About the broadcasts of Small Business School.

Open Letter: We need to support our PBS-member stations and our other public television cable and broadcast systems.

Highlighted? City/town goes to the l ocal Chambers of Commerce are listed here. Also, go to the local station's web site. Under "Air Time" the link goes to a listing of our small business shows airing this week (with hyperlink to the show's content) or go to the local sponsor's web page. All of these people support small business, and every organization deserves our support.

• Small Business School in New Mexico:
  Take One:  1500+ Good businesses - the first steps of lists/links on the web.
  Take Two:   Short TV profiles
  Take Three: TV case study
• Small business resources in NM

• Over 20,000+ small business owners in New Mexico. That is just a little over 10% of the total small business owners in New Mexico. The national average is one small business for every 12 people. It follows that there are as many as 150,000 small businesses in New Mexico based on a total population of just over 1.9 million people!

• Over 20,000+ small business employees in New Mexico. Just one person from just over 10% of the total number of small businesses. If we get traction among the viewers, this number will grow the largest.

• Over 20,000 general viewers who use small business services in New Mexico. A little more than 1% of the total population. Virtually everybody every day uses the services of small businesses.

• 30,000 people who want or need to start the business of their dreams: the under-employed among our large business - corporate employees and the unemployed. The unemployed alone in New Mexico is about 20,000 people (5%). All of them should be watching.