Small Business School Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• The $16M Squeegie

  Handle removal.

• 19 Million and One-of-a-Kind

  Most micro businesses operate out of home offices.

• 21st Century Farming

  Farmers use the newest technology to harvest more profits.

• Acquire Your Competition

  How to grow a business through acquisitions.

• Algorithms in Love

  A business succeeds by understanding the interiority of people.

• All About Money

  Money options.

• All in the Family

  Family business.

• America the Beautiful

  One man builds a house for the homeless.

• American Artisans

  Artists and crafters keep the West alive.

• Analog vs. Digital

  Analog vs. digital; vinyl records.

• Angelo DeLucia's Recipe

  Family's frozen recipe.

• Angels Everywhere

  Entrepreneurs as a source of startup capital.

• Arab-American Entrepreneurship

  Services in various languages.

• The Art of Pricing

  A small business calculates the price its customers pay for happiness.

• Automate Art

  An artist invests in state-of-the-art printing techniques.

• Be a Safe Place to Work

  A business owner realizes the power of providing a safe place to work and focuses herself on that goal daily.

• Be Well. Everybody Be Well

  Creating and sustaining a culture of health in the workplace.

• Beating the Big Boys

  How one man succeeded without a big company logo behind him.

• Beating the Odd

  Companies that overcame failure.

• Bewildering the Big Guys
• Beyond Bankruptcy
• A Bicycle Rack for Two

  Innovation and functional accessories in the bicycle business.

• Big Bucks for Small Companies

  A small business investment company could be a good place to get money for growth.

• Big Fish Swallow the Little Fish

  Deploying an idea and selling it.

• Bloom Where You Are Planted

  A woman's goal to improve her whole neighborhood causes great sales increases in her own business.

• Boss Is a Four-Letter Word

  Two men build a huge business with neither as boss.

• Brand Matters

  A business owner nearly failed in business.

• Brave and Free

  People strengthen the fabric of America.

• Break the Mold

  How two entrepreneurs reinvented their 30-year-old company.

• Breaking the Mold in Motor City

  Females in the car industry.

• Brookstone Technologies

  Australian firm's software makes work completely portable.

• Build a Business and a Legacy

  A woman grew her real estate business into a multi-billion dollar sales organization.

• Building Beauty

  A small home builder won awards and new customers by building his own dream house.

• Building Teams

  Business owners talk about how they attract, train and retrain good employees.

• Built by Design

  Architectural firm uses management, design and technical strength in its work.

• Business on Tap

  A new entrepreneur expanded a sagging business.

• Cactus & Tropicals

  Employee questions.

• California Kaizen, Drucker for Dummies

  A growing business involves everyone in continuous improvement.

• Capital: The American Revolution

  Economic independence by small business.

• Capitalist School

  Foundations of the American economy; capitalism.

• Captain of the Ship

  Owners of small businesses.

• Capturing the Essence

  What it takes to capture the deep image and to run a business.

• Cashing Out

  Baby boomers look to cash out of some of the businesses they started.

• Cause Marketing

  Companies using cause marketing.

• Cause Marketing

  An icon of environmentalism uses capitalism to further the cause.

• Chocolate Factory
• The Concept Restaurant

  The concept of successful restaurants.

• Counter-Intuitive Marketing

  A business owner pulled his company out of bankruptcy, turned employees into business owners and installed new technology.

• Country Supply
• Create a Quality Program

  The Malcolm Baldrige Awards program for small business.

• Creating Jobs and Creating Wealth

  Five business owners creating good work.

• Cybex

  Business restructuring.

• Data Is More Valuable Than Cash

  How some small business owners protect the data in computers from natural and cyber disasters.

• Database Wealth

  A business owner who began his business in high school focuses on product offers and marketing.

• David Fluker's Crickets

  Database management; sales.

• Decades of Success

  Business stamina.

• Designer Pet Products
• Disaster and the Devil

  Small business owners prepare for disasters.

• Disruptive Discontent

  Karsten Solheim built a profitable business based on customized manufacturing.

