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Small Business is our only business.
SBTV.com is the first television network on the web devoted 100 percent to the small business market - from business start-ups to established enterprises. We believe that being an entrepreneur is a way of living - not just a way to make a living.
Founded in 2004, SBTV.com is becoming the number one choice for small business information on the net. The average viewer stays on our site for more than 30 minutes at a time. Business owners rely on SBTV.com because it provides expertly produced content by professional journalists and industry experts that is informational, practical and compelling.
SBTV.com offers:
The Right Information
On SBTV.com you'll find: technical information on how to run your business; inspirational success stories from entrepreneurs across the country; information about small business conferences and associations; and resources that can provide you with the right solutions for your business.
The Right Place
You can watch SBTV.com right on your computer with just the click of a mouse.
The Right Time
Because your life as an entrepreneur is hectic, SBTV.com is available 24 hours a day - 7 days a week. You can watch the programming of your choice whenever it is convenient for you. And best of all, there is no charge to you.
SBTV.com Sales
Dan Demko President
A founding partner of SBTV.com, Dan directs and manages the sales activities for the company. Additional duties include building and securing strategic relationships with companies and organizations that help drive traffic to the site as well as extend the company’s brand in the small business market. Dan comes from the financial services industry where over the years he served in senior executive sales, marketing and business development positions.
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Steven Kelley Sales Director
Steve has worked all around the world for multi-national companies developing sales teams and successful product launches. Steve is expert in making sure SBTV.com's sales and news advertising is a great mix for our audience.
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Rosann Czech Sales Director
Rosann draws on an extensive sales and marketing career emphasizing customer relationships. Her unique consultative approach blends technology and creativity to deliver results in the ever expanding small business market. Always working with an arsenal of win-win possibilities; Rosann never promises anything she can’t deliver to extend your small business reach.
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Susan Wilson Solovic - CEO
Solovic is a best-selling author, an attorney, a nationally recognized keynote speaker and an award winning small business journalist. To see what Susan's been up to, click here.
SBTV.com Trusted Team
The SBTV.com team is a group of business journalists and business professionals with over 100 years collective experience.
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SBTV.com Staff
David Atkinson Software Architect
David lives and breathes systems for the company and functions as a hands-on developer leading the
team responsible for creating the rich user experience on www.sbtv.com.
He has substantial experience in addressing critical business challenges with effective technical solutions.
David has served as an IS Executive with Coopers&Lybrand, Medco, Fox Photo and Growing Family.
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Danita Blackwood Executive Producer
The innovation, creativity, and diverse small business landscape are the focus for SBTV.com’s senior producer. Before joining SBTV.com, Danita produced the nation’s highest rated local morning newscast at NBC affiliate, KSDK-TV. Her extensive television production experience includes line, field, and special event producing of both local and national news events. She also has reported and anchored at a number of affiliate television stations around the country. Danita has firsthand experience as an entrepreneur.
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Lisa Constance Manager of Partner Relations
Lisa is all about making connections between small business owners looking for information and resource providers looking to share their expertise. Lisa comes to the small business world by way of the broadcast industry and corporate America. She got her start in local news in the St. Louis market, moved to New York to experience the national syndicated television scene and moved on to network news in New York and then Chicago. As a senior member of the SBTV.com team, she has worn many hats, including writer, producer and special projects manager, all allowing her to fully realize the true small business experience.
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Sabra Duffiney Web Developer
Sabra is an extremely self-motivated individual, who is always up for new and unexpected challenges. She picks up on new things quickly and is very technologically intuitive. Over all, Sabra has more than 15 years of experience in the Technology world.
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Christopher Hanley Senior Editor
Christopher is a videographer and graphic designer. He has had his eye in several corporate and independent projects, and is a graduate of The Broadcast Center in St. Louis.
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Michael Kelley Chief Operations Officer (COO)
As “Chief of the Boat”, Michael leads the coordination of all aspects of SBTV.com including technology, production and financial. As one of the partners, he has been with the organization since nearly its inception developing and guiding the mission of delivering interactive news and information to small business. Michael’s background is in technology and he has been a small business owner his entire career.
