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BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Private Sector: Retail

For Students 9th - 10th
Covers skills that may be needed to work in retail.
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Other

Careers in Marketing: Careers in Marketing

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from careers-in-marketing.com provides descriptions of careers in marketing, such as retailing, product management, and marketing research. It also provides excellent links to other marketing career sites.
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Other

Business plans.org: Demographics

For Students 9th - 10th
This page offers links to many resources needed for demographic studies, including population studies, consumer demographics, U.S. Census data files, a reference tool to the world's population literature, World Wide Web visitor...
Article
Ontario Cattlemen's Association

Ontario Cattlemen's Assoc.: Butcher and Retailer

For Students 9th - 10th
Expectations of being a butcher, requirements,understanding of the beef market, and more are discovered in this biographical sketch of butcher, Charles Delahunt.
Interactive
Federal Trade Commission

On Guard Online: Are You a Shrewd Online Shopper?

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you tell if an online marketer is safe to do business with? Play this online game from the Federal Trade Commission to see if you can pick the safest vendor and get tips on how to shop safely online.
Article
Biz Move

Biz Move: Retail Sales Training Tips

For Students 9th - 10th
This article, which is provided for by BizMove.com, gives advice on developing an improved personal selling program.
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Other

Amos Web: A Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
Exploring the economy can be a fun adventure with the Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy. Use this site to find your answers to economic topics in a user-friendly format with comic strip guides.
Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: What Do People Want to Wear?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To stay in business, fashion merchandisers must be able to anticipate what consumers want. By looking at different retail websites, students will look to anticipate what consumers are demanding. Students will then go through the market...
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Other

Teen Analyst: Salary Tables by Career Field

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore a table of average salaries for the various career fields. However, these aren't representative of everyone in that field. For example, some television reporters make millions of dollars a year. The salaries listed are a little...
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Other

Career Builder

For Students 9th - 10th
Search hundreds of thousands of jobs ? across the nation or in your own neighborhood. Explore the Career Builder Database to search jobs by keyword, job category, company, or industry.
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Wolters Kluwer

Business Owner's Toolkit: Figuring the Costs of Setting Up Your New Business

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource includes a worksheet that can be downloaded to aid a new business owner in determining what their startup costs will be. The article provides additional links to kinds of costs a new business owner will encounter.
Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 315: 1909 Sears Roebuck Catalog

For Students 9th - 10th
An informative article on what Americans could have bought from the Sears-Roebuck catalog back in 1909. This is a transcript of an accompanying radio broadcast.

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