Jobs-For-Kids Program Training

e-Book Sales Agent Training

Overview

We are trying to provide you with some assistance to help you do your job.

Training Topics:

Know Your Product

Know your responsibility

Where To Sell

Marketing and Promotions

Selling Aids

Business Cards

Getting Paid

More to come!

If you have some ideas please contact us at training@TeachingKidsBusiness.com

Know Your Product

We will provide you with a "Book Summary" to allow you to get familiar with the product. Once you have demonstrated a commitment to your job we will send you a copy of the book. Take the time to read information about the book so that you truly understand the product you are selling.

This is the marketing promotions piece we are using:

"The Kids’ Guide To Business" helps kids get started in business in a kid-friendly way.  Kids will get interested in business as they learn business is a game kids can play.

 Kids develop a business with the help of a unique "Develop A Business" system; encouraging them to explore & discover business, gain valuable experience, responsibility and confidence.

This book was inspired by hundreds of kids résumés submitted to TeachingKidsBusiness.com that revealed a lack of business/work opportunities for kids, in addition to their desires for new challenges.

Fun is guaranteed as kids have been given the job of creating fun in their businesses.

Ideal for kids 8-17 interested in their futures, for parents, teachers and youth minded service groups interested in preparing kids for their futures.

This book is a great "gift of business" idea to launch a child into business.

Know Your Responsibility

• To sell "The Kids' Guide To Business"  for TeachingKidsBusiness.com.

• Ensure that the people you are selling to understand the e-book they are buying.

• Ensure that your customers understand that you are being paid a commission to sell the book and that proceeds from the book are being used to further develop www.teachingkidsbusiness.com and www.kidse-marketplace.com .

• Make sure that your customers are clear that they are buying the book through www.teachingkidsbusiness.com/e-book.htm and that the purchase of a photo copy from another source is illegal.

• Ensure that your customers know what TeachingKidsBusiness.com is doing as an organization. Background information can be found in our Info Center .

• Please note that this is a good commission of $2.00 per book. We realize that kids are new to selling things and that it will take some extra time to develop the necessary steps to sell.

• Work with us on opportunities that you can identify for selling the book (book fair, school fundraiser, youth service group etc.) We will help provide you with a selling proposal.

Where To Sell

Start with the opportunities that are easy (family and friends) to fine tune what you are going to say to people.

Stay in your neighborhood initially - school, book fairs, youth service groups etc.

Contact us on your selling strategy so we can help you.  As ideas come in from kids we will improve this section to give you more direction.

Selling Aids

This is an area that we need to work on.

We have provided you with summary information on the book. (This is changing and we will update you)

We encourage you to buy the book to help you get familiar with the product you are selling. As you demonstrate a commitment to your job, we will provide you with a copy of the book.

Sales Plan

A sales plan is the approach you are going to take to sell the book.

Understand your customer. What is the reason kids will buy this book. How will it benefit them. Come up with a statement in your own word on why kids need to buy this book ie. it is a fun way to learn business.

The plan should consist of the following components;

1. What are you going to say - like a 30 second commercial. You need to be able to talk about the book. Like a commercial you need to say it quick and effective.
   a) I'm selling an e-book to help kids learn about business
   b) I like it because ...
   c) It will help you understand and get started in business.
   d) Here is how you get it @ teachingkidsbusiness.com/e.book.htm

2.  You need to show them something - the cover page and a few pages of the book or the whole book.

Getting Paid

The trick to getting paid as quick as possible is to provide timely, accurate and proper information to allow us to process the necessary information and make payment to you. 

This is a very unique program we are developing and it will take time to ensure that we cover all the issues to ensure that kids get credit for their sales and receive the money they have earned.

When a person buys an e-book online through www.teachingkidsbusiness.com/e-book.htm they click on a "Buy Now" which connects them to www.paypal.com to process the payment. We believe that this is a secure and trusted way of processing payments. As a customer goes through the purchasing of the e-book, they provide their e-mail address. This is the key information that we receive, so for us to identify the sale as your sale we need to match an e-mail from PayPal to a "Sales Report" from you.

