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We’ve had several focus groups with kids, tweens, and teens, and even the youngest kids in the group were able to read each chapter, grasp the information, apply the exercises and create their own first businesses, using the Little Green Money Machine Business Stand and Kids in Business Around the World.

Kids, tweens, and teens, you’ll find in the next few pages all the features and benefits of the Little Green Money Machine Business Stand. These features and benefits will help you use the ideas and skills taught in this book. Our unique LGMM Business Stand has all things you need to set up and run your first company ... the only thing missing is you!

SECTION 1 — GOAL SETTING/VISUALIZATION

Before you start your business (or even learn about how to set up your first business), we want to help you find out why you want to start a business. What goal do you want to reach? Is it a money-saving goal for a trip, or is it a video game you want? Or is your goal to donate to a charity or people in need? You must start your business with your goal in mind, and then visualize that goal. That will motivate you to begin, and also increase your chances of success. We have included a special tear-out Goal Statement Worksheet for you to put up in an area of the house that you see every day. Reading your goal statement frequently (and out loud) to yourself will help you visualize your goal and accomplish it!

SECTION 2 — STARTING YOUR FIRST BUSINESS

This section challenges you to brainstorm an idea — can you match up things you like to do with things that people want or need? There is a Business Idea Worksheet at the end of the chapter for you to write down ideas for your new business. You will then learn the importance of picking a name for your business. There is a very helpful Business Name Worksheet to help you brainstorm the right name.

SECTION 3 — SALES AND MARKETING

In this section you’ll learn the importance of selecting the right location for your business and how to market your new business by using banners, flyers, business cards, and yard signs. There is also online assistance available to you on our website at www.LittleGreenMoneyMachine.com. You can create your own business name on banners, business cards and signs and have fun actively creating, and dressing up your first business ... just like real companies do!

SECTION 4 — TEN DIFFERENT BUSINESS IDEAS: LGMM BUSINESSES YOU CAN START TODAY!

Finally, we have included ten of the most popular, fun, kid companies that you can start and begin making money today! These business models have been carefully designed and tested to be used by kids your age along with the LGMM Business Stand. However, these 10 businesses are just a few of hundreds of businesses a kid entrepreneur can start and run, using the LGMM Business Stand. We encourage kids to try some of these proven businesses and then come up with some new ones on their own, using our brainstorming session in Section 2. There is even a chance for kids to write to our website about their successful businesses, and win contests, trips and scholarships!

SECTION 5 — THE LITTLE GREEN FUNDRAISER: CHARITY AND HELPING OTHERS

We have dedicated this section to the importance of helping others in need, and we’ve provided several kid company templates on how to set up and run a food drive and/or other fundraisers.

Helping others makes you feel better than all the money in the world. We know this firsthand, because our company volunteers and donates to many different causes:

•5% of company profits from this workbook and business stand are donated every year to youth charities and business education initiatives.

•Many of our scholarships, besides the ones available to the kids who buy the Little Green Money Machine Business Stands, are offered to alternative high schools and disadvantaged kids.

•We also donate many Little Green Money Machine Business Stands to charity fundraisers.

SECTION 6 — NEVER GIVE UP!

In this section we talk about what to do if your first business doesn’t go as well as you expect, how to change it around, how to keep going and how you should never give up. Most entrepreneurs, kids, and adults, need to run several businesses before becoming really successful. It took Thomas Edison 10,000 experiments to invent the light bulb!

SECTION 7 — THE LITTLE GREEN MONEY MANAGEMENT

This section provides simple and useful tools to keep track of revenue, expenses and profits. Those three words, “revenue” (the money you collect from your business), “expenses” (the money you pay out for the stuff you’re going to sell), and “profits” (the money that’s left over when you subtract the expenses from the revenue) are very important words in business, because they tell you if you’re making money or losing money!

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, we believe this unique combination of the interactive book and the business stand will allow you to quickly learn how to set up your first business in a fun and exciting way. You can create your own first business, name that business, and design your own LGMM Business Stand, where you make money.

You won’t see the word “JOB” in this book. Don’t get a job ... START YOUR OWN BUSINESS!