Slime Designer Shops: The Modern Lemonade Stands for Kids

We all passed by lemonade stands growing up, set up in front of supermarkets or malls, or around the corner from our homes. The kids were entrepreneurs in the making, while the proud moms and dads looked over their shoulders to see how they fared in trying to make the sale. It was supposed to teach youngsters the valuable lessons of making a sale and making a profit. Yes, you are in business!

While you’d still see the familiar stalls from time to time, these days kids are interested in more exotic lines of business, apps, computer games, and… drooling, yes, drooling! My 12 year old son has taken over an entire closet which he transformed into a storage vault with extra shelves to store endless plastic containers of various sizes, all filled with all sorts of regular and exotic colors of… slime . With these come supplies of “cotton candy” and many other artificial gems such as emblems and things to imitate cacti, Boba drink balls, “crystal clear waters”, “pizza heart”, “cactus cereal”, “fruit salad” , even “Winnie the poop” or poopsie slime surprise unicorn, what! I’m speechless, I feel like I’ve been thrown into a super slime simulator. Of course, any self-respecting business would have the appropriate slime video collection, hence your endless time of recording everything on video on iPhone. The finished products are in plastic jars so delicious looking that many times I found myself grabbing one of them from the kitchen counter to eat, only realizing at the last minute that this can really kill you if you eat it!

I said “hey bit ma’am, what do you do with all these things?” At first the answer was: “I’m making them to give them to my friends”. okay, it is not a big thing. But after a while, when I realized that I was spending some money monthly on these things, I said “what’s wrong?”. To which she replied, “Oh I started a slime company, I’m going to get into the slime business.” I said, “okayas? Well, wouldn’t you know? She already had a…website in this business group called Etsy (she had never heard of it). I said, why not Amazon or Google? very very cheap

I said, ok, let me see your website. Boom: bit.ly/CosmaSlimes. I said wow, how old are you again? I said, Oceana, I am very impressed! You know, at your age, I didn’t even think they were computers, or that they were the size of this closet, but you, outside of your laptop doing all of this, awesome! I got a “duh” response. Before I even ask her about her “traffic” and stuff, she says, “I already have 3 sales.” I’m thinking – Get out! You mean I don’t have to spend all that money on your college? Yes, I can finally buy that Ferrari! She says, not so fast dad, it’s only $27 something. Yeah, but pumpkin, if you can make 3 sales, you can make 30, then 3,000, then 3 million, the sky’s the limit! ok, you understand. I already want the time i reincarnated as a slime!

The important lesson in all of this is that she is learning about business, marketing, marketing analysis, profit loss, etc. In addition to this, she is learning about how to optimize traffic for her website, about coordinating activities that can drive traffic to her site. She learned that if I write this article I will drive even more traffic to her website as I am referencing her link here and throwing high traffic keywords I got from Google Insights all over the place.

I’m thinking, what is the potential for this person to be successful in business? I emphasize that everything depends on her, everything depends on the effort she puts in, the energy and enthusiasm, the discipline and the willingness to listen and learn and apply her learning to her business. Some of these learnings will spill over into your everyday life and relationships.

In the end, one thing is for sure: you can learn a lot by learning how to make slime: learn about success and failure, about family and life itself. Good luck girl. I’m glad to see that you like lemonade too.

Signed: Your daddy, who loves you baby?

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