Add a Microbusiness to Your Teen’s Curriculum!
Once your students hit the teen years, chances are that they are looking forward to relevant, real-world applications for what they are learning. Many of them will have a hobby that they can, with a...
View ArticleA Microbusiness Can Help With College Expenses
As most of you know, I have enjoyed several microbusinesses throughout my life, and I believe they can be great learning experiences for teens. With the economy in its present disturbed state, I...
View ArticleMicrobusiness Stories and a New Article on the Website
I am a big advocate of entrepreneurship, including microbusiness and home business. Teens who can start a microbusiness based on their interests can earn high school credits for what they learn, and...
View ArticleCarnival of Homeschooling- The NaNoWriMo Edition
Preface Welcome to this hundred-and-umpteenth Carnival of Homeschooling! Because November is National Novel Writing Month (also known as NaNoWriMo or nano), and I’m over 10,000 words into the writing...
View Article5 Reasons Entrepreneurship Should Be Part of Every Education
I believe that entrepreneurship should be part of every education. Creating a small business does more than just provide a bit of extra money-- it provides memorable learning opportunities. Related...
View ArticleCollege Alternatives, Part 2: Entrepreneurship, Apprenticeships, and Guilds
The last College Alternatives post focused on the skilled trades, such as machinist, electrician, arborist, and others. Since college has been pushed as a primary option for most students, there has...
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Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow– Or Maybe Not
Several years ago I came across Marsha Sinetar’s Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow. It’s an inspiring title, and a great book for cubicle dwellers who need a career change. Taken alone,...
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3 Ways to Put Your Knowledge to Work
In the last post, I shared a few examples of people who have turned doing what they love into a stream of income. If you look at those examples, there are three basic ways you can make your knowledge...
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Why It’s Important to Work with What You Love
As you try to decide what to do for your first microbusiness, you may be tempted to research trends in order to find the most profitable niche. Research has it’s place, of course, but it’s not the only...
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Spin Straw into Gold in a Microbusiness
Remember the story of Rumplestilskin and the ambitious miller who told a king that his daughter could spin straw into gold? Many people dream of finding or creating more income, but they sometimes...
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How to Use Pinterest for Business
Pinterest is one of the most dynamic of the social networking sites. It’s not just fun and engaging; it can also be a very powerful tool for sharing what you do in your microbusiness and networking in...
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7 Reasons to Keep Your Business Small
I’ll admit it–I’m a bit of a contrarian. Most of the business advice you’ll read is about growing your business as big and as fast as you possibly can, but for the Do What Matters business, that’s not...
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Three Questions to Ask Successful Microbusiness Entrepreneurs
There are many ways to learn–books, blogs, classes, lectures, online videos, podcasts, and more. You can even learn by jumping in and trying something, though I wouldn’t necessarily recommend the...
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A Shift in Direction
When I started this blog, I planned to focus strictly on entrepreneurship and microbusiness because those things can make it possible to live a doing-what-matters life. The problem was, with a URL like...
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A Simple Bookkeeping System for Small Business
A Simple Bookkeeping System for Micro-business A guest post by Carol Topp, CPA Small business owners need a simple bookkeeping method. The system described here uses single entry bookkeeping, not...
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Get Ready for Tax Time
Get ready for tax time with organized records A guest post by Carol Topp, CPA If you have been keeping an organized record of your income and expenses, you will find tax preparation easy. If you are...
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