Please note that we do not want a sales report each time you make a sale. To start with, please submit a "Sales Report" every  Friday. As we get things running smoothly we will move to every two weeks and then once a month.

The following is the format of the "Sales Report" we would like you to send. For you to receive payment from us you will have to complete all the information properly. Please send your report with a "request a read receipt for this message". (In Microsoft Outlook - Click on View then Options and click on "Request a read receipt for this message".

Date:

Date of Last Sales Report:

Sales Report:

Your Name:

Name Used on the authorized e-book sales list:

Your e-mail address:

Explanation:

Date: This is the current date that you are filing the report. Day you are sending it to us.

Date of last Sales Report:- by putting the date here for the last sales report you sent us we can be sure we received the previous report.

"Date of Purchase" - this helps us find the PayPal e-mail by date or approximate date.

"e-mail of purchaser" - this allows us to match the purchaser to your "Sales Report". This is the only way we can pay you.

"The name that your PayPal account is in" - you realize you will need to open a PayPal account at www.PayPal.com to be able to receive that money we transfer you and to they transfer the funds to a bank account or to make purchases from your PayPal account. When we send you money we need to put the right name on our e-mail for PayPal to send it to you.

"The  e-mail address set-up for you in PayPal". If you and your parents decide to put the PayPal account in the name of an adult then this is the e-mail address that that we need for payment. This is the e-mail that we send your money to.

Additional Information on Getting Paid:

We are using PayPal as our payment and sales system. We are starting with this system because it is easy to get set-up for you and us. We both need to work with it and see how it works. As our businesses grow we can examine other alternatives ways to receive and make payments. Please go into www.paypal.com and set-up an account. Please have an adult supervise this part of your business. We want everyone to be comfortable on how it works.

Since it costs approximately $0.50 (fifty cents) to transfer money to you (business accounts cost while your personal account is free) so we do not want to make the transfers to frequent.  The cost to transfer you $2.00 is the same if we transfer you $20.00 There is also a cost of our time to make a payment to you. 

We will make payment to you via PayPal within 30 days in the month following the book purchase. (If you sold the book on June 7th - we would make payment by July 30th)  Remember you can only get paid after we get paid for the book purchase. In the event that PayPal notifies us of a payment return or other problems, the commission payment will not be paid to you or it will be deducted from future payments. We expect to pay you much quicker initially but as the program grows it may take up to the 30 days.

Marketing and Promotions

Here are a few links in our site to help you with this area.

Business Basics - Marketing

Promotional Tips for kids (ideas from www.kidse-marketplace.com)

Advertising Tips for kids (ideas from www.kidse-marketplace.com)

Selling Aids

This is an area that we need to work on.

We have provided you with summary information on the book. (This is changing and we will update you)

We encourage you to buy the book to help you get familiar with the product you are selling. As you demonstrate a commitment to your job, we will provide you with a copy of the book.

Business Cards

Business cards can be a very helpful tool for business people such as yourself. After talking to someone about the purchase of our product, a business card helps people remember who you are and how to contact you. 

In the case of kids, we have to be careful about the information you put on the card. I would recommend that you do not put your house address on your card. I would discuss this with your parents. 

The one thing we have to think through is how you can make sure that the e-book sales that you generate can be matched to the person who buys online from TeachingKidsBusiness.com. I need to know the e-mail addresses from you to check them with the people we e-mail a book to. If you were to hand out a hundred business cards to potential customers and all of those people later went online and bought an e-book - how would I know and how would you know that the purchases were the people that you talked to or gave a card to. 

Ideally if you could get people to write down their e-mail addresses on a "customer list" of yours before you give them your card and e-mail this list to me - it would work. It is not the best system but it is a starting point for us to build and make better.

Example of a customer list :

Yes, there is lots to having a job and managing it well. The fact that you read through all of this is a great start. Make sure you understand it all and please refer back to this page to make sure you are doing things well.