What We Have Been Doing Over The Past Week

Over the past week we have bought five kg of beeswax and we have made five candles out of one kg and four kg out of one kg as well we  have got three kilograms of beeswax left over to make more candles the prices of the candles are $8, $10 and $15. We have lot of candles to make.

We were in the Sydney Morning Herald and we will be in the newspaper next month again.

by hbomb2000and tbone200

Kids Candle Company written up in the Sydney Morning Herald

Valerie Khoo was nice enough to write a lovely article about KCC in the Enteprise Blog for the Sydney Morning Herald today! Check it out!

Ready to ship!

We’re ready to take your orders! Please keep in mind that we’re a small start-up, so there may take as a week or two to get your candles out to you. We’ll be making each candle by hand in our kitchen, so it’s a slow, loving process. All of our candles are 100% Australian beeswax. If you want to know more about beeswax, how it’s made and why it’s superior to paraffin wax, read our “Beeswax Facts” page. If you’d like to go ahead and order some KCC candles, go to our Order Page.

Making Our First Batch of Candles

Today we made our first batch of candles! It had mixed results - one of them worked pretty well and we learned some good lessons. Here’s a video of our experience!

How to be doing well

here are some things to build up a business!

1. Like you start off with for example $40 and save it so you have $540 so you are saving five hundred.

2. I think you should keep it so you are like upgrading like in age of empires.

3. I think you should always keep your money in the bank. You can get money with out doing anything.

http://www.freedomathome.com.au/templates/1/index.php

what I have learnt about business

1. always market research and know what your product costs.

2. visit the markets and see which one is happy selling your product.

3. make your product good so costumers will be happy.

this is the website i learnt from http://www.greenlion.co.uk/thinking/page6/

What we are doing in this business

Well in this business we are going to sell some over the Internet with the help of TPN, my Dad’s business. You can find it here:

http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/

And we are also  going to sell some, we think, at the  Jan Powers Market.

We are going to give some money to charity (to help poor people).

The business keeps some of the money and Hunter and I keep the rest.

why I want to do a business

I wanted to do a business because I want to get extra pocket money.

And I saved up enough so I bought myself a laptop.

And I think that it would be cool if I did a business. B-)

I have been thinking about doing a business for a couple of months now and now is my chance.

Doing this thing is the most exciting thing I’ve ever done.

I think doing beeswax candles would be good for earth hour as it will help people use less electricity.

Thank you for reading my blog post from Taylor.

how I wanted to rock and roll

Well I wanted to get more pocket money and give some money to poor people.

Why am I doing this? I am doing it on my laptop that I got for $250 (Dad paid the other half).

I’m giving a quarter of my money to the business, a quarter of it the poor people, and a quarter of it to Taylor and a quarter of it to myself.

Thank you for reading this. Please reply. From Hunter.

B-)

From little things, big things grow

Over the last year or so, my kids (Hunter and Taylor, identical twins, now aged 7) have been talking on and off about starting their own business.

It started when they told me they had been taking old Lego parts to school and selling them for a dollar to kids in the playground.

After they each saved up their small pocket money allowances over two years to buy individual laptops (something they achieved earlier this year), we’ve been talking about bigger goals.

As a parent (and entrepreneur), I’ve encouraged their interest in starting a business because I think you’re never too young to learn the basics about how to get something off the ground. I’ve also learned that creating something from scratch is not only an unparalleled learning experience, it also does wonders for your self-esteem. And we all know kids today need as much self-esteem as possible.

About a week ago I was out with Taylor and we visited a Mac store in Brisbane. He spotted the iMacs and decided he wanted one. As they cost $1500, we started talking about how long it would take him to save his $7 a week pocket money to achieve the new goal. I suggested we resume the thinking about starting a business and he was enthusiastic. His twin brother Hunter also got excited about it.

We’ve discussed a lot of ideas over the last year, including starting their own podcast (they have been appearing on my show since they were five), a lemonade stand, comics distribution, but we have decided on something simpler.

So, after a few days of discussion, business planning and logo design, we are proud to announce the forthcoming launch of …

KIDS CANDLE COMPANY!

The kids will be blogging their progress here over the next few months.

I expect they’ll write their first blogs posts later this afternoon… when they’ve finished playing HALO.