Rham Students Own Profitable Business

RHAM high school sisters, Tessa and Laura Smolinski own a very successful business of their own. Tessa, a junior, and Laura, a freshman, have owned and operated this business for about four years. Pre-wrap.com is a website that sells prewrap, a soft, stretchy material that is used for many athletic purposes, including making a buffer in between skin and the very adhesive tape that athletic trainers use and now for a hair wrap for female athletes.

One day Tessa came home from a soccer practice with a piece of pre wrap in her hair and asked her mother to look for some rolls of it. Her mother checked all over, ending up finding it on eBay and bought a few rolls. When Tessa saw how much the girls wanted it at soccer practice and how hard it was to find, she thought about the idea of a money making opportunity.

Tessa, Laura, and their parents took the idea and ran with it. What had started as a small business venture that was merely for teaching the sisters how to own a business and organize funds has turned into a successful small business for the Smolinskis. The Smolinkis say that within 30 minutes of the website opening, there was an order placed for over 40 rolls of prewrap. According to Courant.com, the earnings from the site will help offset the price of going to college for Tessa.

As the demand for the wrap grew, profits grew, more colors were added to the inventory, now 12 overall, and the business went global.

The whole family does their part in the business, from fulfilling orders to packing the right colors to be shipped to writing out the bills, they all work together. This growing business keeps becoming more profitable and though Tessa is going off to college after next year, Laura will take over and continue helping the business. This business will continue to be profitable for years to come, as long as female athletes want to keep the hair out of their eyes, that is.