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Atanu Khamaru Senior .NET C# Developer
Atanu is a senior web developer with extensive experience in Microsoft .NET related technologies. He offers the quick learning and adaptability that is needed for today's ever changing web world. He has excellent analytical, presentation, communication and interpersonal skills (with proficiency in demonstration) and is highly adaptable to new technologies & business environments. Prior to joining SBTV, he has worked with Fortune 500 companies like Anheuser-Busch Companies, Wachovia Bank and DHL Worldwide.
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Sean McCulley Editor
As SBTV.com’s newest editor, Sean is catching on to all the excitement that goes on with the daily news. As part of a talented production team, Sean is learning firsthand the duties that go into delivering interactive news and information to small business. Sean’s background is in commercial and corporate video post production.
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Heather Prokopf Project Analyst
Heather assures the smooth development and implementation of many differing projects within the organization. This includes management, planning, implementation, technical and journalism aspects to projects. She draws on nearly 20 years of writing and administrative experience, and a her training as a broadcaster through the University of Nebraska, to provide the best possible support to SBTV and our small businesses audience.
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John Reichert Producer
John is a multi-talented writer, producer, director, and editor who oversees both SBTV.com's program series' and its Internet radio programming. John has over 15 years experience in both broadcast and corporate production. Following a brief stint in public relations after college, John focused his career on television and video and has produced, written, and directed programming for both Fortune 500 clients and small businesses, alike. John sees Internet streaming not only as the next step in the evolution of television; but also as the new marketplace for small business. John is a graduate of the University of Illinois, majoring in Communications with a minor in Film.
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George Solovic Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
George is a Certified Public Accountant and held the senior financial position of a $6 billion commercial lending division of a Fortune 100 company for 20 years. He teaches financial management for entrepreneurs at the college level. George is also a licensed securities and insurance representative.
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Christy Victor Accounting Manager
Christy's position includes all aspects of bookkeeping and accounting development. She has a strong background in business and office management, sales and accounting.
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Jane Ward Special Assistant to Susan Wilson Solovic
Jane Ward brings 20 plus years professional experience in both the corporate and small business worlds. As the Manger of Corporate Travel and Events for a Fortune 100 Company, Jane successfully created memorable customer events, coordinated company-wide business meetings around the world, and developed incentive trips for corporate executives which often included customers as well. As the head of the corporate travel department, she managed a staff that coordinated all travel bookings according to company policies and procedures. Most recently Jane has been selling promotional advertising products as an independent contractor for a small firm in St. Louis. Her clients include many Fortune 500 companies as well as small to mid-sized firms. As a member of the SBTV.com team, Jane will serve as the special assistant to CEO Susan Wilson Solovic. Additionally, Jane’s expertise will be utilized by all SBTV departments for special projects.
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Chris Wilson Project Manager
As the “task master” Chris is a detail oriented tyrant about her primary roles at SBTV.com which are to monitor advertising delivery and to manage IT project specifications, deadlines and resources.
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Mark Witzling Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
Mark brings senior-level marketing leadership, innovation and implementation to drive measurable marketing, PR, Direct Marketing, Internet Marketing and lead generation results to the SBTV.com team. With over 20 years of marketing and business experience, Mark provides perspective from a broad spectrum of leadership experience in both larger organizations and fast growth companies, and across both product and service organizations. He has developed marketing strategies for major brands, small businesses, technology firms, and non-profit organizations.
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David Wolf Manager of Social Media
David has produced audio and music content for a diversified base of corporate and advertising clients such as Texaco, Embassy Suites, Miller Brewing, P&G, Southwest Airlines, Pepsi, Frito-Lay, McDonalds, Shaklee International, GTE, Six Flags, Borden, Texas Instruments, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Shell Oil and many more. Under his creative leadership, Crywolf Productions, Inc., a digital audio production studio also produced and recorded audio content for NBC, Universal Studios, Amblin Entertainment, Hit Entertainment, TNT, The Discovery Channel, Walt Disney Television and many others. Currently, David heads up production, distribution and syndication of digital media for such The Smallbiz America Network and SBTV.com Business Center Radio.