• Doing Business With the Government

  Small companies deliver efficient solutions to government-funded programs.

• Don't Let One Bad Apple ...

  A family-owned business almost goes under after turning the business over to a poor leader.

• Dot Com Profits

  An entrepreneur shows single people how to meet their match.

• Drilling a Niche
• E-Culture: What Is It and How Do I Get One?

  Companies use the Internet to find sales and lower operating costs.

• E-Learning

  Small British companies are turning raw data into knowledge.

• Ebby Halliday's Houses

  Self-employment.

• Economic Independence: The Next Revolution

  Author Michael Novak discusses the roots of America's prosperity.

• Exit to Equity

  Succession planning begins early to leverage intangible assets.

• Expectations Exceeded

  A family business accepts big contracts.

• Failure Teaches

  Eric Rose started his second business with a finely tuned mission.

• Family Business Succession

  The family business gets passed along quickly.

• Fashion and Quality

  A fashion designer fills the need for hip women's clothing at an affordable price.

• Fast Growth Through Franchising

  Getting the models to work well.

• Faster Is Better

  Rapid testing for lab reports generates $250 million for its founders.

• Find the Best Suppliers

  A Tampa retailer cultivates his suppliers to get the best for the lowest price.

• The First Shall Be Last

  Owners of thriving companies usually put themselves last.

• Five Million Dollar Corner

  Location development.

• Flying High

  Small airports.

• A Flying Leap

  A business owner turns trash into cash.

• Form and Function

  Shop helps shape New York skyline.

• The Fountain of Youth

  The vitality of rewarding work.

• Franchise a Family Secret

  Family recipe.

• From $0 to $1 Billion in Less Than a Lifetime

  Businesses which quickly grow to more than $1 billion in value are extraordinary.

• From Farm to Table

  Innovative food products.

• From Just a Job to Being the Owner

  An immigrant's drive to make it in America.

• Fun Food

  Small company makes the machines that make convenience foods.

• Gary Wall's Oregon Trailblazer Foods

  G. Wall's berries.

• Get Certified and Get Big Contracts

  A woman wins more contracts after getting her business certified.

• Get Out of the Office

  Business owners use volunteer work to enrich their personal lives and help their business grow.

• Give People What They Want

  Advertising-free publication.

• Giving Back

  The restaurant industry includes small businesses that give back.

• Good Old Boys

  A bankrupt family bakery gets a makeover.

• The Great Cover Up

  Company makes hats for babies and children.

• The Greater Good

  Business owners invest time to help other businesses.

• The Harmoney Business

  A marriage and a family therapist turn an intellectual property into a successful online company.

• Healthy People, Healthy Company

  How the mind-body-health connection impacts productivity in the workplace.

• Healthy Sweets

  Business based on giving.

• Here's to the Winners

  The importance of small businesses.

• Here's to the Winners
• High Tech Hatchery

  High-tech incubator launches companies.

• Hire Your Boss

  An entrepreneur hired his own boss.

• Hispanic Business Is Big Business

  The owner of a small advertising agency explains how her business grew to be a multimillion-dollar, multicity operation.

• Historic Main Street Comes Back to Life: Fresh Chocolate in Daytona Beach

  The original founders of a chocolate business visit the new family who took over the business.

• Historic Main Street Comes Back to Life: Paint Store in Historic Deland

  Sons of the founder carry on their local paint store tradition.

• Historic Main Street Comes Back to Life: Tourism on Catalina Island

  Mr. Wrigley's summer home is a year-round destination for small businesses.

• Home Alone

  Working from home.

• Homework
• The Immigrant Quotient

  Immigrants enjoy prosperity in America.

• In Celebration of Small

  Small business persons of the year recognized by the White House for their success in creating jobs and prosperity.

• Incubate Your Start Up

  Business incubators are a viable way to begin a business.

• Innovation 101

  Patents; trademarks; copyrights.

• Internet First Principles

  Simple Web sites generate real business.

