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| Stories about the soul of an economy |
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having too much fun! |
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| Resources about Distribution |
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| The
Distribution Conundrum |
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| The future of the warehouse. Fly over any
major city and you'll see warehouses clustered everywhere. That is the
distribution segment for virtually every industry. |
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all need the infrastructure materials and supplies of our industry.
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| With just-in-time inventories, more and more is
going direct from manufacturing to the business. Yet, the distributors of
the future thrive because the are adding value (services) and these
episodes demonstrate how. |
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| Television to
make a difference |
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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. |
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television series will work with all the national trade
associations |
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| A discussion about a working business model, by
Bruce Camber, Executive Producer |
To
do an episode of the show we first turn to the PBS-station manager and get
permission to come into 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 (which is the standard means of operation
of commercial television). -BEC |
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