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Falling in Love With Niches

by Tim Berry on June 1, 2011

I particularly liked Jim Blasingame‘s Wonderful World of Niches in one of his weekly emails last month. Jim is The Small Business Advocate, and he does a daily show on Internet radio. I think most of us are already on to this, but still, Jim says it very well: For the past 30 years, the [...]

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Kelle Olwyler On Myths of Small Business Planning

by Tim Berry on October 16, 2009

This is a lively and easy-to-listen-to audio piece that covers business planning very well. It’s a discussion between Jim Blasingame, Small Business Advocate, and Kelle Olwyler, author of Paradoxical Thinking. Both of them are right on target about business planning in the real world, for real small businesses. This is not about the academic formal [...]

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Jim Blasingame's Award

by Tim Berry on August 11, 2009

I’m proud to pass on the news that Jim Blasingame won a big award at the American Chambers of Commerce meeting last week. Here‘s the press release. I’m pleased to join Jim on his Small Business Advocate radio show every once in a while. The first time I did that, back in 1997, I thought [...]

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Small business succession planning

by Chelle Parmele on March 17, 2009

Tim Berry was featured on Jim Blasingame’s Small Business Advocate radio show yesterday. Succession planning is a big part of the long-term planning for millions of small businesses. Tim Berry has studied this and actually done it successfully, and he talks with Jim Blasingame about his advice based on his experience. You can listen to [...]

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