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All of our Chambers
of Commerce –
the US Chamber of Commerce, all 50+ State and the
Territories Chambers of Commerce
and 3000-to-4000 local Chambers of Commerce
– represent a unique group of people
who are trying to make the world a
better place through the innovations of business. More...
Add the Better
Business Bureaus, National Federation of Independent Business, the thousands of
national trade associations, and the many other local business advocacy groups
including service organizations like the Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions and you
have the Spirit of America and the wealth of the nation. By working together,
finding literally thousands of stories each year, we will all feel differently
about business.
Business
associations and organizations can be an even greater transformative agent for
good in our world.
On this television
show, you have heard it said many times, "Business is not about greed."² Although there are plenty
of greedy people within business, business is fundamentally about creating
something of value. And, real business happens when there is a
transaction based on the integrity of that value.
SmallBusinessSchool seeks the most outstanding small businesses among
your membership to tell their story to the nation, to lift them up to teach us
all from the depths of their experience. Though not professional actors, often
these people tell stories that inspire us and give us hope for the
future.
This document is
a working document. There are twelve key points much like the key ideas
from an episode of the show. The document, however, is a proposal to every
Chamber of Commerce to more actively participate in the selection process and
the productions of each episode of the show within their market space. To that
end, we are making very definitive proposals with each key point.
Topics for
Discussion:
1. Find the best
of the best. Let's find great stories among all these membership
organizations and associations.
The Chambers
recognize and often reward those who do good things within a community.
Chambers reinforce the good and they discuss, analyze and attempt to change the
bad.
Since 1994 we have
turned to the Chambers to validate, recommend and guide us with the selection
of businesses for each episode of the show. The people within the Chambers know
who the givers are! The Chambers know who the thinker/leaders are! Our
selection criteria is one click away and
always on the homepage.
2. Expand the
number of local productions. With the convergence of all technologies and
the infrastrucutres for broadcasting, information, communications, education,
publishing and systems (BICEPS), it is the right time to expand
this kind of television.
The big goal is
to increase productions from 26 episodes per year to 4000 episodes per year
where there are at least 13 episodes per year created within each Designated
Market Area (DMA).
3. Take over the
show in your market. We are prepared to turn over the show within each
local market. With it, we turn over the entire web site and all the resources
we have aggregated since 1994. The branding of this web site, beginning with
the homepage and including every page throughout it can become each local
chamber's. Even the pictures within this section of the site can be of members
and local events.
We always invite
our viewers' COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS. And in that
ten year tradition, we ask you for your comments or questions about what we are
saying on this page.
Your feedback is
key. The feedback from each episode of the show has been most
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