• Intuition in Business Is a Must

  A woman uses her intuition to foresee trends, and her salespeople market those trends to thousands of retailers.

• Invent an Industry

  A man who promoted concerts while in college invents the event-lighting industry.

• Investing Is Better Than Spending

  Power of seeding new ideas.

• IP Theft on the IP

  Stealing intellectual property over the Internet protocols.

• It Starts With Talent

  Turning a talent into a business.

• Italian Integrity in New Jersey

  Family owned business.

• It's About Price

  Scott Mooney's Country Supply earns a profit with competitive prices.

• It's All Online

  Companies use the Internet to save time and money and reduce annoyance.

• Jagged Edge

  Extreme sports clothing.

• Jim Morris and the Earth

  Building a mission-driven company.

• The Job Creators

  Small businesses creating new jobs.

• Job One Is Job Creation

  Small business owners create good work, then recruit good people to deliver quality products to customers.

• Joe Dannis and American Sign Language

  Creating a product that will dominate its market.

• The Journey Is the Destination

  Selling mission as a product.

• Judy Jacobsen's Art

  Many small customers vs. a few big customers.

• Just Do It -- Take Charge

  The independent spirit of the American cowgirl builds strong business.

• Just in Time

  Watch distributor's success.

• Kathleen Barnes Books the World

  Buying a business vs. starting a business.

• Katz Deli

  Texas butcher.

• Keeper of the Vision

  A founder passes day-to-day work to others and retains a vision for the company.

• Keeping Track

  New technology helps businesses keep up with financial statements.

• Ken Done

  Artist Ken Done's work becomes the basis for a clothing and accessories line.

• Ken Duncan Studios

  Photographer Ken Duncan discusses his business.

• Know Your Costs or Go Broke

  A global business in Texas cornered the market in corn dogs.

• La Dolce Vino

  Opici Wine Group.

• Leaders Have Followers

  The most important leadership skill and the most overrated one.

• Learn Your Financials

  An entrepreneur offers tips on how to read financials.

• Let's Be Healthy

  The health of people who start, run and grow businesses.

• Leverage Art

  A painter leverages his original work to create wearable art sold around the country.

• The Lifeblood of Your Business -- Your Key Critical Ratios

  Business leaders use profit and loss and balance sheet to understand their business.

• Lighten the Worker's Load
• Lighting Is Big Business

  A small company's innovation has been embraced by museums around the world.

• Like Father, Like Daughter

  A man grooms his daughter for success in business.

• Made in NYC

  New York City fashion house.

• Main Street Shopping

  Specialty shops offer good cookware and culinary accessories.

• Make Something: Manufacturing Is Back

  A small business competes in the global marketplace without sending production offshore.

• Manufacture a Hat!

  Specialty clothing protects children from ultraviolet light.

• Marketing From a Distance

  Small companies in Maine sell outside the state.

• Marketing Magic

  New marketing ideas are gleaned from the oldest cheese factory in Wisconsin.

• Marketing Turnaround
• Marty Edelston's BottomLine

  Productivity levels of small businesses.

• Mentor's Circle

  Big and small businesses learn from each other.

• The Midas Touch

  People as a product.

• Middle East America

  The strength of small business is attributed to diversity.

• The Millionaire Formula

  Earning a million dollars.

• Mir Fox Rodriguez

  Accounting firm champions diversity.

• MOM's Money

  Finding money for business ideas.

• The Money Is Out There

  A businessman in Boston finds the money he needs to start his business.

• More Than a Catalog

  A catalog company increases sales by packaging craftsmanship with enthusiasm for protecting the environment.

• More Than Meets the Eye

  Retail shop.

• Mother Knows Best

  A woman helps her sons turn a failing business into a thriving one.

• Moving On

  Three business owners separate themselves from the companies they built.

• My Own Money

  From bootstrapping to using other people's money is the key to growth.

• Name Recognition

  Branding.

• The New Small Business School

  Profiles of business founders and their businesses.

• A New Way to Communicate

  The realities of replacing the old with the new.

