Totally Awesome Business Book for Kids : With Twenty Super Businesses You Can Start Right Now

For ten- to seventeen-year-olds, this fun and fact-filled guide includes quizzes, games, cartoons, and stories featuring characters like Penelope Pennypincher and Stephen Spender and all the information a young person needs to know about starting up a business, how much money can be made from it, and the steps to do the work -- all in an easy-to-understand style.The book is divided into three sections, the first, providing the big picture; the second, suggesting twenty super businesses you can start right now; and the third, presenting ten basic business skills, including speaking up for what you want, making business budgets, record keeping, research and filing, telephoning and using the telephone book, negotiating and putting deals in writing, doing marketing, advertising and publicity, networking, and working with others, even parents."A useful presentation of the "big picture" of business and of the skills necessary for the young entreprenuer ... a good source for information". -- Voice of Youth AdvocatesBerg, Adriane G. is the author of 'Totally Awesome Business Book for Kids : With Twenty Super Businesses You Can Start Right Now', published 1995 under ISBN 9781557042354 and ISBN 1557042357.