Helping student entrepreneurs succeed in small business

Posted on April 24, 2007

Ok, I was just preparing to write the small review on Founders at work when I’ve got contacted by Gregg Blanchard from www.teenbizideas.org with the following “I am the host of TeenBiz: The Podcast, a resource for teens and students to help them start small businesses.” Hey, this is about young entrepreneurs - as I’ve discovered from the Founders at work - a lot of good stuff is created by young business people. And it’s about small businesses. I should make place for this in my blog.

Now, young people have a better time listening to other young people (not that I’m so old) so, let’s see if www.teenbizideas.org can really help them out. I’ve listened to the last podcasts and I found them good advice for wanna be entrepreneurs.

I liked very much the idea that young entrepreneurs should be able to “sell the business idea” to their parents first, in order to get their support. If you come from a family that worked in the corporate environment, it will be much more difficult to prove yourself as an entrepreneur. You have to show them how serious you are and that you are going to do better than in the corporate thing.

Networking. I think I said this before (but Small business entrepreneur it’s a long blog already and really hard to find stuff around) that sometimes it doesn’t matter what product you have on sales but who you know. Skills, sales tools and all the things you need to promote your product can be easily replaced by knowing the right person. Networking is good. It can help you reach providers, investors, jobs and help.

Image and branding.Well, good point, if you are young, you usually have to prove yourself not only to your parents but to the market, clients and competition as well. Your positive, smiling appearance it’s a must when networking and seriousness, professionalism and commitment should be your values when dealing with customers from your teen posture.

These are just very few ideas that young entrepreneurs can learn from www.teenbizideas.org. And, Gregg announced me some more goodies: “The podcast we will be featuring on May 3rd a collection of about 5 additional resources (i.e. blogs, podcasts, etc) that listeners can turn to for additional views on entrepreneurialism, web design, marketing, etc. I will be going over what I have learned from your blog and how it may help listeners in their own businesses”

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