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Biz Kid$ volume 9
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English
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You’ll learn about the power and pitfalls of credit, which is essentially using someone else’s money temporarily (for a price). Meet a young entrepreneur who used credit to start a successful bath salts business and another who launched a successful design firm. And, as a cautionary tale, we talk to a young woman who had fun buying with credit until she found herself in bankruptcy.
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Biz Kid$ volume 12
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English
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You’ll discover an entrepreneur is someone who sees a financial opportunity and acts upon it. Learn the stories behind the Frisbee, the Slinky, and blue jeans. Meet an entrepreneur who started a lemonade stand to raise money for playground equipment, then grew so successful she was able to make over an entire park.
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Biz Kid$ volume 4
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English
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Decisions, decisions! Join the Biz Kids and you’ll ponder the merits of spending, saving, donating, and investing money. Visit the New York Stock Exchange, get tips from the author of Not Buying It, and learn to avoid compulsive shopping. You can also learn how to create a financial diary and track spending. Meet an ambitious teen who opened a candy store at age 15 and, in the process, fulfilled a dream and revived an ailing business district in...
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Biz Kid$ volume 19
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English
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When is a job more than a job? The Biz Kids look at what it takes to find your true calling. You’ll learn ways to start exploring careers. The kids talk to several celebrities and find out how they got their start and how they keep achieving their dreams.
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Biz Kid$ volume 13
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English
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The Biz Kids learn the world of marketing through the “Project Lemonade Challenge.” Two teams, two identical lemonade stands. It’s up to the kids to decide the price and promotion strategy to sell the most product. The proceeds go to their favorite charities. You’ll see the preparation and the results when they are critiqued by marketing guru Scott Bedbury, the force behind Nike’s slogan “Just do it.”
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Biz Kid$ volume 14
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English
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Get the most for your money. Join the Biz Kids and you’ll explore smart shopping strategies. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls and traps set by savvy marketers and high-pressure salesmen. Meet some smart consumers and successful entrepreneurs.
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Biz Kid$ volume 24
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English
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From start-up on up! Follow the Biz Kids as they learn the necessary steps for organizing, staffing, training, and building a new business. You will see how effective communication increases morale and makes the business grow. As always, you’ll meet some individuals who have successfully built their businesses.
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Biz Kid$ volume 7
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English
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You’ll see that a successful business supplies goods or services and makes profit when it earns more money than it spends. Meet the junior high school boy who makes healthy dog biscuits, the high school twins with a cake decorating company, and the college student seeking investors for his successful corporation.
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Biz Kid$ volume 22
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English
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All sales final. Join the Biz Kids in sales training as they explore philosophy and sales techniques. Discover the traits common to all good salespeople. You’ll meet several entrepreneurs who demonstrate superior sales skills!
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Biz Kid$ volume 3
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English
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Join us and you’ll explore many ways to make money. Follow a Biz Kid on a job hunt—reviewing help wanted ads, filling out the application, and going through the interview. Hear from business celebrities, including Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, as they talk about their very first jobs. The Biz Kids also look at the many ways kids get and use allowances. Meet a young person whose love of animals turned into a profitable dog-walking business.
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Biz Kid$ volume 1
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English
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You’ll learn that anybody can be a Biz Kid with effort and the right attitude. Biz Kids identify a need, make a plan, and take action. Join us and you’ll meet a skateboard designer, a rap music producer, a boy who started a rock-a-thon to raise money for hospital rocking chairs, and more. You’ll also discover the entrepreneur who built a wildly successful garden products business on … worm poop. All successful. All Biz Kids.
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Biz Kid$ volume 11
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English
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Biz Kids Beware. Protect the money you already have by putting it in a safe place. Beware of scams and schemers. You’ll discover ways to avoid the growing problem of identity theft. Meet with Washington State’s Attorney General Rob McKenna and the Better Business Bureau. You’ll also see young people who did blow their dough, and find out what that experience has taught them.
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Biz Kid$ volume 25
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English
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What’s on your stub, bub? The Biz Kids use a modern American pay stub to explore various social movements of the last century. From unions to social security and from workman’s compensation to the 401(k) plans of today—it’s all there on the stub. Plus, you’ll meet entrepreneurs and explore how they started their businesses.
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Biz Kid$ volume 16
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English
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The Biz Kids learn the first rule of money management: you can’t manage what you don’t know. Join the kids and you’ll look at spending and expenses and examine several proven methods on how to gain control of both. You’ll also meet several successful entrepreneurs.
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Biz Kid$ volume 26
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English
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Join the Biz Kids and you’ll meet social visionaries who use the same tools as profit-oriented entrepreneurs. Yet instead of building companies and large profits, these people create thriving organizations and powerful movements for social change.
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Biz Kid$ volume 18
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English
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You’ll learn along with the Biz Kids about the powerful potential of starting a savings plan early in life. You’ll also discover various savings and investing options available to young people. As always, you’ll meet individuals who are successful at saving and at their businesses.
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Biz Kid$ volume 15
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English
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Don’t live on borrowed time. Join the Biz Kids and you’ll see the true cost of purchasing with credit. You’ll also have an unsettling look at credit scores and the increasing number of people and places (employers, insurers, colleges, etc.) who are using these scores to make major decisions that could affect your future. Meet entrepreneurs who have successfully navigated credit pitfalls.
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