Teen Money Making Ideas

The summer months are the perfect time of the year for teenagers who want to start their own small business. Not only do you have more free time on your hands, you can also use the extra time to put some cash into your pocket so you can buy the things you need. Starting a small business during the summer will give you the opportunity to earn while at the same, time give you good experience and enhance your skills. The key to starting a business in the summer, however, is that you want to choose a business that is easy to start up and requires very little, if any, capital to get it going. Here are a few ideas to get you started:

1. Books have always been pretty good sellers. Look around you and you will see books being sold everywhere from eBay to garage sales to flea markets. There is good reason for this. They are excellent sellers - especially if you concentrate on certain types of books such as how-to books, cook books or popular novels. Books about popular travel destination are also GREAT sellers. Sometimes you can get really lucky and buy an entire box of books at a garage sale for just a couple of dollars, and then turn around and
take the best ones to a book store that specializes in used books and get anywhere from $10 - $15 for them. Not a bad return on your investment. If you went to several yard sales a day – say on the weekends, you could easily make $50 a day from something like this. Any excess books you had you could also try selling them on eBay, at fairs, festivals and flea markets or on any busy streets - if it’s allowed in your area.

2. Here’s a good seller and the best part is, it doesn’t cost very much to create. Download a bunch of free software or shareware off the web and put them together on a CD. You should be able to sell each CD for a good profit. By you offering free software or demos of dozens of really cool applications, you should be able to sell each one for anywhere from $5-$10. Since the programs you’re selling are either free or shareware, the software companies are usually happy with people distributing their software for them.

3. Another good idea for teenagers who what to start their own small business during the summer to earn money is design and sell your own t-shirts. By searching online, you should be able to pay $2-$3 for a blank t-shirt and around $1 for an iron on heat transfer, put them together and suddenly you have a $10 - $15 product that you can sell! All you need is a batch of popular transfers. By going with the hottest trends, you can get an idea of what slogans or images are hot and print only those. Also, anything that you can print out of your home inkjet computer printer can be transferred onto a t-shirt. For most inkjet printers this means substituting a specially coated heat transfer paper in place of regular paper. You can find inkjet transfer paper here: http://www.proworldinc.com/. With the invention of inkjet transfer paper you can design your own transfers on your home computer for just a few pennies. These transfer papers can be used to decorate anything from t-shirts to blank mouse pads to tote bags to sweatshirts. If you’re not into making your own designs, then you can search the Internet for pre-made designs that you can use. One place you can check out is this site: http://www.thewildside.com/. Also, this site: http://www.hanes2u.com, offers an easy to use T-shirt maker that makes it a snap to create your own designs. Once you have the designs you want to use, you can use an iron to transfer the design to the shirt. When doing this, be sure you’re working on a firm, strong table. Then, using two hands put your body’s weight on the iron to put heavy pressure on the shirt. Once you’ve made enough t-shirts, you can start selling!

4. There are lots of people who have things to sell but no time to sell them. You can take advantage of this and make it known that you will sell things for people on the eBay in exchange for 30% commission. You may be surprised to find that this is actually a good idea for teenagers who want to start their own small business. For one thing, if you’re very good at using the computer and the internet, then you might find is surprising that there are still a lot of people who don’t have much computer experience. This is particularly true for the elderly. There is no reason why this couldn’t be a very profitable sideline business for you in the summer. So, for example if you offer to sell a $100 item, your commission in this case would be $30. Most people would be happy to have you sell their items for them and make some money on them, rather than have them sitting in their homes, collecting dust!

5. Do you know how to connect the computer to the DVD, to the VCR, to the TV, to the…? Congratulations! Most people don’t have a clue, and therein is an excellent business opportunity for the summer by helping people set up their systems. So, if you’re a whiz at all the latest and greatest techie things, you can turn this knowledge into cold hard cash! A great way to find customers is to approach the audio-visual equipment stores in your neighborhood. If they don’t already provide the service, you can make up some flyer or business cards and ask them to recommend you to their customers. You can offer them a percentage of the fee you make. You will find that many people will be happy to pay you $50 or more for a service like this.

6. One reason most pizza chains is so popular is because they offer home delivery. Here’s one way you can take advantage of the tendency in people to like home delivery and at the same time start your own small business. You could offer a service that turns EVERY restaurant in your neighborhood into a “home delivery” service. What I mean is this; in your neighborhood you could offer home delivery of the restaurants in your area for a flat fee of say, $5 or $10. On weekends, you can expect to get absolutely swamped! Recently on a trip to Asia, I found a friend of mine who started this kind of service and he got so much business, that he had to hire other drivers to help him handle the job!

7. For the summer or any time of the year one of the easiest and most profitable things you can make is beef jerky. All you need is a dehydrator, meat, and a bit of seasoning. With these, you can turn $5 worth of meat and seasoning into $35 worth of jerky. For recipes of jerky, just search the Internet! You will find tons, including ostrich jerky, turkey jerky and more! These more exotic jerkys that you make will probably be even more profitable than beef. You can sell these at farmers markets, flea markets, and even the grocery store right in your neighborhood!

….Phew! By now your brain should really be churning with ideas. If it’s not it should be! However, for the sake of space and time, please read the remaining ideas for businesses you can start in the summer, at the links provided below:

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