Young Entrepreneurs; Monday, Period 6 [ 01/19 ].

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Always excited for another semester of YA, Turtle had the classroom all set up for the meeting, desks pushed together into a long sort of business table. Donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate for available for snacking, and the table was littered with arts and crafty stuff: paper, scissors, markers, colored pencils, stickers, and glitter. Somehow, there was always glitter, even when Turtle went out of her way to not include glitter. Go figure.

Either way, Turtle sat at the end of the table, waiting for everyone to get there, and then she went into her introductory schpiel. "Welcome to this semester's meeting of Young Entrepreneurs! I'm sure you all know me; I'm Turtle Wexler. I started this club forever ago, and am a young entrepreneur myself, as I co-own Turtle & Canary here on Fandom Island and soon to be in London!" There was a small bounce for that. "But, anyway, you all might not know each other and, even if you do, re-introductions still aren't a bad idea. For our first meeting, we're just going to make some very simple, fun, clearly not-official --that comes later-- business cards that represent who we are and why we're here. Take a piece of paper, cut out a nice size for a card, and then put on it anything you think might represent you as a member of YA, and then we'll go around and talk about it! But, remember, one of the key points about being an entrepreneur is that you know how to sell yourself! Sell us on your introduction on why we should be interested in you."

Comments

Sign In -- 01/19.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Verah professionally.

Re: Sign In -- 01/19.

[future_sandworm]

Leto Atreides

Re: Sign In -- 01/19.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

Ned

Re: Sign In -- 01/19.

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice Liddell

Work on Business Cards -- 01/19.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Supplies are definitely moddable.

Turtle is still glaring at the glitter for having shown up.

Re: Work on Business Cards -- 01/19.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle, of course, already had business cards, but that wasn't the point of the activity. So she set to work, hording a lot of the green colors, and trying to make her penmanship the neatest it could possibly be.

Re: Work on Business Cards -- 01/19.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

Ned business card turned out a little lopsided but he ignored it or, at least, tried to cover it by bordering the card with a bright red and sticking little stars on each corner.

He drew a small, brown pie in the middle and then slanted his name over the top of it.

It was gaudy but it was noticeable. Ned thought it'd be eye catching, at least.

Re: Work on Business Cards -- 01/19.

[future_sandworm]

Leto had never had a business card - there was no need for that. He spent a long time staring at the materials at hand, and then he chose a bright while piece of paper and picked a black pen, writing 'Leto Atreides II' across it in neat, precise handwriting.

Re: Work on Business Cards -- 01/19.

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice still had her business card, from last time.

This meant that she would have to add colors.

Sell Yourself-- 01/19.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Not dirty!

Present your business card, introduce yourself, and talk about how it represents what you're all about.

Re: Sell Yourself-- 01/19.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"This is my business card," he said, showing off what he'd made. "And, like the card says, my name's Ned and I sort of bake pies a lot. Most people know that, some don't. But, it's like my own really special talent. So, there's a pie in the middle of the card and it's bordered red because that's bright and eye catching. And can represent strawberries which can go in pies."

Ned was all about the pie.

Re: Sell Yourself-- 01/19.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Red," Turtle informed Ned with a little bit of a grin, "is also a color that's said to induce subconscious hunger in people, so nice choice! It's good to have you back in the club, Ned."

Even if she was left wondering if that whole phone call about her in her underwear was just the phones messing up or something else entirely.

Re: Sell Yourself-- 01/19.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yeah?" He peered at the card for a moment, trying to see if he'd get hungry. Well, he was hungry but he might have come to the club hungry. He didn't know. "So, I should use red things more often. And have pies around."

Poor Ned was in repression mode. Maybe yesterday was a dream. Dreaaaaaaaam.

Re: Sell Yourself-- 01/19.

[future_sandworm]

"You make good pies, Ned?" Leto asked.

Re: Sell Yourself-- 01/19.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle held out her business card, which looked almost exactly like a handmade version of the professional one in her back pocket right now. Dark green border, very simple print, a little emblem of a Turtle and a Canary in the corner.

"I'm T.R. Wexler, and it's very nice to meet you all. This is my card, which has all the information needed to contact me about my business, Turtle & Canary, which specialized in great prices for almost anything you could need. It's simple. It's clean. It's smart. In a nutshell, it's me."

She finished with a very winning smile before nodding and sitting down.

Funny how this never got old for her.

Re: Sell Yourself-- 01/19.

[future_sandworm]

Leto held up his attempt at a business card. "I am Leto Atreides," he said, "And what I will be is still unknown."

Re: Sell Yourself-- 01/19.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle gave a faint sort of smile, trying to not think of birds and pants.

Which, subsequently, only made her think about them, which only made her blush slightly through her well-polished veneer of professionalism.

"Work in progress, huh?" she guessed.

Re: Sell Yourself-- 01/19.

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Isn't that true for all of us?" Alice asked. "We never end up where we intend, it seems. We're lucky to be moving in the same direction, some days."

Re: Sell Yourself-- 01/19.

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"This (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Rellyjean/alice/buscard2.jpg) is my business card," Alice said cheerfully. "I made it last semester, so I could have reused it, but there were lots of markers and it seemed a shame to waste them, so I added colors. It says that I'm creative, courteous, loyal, and good with knives. I think that's useful information for anyone who meets me."

Really, the card looked like the business card of a crazy person with a short attention span.

In that regard, it was a smashing success at representing Alice to the world at large.

Re: Sell Yourself-- 01/19.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"I like the colors, Alice!" Turtle said with a big grin. "It seems to fit who you are even more now!"

Talk to the Advisor -- 01/19.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Really, there's no sense in Mister Deadpool advising this anymore except that it's merely tradition.

Re: Talk to the Advisor -- 01/19.

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Mercenary work was just another form of selling yourself! Seeee? It worked.

Re: Talk to the Advisor -- 01/19.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

And part of being an entrepreneur was still making small talk with people you were still awkward Turtle with, so Turtle took a stab. "Thanks again, Mister Deadpool," she said with a nod, "for advising."

Re: Talk to the Advisor -- 01/19.

[future_sandworm]

Leto greeted the masked man serving as advisor to this club with a small nod.

OOC -- 01/19.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

HOORAY.

...yeah, I got nothing today.