Participating in a Small Business Index of Learning Companies

Goals:

• 4M listed within the index and 4M who are members of their local public television stations through the efforts of Small Business School.

• 400K who have a profile-transcript-study guide under development  and have become members of their local station's Producers' Club.

Everybody is a producer.

Cameras are abundant; the kids are learning to edit; production qualities will only get better. And, each of our local public television stations just may become the places where many of us learn how to do it for television.

We are encouraging every good person to tell their story. We are suggesting that every good business have a camera rolling (or digitizing) when special events are happening. Roll footage whenever you can and begin editing together special vignettes. Get ready because someday soon you may be selected for a local episode of the show!

We encourage all good business owners to register and then get your key people registered and together you develop your overview, transcript, case study guide and then a homepage to be displayed on this site.

You and your company will then be in the short queue for consideration of a local episode of the show based on that information.

Questions & Answers.

Though you can opt to add your information to it, all the questions and answers are there to help you answer the questions from your own history, perspective and insight. You simply answer the same questions Hattie has asked business owners since 1994. All the questions are online. There'll be over 2000 from which to select. There are a core group of questions that require an answer; all the rest of them are to get you to share your motivations and dreams, your successes and failures, so others can learn from you.

All the people -- business owners and any employees and suppliers -- who become a member of their station will also be listed and linked from the SBS Index of Learning Companies. These are all very special small businesses. The goal is to have at least 400,000 profiles of the very best small businesses out of the 25 million in the USA. As the show increasingly becomes global, there may be even more from all the other countries throughout the world.

This web site and production, increasingly owned and operated by these small businesses, sponsors, and friends, is self-selecting among all those people who are committed to lifelong learning and who operate their business with integrity and ethics. They are loved by their community and respected within their industry.

We hope you have read this open letter about the importance of public television. Taken together, we are all advocates for all small businesses.

All the information with the web site and the weekly television show are organized within one of eight steps: four to start and run a business and four to run and grow a business. In each step owner/founders discuss how they got from one step to the next.

The Magic.

There is a magical part of of each episode and of this web site. You see people like yourself who had an idea for a business – that's an inspired moment. Yet, they act on it, and surprise themselves and everyone when it becomes successful. Here you find a thousand questions will be opened for you complete with their answers and video. You see how others overcame the obstacles and self-doubt.

Today, every question and answer is being pulled into a one-to-five minute capsules so you can ask a question and get an array of answers. These are called Interactive Questions (IQ) within Question-Answer Arrays (QUAYS).

If you answer these Interactive Questions online, you'll be building pages – a profile – on this site. Once enough questions are answered, these answers can be reviewed first as a profile/overview, then as a study guide, and finally as a transcript. You can then request that they become public on this site.

Once they do, you are then part of those who will be considered for a local episode of the show