• 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 Chambers stature in the community?
  • Ratings. The Chamber can have the most-watched show on television within your Designated Market Area.
  • Local productions. The Chamber is the de facto anchor of the selection process of the thirteen business per year for the local productions.
    • The Chamber becomes the gatekeepers for other small business advocates in the area including the Better Business Bureau, Economic Development commissions, the business press, the SBA-SBDC-SCORE, the business professors, CPAs, business coaches to become a segment within a local production.
    • Local Chamber executives air time in local broadcasts
  • Local sponsors. Working with the local station, the Chamber becomes the gatekeeper for local and regional sponsors.
    • Local sponsor promos for Chamber events can be built into the local sponsorships.
    • The Chamber 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.
  
  
• Could the Chamber be the gatekeeper of the entry into Small Business Index of Growing Companies, and then be open for equity investments?

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