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The three pay for expenses and split all the profits evenly. Their
prices vary but are competitive with places like Kinko's and Star Trax,
Mr Krasman says.
So far, the business has been successful with one obvious hurdle —
convincing their customers that their ages are just a number.
"Ws kind of hard to show our clients that at our age we can do mul-
timedia at this level," Mr. Ashman says. "We want people to know
that we have this wave of technology, and we have the energy and cre-
ativity to use it."
Mr. Krasman advises adults to dismiss the slacker stereotype. Peo-
ple think that our generation isn't going to make it, but we're show-
ing them that there are exceptions."

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assette singles and chocolate candies can only go so far.
That's what Annie Schlesinger, 17, and Jon Layne, 21, real-
ized when they were brainstorming for their business a year
ago. Both veterans of the party circuit — she with party plan-
ner Dee Dee Hoffman, he with a DJ company — they knew that kids
wanted something different for party prizes.
The end result is their West Bloomfield-based company, Wanna Be
a Brat!
Ms. Schlesinger and Mr. Layne travel across the country to con-
ventions to shop for unique and trendy products for their customers.
They buy their favorite items, wrap them, and deliver them to overnight
campers, parties and b'nai mitzvah. Some of their most popular items
include candles, picture frames, jewelry, nail polish, stickers and T-
shirts.
"We work together as a team," says Ms. Schlesinger, a senior at
West Bloomfield High School. "But I do all the wrapping."
Ms. Schlesinger and Mr. Layne, who have been dating for over a
year, derived the name for their company from a term of endearment
Mr. Layne affectionately labels his sweetheart.
"I knew I wanted to call it Wanna Be A ... something," says Mr.
Layne, an international marketing major at Eastern Michigan Uni-
versity. "And I just thought of the name I call her: 'Brat."
Although their items range from 50 cents to $20, they have collec-
tively brought in thousands of dollars to help with their college tuition.
In addition to Michigan, they sell their items in California and Ohio.
A display of their goods can be found at a jewelry case at the Coun-
try Side Antique Mall in West Bloomfield.
Both agree that the business experience has been worthwhile.
"I like learning about the business world," says Mr. Layne. "It's good
because I don't have to depend on my parents."

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"The look on people's faces when they pick up their cars is the best,"
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Mr. Tracht picked up the tricks of the trade watching his dad de-
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