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Small business owners are "the new pioneers & quiet heroes!"
When the weekly television show first came on the air, Hattie Bryant, host/producer, and Bruce Camber, founder/executive producer, issued a press release that suggested the national deficit of the USA could become a surplus.
These two expected the web and other technologies would continue to empower small business starts, small business exports, and small business successes. Further, they believed that this economic revolution would build on itself as business owners began teaching others how to follow their dreams -- not esoteric dreams -- their financial dreams.
The show lifted up business owners who were loved in their communities and respected within their industries. Nobody could pay to be on this show.These people were the real people who created something to sell and service with real value. These people also had real values, great morals, solid ethics, respect and love for others, and an abiding grace.
In the USA, small business owners pay as much as 50% of all tax dollars.
Hattie Bryant commented, "Small business owners are the unsung heroes of our economy and culture. Often they are the millionaires next door living quietly and contributing greatly."
Bruce Camber added, "We believe -- as Hattie says in the opening of every show -- 'Everybody (adult American) has an idea for a business.' It is in our bones, in the fabric of America." Gallup polls indicate that one out of five Americans are somehow involved in a new business start up.
In 1995 when the budget did not balance and the deficit was running up, Hattie and Bruce thought that the future of America would be shaped by a new breed of citizens, "These small business owners are quietly starting thousands of businesses everyday; they are creating hundreds of thousands of jobs."
Their projections in fact did happen. Twice. The first run-up ended with the dot.com bomb. Then, everything changed with 9/11/2001, yet the economy came back, optimism came back, but greed came with it all.
2008-to-this-day. The latest economic implosion was based on greed and stupidity, from Madoff to Barney Frank and so many others.
Small business may yet reverse the situation. The mindset of good people is to figure it out, and as we all do, the next surge will begin. Our diverse culture need to turn off mindless, narcissistic television programming and turn their attention to support and encourage new business starts, ethics, and goodwill.
SMALL BUSINESS SCHOOL aired throughout the USA on PBS stations and then well beyond the USA into every principal city of the world outside of North America through the USIA's Worldnet and now the Voice of America.
This is one half-hour television program that is bullish on the future of the USA and any country that empowers the growth of their small businesses.
The show started airing in1994 in the USA and then throughout the world in 1995.
Camber stated, "The revolution is not the Internet; it is what people are doing with these new technologies, that they are empowered, dare to take on the world and begin to win!
While reflecting on the course of business over the past few decades, Camber said, "What is unprecedented is that people are looking within, building on their unique talents, and starting specialized businesses that capitalize on those gifts. It is a people's revolution if there ever was one. And, it is everywhere. It is emerging from every corner of this country and every part of the world."
In 1995 Gallup was commissioned by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) to study new business start-ups and found over 3.5 MILLION. That level of start-ups had not been seen in over 100 years.
The downside is that as many as 50% of these businesses will not make it past their first year.
Ms. Bryant said, "The singular purpose for SMALL BUSINESS SCHOOL is to help people be successful. We want everyone who works hard to succeed. This show features good business people with new ideas and models that work. Their successes can be our success. Let's lift up people who can inspire us to start and who can give us courage, inspiration, and knowledge to get over the hurdles, especially when we feel like quitting."
SMALL BUSINESS SCHOOL, according to Ms. Bryant, is the only "how-to" series on television about starting and growing a business. "SMALL BUSINESS SCHOOL actually takes the viewer on location where a successful business owner talks about how they started, how they manage and how they grow their business."
Bryant and Camber have over 50 years of combined ownership of small businesses, yet they watch very little television "because there is nothing on television for us." Camber said, "Running a business is hard and frustrating. At the end of a long day, it would be refreshing to see how somebody else is coping and maybe pick up a few tips and insights along the way. It is also good to see that I am not alone in my daily struggle."
More: The series was broadcast by the PBS Adult Learning Satellite Service to over 3000 colleges and universities in the USA (to be used as case studies in business courses). Professors who take the series receive an instructor's guide that challenges students to look at their motivations and work habits. Today these case studies are used in over 40 college textbooks.
USIA and Voice of America: The global broadcasts by the United States Information Agency were translated into Spanish, Arabic, and French. Over 3500 cable stations in Latin America alone took that feed.
Master Class. Successful entrepreneurs become like a Maria Callas when she teaches others to sing. These people have learned the fine art of running a successful business. They not only have the knowledge; they have a business intuition that picks up on subtle nuances. There are no academics, no gurus and no journalists inside this Master Class . . . only small business owners talking about how they do what they do.
Everyone involved in the making of SMALL BUSINESS SCHOOL is a small business owner. Hattie Bryant and Bruce Camber, partners in Flying Leap, Inc. the production company for SMALL BUSINESS SCHOOL, raise the capital and do the marketing, content development and distribution of the series.
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