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Good People Can Change the World 1013: The driving force within an economy, Innovation, is being done mostly within small businesses. 1012: We learn after database marketing comes knowledge management. 1011: There are 19 million sole proprietors "Home Alone" but creating substantial and very real wealth. 1010: We labor to survive but work to define. "Creating Jobs" is what small business does very well. 1009: Small businesses need real help to survive. Made in Maine, a weekly by Maine PBS helps create stickiness. 1008: People who travel the world say, There really is no place like home and Cindy shows us why it is true. 1007: Visit Great Barrington in western Massachusetts. It has come alive and their "Main Street Is Reborn." 1006: Private business initiatives are "Rebuilding Main Streets" thoughtout the USA. 1005: Meet Maura Donohue; she is one of the many volunteers in our many Chambers of Commerce. 1004: Marty Edelston, Boardroom Inc, There's Power in the "I" brings out one's deepest creativity. 1003: Meet Hope LanCarte and see her "Miracle on Commerce Street" and a huge family business in Fort Worth. 1002: With companies like Biosite, we can "Win the Healthcare Battle" and learn volumes about ourselves. 1001: Learn how capitalism-democracy work hand and glove yet requires small business enterprise. Stories about the soul of every economy Television for people who care On the Air: Join us first by watching the show every week on your PBS-member station. Airing: Listings for just one of these episodes. Without A Break Since 1994 There are thirteen episodes per season and, of course, four seasons per year. This is the 1000 Season: It began on Saturday, July 2 and ran through September 24, 2005. Each season is numbered for groups like the TV Guide. This is, however, our 44th season of productions about small business. Links to four more seasons of episodes: 1200 Season: January through April 2005 1100 Season: October through December 2005 900 Season: April through June 2005 800 Season: January 2005 through March 2005 Other ways to find an episode of the show: You can search by business, owner, business sector, topic, Diversity I & II, Family, nation, State, or Women! View prior episode: On most of these legacy pages, usually just below the header on the right, click on "View prior episode. You can click over 150 times and go back several years. Specials: These episodes are a compilation from the best points of many episodes; we explore key small business issues. Television to make a difference Key pages: Each episode has its own home page, an overview with links to that business, the complete transcript, a case study guide prepared for business schools, and streaming video. Today, these case study guides are part of the curriculum of almost every business school in the USA and the best around the world. Perspective: We live in the present; we reflect on the past; we project the future; and we struggle to know what is important and good within life. Everyone helps to select a business to be on the show A discussion about a working business model for the future, by Bruce Camber, Executive Producer First, we turn to the PBS-station manager and get permission to do an episode of the show in their neighborhood. Next we contact every local Chamber of Commerce within reach of the station's signal. Usually there are 40 to 70 local chambers. We invite each to nominate four or five businesses that have the qualities outlined within our selection process. Usually there are over 200 businesses nominated. We invite their local small business advocates (Economic Development, Better Business Bureau, the mayors, the Governor, Workforce Initiative, people among the SBA-SBDC-SCORE, the business press, business professors, CPAs, and others) to vote. These are the people who know the hearts and minds of these business owners. They vote and we emerge with a list of the top ten. We then re-engage the station manager, the CPAs of each company, and each of their national trade associations make the final selection. Nobody can pay or has ever paid to be on this show. We are looking for the finest roles models for each of us, our industries, and our children. Today, everybody is a producer: We believe that part of television that lifts up exploitation as an art form (glamorizing violence and corruptive behaviors) can and should be replaced with the vibrant heart of creativity, value-laden work, and hope for the future. We have invited our loyal stations and our legacy sponsors of the show to take over SmallBusinessSchool for the future. We also invite all the Chambers and National Trade Associations to join them. By working together the productions can be increased from our 26 per year to 100, then to 1000, 2000 and eventually as many as 4000 per year where 3948 are local episodes. Fifty-two of those episodes are selected for the national and global feeds of the show There are 210 Designated Market Areas in the USA. I believe there should be at least local 10 episodes per year within each DMA. In several of the most heavily populated DMAs there should be as many as 26 new episodes per year. Also, the show is broadcast in over 100 other countries via the Voice of America. We wll work with every station and every country to produce local episodes and to be part of the new management of SmallBusinessSchool. One clear hope to cure the madness within the world is to lift up the best role models that we can find, knowing, of course, that we all have clay feet. None of us are perfect. Yet, inspiration to create is better than incitement to exploit. -BEC

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