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This information continues the unveiling of a system for educating your teens a way to get going a profitable business and turn into businessmen. This system is the first of its sort to really make it convenient to instruct your teenagers not just tips to set off a business, but how you can recognise opportunities in the marketplace and create an entrepreneurial frame of mind.

Enterprise schooling is emerging as a major part in the training of the next generation.

Twenty-four Fortune 500 companies have invested $1,000,000 or even more each into the educational effort of enterprise schooling programmes. One leading company, recognised to be at the cutting edge of innovative ideas, all alone provided two million dollars to produce a state-of-the-art small-business simulator for business-organisation learning.

With this particular system, you’ll be at the cutting edge of the “teaching entrepreneurs” movement. You’ll be able to aid many others educate yourself about by your experience.

Entrepreneurship will soon enough be an integral part of every high school education. Sadly, you can find very little available today about this theme – in particular for men and women who home-school. It’s possible to alter that as you learn and share what you know.

This system is organized to really make it simple for you to coach, regardless of whether you’ve never acquired any business-concern experience. All the work is performed for you in a Monday to Friday training plan. It’s also a perfect family project that a range of ages would participate in.

Why trying to learn methods to create a home enterprise is made for the homeschool high school:

•    A practical method of studying is verified for its potency in retaining what teens are mastering. This is certainly one class you will never have to tell them twice to do.

•    Taking time and energy to educate yourself on absolutely necessary business-organisation principles now, before the obligations of a family ensure it is tougher to fit this right into a tight timetable.

•    The additional currency accumulated from their part-time business-organisation can help to finance their auto insurance, and those other ‘extras’ they’ve been eager for.

•    Having their own business-organization appears fantastic on a college or job application.

•    Math and other subjects suddenly adopt a whole new meaning when adolescents view it employed on real life scenarios.

•    Many potential ‘business problems’ offer a most appropriate opportunity for crucial discussions of life matters.

•    You will not only provide them with a skill that they’ll have for the remainder of their life, it really is a course that kids are very determined to read and learn from. (The thought of additional cash sometimes has that effect)

•    Completed as outlined, it counts as a one semester (.5) credit (HSLDA endorsed) course.

It’s actually sanctioned and posted on HSLDA’s and Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s websites.

The HSLDA Homeschool Marketplace is considered the most trustworthy supply of curriculum for the homeschool high school. The system announced here has been accepted into the Marketplace and presently is the only one listed under Internet-Marketing-Business Curriculums and Web-Business Skills.

The system addresses a good number of topics of interest including creating a home-based business plan, marketing strategies, setting prices, and others.  It gives you step by step instructions including worksheets and many hands-on things to do.  It’s actually an awesome resource to supply your budding business owner with specifics he/she needs to launch a profitable business while building simple accounting, online-business skills, and advertising acumen.

To sum up, here are a few of the options that come with this system:

•    Ways to select the most suitable business-model for your situation and personality.

•    The best ways to research your idea for success.

•    A way to craft an effective internet-business plan out of an easy to follow outline.

•    Tips on how to pick out a name that the various search engines absolutely adore.

•    Tips on how to determine your prices.

•    Where to search out customers.

•    The best way to advertise on a thumb-sized budget.

•    Ideas on how to craft a fundamental budget.

•    Tips on how to fully understand what it requires to ensure that it stays legitimate.

•    Techniques to build a painless bookkeeping system.

•    A way to write a press release launching your business-venture.

•    Where to uncover suppliers.

•    Places to access costless resources like business cards, web sites, and advertising.

This article has carried on the unveiling of a system for showing your young adults the best way to get going on an enterprise and become internet marketers. This system is considered the first of its class to really make it an easy task to teach your adolescents not merely the best ways to get started on an enterprise, but guidelines on how to have an understanding of opportunities in the marketplace and establish an entrepreneurial state of mind.
 
Regrettably, because of constraints on space, we cannot possibly include the total details of the system unveiled here. But should you be interested you may find out more about this system, which is absolutely recommended to all moms and dads wishing to grow an web-business mind in their teens, by clicking on this Homeschool Business Woman: Proclaim to Your Youngsters Enterprise – for Parents and Guardians link.

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You may also understand more about commencing, restarting, fixing, operating, or optimising your internet business by going to this home, internet marketing, or online business opportunities site.

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Definitions of some English words can change quite rapidly these days. In the recent past the meaning of words was often very fixed. Today the meaning can change in the blink of an eye. With faster and newer ways to exchange ideas such as Twitter and with wider and more culturally, socially and educationally dissimilar groups connecting together – words are put back on the anvil of evolution and changed into something new and more reflective of current life.

There’s a significant global movement happening where consumers are asking business to take care of the things they care about such as the less fortunate in society and the environment. The request is mainly tacit and despite it being an ironic request it by far indicates still that we are in a time of vast change. Consumers these days want their cake and eat it. They not only want cheap products, they also want the environment to be preserved and they want workers to be well looked after.