• New Year and Time Defined

  Getting work done cheaper and faster using computers and connectivity.

• The Newest Form of Relaxation

  Woman's impact on the relaxation industry.

• No Borders, No Boundaries

  Small companies reach global markets.

• No-Hassle Travel

  A fixed-based operation caters to air travelers and how price has become a small part of the business model's equation.

• No More Secrets

  The power of knowledge sharing.

• Nothing Happens Overnight

  Bankruptcy.

• Nouvir

  Patents; fiber optics.

• Numbers in Any Language

  Accounting firm specializes in diversity.

• Obsessed With Quality

  A business proves perfection is not illusory.

• Offer Your Customers the World

  A business succeeds by teaching customers to travel with a book and backpack.

• Old Country Recipes

  Woman earns profits making immigrants feel at home in a new country.

• On Caffeine

  U.S. immigrants improve choices and quality of coffees for the country.

• On the Road Again

  Company focuses on one area of show business.

• One Workplace for All

  How small companies are increasing profits.

• Open Up to Investors

  How companies can open up to investors.

• Order at the Border
• An Oregon Icon

  Oregon coast.

• Out of This World Entrepreneur

  An inventor becomes a scientist.

• The Ownership Nation

  Some business owners offer ownership to reward employees.

• The Pain of Starting

  A founder who says he would not do it over again if he had the chance.

• People Come First

  Developing personal power.

• The People Part

  Human resources.

• People Power

  People skills are perhaps the most valuable of all those needed to do business well.

• The Perfect E-Business

  Modern Postcard's founder implements an Internet strategy without Wall Street or venture capital.

• Perfection Is an Art

  A business owner in California grew an old business while competitors were stifled by new technologies.

• Personal Chemistry

  Chemical company's teamwork.

• Pipes for Prosperity
• Possibility Thinking

  A global entrepreneur flourishes creating gadgets.

• Postcards Communicate

  Digital workflow.

• The Power of One

  One-person companies rack up profits over time.

• Protect Your Ideas

  How to protect ideas.

• Put Your Products in Orbit

  A business gets government contracts with NASA and DOD.

• Quality Pays

  Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award; investing in one's business.

• The Rebirth of Downtown

  Merchants work together to revitalize downtown.

• Rebuilding the City

  Architectural firm rebuilding Manhattan.

• Remaking America

  A company evolves from being sales-driven to being technology-driven.

• The Right Stuff

  Launching a business.

• Run Your Office From Your Pocket

  A small software company banks on providing Chinese entrepreneurs with tools they need to run their businesses without paying rent.

• Rustic Elegance

  A builder creates log homes around the imaginations of his customers.

• Saving Health Care

  A small innovative company provides patients with cheaper, faster and better healthcare.

• SBIR-Az Tech-NASA

  Business funding.

• Scarcity Marketing

  A master chef gives customers less.

• Sell Beauty

  How an artist built a good business by selling beauty.

• Selling Insight

  Anthropology helps a woman build her company.

• Selling to a Public Company
• Service Sells

  Repeat business.

• Serving and Selling on the Internet

  Small companies; Internet.

• Serving Sells

  Building a service-oriented team.

• Shared Space

  Taping into pooled resources.

• Shrunken Planet

  Software creation.

• Signs in Space

  Federal government's SBIR program funds small companies esoteric research.

• Small Adds Up to Big

  Company focuses on small customers for sales.

• Small Business Goes Public

  Small Corporate Offering Registration helps business owners share ownership and raise money.

• Small but Far-Flung

  Managing employees from a distance.

• Small Can Be Big

  Business owners benefit communities.

• Small Can Be Smarter

  An oil company finds crude and natural gas in places that others have abandoned.

• Small-Town Nightlife

  A movie theater brings nightlife to a small town.

• Smile and Say Cheese

  Harvard MBAs make white cheese profitable.

• Solve a Big Problem

  How small pharmaceutical companies push new products.

• A Son of Ottumwa

  Big businesses in small towns.

