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Micro Business Ideas, Blog · October 4, 2018

Success Starts Small!

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When starting your micro business, remember that every success story has to start somewhere! Humble beginnings are nothing to scoff at; most businesses start small. UPS is the perfect example. In 1907, Claude Ryan and Jim Casey borrowed $100 and a bicycle to deliver packages around their Seattle home. As the company expanded, the teens ran their business in the borrowed basement of a nearby hotel. Soon, it outgrew their few delivery trucks, and the teen founders merged with retail store delivery. Two teenagers started the United Postal Service over a hundred years ago, and it is now the world’s largest package delivery company! Claude and Jim didn’t start big. They ran a small delivery service from their home. With hard work and a little creativity, it grew into an extremely successful business. Your idea can, too!

Learn how to make that happen in my book, Starting a Micro Business, today!

 

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Carol Topp, CPA is the author of the Micro Business for Teens books.

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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.

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