Homeschool Entrepreneur

Start a Business Online Today!

Deb — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:27:22 +0000

Start a business today! It doesn’t have to be huge, just start looking for a need and meet it.

Online business is becoming more and more popular with homeschool families because it’s:

inexpensive (often practically $0!)
flexible hours (you make your own)
the world is your market online! (when living in a remote area makes a local business very difficult)
easy to start (you could start TODAY!)

What’s stopping you? If you think you don’t have time, you know that time is always spent where YOU decide-by what you value most.

Even if you simply decide to spend one hour a day on starting a business, you’ll be surprised at how fast it appears. That’s when the excitement begins!

Ignite the fire of entrepreneurism in your family…you’ll learn together valuable things that can’t be found in any book.

Start here>>

Some resources>>

Teaching a Biblical Entrepreneurial Mindset

Deb — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:14:21 +0000

What is a “Biblical Entrepreneurial Mindset”?

Teaching the “Entrepreneurial Mindset” to your children is really just a way of life, much like homeschooling. It’s a natural way of looking at life through an entrepreneurial lens – not a materialistic view, but always having an eye for unmet needs and having the skill set to create a profitable means to meet that need.

Young men and women alike need to have this skill, or mindset. Men will need to support a family and women are exhorted in Proverbs 31:18 to: ”make sure her dealings are profitable”.

“Biblical Entrepreneurial Mindset”

The Biblical Entrepreneurial Mindset is much like what what Christian families seek to achieve by home educating their children with biblical curriculum. It’s NOT public school materials with a sprinkling of Bible verses. It’s teaching what your children need to learn from a biblical perspective. Teaching business in high school has met with controversy, especially in Christian circles as promoting materialistic ideals. Our vision, is quite opposite from materialism.

Business as Missions inspired me in such a way that I wanted to encourage all parents to require Entrepreneurial Concepts in their life training.

There is no better way to display the Gospel than with Christian business. Every single family is faced with providing for their financial needs by either working for themselves or someone else. If your young adult is not using biblical entrepreneurial principles to run a business, they can use them to become a superior employee blessing their boss in such a way they can see the Gospel at work.

Find more about teaching the Entrepreneurial Mindset throughout HomeschoolEnt.com. Resources, curriculum, ideas, encouragement. It’s why we’re here.

Take Your Business To New Heights With HSE’s Free Resources

Deb — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:20:44 +0000

Take Your Business To New Heights With HSE’s Free Resources

We are just beginning to compile all the resources we have found, many from our original site, Homeschool-Entrepreneur.com and from our paid Resource Center. Yes, for a short time, we will be making all our resources available FREE while we are in transition! Enjoy!

Free Resource Center>>http://resources.homeschoolent.com/

also find some at:

http://homeschoolent.com/resources

Calling All Inventors!

Deb — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:18:43 +0000

Here’s another competition you can enter from Edison Nation. Market your invention on Season 5 of Edison Nation! Deadline is May 31.

Click here for more info: http://www.edisonnation.com/live_product_searches/EE312

7 Ways To Know If You’re In The Right Business

Deb — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 07:01:14 +0000

Choosing a business is by far the most difficult decision you will face in your entrepreneurial journey. You may have that idea for a business that is stuck in your head that you dream about daily, but will it succeed?

You may need to adapt your idea a little differently to suit what the market will bear. It’s absolutely essential that you are passionate about the field that you want to start a business in, but thinking long and hard about the factors that will make it succeed is a sub-category you really need to consider carefully. You may need to adapt your idea a little differently to suit what the market will bear.

So, HOW do you know if a business will succeed?

There are many ways to determine this, and its certainly a lengthier subject than this simple blog post can support. Even if we could, all the signs can point to inevitable success, and it still may not succeed like you hoped. I’m somewhat of a business bio nut. I love to read, watch and hear about how anyone has found some element of entrepreneurial success. One thing I have noticed is that is isn’t always the IDEA….but it’s the person behind the idea.

There are so many variables in the success equation, but what it boils down to is the biggest factor is YOU. Here are the six, no, seven, common denominators in 99% of successful entrepreneurs:

Are YOU passionate about what you want to do?
Are YOU ready to work hard, long hours to start with? (that’s why you need to be passionate about this!)
Are YOU ready to turn a deaf ear to those negative comments that are sure to come at you?
Are YOU ready to look at all your customers as friends, even the ones that are grumbling, complaining, and making your life, well….less than enjoyable?
Are YOU ready to allow your business to flow into the direction that the market seems to be taking it?
Are YOU willing to learn everything you can about your business, and humbly seek advice from experienced entrepreneurs?
Are YOU willing to surround yourself with motivated, intelligent, hard-working partners/employees….and let go the dear friends and/or relatives that are NOT?

These are really the most important factors in any new business. If you are willing to put your all into it and watch what works and sells and move your business in that direction, then it would be difficult to fail.

Here are some other places to find advice and do some old-fashioned research on deciding on a business to start:

http://www.ahbbo.com/starting-business-articles.html

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chrisfie/archive/2011/03/02/great-read-how-to-choose-the-right-business-intelligence-technology-to-suit-your-style-microsoft-bi.aspx

Sign The E2 Petition For Entrepreneurship as Required Core Curriculum in High School!

