{"id":7778,"date":"2012-11-18T20:15:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T20:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/?p=7778"},"modified":"2022-07-25T16:26:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T20:26:01","slug":"jim-blasingame-marks-15-years-as-the-small-business-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/jim-blasingame-marks-15-years-as-the-small-business-advocate","title":{"rendered":"Jim Blasingame Celebrates 15 Years On The Radio!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7780\" title=\"jim blasingame sba\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jim-blasingame-sba-320x204.png\" alt=\"jim blasingame 15 years\" width=\"370\" height=\"244\"><\/p>\n<p>Please join me in congratulating <strong>Jim Blasingame<\/strong>, for <strong>15 years<\/strong> of &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001Whwr3xgw6PgamA-2OHUAPvqUW68_DUK3NCVI-gDwxPOdTseKERXM2j3KS1_F-LU2ULd_-_YH1et4_cMFeeMEG-BBQBO3LKdgMvwQNp3x1rJDq9jadlhEU2hKc_JWbsXP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Small Business Advocate\u00ae<\/a>, a <strong>business radio program<\/strong> he created and launched on November 17, 1997. Since then, Jim has been the only syndicated host talking to America&#8217;s entrepreneurs on live radio every weekday, as well as to a global audience since his pioneering Internet simulcast began in January 1998.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m grateful for the opportunity that Jim and his team presented to me back in 2006. They contacted me because they wanted to add a franchise professional to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smallbusinessadvocate.com\/small-business-braintrust\/joel-libava-993\">Brain Trust<\/a>\u00ae, and&nbsp;I&#8217;ve&nbsp;been getting interviewed several times a year ever since then.<\/p>\n<p>And, <strong>The Small Business Advocate radio program<\/strong> is where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/new-business-book-released\">I launched my hardcover franchise book<\/a> on December 5<sup>th<\/sup>, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally recognized as &#8220;<em>The Voice of Small Business<\/em>,&#8221; Jim Blasingame conducts more than 1,000 live interviews annually with his Brain Trust\u00ae, the world&#8217;s largest community of small business experts, now more than 1,500 strong. From these interviews, more than 2,700 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/podcast-interview-on-the-franchise-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcasts<\/a> are produced annually.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re up and around tomorrow morning, (<em>Monday, November 19th<\/em>) Jim is interviewing me at 7:00 AM eastern time. We\u2019ll be digging into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/top-10-ways-to-lower-your-risk-when-buying-a-franchise\">The Top 10 Ways That Potential Franchise Owners Can Lower Their Risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smallbusinessadvocate.com\/show\">Go here for the radio program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you can always download the podcast at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Jim!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join me in congratulating Jim Blasingame, for 15 years of &nbsp;The Small Business Advocate&reg;, a business radio program he created and launched on November 17, 1997. 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