I will be hosting a Micro Business for Teens: Starting a Micro Business workshop at the Midpointe Library in West Chester, Ohio on Wednesday June 6 from 7-8:30 pm.

This free workshop will help a teenager discover how to launch a successful micro business.

Micro Business for Teens: Starting a Micro Business explains what a micro business is, offers instruction on writing a business plan, and financing the business. Students will develop a viable idea, create a sales presentation, and leave knowing they can be running a micro business this summer.

Date: Wednesday June 6, 2012

Time: 7:00 -8:30 pm

Place: Midpointe Library-West Chester Branch, 9363 Centre Pointe Drive, West Chester, OH 45069. Community Rooms A/B

Charge: no charge!

Presenter: Carol Topp, CPA a certified public accountant and West Chester resident, is a mentor to many successful teen entrepreneurs. She hosts this workshop based on her Micro Business for Teens book series and PBS television show.

Registration: None needed. Just come!

Participants will be given a workbook to brainstorm ideas, draft a business plan and prepare a sales presentation.

For more information visit the library’s website at: http://www.midpointelibrary.org/events/event-detail/?id=504

or the Micro Business for Teens website at MicroBusinessForTeens.com

HomeschoolConvention.com reviewed Starting a Micro Business

My 13-year-old daughter recently took a Homeschool Entrepreneurship class that used Carol Topp’s book, Starting a Micro Business for Teens. I was intrigued by the book and curious to see how much my daughter would learn. You see, shortly after my first son was born, I started an embroidery digitizing business so I could stay home with him. It was a successful business that I had for nearly ten years, but a lot of what I learned was by trial and error. I can only imagine the benefits, had I been able to learn some important business facts at an earlier age!

Starting a Micro Business is practical and very easy to read. There are seven chapters in the book that include ideas for starting a micro-business, problems and pitfalls of a micro-business, how to write a business plan, what type of finances will be needed, and problems with debt. It is filled with useful information, questions to consider, and forms to fill out. It is also quite encouraging and motivating, in that examples are given of teens who have successfully started their own businesses. There are also several resourceful websites listed in the book.

Any young boy or girl (or even adult) who has a desire to start a micro business would benefit from reading this book. After reading it, my daughter decided to start her own micro business to help people organize their homes. Her first client had some inventory sitting around from a previous business that she wanted to sell. My daughter organized and inventoried the products, sold them, and made a $240.00 profit! Starting a Micro Business gave her just the nudge she needed to pursue her business.

-Reviewed by: Kimberly Williams

Thanks HomeschoolConvention.com for the review! I hope Kimberly’s story inspires you (or a teenager in your house) that you can make money from a micro business!

Carol Topp

Join me LIVE Wednesday May 2 at 11 am ET as I present

How You (or Your Child) Can Be a Published Author

at the  2012 Ultimate Homeschool Expo

This Expo allows you to listen to over 20 sessions live for free.

Or buy a ticket and listen to over 80 workshops from speakers, such as Jeannie Fullbright with Apologia, Cathy Duffy, Maggie Hogan with Bright Ideas Press, Felice Gerwitz, and SO Many More!

My sessions include:

How You (or Your Child) Can Be a Published Author Listen LIVE May 2 at 11 am ET. Click here

The IRS and Your Homeschool Organization Buy a ticket to hear this pre-recorded session

What Your Teenager Can Learn from Starting a Micro Business Buy a ticket to hear this pre-recorded session

I hope lots of you can join me at the Ultimate Homeschool Expo 2012 live!

Carol Topp

This is the front and back of a postcard created by Western Reserve Public Media (PBS) for the upcoming broadcast of Micro Business for Teens: Starting a Micro Business.

Look for the show to be aired on your local PBS station later in 2012!

Carol Topp

You can be part of a national TV production studio audience!

The Burton D. Morgan Foundation and Western Reserve PBS (formerly PBS 45 & 49) invite students and parents interested in youth entrepreneurship to be part of the studio audience for the national production Micro Business for Teens: Starting a Micro Business.

WHO
Students in grades 7-12, parents, educators and anyone working in youth entrepreneurship. Bring a group or come on your own!

WHAT
The taping of Western Reserve PBS’s Micro Business for Teens: Starting a Micro Business, a practical how-to television production that will walk teens and their parents and teachers through steps that can lead to the launch of a successful micro business. The program is hosted by Carol Topp, CPA, author of the Micro Business for Teens book series on which this TV show is based.

WHERE
Wright-Curtis Theatre at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.

WHEN
Thursday, February 9, 2012, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

LIMITED SEATING — first-come, first-served. Groups are welcome!

YOUR RSVP IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND. PLEASE RESPOND AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN!
Call Jessie Springer at 1-800-554-4549 or email her at JSpringer@WesternReservePBS.org<mailto:JSpringer@WesternReservePBS.org>. You’ll need to provide names, addresses and phone numbers of all people attending with you.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
For more information on what the studio audience does, what to wear, and program air dates, please see the attached flyer or visit http://www.westernreservepublicmedia.org/micro.htm.

Micro Business taping invite