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Alex Fees
Alex Fees is a free-lance television correspondent/producer who anchors news briefs on SBTV. A native of Union, MO, Alex's work appears regularly on KSDK
Newschannel 5, the NBC affiliate in St. Louis.
Periodically, Alex is called upon as a free-lance correspondent by NBC's affiliate service. In that capacity Alex generally travels to other parts of the
country and does live and on-tape reports for groups of NBC affiliates, CBNC and MSNBC. Alex's NBC assignments have taken him to Chicago, Philadelphia,
North Dakota and Florida. He has covered a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico, the death of Iraq contractor Nicholas Berg, from Philadelphia and a
multiple-fatal porch collapse in Chicago. In May of 2003, Alex's reports were seen on every NBC affiliate in America during devastating tornadoes
in Pierce City, Missouri.
Alex also writes/produces a half-hour, weekly, kids show for the St. Louis Cardinals. "Cardinals Crew," starring Andy Benes and Fredbird, appears in six
states on Fox Sports Net.
Alex has also field-produced for ABC "Good Morning America" and the Food Network.
Before returning to the St. Louis area, Alex's career as a television reporter took him to Sioux City, IA; Lincoln, NE; and Omaha, NE.
Currently Alex lives in Brentwood, MO.
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In the Daily News . . .
Layouts grow in a slow moving economy. President Bush supports Free Trade in Columbia and the impact of the credit crunch on Small Business that has
lawmaker's attention today. Find out more on SBTV.com's Daily News!
Air Date 3/15/2008 through 3/16/2008
E-Policy Tips Training
The average employee spends more than two hours a day on email and receives more than 50 email messages. Here are 10 tips to help you create an email policy
for your employees. While wasted time is clearly a concern, employers may face potential liability for harassing or offensive communications made by their
employees.
Interview with Christopher Kersting
Christopher Kersting, SEMA President/CEO, discusses small business opportunities in the automotive industry, technology advances on the horizon, and creative
innovation in the industry.
Matt Deichmann
Matt is a business journalist and Production Manager for SBTV.COM, the premier video news and information destination for America’s 25 million small businesses.
In addition to overseeing video production and location shoots for SBTV.COM, he frequently anchors daily business news and hosts several shows for the online
information network.
Matt draws on an impressive entrepreneurial background that enhances his solid journalism credentials. A graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
his entrepreneurial background includes co-founding a video production company and ad agency, Illustrated Man. The firm remains a leader in digital media
Matt's creative and entrepreneurial interests also fueled an impressive photography business, he is an accomplished still photographer who has had several
critically acclaimed showings of his work, and he knows how tough it is to make money selling photographs at galleries and exhibits.
With more than twenty five years experience in traditional television and radio broadcasting, the Saint Louis native has been recognized with numerous awards.
These include a Telly and three Emmy awards.
Matt served as Chief Photographer at KPLR-TV for more than 20 years prior to joining the SBTV.COM team. His creative touch has enhanced broadcasts on the
national and local level, including work for CBS, NBC, ESPN, and PBS, as well as staff positions at WSIL-TV and WSIU-TV.
Matt got his start in front of the microphone as a sports reporter and anchor while in college. He also works professionally as an actor in numerous commercials
and feature films, and understands the self marketing and branding challenges that many small business owners face.
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In the Daily News . . .
A new generation is energizing the World of Small Business, and Women are making great strides in the world of Technology. Find out more on SBTV.com's Daily News.
Air Date 4/10/2008
TechTactics Season II - Episode II
Technology and Internet guru Mario Armstrong, gives us the 411 on the basics of this amazing wireless and Wi-Fi technology. Then host Matt Deichmann takes a fresh
look at Voice Over IP technology and how it's helped a small business owner Cindy Morgan, President of CGI Mortgage, save not only time but money.
