1. USA:    The sample class (that comes within the benefits of being a Small Business Advocate) also provides access to an Interactive Study Guide with a series of questions and places to answer. You may elect to use your answers plus information within your registration, to get listed within your state's listings, by your business type -- we will be using the NAICS listings -- and by your name and business name.

2. Local: We invite all advocates to help us with the selection of one-minute profiles (52 per year for every local station) and the businesses for the national productions (just 52 per year). We also want to send you a quarterly report -- a compilation from our work in the field and the research from the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) and the SBA's Office of Advocacy. You may opt to be listed as the local press contact about small business issues (under your state's small business resource page).

3. Global:    The importance of small business to the economic health of any nation is underestimated, underappreciated, and hardly understood. In most open market economies, the publicly-traded companies account for less than 1% of all businesses and usually less than 50% of the gross national product. One of the goals of Small Business School is to educate. Every advocate is charged with learning and telling the story about the the role of small business in our respective economies and within the global economy. Each advocate is also charge with telling people about the power of business ownership.

We are on a mission to release the creative power of every individual when they begin to follow their dream and develop their special gifts and expertise. Business is about creating something of value, then an excess of "that something" such that it can be sold, exchanged, or bartered.

Every person in any way affiliated with Small Business School is charged and empowered to be a small business advocate.

Small business is the job-creating engine that drives every economy, sparks innovation, and improves the quality of life in our neighborhoods. If we can tell the best stories, and that sparks even 1% jump in overall growth, what a contribution we all would be making!

Here are a few others things we invite you to do:.

1. Join your local PBS-member station.

2. Send a note to your public television station. Thank them for airing the show (and please copy us). Here are a few samples.

3. Join your national business asociation (if you haven't already), and help select the best businesses within your industry type for a local profile.

4. Gather with other business people in your neighborhood, watch Small Business School together, and form a discussion group! Let us know and Hattie will join you via telephone or in real time online.

5. Formalize a mentoring or cyber-mentoring group like The Opportunity Knocks or OK Groups.

6. Post a flyer in a public place! Most people do not know when or where the show airs. You could download the sample flyer (hyperlinked above). Insert your public television station's call letters and the day / time when Small Business School airs, and post the flyer in your office, your grocery store, or other places where business people might see it.

7. Send a press release! We invite you to adapt this press release to your local setting. Edit, add, or modify it. Then, print it out with a cover note on your letterehead and send it to your local press, your association newsletter, and even your favorite radio station.

8. Enroll in a class and begin building a complete profile of your business within SmallBusinessSchool. Some businesses may even elect to have this web profile become their web site!

Even if you do just one of these things, we thank you and we welcome you as a Small Business Advocate -- we can create jobs, we can create wealth, we can make the world a better place.

• All about creativity and brain power.
• All about productivity.
• All about business modeling.
• All about equity, liquidity and business valuations.
• All about starting a business.
• All about growing the business that you have.

• WATCH THE SHOW.   You can watch this show on the web by becoming part of our on-line community, SmallBusinessSchool. And, you can watch this show on TV. Check these listings for the show or check your local listings or check these dynamic listing by clicking here.
• BUY A VIDEOTAPE.  If you want to be one of the most successful businesses in the country, one where people are generating four-to-five times the productivity of the largest 500 companies in the USA, you should own this tape set, CD set or DVD: Growth.
• STUDY THE TEACHING NOTES: The Notes/Guides were written to stimulate discussions among business students. They are a great source for any aspiring entrepreneur or business owner to reflect on their business plans and operations. This series is used as small business case study material in over 1000 colleges and universities throughout the country. Join a class! A partial list of schools is also provided.
• READ THE TRANSCRIPT:  Along with the teaching notes/study guide and the streaming video, you enter a Master Class of insights and techniques for growing your business.
• JOIN.  KNOW YOUR NATIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATIONS & READ THEIR PUBLICATIONS. Learn more about this business by contacting the national trade associations related to it. But don't stop there. Look at the publications you enjoy reading. Is there an professional association behind it?
• MORE CASE STUDIES. Look at how other other businesses in your business type have started and grown their business.Click here.
• GET HELP. USE SOME OF YOUR STATE'S RESOURCES. Just click on your state abbreviation from this list, and you can find plenty of help.

• CONTACT: Bruce Camber
  Small Business School
  700 Front Street
  San Diego, CA 92101Tel: 619-232-4272 URL:http://SmallBusinessSchool.org

• COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS.  We invite your comments and questions.