| Three Goals: (1) Facilitate online collaboration event after every local broadcast (more), (2) Select local small businesses to be listed and prioritized for articles and productions, and (3) Provide an infrastructure of support and services to help local small businesses to grow. |
| Population:
10 Million (go to US Census data) Small Businesses: 750,000 Targeted Viewers: 750,000 per week (go to broadcasts) Targeted profiles: 7500 owners (go to The List) Small Business Resources by DMA (Designated Market Area is the broadcast reach of the PBS-member stations Small Business Advocates: These pages of listings are for every small business advocate in the State of Michigan. If you help small businesses to be successful and you are not listed, just ask. Eventually these lists and links will be by DMA.
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- Chambers of Commerce: Over 55 Local chambers in the state
- Economic Development Corporation
By Designated Market Areas (stations where we will propose locally-produced episodes)- Alpena
- Bad Axe / Ulby
- Cadillac
- Detroit: WTVS-TV (3) Detroit Educational Television Foundation
- East Lansing
- Flint / Saginaw / Bay City: WFUM-TV (2) University of Michigan - Flint
- Grand Rapids
- Kalamazoo
- Manistee
- Marquette
- Mount Pleasant
- Traverse City
- University Center
- Regional economic development initiatives
- Aquila Michigan (as well as parts of Colorado, Iowa, Kanasas, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska
- Michigan Commission on Higher Education and Economic Growth
- Michigan Entrepreneurship Education Initiative
- Michigan Workforce
- Business Schools and Professors
- Central Michigan University: Mike Rao, Ph.D., President
Prof. Robert D. Hanson, author "Accounting" - Delta College
- Michigan State University:
Prof. Robert M. Monczka, author, "Purchasing & Supply Chain Management"
Ralph Taggart, author, "The Evolution of Life" (10e)
Jeff Wooldridge, author, "Introductory Econometrics" (2e) - Northern Michigan University
- University Entrepreneurial Studies
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Central Michigan University: Mike Rao, Ph.D., President
- Business Press of Michigan:
- Small Business Organizations and Advocacy Groups:
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National Association of Women Business Owners
(NAWBO) Metro Detroit Chapter - Michigan Small Business Association
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National Association of Women Business Owners
- Venture capital firms (Michigan Economic Development Corporation lists 73)
Additional small business resources:
- SmallBusiness School airtimes in Michigan
- The List of 1000
very good small businesses in Michigan:
You can be added to this list. Sign up and provide two references from any of these small business advocates listed above. If you are among Michigan's small business advocates and you are not listed, please contact us and you will be listed. - SmallBusiness School broadcasts through the USA and the world
We invite your questions or comments.