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To our friends throughout Maryland and the MPT broadcast area -
First, we certainly hope you are at least
a member of Maryland Public Television. There are over 400,000 small business
owners in Maryland. If just 10% were to join at the $100 level, they could
begin shrinking the time of all those fund raisers. If 1% of all small
businesses or about 4000 of you were to join the Producers Club at the station
($1000), it could change everything.
So, we thank you for tuning into the show
and for visiting us here on the web.
Our mission and the mission of Maryland
Public Television have much in common and it is very different from commercial
television. Our television shows are uniquely dedicated to empowering people
through continuing education.
Small
BusinessSchool (and Small Business
2000, 1995-2001, and Small Business Today, 1994 - 1995)
focuses on the topic of work; and we are constantly in search of the best
practices among those people who, in creating work and wealth, make our world a
better place.
We ask and find answers to the questions,
"What is work? What is good work? And, what is value?" It is a close-up
on how people discover their special gifts and how they convert these gifts
into meaningful work. It is education by example and inspiration and that is
the heart of empowerment.
Like many programs on public television,
we go around the country (and beyond) to capture the best of the human spirit
– people who follow their dreams. Our unique focus is on those people who
start and grow a business. These people are value creators. They are often the
prime movers of social capital in their communities. In the opening of every
show, we say they are "...today's pioneers and quiet heroes." They forge into
unknown places. These people bring out the best within their employees,
suppliers, resellers and customers.
Our goal is to have at least 100,000
viewers of the MPT signal and over 4 million viewers per week throughout the
USA. To reach that group in Maryland, we will first focus on the 400,000 small
business owners. Then we will focus on all people who are employeed by small
businesses within Maryland (that is 50% of all working people). Then, we will
focus on all of you who use the services of small business each day (the rest
of the population).
If you appreciate what we are trying to
do with SmallBusinessSchool, please join us in thanking Maryland Public
Television. At least be sure your membership is current. If you are doing well,
get everybody in the company to join, even your customers, until you are a
member of the Producer's Club. Let us know, and we will make it worthwhile for
you.
We need to support our Three Sopranos
that create musical harmonies not those HBO Sopranos who
thrash values and make a mockery of small business. In lifting up exploitation
as an art form, cleverly shaping every second, HBO -- and so much of commercial
television and our cinema -- encourages the weak, confuses the marginal, and
weakens the strong.
Our viewers and web visitors often
respond --
we
are glad to hear from you. Some have told us they quit jobs and started a
business because the success of others inspired them. We have received hundreds
of comments like, "Keep it coming!"
All of us here at Small Business
School thank you for your letters of support. These new pioneers and quiet
heroes, lifted up as our Master Class teachers, can help improve
the fabric and quality of our communities and the world! Thank you.
With our thanks for everything that you
do
to make our world a better place,
Bruce Camber, Executive Producer
PS. If you have any questions or comments
about this open letter, by all means, call me. I answer the telephone if we are
not on location taping a show. The telephone number is 214-801-8521.
This letter is one of our
basic statements. Also:
Mission.
Name.
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