• Can we transform the media's negativity about business?
  • With case Studies of remarkable local small business owners
  • By constantly showing business creating something of value
  
  
• Could the show and these efforts help create sustainable businesses?
  • Provide a range of new membership benefits and value
    There is a de facto membership requirement to participate.
    Free online courses with new membership and with membership renewal.
  • Open collaboration event after each episode
    This is small business advocacy but it is also small business sustainability.
  • Use the website as your own.
    • Involvement of local CPAs, business school professors, business coaches and more
    • Question/Answer arrays: Virtual Small Business Centers
    • CPAs can get CPE credits and collaborate with clients to learn about key critical ratios.
    • The financial communities can work with small business clients:
      • Banks to have them create business plans and projections
      • Business investors and brokers to develop confidential information and offering memorandum.
  
  
• Can the show be used to enhance the stature of the local chapters of your national trade association in their community?
  • Ratings. The local chapter of your association can have the most-watched show on television within each Designated Market Area.
  • Local productions. The local chapter of your association can become a de facto anchor of the selection process of the thirteen business per year for the local productions.
    • The local chapter of your association can become gatekeepers with the other small business advocates in the area including the Better Business Bureau, Economic Development Commissions, the Chambers of Commerce, business press, the SBA-SBDC-SCORE, the business professors, CPAs, business coaches to become a segment within a local production.
    • Your local and national trade association executives can get air time in episodes about your businesses
  • Local sponsors. Working with the local station, the local chapters of your association can become among the gatekeeper for local and regional sponsors.
    • Local sponsor promos for association events can be built into this program.
    • The local chapter of your association can work with the local station to open up fifteen-second to one-minute profiles for viewer tune-in.
  • Producer. The shows are evergreen and the episodes, once cleared with the local PBS-member station, can air on the Public-Education-Government station. The local episodes may also be selected for national and global broadcast.
    • There will be opportunities for special live broadcasts on both the PBS and commercial TV stations.

Appendix I:   Who's Who
Appendix II:  Options
Appendix III: Agreement