Step 1: Web profiles. This growing list is the beginning of the
index for Maine. - Step 2: Short TV profile.
- Step 3: Indepth TV profile.
- Step 4: Small Business Index of Growing Companies in Maine.
- Small is Beautiful, our salute to MainePBS show, Made in Maine.
- Marketing from a Distance, Living in Maine, marketing to the world.
- Food, Glorious Food.
- The twilight years will never be
the same:
hear come the Baby Booming Elders. - Creatio Ex Nihilo: What is art and how do we value it?
- Step 3: Indepth TV profile. Every business listed here is a candidate for a complete show. The entire crew of Small Business School comes on your location for at least one day of shooting; and when the show airs, it is seen on MPBC stations, throughout the USA, and even around the world.
A little more about each (click on the titles to go to
the listings). It is always important that the small business be a member of
their local PBS-member station. In Maine that is
Maine Public Broadcasting
Corporation (MainePBS). If we don't do it, who will?
MainePBS has
offices located at 1450 Lisbon St., Lewiston 04240, 65 Texas Ave., Bangor 04401
and 309 Marginal Way, P.O. Box 1628 Portland 04104
We all need to
support quality TV. Our show,
Small Business School, is for
good people about
good people.
We also
turn to some of your local Chambers of
Commerce, the Department of Economic &
Community Development, Maine's SBA and
their Small Business Development Centers, your
elected officials, business school professors, and even your business editors
of your local newspapers, to select businesses to profile on Small Business
School. One of our episodes of the
show involved many of these people who are actively behind their own
weekly show, Made in Maine (MIM). MIM began in 1988 and it is a MainePBS
television show that captures the spirit of the state, the heart of America,
and the soul of our economy.
There are five shows where Maine small
businesses have appeared (and will appear):
- Step 4: A Small Business Index of
Growing Companies in Maine. It is all about sustainability. The goal is
to have business owners fully understand their financials and business
valuation so they successfully transfer ownership and keep their businesses
alive beyond their working years. Many of these businesses will transfer
ownership to a family member, others to a mangement team (which often begins by
instituting an ESOP program), while
some will be acquired through Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). Some will
go public through direct public offerings (DPO), possibly certifying and
issuing a Small Corporate
Offering Registration while others will do an IPO.
Within this group, there will listings of those small businesses owners who have a qualified ESOP or SCOR programs and who have been recommended by their local Chambers, SBDC, or MPBC. ESOP / SCOR. Small Business School works with state boards for accountancy (CPAs) and each of the State Securities Commissioners to help small business owners to understand their financials, key critical ratios (by industry type), equity and liquity models, and exit strategies (all major stumbling blocks to growth). We are encouraging all SBOs to work through the "compilation - review" mind set to a regular audit.
- Go to Small Business School, the weekly TV show, on MPBC.
- Go to Small business resources in
Maine
(SBDC, Chambers, SBIC, DECD, Verizon, etc). - Other shows throughout the USA.