Service providers often act as consultants, providing paid services to a Mini-Society's businesses or its government. Mini-Society service providers working with businesses may include accountants to oversee business finances, insurance agents to insure businesses and bankers that provide financial services such as lending money. Service providers may also act as consultants for the Mini-Society's government offering services such as a horticulture specialist that takes care of classroom plants, a meteorologist who gives daily weather reports and keeps a running chart of weather data and a recycling conservationist who makes sure students are using the recycling bins.
Manufacturers produce goods to sell to Mini-Society retailers. Manufacturers must develop a partnership with retailers before deciding on what product to manufacture. Manufacturers can make homemade bandannas using scrap fabric, sew blankets or pillows, create beaded jewelry bracelets and make homemade soaps. Manufacturers then sell these items directly to the public or to Mini-Society retailers.
Retailers sell items that they can make themselves or purchase from student manufacturers. Retail businesses in a Mini-Society economy can include a beauty shop that offers hair braiding or face painting, a greeting card shop with homemade greeting cards and a bookstore that sells bookmarks. Students can also start a newspaper service selling a weekly newspaper. Students who run a retail shop have the option of making their goods or purchasing them from a Mini-Society manufacturing business.
Entertainment vendors provide entertaining services or sports experiences for payment. Examples of Mini-Society business ideas for entertainment vendors include fortunetellers who make paper fortunes or use a Magic 8-ball toy, golfing putt-putt games and throwing horseshoes for prizes. Students pay a fee for services, and prizes can include stickers, pencils and other small items.