Biz Kid$: Building Your Business Online

This episode from the Emmy-winning Biz Kid$ series—aimed at providing young people with valuable information about financial matters—focuses on steps for creating a viable online business. In between relevant vignettes (including a Matrix-like scenario and Frankenstein skit), a group of teen hosts offer excellent tips on marketing a product on the Internet, including establishing a website and learning HTML code, doing online promotion, making the most of search engine optimization and visibility, using blogs and videos to help inform customers, and realizing the importance of networking. Featuring interviews with a variety of young entrepreneurs (including a graphic artist, a junk mail filter start-up, and MyYearbook—now known as MeetMe—social networking founders Dave and Catherine Cook), Building Your Business Online underscores the benefits of web-based businesses for young people, ranging from setting your own hours to looking professional (even though you're not an adult). And, of course—earning money! Highly recommended. Editor's Choice. Aud: J, H, P. (J. Williams-Wood)