Welcome To Small Business School

Our goal has always been to bring to our viewers the truth about what it takes to start, run and grow a business and this only comes from people who have been doing it for years.

As the longest-running television series in the world dedicated exclusively to telling the stories of successful small businesses, our weekly show on PBS stations -- with  sponsorship from some of the world's biggest companies including IBM, Verizon and Microsoft -- takes you inside hundreds of small companies so you can learn from owners who are the best in their category.

Television is a great medium, but we realized from our work creating over 40 college textbook video companions (which are used in thousands of classrooms today) for the world's largest textbook publishers, Prentice-Hall and Thomson Learning, that learning might be faster and more fun if you had access to bite-size videos right on your PC. Now you can either sign up for one of our courses or search our library's more than 2,000 clips, pulled directly from the full TV episode, to find ideas, insight and inspiration.

"What can I learn from this library?"

This is an opportunity to gain key insight from truly an elite group of people who achieved against great odds. Nobody expected them to win, yet even in the face of failure, they were tenacious. Today, each person you'll meet in these clips has been called successful by their employees, customers and vendors. Each has created jobs for more than 10 years and they are all admired by their peers and loved in their communities.

We invite you to watch, listen and learn as they share their insights.  In their own special words, they all have said, 
"If I can do it, you can, too."

For every question there is an answer...

Get busy answering key questions about your business!  Each question is part of your storyboard to produce and upload your video.  Become part of this group of business owners who are contributing their best practices about business.  The best parts of your story should be told. It's your legacy. What will people say about you and your life?  More...