Mount Vernon Presbyterian School and Ka-Ching!

The prestigious Mount Vernon Presbyterian School in Atlanta USA is running a week-long Ka-Ching! Entrepreneurship course. The week has only just started, but the feedback from Kelly Hilton-Green is that the kids are 'extremely excited'.

Kelly is getting the kids to start and run a real business following the Ka-Ching! structure. We will keep you posted as soon as more feedback comes in!

Kind regards
Greg Bunyard

Momentum Save Thru Spend and Ka-Ching!

Think you are a bit of a financial whiz yourself? Then you won’t be able to resist the Ka-Ching! / Momentum Save Thru Spend benefit:

If you buy your family a copy of the Business Parenting Course, you get a percentage of your money back into your Momentum savings contract.

So, what exactly is your benefit?

If you are a Save Thru Spend or Save Thru Spend Multiply member, you will receive a 20% rebate when you purchase a copy of the Ka-Ching! Business Parenting Course for your kids. This enhances your existing long-term savings, which can significantly improve your investment return when your contract matures.

Why is this such a great idea?

Save Thru Spend and Ka-Ching! are giving you the opportunity to make a double investment:

By purchasing a copy of the Business Parenting Course you are investing in your children’s future wealth and well-being and,

By doing so as a Save Thru Spend member, you are investing cold, hard cash into your Momentum savings contract.

Not only will you be teaching your kids how to save oodles of lovely money, you will be saving plenty yourself!

How do you get this amazing benefit?

To buy the course you need to either phone the Ka-Ching! call centre on 0860 639 929, where an obliging consultant will assist you with your purchase; or visit www.Ka-Chingworld.com

In each case keep your 13 digit Momentum Save Thru Spend number handy.

On the website, go to the Ka-Ching! Store. You can make your purchase online using your credit card, or you can print the order form and fax it to 088 021 671 3052.

The important thing to remember is to enter your Momentum Membership Number into the field provided on the website or form; or give it to the call centre consultant to add.

Catching them young

By: Peter Delmar, Editor, It's My Business - Sunday Times, Friday 4th May 2007

I didn't go to one of the posh schools in Cape Town, and my interaction with the likes of Bishops and Rondebosch was largely confined to the rugby field where we would try our darndest to donner the boys at those rival schools.

Recently, I found myself at Bishops Prep, interviewing that school's headmaster and five of the boys (who have now all graduated to the high school). I must admit that I was hugely impressed with everything I saw and heard there.

Almost a year ago, It's My Business ran a story about a kid in East London who was running a little business growing and selling plants. The reaction from readers was fantastic; it seems that as much as millions of South Africans dream about being self-employed themselves, they also harbour the same dreams for their children.

So I thought of revisiting the whole question of creating an entrepreneurial spirit among our children. The headmaster of Bishops Prep is Midge Hilton-Green who is a great champion of getting youngsters to think entrepreneurially. For some years, under his leadership, Bishops has been running a regular entrepreneurial competition (as do many schools nowadays). The five lads I interviewed were the "board of directors" of a company called Trash 2 Treasure. They did the usual thing of buying sweets and toys and selling them on Entrepreneurial Days but they also organised a couple of discos, held at the MD's house, which raised thousands for their business. And thousands in "tax" which they gave to their school and to a local charity.

The boys were all quite charming and obviously very excited about the whole experience of running their own small business and earning their own money.

In the next issue of It's My Business, appearing in the Sunday Times this Sunday, we feature that interview with the boys from Trash 2 Treasure. And then, on Wednesday 9 May, SABC1 is carrying a short interview with them and Midge Hilton-Green. (It should be on at about 10.20am or so.)

While I was talking to Midge in his office, it dawned on me that he is the stepfather of Greg Bunyard, who I have been talking to for some time about the brilliant kiddies' entrepreneurial programme the latter runs called Ka-Ching!

It was a happy coincidence; in fact, I learnt that Midge largely wrote the Ka-Ching! Business Parenting course.

I'm not an educator but some of my colleagues at Johncom Learning are real experts in the field of education and training so when Greg lent me a copy of the course, I asked my clever colleagues to have a look and to tell me what they thought. They were all so enthusiastic about the course (one immediately bought it for her 12-year-old son) that I prevailed on Greg to let me offer the course to It's My Business readers at a 25% discount.

The course normally sells for R1 150 but, in this Sunday's It's My Business we tell you what the course consists of and how to get a quarter off the regular selling price. If you're committed to giving your children every chance in life you won't want to miss it.

Until next time

Peter Delmar

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