One very simple business to start is to sell things online.

And this is kind of getting into the skills of tomorrow because skills like lawn care lawn mowing.

You know that they only teach so much right so we need to tackle the skills learned the skills of today

and tomorrow.

And so it's e-commerce.

And the easiest way to start is of course selling things around the home or neighbors.

John Goehring you think as on eBay on online sites on Facebook groups there a lot of things you can

do like that.

But pretty soon you obviously run out of things to sell.

It's not a problem to a lot of things to sell because you can start going further.

Neighbors going around to do you know to look at things in different garage sales over the weekend and

this is something you can do with your child.

So it's a little bit of bonding.

And again it's a business that you can literally start overnight.

It's very very simple business to do.

But it really only goes so far and the beautiful thing about this business is if it teaches your child

to be comfortable selling online one they are comfortable selling online.

You have a lot of things that open up options really open up and you can start thinking of your own

products to create and you also are going to begin teaching your child about inventory management because

there's another that's another dimension of many kinds of businesses.

You have products what if they don't sell like you might get a lot of junk.

And it's exciting to try to sell it on eBay.

But if it overflows your garage.

OK you've made some mistakes and those are good to learn so you learn about inventory management but

the really important thing is to thinking of your own products to create You see how this is almost

like a like a easy transition here we're teaching your child to easily sell things online.

Be comfortable with the options.

Know what to sell where and just gain confidence in that.

And once they have confidence in that they'll need more products to sell and e-commerce businesses are

amazing because if you have many of the same kind of products to sell you can sell at scale.

Meaning this can become from a side income business.

You can go to a full time business making full time money and the idea behind that is of course you

need to good.

You need to understand you need to find a good product to sell and that is not easy.

So you can think of products you can either create or outsource for example.

I don't know what your child would like you know likes to do.

And so your job is to kind of try to see what they're into.

Are they good at.

And you know maybe are they good with their hands if they are maybe the pain they decorate existing

items so they don't have to create new items.

Let's say they take a boring out old item and they just decorate it.

For example a treehouse.

OK.

But what if you make a take on existing boring looking you know wooden treehouse and decorated beautifully

and then resell that for like twice the value right.

Because now it's a pretty one with a nice design so you can have a take on something that's current

and boring or completely new or something in between whatever you know if your child is creative like

that then that's something to explore and you have a whole marketplace like Etsy.

It's perfect for it.

If let's say you just want to be able to create things at home and you want to explore technology.

3D printing is an interesting place to its interesting business area to explore.

You are able to literally create products with a 3-D printer and then sell them online you can't create

any kind of product but you can create many types of products without actually having to be him.

For example myself I'm not good with my hands.

So I would dread that kind of a business but I like the kind of a business where 3D printing and press

a button and a product comes out.

If you don't want to deal with 3-D printers or don't want to invest in a 3-D printer because that can

be expensive.

There is a website Ali express dot com you might have heard of Ali Baba where you can buy a lot of inventory.

But Ali Express's drop shipping so you don't have to invest in inventory and you can choose a lot of

you know products that are made in China that typically they're not high quality products but they're

a good starter product.

And another fantastic place to look for what kind of products you might sell is think of your child's

schoolwork.

For example when I was like in sixth or seventh grade they taught us how to create little like pottery

things and decorate pottery and worked with clay.

And I was never great at it but I was made.

I made some things.

And once you able to make things and literally in school your child learns to make collages pottery

things they learned to do a lot of stuff and many many of the grades they learned to actually make things

with their hands.

Of course every school every school is different but many schools have that and you can literally ask

them what are you making.

And you probably are aware of what they're making because they're bringing it home and showing it to

you and then you're like OK let's try to sell this let's try to sell that let's try to sell this.

And so immediately you have more of a reason to you know for your child to take interest in creating

things with their hands.

They're going to take an interest of making it better exploring that art further because they know it's

actually it actually has a practical use.

So they're going to do better at whatever they're studying.

Because they'll have more incentive and you'll immediately have a product to sell.

And if you eventually hit on the right product category you can make this into a sizable business with

e-commerce and e-commerce is one of the best and most lasting business models online because it's transactional.

You sell one product you get money immediately.

There's no waiting there's no ads to service.

What e-commerce is actually a really good business to get into and it has lasting power.

Because as you know as long as commerce is going on which is you know since man invented you know products

commerce has been happening.

So this is not going away and you're just tapping into something existing and very very financially

powerful.