Mom & Daughters Inc

Developing the entrepreneurial mindset in girls

FREE Course

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.

Send me photos or stories to share with the Mom & Daughters Inc family!!

 

Don’t spend all of your Christmas/Holiday money!!

Does your daughter spend her gift money faster than a speeding bullet?  I’m betting that your daughter has received money as a gift.  Perhaps birthday.  Or the holidays.  Or some other special occasion. But does she immediately spend her money?  Or does she save a percentage?   Let’s talk about how she can game change her […]

Got an idea? Mom Grows A Business Conference 2014

Now if you are reading this blog because you want to start a business alongside your daughter – you are going to love this post! This is the second year of the Mom Grows a Business Conference and I was tickled pink recently when the founder, Patty Lennon, agreed to share more about the event […]