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| Seeing beyond the horizon |
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| 1210: Meet four partners who are "Giving
Back" to their communities and raising the bar for social
capital. |
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| 1204: Understanding how to use debt and
equity capital is studied in this special, entitled "My Own
Money" . |
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| 1202: A focus on five small business
owners serving Catalina Island and all are members of
the NFIB. |
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| Stories about the soul of every economy |
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| Without
A Break Since 1994 |
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| There are thirteen episodes per season and, of
course, four seasons per year. |
| This is the 1200 Season: It began on
December 31, 2005 (New Year's Eve) and goes through March 2006. Each season is
numbered for groups like the TV Guide. This is, however, our 46th season
of productions about small business. |
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Here's access to other seasons:
1500
Season: October through April 2007
1400
Season: July through September 2006
1300
Season: April through June 2006
1100 Season: October through December
2005 |
| Other ways to find an episode of the show:
You can search by
business name or
owner's
name, by business sector, by
subject
matter or topic, or by
Diversity,
Family,
nation,
State, or
Women!
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| See several years of episodes by clicking on
view prior
episode just below the header and the words, "Welcome to Small Business
School." |
| Specials: We take the best points from
many different episodes to focus on a key small business issue. |
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| Television to make a difference |
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| Key
pages: Each episode has its own home page, an overview with links to that
business, the complete transcript, a case study guide prepared for business
schools, and streaming video. Today, these case study guides are part of the
curriculum of almost every business school in the USA and the best around the
world. |
| Perspective: We live in the present; we
reflect on the past; we project the future; and we struggle to know what is
important and good within life. |
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| Everyone
helps to select a business to be on the show |
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| A discussion about a working business model for
the future, by Bruce Camber, Executive Producer |
First, we turn to the PBS-station manager and get
permission to do an episode of the show in their neighborhood. Next we contact
every local Chamber of Commerce within reach of the station's signal. Usually
there are 40 to 70 local chambers. We invite each to nominate four or five
businesses that have the qualities outlined within our selection
process. Usually there are over 200 businesses nominated. We invite
their local small business advocates (Economic Development, Better Business
Bureau, the mayors, the Governor, Workforce Initiative, people among the
SBA-SBDC-SCORE, the business press, business professors, CPAs, and others) to
vote. These are the people who know the hearts and minds of these business
owners. They vote and we emerge with a list of the top ten. We then re-engage
the station manager, the CPAs of each company, and each of their national trade
associations make the final selection. Nobody can pay or has ever paid to be
on this show.
We are
looking for the finest roles models for each of us, our industries, and our
children.
Today, everybody
is a producer: We believe that part of television that lifts up
exploitation as an art form (glamorizing violence and corruptive behaviors)
can and should be replaced with the vibrant heart of creativity,
value-laden work, and
hope for
the future. We have invited our loyal stations and our legacy sponsors of
the show to take over SmallBusinessSchool for the future. We also invite
all the
Chambers and
National Trade Associations to join them. By
working together the productions can be increased from our 26 per year to 100,
then to 1000, 2000 and eventually as many as 4000 per year where 3948 are
local episodes. Fifty-two of those episodes are selected for the
national and global feeds of the show
There are 210 Designated Market Areas in the USA.
I believe there should be at least local 10 episodes per year within each DMA.
In several of the most heavily populated DMAs there should be as many as 26 new
episodes per year.
Also, the
show is broadcast in over 100 other countries via the Voice of America. We wll
work with every station and every country to produce local episodes and to be
part of the new management of SmallBusinessSchool.
One clear hope to cure the madness within the
world is to lift up the best role models that we can find, knowing, of course,
that we all have clay feet. None of us are perfect. Yet, inspiration to create
is better than incitement to exploit. -BEC |
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