Participating in a Small Business Index of Learning Companies
Goals:
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 some 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 develop your overview, transcript, case study guide and then a homepage to be displayed within this site.
You and your company will then be in the queue for consideration of a local episode of the show based on that information.
Questions & Answers.
Questions and answers from weekly television productions since 1994 are here online to help you answer the questions from your own history, perspective and insight. You will be answering the same questions Hattie has asked business owners over the years.
There are a core group of questions that require an answer; all the rest of them are to help you share your motivations and dreams, and 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 attracts a global following, there will be even more from all the other countries throughout the world.
The process becomes self-selecting among all those people who are committed to lifelong learning and who operate their business with integrity and ethics. Only a person who loves their community and is loved by their community and respected within their industry would read this deeply. 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.
You see people like yourself who had an idea for a business. They act on it, and surprise themselves and everyone when it becomes successful. . You see how others overcame the obstacles and self-doubt.
Today, every question and answer is being pulled into one-to-five minute capsules so you can ask a question and get an array of answers. 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 |