There does not seem to be an answer to this conundrum and yet one does exist. It exists in the recoining or reforging of a single word. This word is a simple one – GET. Today, new movements of people who want to get but give at the same time are reforging it. It is being transformed into the word GIVE.

Every day automated email notices arrive in my inbox from Google Alerts for two keywords – BOGO and B1G1. I see all the new places these words are turning up on the Internet. Little by little these two words are gaining a their new meaning as more and more people take up the Buy One Give One cause.

B1G1 and BOGO, despite sounding like characters from a Marvel comic are acronyms for Buy One GET One free. You buy one and they give you an extra one for the same price.

Look up BOGO on Wikipedia.com (there isn’t a definition yet for B1G1) and you will discover these definitions for BOGO:

* An acronym in the retail industry that stands for Buy One Get One. For example, you could say “Buy 1 DVD, Get 1 FREE!

* An acronym in slang British that stands for Britons Of Greek Origin or Greek Britons.

* Bogo, Cebu, a city in central Philippines.

* An alternate name for the Bilen ethnic group of Ethiopia or their language, Blin.

* Norway, a village in Norway.

* The mascot of the ITESM CEM.

* BogoMips, an unscientific measurement of CPU speed

* Bogosort, an ineffective sorting algorithm

BOGO lights

There is an organisation in the USA called SunLight Solar founded by a gentleman called Mark Bent. He has created a special torch that not only is an amazing and robust solar-powered light; his company also gives a free torch to a family in need in developing nations for each one purchased. If you look on their website you will learn about their “BOGOlight”.

“The BoGo – our Buy one/Give one – program has successfully provided lights to many, many thousands of people in the developing world, changing lives because of your purchase and participation.” – BOGOlight.com

Mark Bent turned the acronym upside down when he started to use the word as part of his product name. For him now and the thousands who buy his lights, BOGO now means Buy One GIVE One. Each person gets to give a light every time they buy one for themselves. So now with each sale, people who do not have the luxury of electricity can harness the power of the sun to support their lives.

There are many other well known and many less well know businesses doing Buy One Give One giving, or transaction-based giving as its becoming known. Some of the famous companies are OLPC – One-Laptop-Per-Child and TOM’S Shoes. Some of the less well-known ones (in the US at least) are based in Oceania and the UK – Earthstar Publishing, Maple Muesli, Blinds Couture, Figure 8 Body Chains, Sunsplash Homes, Honestly Women magazine and Thavibu Gallery based in Thailand are just a small handful of these special businesses that are leading the Buy One Give One movement.

Many Buy One Give One businesses are coming together under the single brand banner of Buy1GIVE1; a Singaporean based social enterprise which is becoming the home of transaction based giving. Any business can now choose to be part of Buy One Give One giving with ease. It’s like a CSR ‘plug-in’ to allow a business to start giving from each and every sale today – starting from just one cent. It is now not even a matter of giving an equivalent product to someone else. Instead it is about giving to a charity project that is in resonance with a company’s business activity. For example a magazine publisher cannot support the planting of a tree every time they sell a subscription, a restaurant can feed a child for each meal sold, a TV store can gift a cataract blind person with the gift of sight (Get Vision-Give Vision), and a builder or property developer can build a budget home for those in need who have lost their homes in a disaster (Buy1BUILD1) – the list is only limited by imagination.

There is something very special happening these days as more and more people are switching to giving and what are known as ‘citizen brands’ as a part of their everyday experience. In the 2008 Goodpurpose study of global consumer attitudes it reveals that almost 68% of consumers would choose to remain loyal to a brand during an economic downturn if it supports a good cause. And 71% say that when they think about the economic downturn, they have either given the same or more time and money to good causes. This study also highlighted some other key points as well such as:

* Half (52%) of consumers globally are more likely to recommend a brand to others when it supports a good charity cause over one that does not.

* 54% would sing the praises of a brand to promote their products if there was a good cause behind it.

* And going even further globally, consumers are voicing a strong desire for marketers to connect their brands to social causes or action. Forty-two percent say that if two products or services are of the same quality and price, commitment to a social purpose trumps factors like design, innovation and brand loyalty when choosing one product brand over another.

Transforming Getting into Giving

In the minds of consumers, Buy One GIVE One is expected to replace Buy One GET One as the new global giving movement led by Buy1GIVE1 spreads. Certainly with the massive sales results and consumer demand shown for companies like BOGOlights, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and TOMS Shoes, this tide will continue to spread and grow.

