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The book begins with concepts as simple as the characteristics of a small business and works through each of the concepts needed for the teen to succeed, instead of spending all their money and ending up broke. This book gives business ideas to start a teen on a brainstorming session, helps offer ideas on potential problems and helpful resources.

The excitement of a new business can often take flight in the day-to-day difficulties that will inevitably arise. This second book tackles concepts dealing with approaching new customers, cold-calling, tracking income, taxes, and more. The idea behind this book is to take business to the next level so that the teen will continue to see success.

The workbook is designed to give the teen practice of the concepts outlined in the two books listed above.

Starting a Micro Business by Carol Topp

Using real-life examples, Carol Topp helps the teen more fully embrace the small business model. Each chapter of the two books is covered with exercises in the workbook. By the end of the workbook, the entrepreneur teen will have the building blocks of a new micro business in place and ready to move forward confidently and successfully. A big thank you to Tillie of Little Connections for writing this introductory post. Taking Care of Business: I really loved how Carol sprinkled little stories throughout the book, stories of real teens and what they have done ways they were successful or not.

It really helped encourage my kids that they could do it, too!

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The second book we read through was Running a Micro Business. See below for chapters and descriptions: Topp guides kids in making a sales presentation to sell in person—what to include in it and how long it should be. The last part of the chapter talks about selling online. Then they learn how to make a marketing plan.

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They learn great customer service techniques as well. Using Software Benefits and limitations of software, and examples to use.


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Here are some examples of activities they did in the Micro Business for Teens Workbook: The workbook is full of charts and written activities for the kids to do. It corresponds almost exactly with the two books referenced above. The kids did things such as summarizing what was taught in the chapter, listing their skills and abilities, writing down business ideas, writing a business plan, calculating start-up expenses, writing a sales presentation, designing an order form and business card, and lots more!

We read through one chapter a day and had the kids do the worksheet pages that corresponded. I read the lessons aloud, which took about 20 minutes. But we also discussed things, so each lesson took us about 45 minutes. The activities they completed in their workbooks sometimes took a little longer than that. It took us about 6 weeks to complete, and they had both started their own businesses! I could envision this being a semester course.

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It could be used at a co-op or with a group of friends meeting once a week to support each other in starting their own businesses. They are short and to the point but packed with invaluable information. I will be using these with all my kids in their teen years. He has already sold five of them! Receive homeschool, family, and home tips, ideas, and encouragement throughout the week.

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    I taught it in my homeschool co-op and it was the easiest class I ever taught! The students did all the work and then came together to share ideas and try things out on each other. You might enjoy the public television program Starting a Micro Business, based on the first book. It features 6 students all homeschooled! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings.

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