• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Micro Business for Teens

Starting and running a micro business

  • Home
  • About
    • Speaker/Workshops
    • Media Kit
    • What Others Say
  • Products
    • Micro Business for Teens Curriculum
    • Starting a Micro Business book
    • Running a Micro Business book
    • Money and Taxes in a Micro Business
    • Micro Business for Teens Workbook
    • Video: Starting a Micro Business
    • Career Exploration
  • Teacher Resources
  • Contact
  • Blog

Starting a Micro, Blog, Featured · December 20, 2009

Get a Small Business for Christmas

You are here: Home / Starting a Micro / Get a Small Business for Christmas

ChristmasGifts3

What does a good son give his hard-working mother for Christmas?  The small business she has been dreaming about!

Tammy Murray of Sacramento, is about to get an amazing gift this Christmas: the business of her dreams.

Tammy’s son, Bryan, heard his mom talking about her dream business — sending cookies and care packages to college students — for more than a year. Tammy’s done a bit of groundwork. She has the recipes and lined up a commercial kitchen. She even had a possible name for her business: Tammy Loves Cookies or TLC.

Like so many entrepreneurs, Tammy’s timid about taking the next steps. So Bryan decided to give her a gentle push. For Christmas, he’d give his mom some business cards, a website, and a domain name.

What a neat idea!  Read more here.

If you are a teenager looking to start a micro business, did you put I want a micro business on your Christmas list? Why not!

Here’s what you could ask for:

  • Computer
  • Accounting software like Quickbooks
  • An hour with an accountant to guide you and answer your questions
  • A logo designed by a graphic artist
  • Business cards
  • Books on business and entrepreneurship
  • A few hours with a virtual assistant to set up a mailing list or a shopping cart

Some of these might be difficult to wrap, but a gift certificate explaining the gift can be drawn up on a computer or simply written by hand.  It’s the thought that counts!

Merry Christmas

Related posts:

  1. Teens Start Their Own Businesses
  2. Teen T-Shirt Entrepreneur Wins $10,000
  3. Business Ideas from College Humor
  4. How to Make Money on Craigslist
  5. Vanessa’s Business Plan

Filed Under: Starting a Micro, Blog, Featured Tagged With: micro business, start up, teenager

Carol Topp, CPA

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Diana Quin says

    January 8, 2010 at 12:32 am

    I really enjoyed your article in the Homeschool Enrichment publication recently. I have 2 girls that are 8 and almost 10 and already planning how they are going to earn money. They have already done some dogsitting for grandma and grandpa and made some money.
    Thanks again and I look forward to reading more.

Footer

Connect with author Carol Topp, CPA

Tags

advertising Author business business plan Career exploration Carol Topp customer service debt Dollars and Sense Show entrepreneur how to start a business Ideas internet make money Marketing micro business micro business for teens Micro business idea money PBS plan podcast product based business publishing record keeping running a micro business sales sale tax service based business start a business start a micro business Starting a Micro Business start micro business start up success taxes teen teenage author teenager teenagers teen business teen business idea traditional publishing Ultimate Homeschool Radio Network writing

From a parent

Thank you for your e-book on teen micro businesses. Your valuable experience and wealth of knowledge is vast.

Your presentations at Cincinnati homeschool conferences and sharing with us over the years have benefited us well.

I can hardly believe we are at this point in our life-and here he is a young man ready to try his fortune with the world.

-Mandy S

Newsletter

Copyright © 2025 · Showcase Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in