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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]