Last Update: Friday July 25, 2008

As seen on PBS & VOA stations everywhere

The Opening & Closing of Every Episode of this Show. All of us have ideas for a business and anywhere from 400,000 to over 3 million people act on them every year. There are so many ideas that go nowhere. That can change.

Throughout our life, we all constantly ask ourselves questions about value -- What is the value of my life? What am I doing to make this world a better place?" There is a deep-seated desire within most of us to create something of value.

Life is about creating things and relations of value. Business is uniquely about value creation (there are plenty of exploitive companies, but they are really not a business).

So, what is your value quotient? Are you giving more than you are taking?

In the opening words of every episode of this show, the focus is on what it takes to create good business. The primary content is always about business owners who share their best practices and their insights and inspiration for their successes, and their spirit and tenacity to overcome their failures. These key ideas and first principles continue to be summarized within the close of each episode of the show.

We hope that you enjoy meeting these people. We have.

- Hattie Bryant & Bruce Camber

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Again, let us welcome you 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 series on PBS-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 in thousands of classrooms) 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 computer. 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 a truly 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,

From this weekly television show, there are hundreds of answers on this website. You can easily watch 14 videos today. Each answer is from a different business owner in different industries. Questions take you inside problems and these answers are from people who are loved in their communities and respected within their industries. Notice when you get inside that the question is displayed beside each video. Click on that question to go to the other answers! More...

Every day there is a new business tip! Throughout the USA and around the world, new daily video tips from Small Business School are fed to websites of business journals, associations, and universities / schools.

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