week Hattie takes us to meet a business owner, in this episode of the show you meet many small business owners who together create this television series. Hattie is the creator and producer. Bruce Camber is the founder and executive producer; he occasionally comes on the air to talk about strategy and technology.

Bruce and Hattie began their work to develop the show in 1993.

You meet the show's syndicator, Chuck McConnell of National Educational Telecommunications Association. He saw our demo tape and said, "Yes, we'll feed your program to public television." We thank Chuck for saying yes early on and also for mentoring us through the world of public television since 1994.

We thank all of our sponsors, especially those who have had a long-term commitment to the show – IBM, the US Postal Service and Verizon.

Our sponsors are all advocates for small business and they have included many of the finest businesses in the USA: Besides IBM the USPS, and Verizon, we thank Thomson Learning, Travelers PropertyCasualty, MassMutual, AT&T, MCI, Dun & Bradstreet, BusinessWeek, FORBES, Bell Atlantic and Nynex (which became Verizon with GTE), Southwestern Bell, USWest (and later Qwest), BancOne, Chase Bank, Bank of America, and the Edward Lowe Foundation. Our sponsors know that the world is in the midst of a small business revolution and they stand by to help small business owners achieve their dreams.

The US Small Business Administration was our advocacy partner to promote viewer tune-in among all their constituents in local offices, the 1500+ Small Business Developoment Centers, 50+ Business Information Centers and 15,000+ people involved with the Service Corp Of Retired Executives (SCORE).

And, we thank you, our viewers, for watching over the years and for being so supportive. You can now watch many of the shows online. We have the stories of many, many more small business owners to share with you in the coming years, so please keep watching! And, tell a friend.

Want to see an episode of the show on TV? To find out IF and WHEN this episode is airing,click here. To find out which episode of the show is airing on your local PBS-member station,click here. The people in Small Business School watch the show on Dallas PBS-member station, KERA-TV.

CONTACT:
Hattie or Bruce
Small Business School
8511 Edgemere Road
Dallas, Texas 75225
Tel: 214.378.1118
Email: click here
URLs: http://www.Smallbusinesschool.org Press: Pictures for download

• GO FURTHER: Spend some time with the eleven key points of the case study guide (just above in the green box) and each of the related transcript segments.
  
  The rest of the story: The show began as Small Business Today (1994-1995, four seasons - 26 episodes). In 1995 it became Small Business 2000 (21 seasons - 286 episodes until the end of the year, 2000). This episode was our 100th unique production.
  
  Our open letter about this show.

• Where are you? FIND YOUR STEP on the path AND CHART A COURSE TO THE NEXT.
  
  STEP 1: "I'm Going to Start a Business." Once you say these words, at least to yourself, you are on the way. It is the first step and a big step. Starting a business is a personal Declaration of Independence.
  In the USA it is in our blood!
  
  Small Business School is somwewhere within STEP 7-8 of growth.

• MENTORS: Jim Schell has been our resident entrpreneur, a friend and mentor. We all need mentors and we need to be menotring othersStudy more from this episode about Jim.
  
  Study more from other episodes.

• Leadership: So much about all this is deep within our souls, yet there are thousands of leadership gurus and even more coaches. And, now there are many, many special resources for women.
  
  1. Long list of leadership resources
  2. Coaching resources
  3. Women's resources

• THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FAMILY AND FAMILY LEGACY. We have told many stories about family businesses. Smallbusinesschool is a family business -- Hattie and Bruce made commitments to each other and the business at the very start.
  

• Go Global: Everyday we receive emails from people around the world as a result of the broadcasts of the Voice of America. We are reminded constantly of this global village that Marshal McLuhan discussed back in the late 1960's.

• Business Type: You can study other episodes of the show by industry.

• JOIN, JOIN, JOIN: Your professional associations in your industry are your key to continuing education, market research, collaborations, strategic partnerships, capital and so much more ... often you'll find that you enjoy like-minded people and many will become friends for life.

• SUPPORT PUBLIC TELEVISION:
  Become a member of your local station. If you are already, great. If not and your business is doing well, consider joining the Producers' Club ($1000).

• FIRST PRINCIPLES: Starting a business is the road to economic independence for most of us average people. Read a little more to see why incorporating a business keeps the passion of the American revolution alive!

• 1500+ Questions and Answers within Smallbusinesschool. Within every show there are about 15 questions and answers. Within the school, there is a place to record your answers to these questions. Your answers to the same questions that Hattie asked Shiv, Meena and their people (as well as other business owners in prior episodes) become part of your own secure database where you have options to re-display your best answers within this site as your own profile page (that is this page), essentially an executive summary , a study guide and/or a transcript.