 Small Business School and the
Small Business
2000 Index of Learning and Growing Companies
In search of
thousands of the finest small business owners,
to be profiled on as many as public television
stations in the USA,
both PBS and PEG stations, and on the Voice of
America throughout the world
every year, as role models for our
children and each other.
Hello to those of you in the queue for an episode of the show -
One of our
long-term goals is to work with each of the local stations to identify at least
2000 small business owners every year and as many as 2000 in every Designated
Market Areas, and to have these people eventually become the subjects of a
online podcast and then a local broadcast by their local PBS-member station or
other public television affiliate!
Many could
begin with a little podcast produced by someone within the business. The
podcast could become the basis of one's local station producing
Charlie-Rose-styled vignette.
We are glad
to help each
station get help from their state's Department of Economic Development, the
state and local Chambers of Commerce, the local SBA and their Small Business
Business Development Center and SCORE volunteers, the business press, and so
many others. The banks and utility companies will help pay some of these
expenses.
What a
result -- founder/owners of the local small businesses lifted up as role models
for our children and for each other! Such people are in every community. We
only need to look for them! Here's our
selection
criteria.
One of the
ways we hope to help each station is to start a selection process within this
site. We are prepared to host a description of 400,000 businesses with an
overview,
study guide and
transcript, and
eventually even streaming
video from their appearance on their local public television station.
No good
business is excluded from these listings, but that list is a qualified list by
local Chambers, business press, SCORE, SBDCs, and other small business
advocates within each state.
If you
appreciate what we are trying to do with Small Business School, please
join us in thanking your local public television station. At least be
sure your membership is current. If you are a small business owner and you're
doing well, become a member of your local station's Producer's Club.
That is usually $1000 per year.
If you are
not a member of your local PBS-member station, please join today! Public
television needs small business owners like you! We are asking all our viewers
to thank your station, become a member, and get involved with quality TV.
Our viewers and web
visitors often respond -- and
we welcome your notes. Some have told us they
quit jobs and started a business because the success of others inspired them.
We have received hundreds of comments like, "Keep it coming!"
All of us
here at Small Business School thank you for your letters of support.
These new pioneers and quiet heroes, lifted up as our Master
Class teachers, can help improve the fabric and quality of our
communities and the world! Thank you.
With our
abiding thanks for everything that you do
to make our world a better
place,
Bruce Camber, founder and Executive
Producer
PS. We have
initiated a program whereby the ownership of SmallBusinessSchool gets turned
over to the local stations that air the show, the sponsors, the viewers, and
others who believe the small business marketplace needs their abiding
attention.
That discussion is
here. This is our open letter and the makings of a collaborative business
plan, the dawning of a new age of business -- huge joint ventures by all
interested parties. This business plan is also
an
exit strategy for Hattie and me and the formal beginning of the Small
Business 2000 Index for Growing Companies.
Our other
key
documents: Mission.
Vision.
Story.
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