GirlWise by Julia DeVillers

Author:Julia DeVillers [DeVillers, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-55641-7
Publisher: Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
Published: 2002-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

There are always ways to “buy into” a fad inexpensively. If a certain shade of green is all the craze one season, find a hair scrunchie or a scarf in that color and spend just a few dollars instead of $50 on a sweater that color.

Use fads in a conscious way. If you’ve gone through this list, and you still think it empowers you to have the item, then go ahead and give it a try. That’s the right reason to buy into a fad.

Be an Entrepreneur

When I was five, my twin sister and I started our first business. We caught these huge crickets in the woods by our house and put them in a box. We then went around the neighborhood door to door, asking people if they wanted to buy a cricket for a nickel. We had some success; other kids bought a few.

But we ran into a couple snags. A lot of moms answered the door and were grossed out—especially when we would open the box to show them what we had and a bunch of crickets would jump out and make a break for freedom. And then the fatal flaw: We didn’t realize you should poke holes in the lid. So we had to have a mass burial of our product. We learned some business lessons that day. And felt a little guilty about our profits since they were at the expense of the poor crickets.

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own business? Elizabeth Carlassare wrote a book called DotCom Divas and interviewed a bunch of successful women Internet entrepreneurs. Elizabeth says this:

Many young women and, yes, even girls have started their own successful businesses. Starting your own business can be incredibly satisfying and allows you to directly reap the rewards of your own efforts. Starting your own business doesn’t need to be a big production. There are many ways to start small and test the waters to see if entrepreneurship might be for you.

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