Deb — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:25:13 +0000

“If Entrepreneurship is the engine of our economy, creates jobs and puts food on tables, why wouldn’t we place as much emphasis on it in our public schools as we do Math, English and Science?”
—Anthony Delmedico

OK, I know that the title for this post is way too long for a WP blog title, but I wanted to be sure you saw what is happening. I’m sooo excited! …but…wait – if I homeschool, why would I be so excited about what is happening in the public school sector? Let me explain. . .

How We (HSE) Got Started and WHY

We (Homeschool Entrepreneur) began in 2008 to impress the homeschool community to integrate Entrepreneurship Ed into their curriculums. At the time, we could not find ANYTHING that really spoke out about this, except a few sleepy organizations that had been around for ages, but had little to offer (sorry).

So many times we almost gave up because we were unsure of the demand for this info-despite constantly hearing from other homeschool families begging for more information on this topic. After all, finding a business with a demand was one of the principles we were trying to teach! We experienced the ‘tipping point’ however, when we were contacted by the writer of one of the top blogging trends website encouraging us to stick it out because he strongly believed in what we were doing and felt he KNEW we were at the forefront of a BIG wave- Well, as you can imagine, we were very encouraged and of course we reconsidered. (obviously!)

Putting An Idea Into Reality . . isn’t as easy as you think..

We worked night and day pulling every resource we could find for teaching entrepreneurship that homeschoolers could use. THEN we had to figure out how to get it online! Finding that it wasn’t as easy as some of the ‘gurus’ made it out to be (that is, unless you wanted to spend tens of thousands on a web developer!) we also wanted to document how we managed to create an online ‘empire’ (lol) so you could avoid all the pitfalls and detours we ended up experiencing and paying for.

Fast forward to 2012 and we’ve seen exponential growth in the entrepreneurship movement. One of the main reasons for this growth is the same reason that Anthony Delmedico based his entire promotion on:

E2 (or any quality Entrepreneurship Education program) will put America back to work and make the American Dream achievable
by everyone, regardless of income, background or color. We are entering a new
age, the age of the Entrepreneur, are we preparing the next generation for it? *

Can E2 (or any quality Entrepreneurship Education program) Really Fix the American Economy?

Delmedico also states:

E2 (his E-ed program) as core curriculum will launch a new generation of Entrepreneurs across America, creating millions of new jobs and industries. E2 will help return America to full employment over the next decade, thus improving our economy on a grand scale. E2 will also reduce teen drop out rates, juvenile crime and incarceration rates, as well as create a pathway to success for young adults, regardless of a college degree.

Here at Homeschool Entrepreneur, with just one (very important) additional principle*, definitely agree with Mr. Delmedico. Training the next generation with the skills that will not only offer them personal success, it offers a mindset that will make them superior employees, and creates the foundation to bring America’s economy back to where it belongs.

(Read: How is Homeschool Entrepreneur Different? )

What is the E2 Petition Exactly?
The E2 petition is asking the President and the Secretary of Education to use their position, leadership, and powers to mandate the U.S. educational system to MANDATE entrepreneurship education in public schools. It contains 3 primary requests: (actually, demands…guess you need to be aggressive to get things done in the public education system…:-)

1) We are demanding that the Federal Government, Department of Education, State Boards of Education, State Curriculum Boards, and other Education leaders launch E2 (Entrepreneurship Education) as required core curriculum in all public schools (grades 4-12).

2) Once that mandate is created, we need teachers that can quickly train and teach entrepreneurship nationwide.

3) Next, we need local small business leaders in the community to step up and contribute to the schools, not with money, but with their time, establishing positive mentors, role models and success stories for our nation’s youth.

Together, school districts, the business community, and government will launch a new generation of Entrepreneurs across America, creating 21 million new jobs by the year 2020.

Why Get Excited About Public School Politics?

Mr. Delmedico may be simply promoting his new program, and you may think that we may be doing the same. Quite the opporsite! Along with that exponential growth in the entrepreneurship movement comes a tsunami of websites, articles, and just an innumerable number of resources will be made available – and most of them will be FREE.

Homeschool Families Unite!

Many, many homeschool families are managing a home business along with educating several children at home, too. It’s not easy, I know! (ever wonder WHY you haven’t received a newsletter in awhile? Family FIRST! ) Learning how to start a business is challenging in and of itself. Learning how to balance a home business with homeschooling is even MORE challenging! Our vision here at HSE is to help you juggle both-and our reason for that is??

A New Generation of CHRISTIAN Entrepreneurs!

Read all of Mr. Delmedico’s statistics and inspirational phrases and go one more step into the Christian Homeschool. HSE truly believes that integrating Christian entrepreneurial education into your homeschooling curriculum truly has the potential to change the world as we know it. Making a way to share what Christ has done for us by their example AND ability to meet physical needs efficiently and profitably in the marketplace-and the mission field will become a natural byproduct of your years of dedicated efforts.

Think about it.

Maybe we should start our own petition. What do you think?

Read and sign the E2 petition here: http://e2petition.com/

Only 3 Days Left To Enter Edison Nation Season 5

Deb — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:38:11 +0000

Sorry for the late notice, but I just discovered the deadline to enter Edison Nation’s call for unique and innovative inventions (say THAT 5 times!) is April 2nd.

An Emmy Award-winning public television show, Everyday Edisons has been a huge hit now for 4 seasons. If you have never heard of Edison Nation, just watch the video above or go to EdisonNation.com.

It’s a great way to present your invention and see where it can go. Here is Eric Huber’s story to give you an idea of what to expect.

Let us know if you make it, we’ll feature you on Homeschool Entrepreneur!

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