I did a recent Google search to find the top 25 keywords associated with the keywords BOGO and B1G1. The results were interesting indeed seeing none of them contained the word Give. You can see the results below. It will be interested to repeat this experiment in 12 months time to see what changes. Consumers are now starting to drive significant change and despite them wanting to receive free gifts (as in traditional BOGO/B1G1), they equally want to help others and the environment. This feeling is validated by 2008′s Goodpurpose global study.

Keyword results:

Free, shopping, pics, join, prose, photography, blogging, discount, boots, groups, music, dallas, togo themes, wallpapers, buy, applications, skins, values, coupon, gift, sharing, networking, African.

Transaction-based or transactional giving

Unlike traditional charity giving, Buy One Give One giving is transactional in that every time you buy something, you give something. In the case of SunNight Solar they happen to give a physical light for every light sold. However, in most cases, Buy1GIVE1 associated businesses give in a different way. At Buy1GIVE1, giving can start from just USD 1c contribution per sale and go up to thousands of dollars in the case of Buy1BUILD1. At 1cent almost every business in the world can afford to give from each sale especially when they know 100% contributed goes to the cause.

The amount contributed from each sale is not the point of focus with Buy1GIVE1 transaction based giving. The focus is instead on the story and sharing the simple joy of giving. In the end, if you think that 1c is not a lot to contribute and is unlikely to make much of a difference think again and consider the following idea.

From its origins in Ethiopia, where the main coffee production is still from wild coffee tree forests, coffee consumption has spread globally. Brazil is still by far the largest coffee producer in the world producing on average 28% of the world’s total coffee. In 2006 Brazil produced enough coffee to make 216,400,000,000 (216 billion four hundred million) espresso coffees. If we were to calculate across global production then we get a daily global consumption of around 2,117,416,830 cups of coffee – wow. The figures are somewhat hard to track down but let’s guess that 40% of the world’s coffee is sold and consumed in coffee shops then we would get that 846,966,732 cups are sold commercially each day globally – nearly 900 million. This would equate to about’5,485,714 cups in the US on its own seeing they purchase around 21% of the world’s coffee.

Imagine now that for every cup of coffee sold a child in a developing region like Africa received drinking water from its own well and it costing only one US cent per person per day. Now any coffee shop could afford to contribute this amount from the sale of a single cup of coffee because it has a high profit margin sale. Imagine the different that this alone would make in the world.

Transaction based giving is the story of a thousand mile journey starting with the first step. To dig a well costs a few thousand dollars hence many communities in developing nations cannot afford to dig wells. But when you see that it only takes the sale of a single cup of coffee to give clean well water to a single person for a day1, then you can see the magic of transactional based giving. Buy1GIVE1 giving is like the compound interest of giving – a little turns into a lot very quickly.

So many companies are used to doing things on their own. Doing transactional giving is no different. A company can go out find a cause and start doing Buy One Give One giving. And yet they are missing the point when they do this. Buy1GIVE1 giving is about sharing the joy of giving and not trying to change the world. As soon as you step up and say you are going to change the world then the world will step up and challenge you. Within a heartbeat a company would experience the sharp scrutiny of the media inspecting their every move. And yet when a company steps up and says it is supporting what its customer want and joins with others in its industry to do that in a win-win way, the story is different. When companies choose to join together under a commonly recognised banner/brand they can have a powerful joint effect. The ripple that a single company creates is added to that of another and the ripple grows into a tidal wave that benefits so many. This is the power of giving and doing things together.

The final power of Buy One Give One transaction based giving is that everyone wins – the consumer wins – at no extra cost to themselves they have made a difference through their purchasing choices – the business wins in so many ways – and the worthy cause or charity wins because they can now receive small amounts from many sources all aggregated and paid as a lump sum from a single source if done through the Buy1GIVE1 service.

A new start – a new world – new thinking

If you go right now and check Wikipedia.com for the word BOGO you should find that a new definition has been added. And soon B1G1 will be added. It is time for a sea-change – a change from the focus on GETTING to focusing on GIVING. I personally added a small addition to Wikipedia’s BOGO definition that says this: “… an acronym in the marketing industry that stands for Buy One GIVE One.”

Simply imagine our world where every time you go and buy something you give something automatically and seamlessly – giving a gift forward to someone in greater need than you. This is the simple joyful magic of transactional giving.

This is the world I choose to be a part of.

And remember – you don’t ‘get’ giving till you get giving.

References:

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee

http://www.dep.org.uk/globalexpress/13/page1.htm

http://www.scfnw.org.uk/site/article183.html

http://www.coffeepoet.com/2007/09/

http://www.scfnw.org.uk/site/article183.html

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee

http://www.tesco.com/greenerliving/what_we_are_doing/ethical_clothing.page

Footnotes: 1 The daily cost for clean well water per person is calculated by taking the average cost to dig a well then dividing that amount by its average expected life without major maintenance then divided it by the number of people in the community benefiting from the well on a daily basis.

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