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[This Page is a description of a partly completed idea. Many people are interested in Business-Based Learning as a concept, but no one, so far, is interested enough to purchase it. This course is a great idea, but it must be repackaged to fit customer needs. Because my customers are buying the Project Guides, I am focused on that aspect of YGuide Academy rather than on Micro-Business. As a result, I have removed the Order Page; however, I continue to place this page before you as an interesting topic.]
Micro-Business for Teenagers
Micro-Business for HighSchoolers is a nine-month course - always updated - that leads teenagers through the process of developing real-world businesses, while they master many of their high school learning objectives, and bring profit and value to their world.
Teenagers Doing Business: The Time Is Now!
There is no better time in life to start a business than as a teenager. Teenagers are full of hope for the future. They want to prove that they can hold their own in a real world. Their minds are supple and strong, and they don't have the obligations that weigh adults down.
Teenagers need the opportunity to try the real, to produce value for others, to fail, and to get up again and keep trying until they succeed. Most of what is called education puts a high grade on mediocre work and rolls right along, ignoring failure. In fact, failure is rarely treated as a starting point for learning.
So how is business-based learning different?
Business-based learning sees teenagers as producers of value and places them at the center of learning. Young people starting their own businesses find themselves needing real information that works for them right now. They quickly learn what works and what does not work. They learn from their failures; they learn most how to change what they do quickly until it works. They learn that a 97% job doesn't cut it. A customer wants 100%. They learn that what they do with their hands and with their minds is valued; they themselves have value.
They learn self respect. And how to read - and understand what they read. How to write and write well - for real world readers, not for teachers. How to work the numbers, in order to increase their profit. How to design, how to craft, how to relate with people.
But most of all, learning has meaning. It fits what is important now.
Teenagers, starting their own businesses as part of a high school education, are miles ahead, at age 20, than their counterparts who are still wandering the maze of simulation called "school." And the incredible advantage is that they don't have to support a family. They are just students after all, and learning. There is minimal risk for them in running a micro-business.
Get Started Now!
It takes very little investment for a young person to start a business. The key is to do it; to make something and get out there and sell it. Or to set up a service, obtain clients, and produce value for them.
What they need is guidance. They don't get that guidance from schools, just simulation. Parents could be their guide, but most are busy.
Parents, find a good program that leads your teenagers step-by-step to build their own businesses and watch them create value and freedom in this world.
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The layout of Micro-Business for HighSchoolers includes the following:
Month 1: The student -
- investigates many business possibilities.
- narrows the choice down to his or her own right business.
- Discovers ultimate business success by connecting what customers want with what he or she loves to do!
- takes the first steps in starting a business - chooses a business name - sets up a bank account - gets sales tax authorization.
- ventures onto the Internet with a Squidoo page highlighting their business.
- Reaches people all over the world who are fascinated with their craft and would love to promote teens in business!
- most of all, learns and practices their chosen "craft.".
Month 2: The student -
- begins bookkeeping for the business.
- considers the first elements of a business plan - laws and risk.
- learns the rudiments of selling face to face; gets out there and sells something.
- Meets a real customer's needs!
- writes articles for the web; broadens an Internet presence with affiliate marketing.
- Catches customers worldwide by weaving business across the web!
- creates a logo and business card.
Month 3: The student -
- begins writing the business plan.
- continues to practice the craft of business and to broaden the marketing reach.
- writes and designs brochures and learns the secrets of real-world persuasive writing.
- Persuades people with the powerful writing skills being learned!
- finds mentors who are practicing the same craft.
- Learns tricks of the trade!
- learns more about customers, their personality types and inclinations.
- regularly practices business techniques and makes sales.
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Aren't Teens Too Young to Start A Business?
Are they too young? Despite what you may have heard ...
the answer is a resounding NO!
In fact, it’s the perfect time for them to start a business.
- Following the advice in the Micro-Business course, I chose to teach piano as my micro-business. I now have 8 beginner students and earn more than $350 a month. Being the teacher instead of the student has been a real eye-opener for me. And I love it. I am looking forward to putting my business on the Internet.
- Johanna, 10th grade
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Month 4: The student -
- learns principles of free market economics - the law of supply and demand, the importance of price.
- Practices the business skills of experts!
- applies percentages, interest, and measurement to bookkeeping needs.
- adds unique selling proposition to business plan.
- learns further selling techniques while finding more customers.
- writes web copy and learns website design
- Creates a fascinating business website that centers the Internet business reach!
- incorporates photography in business promotion.
Month 5: The student -
- focuses on developing business-related math skills.
- learns record keeping on vendors, customers, and sales.
- develops a newsletter and an email list.
