Playing Survivor, Small-Business Style
BusinessWeek: “A new TV series takes mom-and-pop outfits, gives them a makeover, and steps back to record what happens. This fall, on the TLC cable network, executive producer Michael Klein is doing just that. His new show, Taking Care of Business, which will debut on Oct. 16, focuses on the in-the-trenches efforts of entrepreneurs to turn their outfits around.”
Each episode is about a particular small business that needs a boost. Some of them are going down, others need a turnaround, and others have just plateaued and need to move forward. We come in with a hidden camera and shop the store without the owners knowing it. This gives the audience and our experts a look at what the place is really like to start out. Then we bring in four experts who look over the operation and make suggestions for improvement. We ask the entrepreneur to close down the business for three days while our experts transform the place, and we take the entrepreneurs out and show them how the big boys do it. Then we come back four weeks to six weeks later to see how things are going.
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