If you're thinking about starting a small business, or if you already have one but you're not having fun, Jim says either way, don't just be in business for business sake. Jim encourages you to be in a business that you love, so you can be successful and have fun.

If you don't have enough capital to start and grow your business, you should consider barter. Tune in as Brian talks with Jim about some tips and techniques to effective bartering.

Patience is a major virtue for anyone starting a small business, and Jeff Zbar and small business expert Jim Blasingametalk about how you can start your new business idea while being employment full-time on the Small Business Advocate Show.

Failure is successfully identifying what doesn't work, and Stuart has plenty of that in his past. Listen in as he joins Jim to talk about his failures as well as his many great entrepreneurial successes, and what you can learn from them.

Are your plans working out? Is your business where you think it should be? If not, it's possible that you're aiming too low. Jim talks about the importance of aiming a little too high, even if you miss.

Jim takes a few minutes to thank his listeners for their prayers for his son, Craig, who has just returned from his second tour in the Iraq Al Anbar province. And he has a few things to say about our men and women in the military.

How can you grow your business without creating a casualty list? Dave and Jim talk about how improving the people in your organization -- including yourself -- may be the key to outrageous growth without casualties.

Wrapping up his series on small business fundamentals, Jim talks about how happiness is a critical element in small business success.

What is your business doing about diversity, both in employment opportunities and customer base? Andrew joins Jim to talk about diversity not only as the right thing to do, but as importantly, as a best practice.

Jim continues his series on Small Business Fundamentals with a discussion of how public policy is an important element of being a good small business manager.