Date:                    3/18/11

Title:                    Start it Up: The Complete Business Teen Guide to Turning Your Passions into Pay  

Author:                Kenyra Rankin

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Cover:                 Electronic Galley

Reviewer:             Yolanda M. Johnson-Bryant– Literary Wonders!  

Rating:                    5 Stars

Start It Up, by Kenyra Rankin, gives no-nonsense tips and ideas on how teens can make money. It gives young entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs the necessary steps to start a business and make money. It also gives the pros and cons of starting a business.

At the beginning of the book is a quiz on Finding Your Niche. The results, depending on the answers to the provided questions, are put into categories such as creator, helper, techie and handiness. For each category is a list of jobs that a teen entrepreneur could delve into.

Start it Up is loaded with both online and offline resources that can prove beneficial to a teen business. Each chapter has a handy little “tip jar”, which entail fast-finding, highlighted reference tips.

Even though this book is for the teenage entrepreneur, I would challenge some adult aspiring entrepreneurs to read this book – I feel they too, will find a lot of the information very valuable.

The book covers everything from creating a business plan, to the financials of the business to marketing and the technical operations. This is really an awesome book! I intend on buying copies for many of my clients.