• The Soul of Innovation

  America's business creation culture; one of America's thought leaders and distinguished scholars.

• Soul of the American Economy

  What makes America and its people great is a timely question.

• Specialty Retail Still Succeeds

  Specialty retail shop owner shares secrets for product selection, marketing and employee retention.

• Staying Power

  The common qualities of companies that make it past the first five years of business.

• Staying Power

  The best practices of great businesses.

• Steps in the Right Direction

  Global business.

• Sticky Stuff

  Makers of water-tight expansion joints.

• Stretch Just a Little Further

  A business makes stretching part of the corporate culture.

• A Stroke of Genius

  Chain of art stores.

• Succession Planning

  Companies making employees owners.

• Succession Success

  Offspring continue the founder's business.

• Supply Chain Magic

  Delivering value-added service.

• The Surfer Joint

  Southern California restaurant.

• Surfing Dollars and Target Markets

  Company growth.

• Sustainable Business

  Reducing the failure rates of business could change the local and national economy.

• Sweat Equity Pays

  Investment capital builds with hard work.

• Take Me to Your Leader

  Leadership.

• Take Over a Failing Business

  One way to succeed in business is to buy a business that is failing and turn it around.

• Target Selling

  An owner remains conservative with cash and targets customers she is sure she can win.

• Teachable, Loveable

  An entrepreneur teaches people to be nice, which helps bring in sales.

• Teaching to Serve

  Tom Gegax saw his company grow to employ 2,000 people by teaching his employees to serve the customer.

• Technology Warps Time

  The march of new technologies by small business.

• Tejas Office

  Business owner Lupe Fraga.

• Texas Jet

  Customer service.

• Thank God for America

  A man turned the selling skills he learned on his paper route in Vietnam into real estate sales in California.

• Theatrical Lighting Systems

  Lighting company.

• The Theology of Innovation

  The pioneering spirit of the United States shows itself in its inventions and product improvements.

• There's Power in the I

  Employees learn how to become more productive.

• Think Worst-Case Scenario

  Learning to consider 'what-if' can prevent loss.

• Thomas Keller's Kitchen

  Less can be more.

• Thriving Employer -- Employee Partnerships

  Small and large companies take responsibility for workforce health.

• To the Web or Bust

  MapQuest understanding aligns a business internationally.

• The Top Is the Bottom

  An expert explains how to become the person other people want to work for.

• Tough Love

  A business owner builds people from the inside out.

• Trash to Treasure

  Darlene Jeter risks her home to invest in heavy equipment to haul trash from construction sites.

• Unlock Potential

  A business owner unlocks the potential in people other employers may overlook.

• Value Your Xo and Os

  How to value and protect intellectual property.

• We Are in Charge

  Employees take control of their health and the management of their healthcare benefits.

• We Deliver Live (Old Fluker Farms)

  Delivering on promises.

• We'll Show You the Money

  Business funding.

• We're Goin' for the Gold

  Two entrepreneurs discuss how they attracted buyers for their companies.

• Whadda' Ya Know?

  Sharing knowledge.

• What Works on the Internet

  Internet budget.

• When Everybody Knows Your Name

  Entrepreneurs' restaurant and brew-pub help bring the night life back to Main Street in Libertyville, Ill.

• When No Means Yes

  Renegade Animation uses the firm's strengths to achieve its clients' visions.

• Wine Country

  Vineyards and winemaking are businesses with an element of charm.

• Winning the Health Care Battle

  A Multi-Marker Index system; go inside proteins; diagnostic equipment.

• Wired Home

  Linking past to future.

• Women Are Everywhere and Anywhere

  Three women show their successes in male-dominated industries.

• Women Who Go Beyond

  Successful women business owners.

• Work Around the Clock

  Work on a project never stops until it's done in small offices in Los Angeles, Sydney and Amsterdam.

• Working Works
• The World at Work

  An entrepreneur attracts an international team who works to deliver for their customers.

• A World of Deals

  Global shopping.

• You Can Sell

  Selling companies.