open your business January 1, 2010, you should celebrate that as a success, according to Jim Blasingame, who talks about taking a moment to mark this success in the marathon recovery we're still facing.

If your business didn't make it through the economic meltdown, what's next? Jim Blasingame talks about failure, how to allow the marketplace to redeem you, and how to redeem yourself, after failure.

For the past nine years, Jim Blasingame has made a number of predictions for the up-coming year. At the end of the year he reviews what he predicted, reports on what really happened and tallies up his score. He did better in 2009 than last year.

Wrapping up his 2009 predictions, Jim Blasingame talks about his prediction that terrorists would use an underwear bomb. But his idea was a little different from the current news. Check it out.