Hello very special Small Business Owners and all your advocates -

There are 40,000 ethical, gracious, giving-and-successful business owners among the membership of public television. Of the approximate 5 million members of public television throughout the USA, over half are deeply indebted to some small business.

Are there interesting stories among them? Yes! "Fascinating" is the answer. Should these stories be told? Of course.

Small business, as a category and a people, has been largely ignored by the media and the press, but here are truly great role models to learn about the meaning and value of life. Anybody with an ounce of common sense knows that we desperately need alternatives to HBO's Tony Soprano. So much of commercial television and our cinema, lift up exploitation as an artform, cleverly shaping every second. And when we watch, vicariously participating, that footage placates evil, encourages the weak, confuses the marginal, and weakens the strong.

We are welcoming no less than 400,000 small business owners who are strong. They have joined their local public television as a member of the staion's Producers' Club. We will encourage the stations to do an introductory spotlight on you where you are introduced to the viewers of your station. In about 30-seconds you will have a chance to tell your friends and neighbors why you support your public television. You probably have seen those kinds of spots on your PBS-member station.

As you select the questions to answer online, you will see those answers come alive within a template that you can authorize for publication (go live) on this website as an overview, case study and a transcript. The transcript actually becomes the basis for the production team to come and produce an episode of the show about you.

In your own words you will answer such questions as "What is best part of your work? Why? When did you know this was what you wanted to do? What do some of your customers say about your work? And, what has your company done in the community? ... in your industry?"

One of our goals is to identify 40,000 small business owners who are willing to teach the world why the USA works, and why it works so well. People say, "It's the economy." No, it is the first principle of our ecnomy. It is ownership and the enterprise that pride-in-ownership brings. We are inviting the 40,000 strongest businesses -- out of our 400,000 -- to share their weekly/monthly key critical ratios so the governments, the press, and the people can see representative-but-real numbers that reflect the health of the nation (these ratios are automatically generated at the end of every closing and are blindly uploaded to our database).

That is a gift to the nations!

We can share with other people how we discovered our gifts and talents how these became meaningful work.

As each of the local stations and their Chamber of Commerce begin doing their own local productions (initially up to 26 local episodes per year), there will be half-hour television shows of as many as 4000 local businesses in the USA. That is up to 179 PBS-member public television stationsThere are another 700 public television stations associated with Economic Development Commissions and university and colleges. We only need 200 doing 20 episodes per year!

Every local station's production manager (or a senior manager) will be invited to be part of a vritual selection group for one season (13 episodes). The following season another group of ten will be invited. Within eighteen seasons somebody from every station will have been invited. Each station within this group their best episode for the national and to vote for three episodes from all the other stations.

The long-term vision is that eventually production costs will drop low enough that it becomes possible for every station to produce a daily show. Although it sounds like too big of a stretch, just think where we have all come in the past ten years. If all did, there would be over 700,000 businesses a year profiled in the USA alone.

Crazy? Maybe not.

Why can't we capture the best of the human spirit – people who follow their dreams – and create value, people who give back to their community, people who are "... today's pioneers and quiet heroes." Let's followh these people as they forge into unknown places. Let us see how they bring out the best within their employees, suppliers, resellers and customers.

Again, this site is prepared to host a listing-and-a-link for 4M good small businesses and an overview, study guide and transcript for as many as 400,000 great small businesses. With the abundance of bandwidth and storage, even a streaming video clip from each local public television station can be hosted as well.

With 4M business owners as members and 400,000 of them as members of their Producers' Club, there will be plenty of money for these productions. Plus, there will be plenty of local sponsors.

Join your Producers' Club ($1000). Give a testimony for your local station, and then prepare to tell your story. This is your legacy for your employees, your children and your children's children. If every station were to open at least a little profile of one of their small business owners every day, that would be 365 small business testimonies every year and $365,000 for those simple productions. Within ten years, 3,650 good businesses and their good owners would have been recognized just in your community and over 70,000 would have been recognized through the USA.

This model can be extended into all 192 countries of the world.

What an alternative to Tony Soprano that would be! We finally recognize the good (and not the bad and the ugly like commercial television)!

1. If you would like own a piece of Small Business School, that is possible. Talk to me, Bruce Camber. Membership here is ownership.

2. Be a member of your local public television station!

3. If you're doing well, become a member of your local station's Producer's Club (usually $1000/year).

We need to create harmonies quite unlike the HBO Sopranos who thrash values and make a mockery of small business by lifting up exploitation as an artform, cleverly shaping every second. HBO -- and so much of commercial television and our cinema -- encourages the bad, confuses the weak and the marginal, and weakens the strong.

Our viewers and web visitors often respond -- and we welcome your notes.

With our abiding thanks for everything that you do
to make our world a better place,

Bruce Camber, founder and Executive Producer

PS. Tell Your Story to the Nations:

If you have not already done so, please register.

Nobody can pay, and nobody has ever paid, to be on this television show. Our sponsors pay for everything. They only ask that the business owners selected be among the most ethical and generous that we can find (our sponsors want to lift up good role models, too).

So, we turn to the community. You can review our selection process.

If you believe you have a story to tell and that your business is sustainable beyond your lifetime, then we invite you to be identified to the community as the subject of a show.

We have initiated a program whereby the ownership of SmallBusinessSchool gets turned over to the local stations that air the show, the sponsors, the viewers, and others who believe the small business marketplace needs their abiding attention. That discussion is here. It is an open letter and the makings of a collaborative business plan, the dawining of a new age of business where there are huge joint ventures by all interested parties. You will also note within this business plan that it is an exit strategy for Hattie and me and the formal beginning of the Small Business Index for Growing Companies.