Thursday, October 19, 2006

The Entrepreneur


This is my niece. She's 8. She has recently turned into a young entrepreneur, and the last i've heard her net profit is closing RM50...that's huge for a kid, right...

Her modus operandi is simple, her little friends can place an order for any song lyrics to her. Then she'll go home and get daddy to surf the net, download, reformat and print out for her. She keeps the original printout for "stock", and photocopy at 10sen per piece and sell it at 20sen.

I met her the other night an she showed me her best sellers. Check out what 8 year olds are listening to:

(Not in any particular order)
1. My Heart- the soundtrack from the lovy-dovy Indon movie Heart
2. Kenangan Terindah - Indon band Samson
3. some love song fr Indon band Peter Pan
4. all songs from Disney's High School Musical
5. some love song fr Indon band Radja

And to supplement her core business, she's also selling tissue packets at 50sen each. Of course she bulk buys...only the ones with cute cartoons on the packet. However, her parents thinks she's ripping her friends off so now tissues are on a discount at 30sen per packet...

I dont think i sold anything at that age....i think the whole thing she's doing is cute & i'm so proud of her;-)

6 comments:

Halley said...

At this time of the day I was stucked at jalan tun razak for an hour...menyampah... U must be bored today... Eh...your niece looks like you la...

Anonymous said...

i used to do homework for my friends LOL

anne said...

halley....bored? not really, busy in fact...but have to keep the blog alive. No lah, she looks like her mum...

lx....for money? u naughty boy!

Vernon Kedit said...

If at this age she is already thinking entreupreneurially, imagine what she'll be earning 10 years from now.

Well done!

Jill Yusoff said...

The entrepreunership must have ran in the family :) I am so charitable I am almost always do things for free. Not anymore!

Anonymous said...

hey anne ... salam raya, maaf zahir & batin! Enjoy the hols and have a safe one k.

errr ... tumpang salam to jill as well ;-)