Tag: Home business ideas
Jul
25
Anyone Tried Fat Brain’s Biz Course For Kids?
I came across Fat Brain Coffee’s website a few weeks ago and found something you will definitely be interested in if you have an 8-12 year old! It’s a course you can do with your child that teaches them sales and marketing techniques, accounting skills, day-to-day business operations, and public relations by starting a coffee business.
So I ordered the course and a box of coffee for Benjamin, since he is always wanting to do some kind of business. (Gee, I wonder where he gets THAT from?) Arriving within a week, Ben was ready to do the first lesson immediately. Now why doesn’t he get that excited about his writing assignments? Anyway, it had seven easy to follow lessons with everything we needed to start a sustainable coffee business. It comes neatly arranged in a black, 3 ring binder, and a CD containing the forms and graphics for a label or other advertising. The lessons require little or no preparation to teach them, and offer a great beginning business basics curriculum. We’ll keep you posted on how Ben does as we go along.
Of course, we had to try the coffee, too, and their unique selling proposition is FRESHNESS and QUALITY. All coffee is ground to order, and is targeted to arrive at your home within 1 week of roasting. It’s reasonably priced, and you are free to set your own retail price. It’s comparable to Starbuck’s coffee. We even did a blind taste test (my husband’s idea) and it won hands down!
One of the best parts of this course is the emphasis on giving back. The lessons encourage giving a portion of your profits to a charity of your choice, and rightly budgeting the rest of your profits in a healthy manner. In every lesson, there is emphasis on character in the marketplace, which is one of Homeschool-Entrepreneur‘s core reasons for making entrepreneurism a part of your homeschool. Making right decisions, good stewardship of your money, and ethics in all your business dealings are all principles you can’t teach early enough.
Nicole Hunt and her daughters have made quite a splash in the short time they have been in business. They have been featured in several local newspapers, and have even made it to the big screen! You can see the news clip that Tampa Bay’s CBS News did on their business just last week. Nicole has a flair for the PR side of business and that is reflected in her success and in the course! The stir they have created is a sign that people like the idea of teaching kids how to run a business.
If you would like more information on how to buy the course or Fat Brain Coffee, you can go to FatBrainCoffee.com, and take a look at the news clip about them too. Nicole is a delightful woman, and even makes herself available by phone. Of course, if this gets as big as I think it will, that might change soon! They charge $20 for the course, and a offer a discount if you buy the course and your first round of coffee together. Let me know if you try it, and what experience you have, we’d love to hear!
Jul
24
Free Training in Video Production
Having a business doing videos for other businesses, or creating visual media for your own business can pay off in a big way. In the last year, online video has taken off, much faster than people are learning it. Another great development is not too long ago it took thousands of dollars of equipment to make any type of decent video, but these days you don’t have to have expensive equipment to make a good clip.
What you do need is know-how, and being a relatively new field that is advancing rapidly, that know-how isn’t always easy to find. If you know someone you can apprentice with, you are truly blessed. Since that probably isn’t the case, I found a great resource that offers lots of great information and FREE training in many of the media arts.
Faith Visuals is an online resource technically created for pastors, leaders and those in their churches creating or managing visual media. Their mission is to encourage more churches to use media in their services, etc, and to raise the level of visual media quality. There is a wealth of resources on this site, and they have several sister sites that look to serve ministries also.
So you can learn this training as an entrepreneur and give back by volunteering your new found talent to your own church, or if you are interested just learn it to help out your church. You never know what it may lead to! Have fun!
http://faithvisuals.com/freetraining
Jul
17
A WP Plug-in for Flickr!
OK, so most of you already know about Flickr, but I discovered it when I found this great plugin for photos. It’s called PhotoDrop, and it will just drop in any photo off of Flickr….at least any photo that is open for viewing. I couldn’t even begin to think about putting in all our photos onto Flickr, but it looks like it is a great place to start organizing all our photos, at least.
In fact, this could be the start of a great home business idea that anyone that’s picture and computer savvy could do. See “Picture Organizing Business” in our ‘Home Business Ideas’ page on our website for more details on how to get started.
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