WAZ UP?:

Parents need to monitor kids and their businesses because some of the consequences they may face if things go wrong can be pretty serious. For example, if a teen is a tutor and they don’t fulfill their obligation the child they are tutoring runs the risk of failing in school. Or, with a pet sitting business, neglecting an animal could cause a pet to get sick.

GETTING STARTED:

Teens and their parents will find tremendous value when they use reliable resources in their search for quality information. My favorite resource (included in Weekend Entrepreneur), is a website created by teen guru Jill Sanborne called www.mycoolcareer.com. This website is busting at the seams with audio interviews from people who excel in their industry as well as ways to find jobs, identify careers, assessment questionnaires to help you figure out what you are good as well as how to find internship opportunities.

Finding out what you have a passion for during the teen years will give you an opportunity to test-drive your dream by starting a part-time business. Also, there is a national organization called Junior Achievement and their website is www.jr.org. They teach you to create a company and how to work with other teens. Teens are mentored by a businessperson and it teaches them to be entrepreneurs.

COOL & EASY TO-DO BUSINESSES FOR TEENS:

Teens can use their skills and abilities to start a variety of businesses including babysitting, tutoring, mowing lawns, errands for senior citizens, car detailing, helping paint houses, cleaning pools, designing jewelry, and creating websites. And, mowing lawns during the summer can turn into shoveling snow during the winter months. The nice part is the flexibility of having your own business and making money.

CHALLENGES:

One of the biggest challenges teens may discover is having an understanding of sales and marketing. Parents need to help their teen figure out what price would be fair to charge and to make sure people don't take advantage of them.

Don’t be deceived by its elementary nature. This is the blueprint for your real estate success. It includes every step required for you to buy a house with no cash and no credit … all based on this 4-step process.

Many people advise piling away savings every day as a way of buying your first home. This is a great idea, if you’ve got 10-15 years to save. But chances are, you may want to start a family, or have the security of your own home now. Most likely, you need a strategy that’s going to move you in a lot sooner.

These strategies are a concrete step by step program almost anyone can follow regardless of age.
Ready? Here are the steps:

1. Locate the Sellers

2. Contact the Sellers

3. Screen Potential Sellers

4. Approve the Documents

Can a simple four step plan like this really make that kind of difference in your life? You bet it can!
Buying a house … or many houses…. is a simple matter of understanding and then following the process of locating sellers, contacting them, screening them, and then approving the documents.

This deceptively simple 4 step process has been proven to work by thousands of first-time real estate investors. Hundreds of other people, with no experience in buying real estate have used this simple system to buy a house. Some have gone on to buy house after house, building a profitable little real estate empire.

No matter how complicated other gurus may make it seem, the road to no cash, no credit home buying starts with these 4 simple steps to real estate success.

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Adriana Dodge landed in America with $700 in her pocket, and has now bought 35 houses - many of them beautiful homes with no cash and no money down. She learned the hard way at first, then finally put secrets of top real estate investors to work for her. She knows they can work for you too, visit her site at http://www.realestateapprentices.com today to see exactly how.

Take a page out of Oprah Winfrey's popular daytime talk show and help people who are less fortunate than you are.

What a great way to share your success.

When Ali Spizman was 17 years old she made a handbag and used it to raise $1.1 million in 4 weeks for the Make-A-Wish foundation in honor of Hope Stout who had passed away from a rare form of bone cancer.

Let me know what you want to know more about and I will be happy to answer some of your questions.

Next time I'll be talking about a hot new trend called podcasting because it is taking America by storm.

Podcasting is fun and people are starting to make money with their very own podcast.

Perhaps you can jump on the bandwagon too!

Putting things off may result in missed opportunities or even worse, missing out on closing a deal that may keep your business afloat.

Today's opportunities may be gone tomorrow so be sure to take action.

The businesses that are enjoying mega success are those who exceed the expectations of their customer.

Customers become fans and the business grows exponentially based on Buzz or Word of Mouth, this type of free advertising is every business owner's dream.

Gerard Murray's dream was to have a tee shirt company. Using inner-city slogans and the power of buzz he developed it into a world-class business, which rakes in $27 million in sales.

As simplistic as this may sound, some of the most successful businesses have done well because they were started because someone zeroed in on what people wanted and needed and then gave it to them.

Photographer, Mark Rogers now makes 13-by-19 frames because he was frustrated with the lack of frames available.

He now manufactures and sells gallery style picture frames to fine art photographers. His success allowed him to quit his day job.

Or have you noticed how difficult it is to figure out a way to make extra money in your spare time?

Keep coming back to my blog, as I will be sharing with you five lessons learned from entrepreneurs who are featured in my upcoming book, Weekend Entrepreneur.

1. Take the passion you have for your favorite pastime or hobby and build a business around it. When you love something it shows and people are attracted to your excitement and commitment to what you are doing. Also, it is much easier to keep going during tough times when you are doing what you love. Shae Seward created Cobblermania out of her love for her family. She took a winning recipe for cobblers and created a successful business. Word of mouth has helped her business expand from local farmers markets in Los Angeles to her getting a contract to sell her cobblers in a popular food chain. She has plans to open her own store in the near future.

Check Back For Lesson #2...Coming Up on Friday!