- Adds a profitable marketing tool to the website!
- takes surveys.
- signs up with PayPal for website sales.
- Gains efficiency in handling all the money coming in!
- considers shipping and handling.
Month 6: The student -
- focuses on developing business-related writing and language skills.
- writes marketing goals and strategies into the business plan.
- analyzes sales and profits and balances books.
- broadens selling into craft sales and flea markets.
- Learns from real-world craft-selling experts!
- studies product design.
- Weaves Google's many marketing tools into the business web!
- improves the business work space.
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One Small Caveat ...
Micro-Business for HighSchoolers is a pilot program specifically written for high schoolers – although any adult could comfortably follow the instructions to create their own successful business, online and off.
As a pilot program, we are issuing each section of the course monthly. When you purchase the course, you will receive the first Month's packet. From then on, you will receive each subsequent packet once each month.
Because it’s a pilot program – and because I’m passionate about satisfying you, my customer, in every way possible – once you order, I will provide you with my personal email address and encourage you to offer your own suggestions on how to make this course even better.
This system is a 3-year course of which this is the first year, designed to take your teen by the hand through the countless business skills they will need to continuously improve as a budding entrepreneur ... and help them in making the business decisions they’ll face along the way.
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Month 7: The student -
- studies economic issues and develops critical thinking skills.
- develops a balance sheet and cash flow chart for the business plan.
- Watches the business grow!
- learns business taxes and calculating profit, revenue, and loss.
- develops a publicity campaign, writes press releases.
- Obtains free publicity; it's easy!
- develops relationships with other business people.
- expands business on social networking sites.
- adds more products or services to business.
Month 8: The student -
- learns additional business principles.
- writes a capital spending plan and action plan for the business.
- learns budgeting math and lays out a budget.
- establishes an inventory track.
- expands affiliate marketing.
- Earns money by selling other people's stuff!
- Writes that one article that could take the business viral!
- creates a micro-website, emphasizing graphic display and powerful copy writing.
Month 9: The student -
- learns the thinking processes of a business person.
- adds a resume and executive summary, finalizes and publishes the business plan.
- Presents his or her own business like the real business it is!
- does year-end checking and proving of bookkeeping.
- writes the story of their business experience with pictures and a web video.
- Shares his or her business success with others. Your teen is now the expert!
- continues to practice the craft of the business and to sell.
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And Even More Bonuses ...
Besides the 9 monthly course units, your teenager will also receive a tenth unit entitled "Taking Your Business to the Next Level." A number of bonus packets will be developed in response to the various questions and needs that come from the all the students taking the course.
And - we provide each student with a website hosted free for twelve months after the website goes live. And - each student who fills in a monthly form and sends it back to us will receive the second year's course (there will be more) at 60% off its listed price.
Your student will have access to a member's only site [to be developed] on YGuideAcademy.org. He or she will be able to keep track of what other students are experiencing in their business and to share with others their questions and needs. There will be forums and the chance to ask critical questions.
We continually update this course to bring your teen the very best in micro-business how-to’s. The completed course, in its hard copy form, is around 700 pages packed with information your teen can put to use right away in getting his or her business up and producing a profit.
Also at the end of the year, your teen will get another Special Report containing the informational and inspirational stories of each student who entered the Best Business Story contest (See Below), along with all the other student work that won a prize. You will discover why the grand prize winner was selected ... what made his or her business the best for the year.
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I have shown you the structure of the course, but not its heart. Woven throughout every part of the course are 8 skill sets.
- Writing skills that sizzle, provoke, entertain, motivate, inspire - and, of course that win readers and are actually read - by adults - for their own improvement.
- Math skills that track earnings and predict profits, that calculate costs and satisfy the IRS.
- Business skills that manage time and materials, that analyze markets and buying patterns, that comprehend freedom and how it works.
- People skills that set at ease, that honor and bless, that comfort and welcome and thank, that satisfy the customer.
Does your child's present schooling give him or her these qualities?
- Research skills that seek and find and make useful, that differentiate, that value, that retain the useful and discard the unimportant - in the real world.
- Personal skills of contemplation, creative and critical thinking, understanding one's own strengths and weaknesses.
- Craft skills that work and build and make with the hands, that serve and care for and create, that repair and fix and operate.
- Design skills that create and imagine, that draw and proportion and give space and color and sense.
Of course, what you are purchasing for your child does not end there, by any means.
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It Includes Rewards Teens Love
Micro-Business for HighSchoolers not only has the course components, but it offers teens secondary rewards for their success as young entrepreneurs.