Exporting Without Shipping A Product
The majority of U.S exporters are small and medium sized firms. But some companies are exporters without even shipping a product. It may sound like a riddle, but
it is serious business.
Ivy Hartman
It's a "juggling" act for Ivy, but she manages to have her finger in a variety of roles. As a producer she works to bring timely and balanced news and feature
stories focused on small business owners. And as an anchor and reporter she is highly visible on sbtv.com and at small business events around the country.
She enjoys most, getting out and talking with business owners, experts and advocates of small business. As a veteran television host and producer and entrepreneur,
Ivy brings vivacity and firsthand knowledge to SBTV.com and its viewers. Her infectious personality and recognizable laugh often make her heard before she
is actually seen.
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In the Daily News . . .
The impact of increasing fuel prices on Small Firms is a hot topic on Capitol Hill. Entrepreneurship is a growing tool in the War on Poverty, we'll Show you how.
And Small Business Owners have somehting to say on the upcoming Presidential Election and Health Care. Find out more on SBTV.com's Daily News.
Air Date 04/08/2008
Vision to Venture Highlights
Microsoft Office Live Small Business presents Vision to Venture, featuring smart and simple strategies to make your business a success!
Boomer Entrepreneurs - The Dawning of the Age
What's the deal with Boomer Entrepreneurs? Boomer business expert, Jeff Williams, discusses the reasons why the baby boomer generation is migrating toward
entrepreneurship.
SEMA Spring Off-Road Expo - EcoTrek
When it comes to the EcoTrek's GMC 2500, Being BAD never felt so Green! As an award recipient this Big, Bad, eco-friendly 4x4 attracted a ton of attention
at SEMA's Spring Expo in Indianapolis. Proving a point that environmentally friendly vehicles don't have to be tiny or weak.
Summer Knowles
Summer is a general assignment reporter for FOX 2 News. Summer came to FOX 2 in March on 2006 from WCAV-TV in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she excelled
as a general assignment reporter for the CBS news affiliate. Previous to that, Summer worked as a writer and overnight producer for the NBC News Channel in
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Summer is a graduate of the University of North Carolina's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Summer received a full track and field scholarship to
the University of North Carolina and still runs in her free time. Summer is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and is a member of the
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She has been very active in community affairs, volunteering for elementary school reading programs and mentoring young
women.
Summer also enjoys reading, writing poetry and spending time with her friends and family.
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In the Daily News . . .
Small Business Headlines Wrap-up. A look at some of the weeks top stories. Find out more on SBTV.com's Daily News. Air Date 3/8/2008 through 3/9/2008
The Exaflood - Web Traffic & Your Business
What is the exaflood and how do businesses influence it? Learn more about web traffic.
In the Daily News . . .
Summer Knowles and Matt Deichmann bring you SBTV.com's Daily News where Small Business is Our Only Business. Air Date 2/5/2008.
Beth Haselhorst
Beth Haselhorst is an anchor, voice-over talent, on-camera talent, and skilled presenter. She has been delivering training presentations for over 10 years to a
variety of industries and corporations, including Edward Jones and Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, MO. Through these training presentations, her professional appearance
and enthusiastic style caught the eyes of those working in video and web. That translated into on-camera training videos with Anheuser-Busch, and on-camera
interviewing and reporting with SBTV.com.
While living in Los Angeles and working at World Wide Wadio in Hollywood, Beth was also bitten by the voice-over bug and has performed spots for clients including
American Airlines, Hawaiian Tropic, and Splenda. Performing anything from an airline announcer to an angry woman giving birth, Beth enjoys taking direction and finding
the perfect voice for the job. Beth has a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication, and a Minor in Psychology from Saint Louis University. And although she loved voice-over
work in LA, Beth is very close to her family in Southern Illinois. The draw to be closer to them led her back to St. Louis in 2006.
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