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Ria’s Slime Shop: A Girlpreneur Reducing Stress and Building her Business

Ria's Slime Shop is an online store run by a girlpreneur. She creates homeade slime that helps calm kids down.

What is your name and business name? My name is Maria Raquel Thomas and my business name is Ria’s Slime Shop.

What does your business do? My business is an online store that is full of homemade slime that helps kids calm down. It’s great for kids when they stress or have anxiety and they can play with it for hours! 

How did you get the original idea? I got the original idea from my friends liking the slime that I made and my mom helped me turn it into a business. 

What are your favorite things about being young, female and entrepreneurial? My favorite things about being a young female entrepreneur is people appreciate the work you do. I like to put a smile on people’s face with my product. I want to be a Scientist, Inventor and Doctor because I like to help people and the planet. This business helps me get started. 

Read This: How can entrepreneurship help your daughter build self confidence?

Ria's slime business is built on a love affair with making fun slime and people reducing stress

What advice would you suggest to another young girl who wants to start her own business? Some advice I would give to a young female entrepreneur is to do what you love don’t just do it for the money. Really put your heart into it and don’t let anyone get in your ear and tell you that you can’t do it. My mom always says “put your invisible headphones on when people start to hate on your success.” 

What is your funniest OR craziest OR most favorite moment with a customer? My favorite moment with the customer is when I see the smile on their face when they play with my slime and the craziest moments where when kids were asking me for my autograph at a slime convention. I love that that kids enjoy my slime. 

Rita's Slime Shop - My business is an online store that is full of homemade slime that helps kids calm down.

Have you faced any disadvantages? If so, talk about how you overcame them. Some disadvantages I’ve had is sometimes I can’t go to some of my friends’ parties and events because I am working. I tell myself, if I keep working hard it will pay off in the future and everything will turn out just fine. 

What is next for your business and what motivational advice do you have for readers? What is next for my business is that I currently working on a slime collaboration with my younger sister who makes slime also. My motivational advice would be to focus on your passion and run with it. You can do this! 

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No job this summer? Start a lemonade stand

Ahhhh the days of summer are upon us.

Does your daughter have plans this summer?  Great!  Does she want to earn money or find something to do with her free time?

Help her start a lemonade stand.

Lemonade

Running a business is one of the best activities for young people to engage in. And when I think about all of the skills that a young woman gains by starting her own lemonade stand…the list is endless.

She’ll learn about

Marketing – How to pitch a product and get people interested
Production – How to produce the best quality product with the lowest amount of resources spent
Sales and Negotiation: Think about how unafraid she’ll be the first day that she needs to negotiate a job offer if she has had to deal with tough sales before.
Finances: Watch how quickly she can do math once someone wants multiple cups of lemonade or some other creative sale comes in!

So encourage her to get started.  It can be as simple as finding a space and selling for one day or setting up several stands over the summer  with the help of her friends.

Don’t worry about perfection!  She will definitely make some mistakes when she starts but the key is to try, practice and gain skills so that she gets more and more comfortable with her sales skills and ability to find customers.

So think about a good location, help her gather supplies (free is always good where possible!) and challenge her to earn some spending money by starting a lemonade stand.

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