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Many of the episodes are streaming on the web. Our goal is to empower all business owners to tell their stories. You can begin by inviting a local production company to work with you after you have written your own transcript by answering many of the questions that Hattie has asked business owners over the years.

We have encoded over 200 episodes of the show as streaming video and streaming audio. We encourage every visitor to the site to multi-task. If you open up the profile page, transcript, study guide and the video, you will see how fast you grasp the essential information. Your entire staff can learn just as quickly.

FREE: All the episodes of the show have been digitized. Some are available as WMV and Java applets. Soon the video for every question will be available as short-burst, user-driven streaming video. If you are on a dialup, please use the java-based streams. When many people are making requests at the same time, a little patience may be needed!

The java-based streams -- there are usually four possibilities, two for the narrowband (dialups) and two for broadband (cable, DSL and beyond) does not take up excessive bandwidth. For those still on dialup, you can actually watch a stream at 24 kbps. The next is encoded at 44 kbps. The quality is not great, but you'll get an idea. Cable and DSL quality is considerably better at 250 Kbps. Select the best quality, if it does not buffer excessively, you are downloading at higher than 256 kbps.

Join us. With over 260 half-hours of highly-produced, broadcasts of Small Business School, Small Business 2000 and Small Business Today, we are told that it is the largest video library about small business, the heart and soul of the free enterprise system, on this little earth. Eventually every show will be incorporated within a course. Once you have worked through several courses, all these shows will be available for you at any time.

We invite you be become part of the community.

Any fees associated with LearnOnline will be escrowed for local productions by your local station. We are also indexing key words and every question and answer. Just from the broadcast television footage, there are thousands of questions and answers about starting, running and growing a business. But most importantly, all the answers are from the people who wake up every day and make it happen.

Here are a few test samples:

• Drucker for Dummies is California Kaizen. on a Postcard: Can an entire industry, the business of performance management, be reduced to a postcard? Can the deep study of kaizen and the work of business gurus like Peter Drucker be reduced to a link? The quick answer is, "Yes."
• Business Continuity in face of Security Threats: Even if you are on a 28.8 kbps dialup, you can watch video, we call it chunky video. On a broadband, the quality increases. For now, to respectfully share bandwidth, we have only encoded up to 250 kpbs.
• Business Is Now About Becoming an E-Culture: Use the Internet to transform your business to an e-business, then to an e-culture.
• The Soul of the American Economy: Small business is the fabric woven into democracy that give it sustainability.
• Diversifed Chemicals: This business is just good chemistry.

Small Business Index for Learning Companies: With the blessing of your Chamber of Commerce or other small business advocacy group, your listings are then populated with the two learning indexes, one by business name and the other by owners name, and under business type. Further listings then become dependent on how many questions you want to answer!

Interactive Questions (IQ): The more interactive questions you answer, the more you flesh out the pages that can be posted on this site. The first page that can be posted is an executive overview (profile page). The next pages are a transcript and study guide. Then, as you continue answering questions, you generate a business plan. Then, that plan can become a plan to bring to the bank for a loan, to create an employee stock ownership program, to prepare to sell the business, to create an offering memorandum for private placements or venture capital, and to create a Small Corporate Offering Registration.

Small Business Index for Growing Companies. In one of our open letters about the need to support educational television, there is a discussion about the 40,000 small businesses who we believe could provide the key critical information of their financial data (critical ratios) without revealing the name of their business, so the nation and the world understand more about the direction of the economy. Big business is a bellwether. Publicly-traded businesses are a bellwether. However, the most important part of the economy, small business, is an unknown. Our financials are our own financials (than you very much) and there is no motivation to share that critical data. We agree. But sharing key critical ratios . that's another story and a big story .

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