Articles by Jim Blasingame
Improving small business banking is a good economic indicator
2/17/2012, 1:09 pm from Jim Blasingame in Personal Finance, Small Business
One of the markers of big businesses, especially publicly traded ones, is they have many capital sources. For small businesses there are basically only three: 1. Equity capital from the... Read >>
Sustainability plan: Customers will soon ask about yours
2/8/2012, 11:48 am from Jim Blasingame in Personal Finance, Small Business
This article is about three letters to small businesses. The first letter was born in the 1950s, when the quality ideas of an American, Edwards Deming, reversed “Made in Japan” from a metaphor... Read >>
Connecting with global prospects and getting paid
1/31/2012, 12:09 pm from Jim Blasingame in Personal Finance, Small Business
This is the second of two articles on small businesses going global. In the first article, I allowed that it can be exciting for business leaders to imagine a global prospect... Read >>
Who are your global prospects?
1/23/2012, 5:15 pm from Jim Blasingame in Personal Finance, Small Business
In case you haven’t heard, the seven billionth Earthling was born recently. For the global marketplace, seven billion prospects are exciting. But for growing American small businesses, 96% of... Read >>
Focus On Success Fundamentals In 2012
1/16/2012, 1:00 pm from Jim Blasingame in Personal Finance, Small Business
Don’t worry – this column isn’t about resolutions; resolutions are optional. This is about fundamentals that have served businesses since humans decided to trade with each other instead of... Read >>
Converting to a new kind of quality
1/9/2012, 10:04 am from Jim Blasingame in Personal Finance, Small Business
Successful customer service is the process of delivering value to a customer in exchange for payment. Surely this is the prime directive of any business. But this process isn’t truly successful... Read >>
Blasingame’s 12th Annual Predictions
1/5/2012, 2:24 pm from Jim Blasingame in Personal Finance, Small Business
Here is my 12th annual list of predictions for 2012. Prediction : U.S. economic growth (GDP) will improve from 1.7% in 2011 to over 2%. Prediction : Small business optimism – based... Read >>
Customer Appreciation And Charities
1/5/2012, 2:23 pm from Jim Blasingame in Personal Finance, Small Business
Several years ago, noticing uneaten fruit piling up in our office as holiday gifts from vendors, I wondered how much we spent for cards, fruit, nuts and candy for customers. I asked for that... Read >>
In Defense Of Scrooges Everywhere
1/5/2012, 2:23 pm from Jim Blasingame in Personal Finance, Small Business
Some say I’m a scrooge; they might be right, But here are three exhibits offered in my defense: 1. Decades after a career in retail I still suffer from a condition common among retail survivors... Read >>
Beware The Many Faces of Fear
1/5/2012, 2:21 pm from Jim Blasingame in Personal Finance, Small Business
Anyone who has contemplated forsaking the perceived, if not real, security of employment to start a small business has come face-to-face with the fear of failure. Indeed, countless would-be... Read >>