Awesome teen-friendly contests for Micro-Business students include*:
 Best Business Story. Grand Prize of the Year. Awarded at the end of the course. Exact details on the format of your teen's business story and deadlines will be sent to you by the end of the second month. Your teen will never be competing against more than 149 other students.
The winner of the Best Business Story will receive a cash prize of $500.*
In addition to the $500 cash, the winner’s story will be featured for the entire next year – which will drive purchases through their web link, making the total potential dollar amount much higher. It could be worth up to thousands of dollars. In fact, we will edit the Best Business Story and submit it to a variety of national publications. No guarantee where it might be accepted, but the possibilities are high!
Second and third prize winners will each receive $200 in cash prizes plus links to their site, and fourth and fifth place winners receive $100 each.
Best Website. Also awarded per each group of 150 students. Specific details and deadlines will be included with course materials.
Winner of Best Website will receive $200 plus links to their website – also potentially worth many hundreds of dollars. Second place and third place prizes are $100 cash, fourth and fifth place $50.*
Best Squidoo Page. The winner will receive $100, plus will have their page linked to and from many locations, driving traffic to them ... helping increase their affiliate sales of this course plus sales for their primary business. Second place will receive $50 and third will receive $40.
Best Set of Internet Articles (minimum of 5) will receive $75 plus links. Second and third place will receive $35 each.*
Writing articles for the Internet positions your teen as an expert in his or her field and is one of the most effective methods of Internet marketing.
Best Business Plan will receive $75 plus links. Second and third place will receive $35 each.*
All winners of prizes will have their work and their micro-businesses featured in a variety of ways and places!
*Number and amount of prizes subject to sales of this business system. However, each student competing for these prizes will be competing against no more than 149 other similar students.
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Options for Ordering the Course
Your first option is to purchase the Downloaded Micro-Business E-Course only. Everything you need for the course is in the downloaded files and any printing you need you may freely do yourself.
The regular price for Micro-Business for HighSchoolers is $195 - an even better value for the teenager embarking on real-world learning.
At the beginning of each month, you will receive an e-mail notification with a link so that you can download the next Month's packet.
Order Micro-Business for HighSchoolers
But . . .
How will your teen know if he’s on-track with his business plans. Would you like him or her to get valuable feedback from someone besides you, the parent?
- YGuide Academy: Micro-Business Level I Enrollment
Enrollment with YGuide Academy: Micro-Business Level I gives your student just that – valuable feedback and assistance – for twelve months from the date of purchase.
You receive:
- a YGuide Academy Enrollment Certificate
- Ongoing assistance and advice on your teen's personal development of the business.
- Evaluation of and feedback on the various parts of your teen's work. [e.g.: Squidoo page, Articles, Website, Bookkeeping, Business Plan.]
- YGuide Academy transcripts for the work your teen has completed and that we have evaluated. We will provide transcripts only for work done within the Micro-Business course. These transcripts define and prove your teen's learning to other parties.
- Enrollment of your teen in the YGuide Academy Student Center, which will include the place to ask questions and receive answers.
- Posting of your teen's work in the Student Center and in other appropriate places.
- An affiliate link by which you will receive a sales commission for any sale of YGuide materials purchased through your link - which your teen can include in all public promotion of his or her micro-business.
- A higher sales commission than the commission earned by those who purchase the course only.
Your price for YGuide Academy: Micro-Business I enrollment is $235. ($30, non-refundable enrolment fee included.)
That’s only a tiny fee of less than $20 per month for advice and help that will improve your student's business skills and opportunities for success.
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Make no mistake about it ...
If your teen follows the business system outlined, he or she will likely earn back everything spent on the Micro-Business for HighSchoolers course, plus more.
My Guarantee
I am delivering a system that will be life-changing for your teen, in that business-driven learning adds the incentive and motivation to learn that the simulation of modern schooling can never find. Your teenager will gain the passion for learning that comes out of service and profit. At the same time, your teen will be learning high school objectives in writing, math, bookkeeping, computer skills, and a whole lot more.
Obviously I cannot guarantee the results of your teen’s business, because different businesses vary in levels of profitability, people differ in the vision and effort they apply as well as their learning curve, and local economies vary in strength.
But here’s what I can guarantee.
I guarantee your satisfaction that your teen is receiving useful information that guides him or her clearly every step of the way ... and that you are satisfied with its content and delivery. You have a full 60 days to look over the program and explore what it can do for your teen.
If you are not fully satisfied, send me an email within the 60 days and I will promptly refund everything you paid for the program, less the $30 enrollment fee if you have enrolled your teen in YGuide Academy Micro-Business I.
You keep everything you have already received.
You will have direct access to me via a dedicated email address. If you have any problems in delivery, please do not hesitate to contact me. I will respond quickly to get you what you need.
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