If you want to be close to success, you first must have customers, vendors, and employees longing to be close to you. The good news is these are all things small business owners do better than anyone. » More

Are you interested in owning a business, but don't want to start from scratch? Here's how. Hint: millions of Baby Boomer business owners are at retirement age, creating an inventory of available sm... » More

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

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

With all of the cloud power available, every small business should become more aware of how to use cloud-based services and seek these options to operate more efficiently, competitively, and profit... » More

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

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

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

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

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