Teen Money Making Ideas

If you’re a teenager who is a budding photographer, there are many ways that you can make money this summer with your camera. One way that we’ve already discussed is by taking photos and submitting them to online sites that pay you each time your photo is downloaded. You can read those articles, here: Kids Making Money With Pictures and How Kids Make Money by Sharing Pictures Online. However, for a much more advanced way for a teenager photographer to make money, read on!

Each day, thousands of people, perhaps even millions, use the website Craigslist to sell things from books to cars to clothes to furniture. The problem that many of them have is that oftentimes, they list their things to sell without pictures. Studies show, however, that advertisements with pictures do better than advertisements without pictures by about 10 to 1. What this means is that if someone is looking to purchase an item and the same item is being sold by two different people - one with a picture and one without, the advertisement that has pictures will sell faster than the ad that doesn’t have pictures. In short, most people will likely buy a product online if there is a picture of the item for sale.

One way how a teenage photographer can make money this summer is by contacting the people who sell things on sites like Craigslist but don’t include a picture with their ad and offer to take pictures for them of their item for sale. The item that you take pictures of could range from furniture to cars to apartments for rent. So, for example, say someone has an apartment for sale or rent but they don’t have any pictures with their ad, you can email them and offer to take an unlimited number of pictures of the inside and outside of the apartment for only $50 and deliver the pictures to them the same day by burning the pictures onto a disc with the CD burner in your computer.

Whatever area you live in, you can target people who list ads in the areas closest to you. You can start out by first sending out emails to people. Then, wait for people to accept your offer. When people respond to your offer, you can set an appointment to meet with them and take pictures of their item for sale. The whole thing should take you no more than 15 minutes. And if you have a laptop that you can take around with you, you can burn the pictures onto a CD and deliver the product to the owner on the spot. In those few minutes alone you can make $50.

This is definitely a way a teenager photographer can make money this summer. In fact, this is a method that a number of people are already using to make money. One person who we consulted with for this article says that using her digital camera, she makes up to $1000 a week taking pictures of people’s items for sale that they advertise on the Internet at sites such as Craigslist. However, Craigslist isn’t the only site that this would work for. There are lots of other sites and I’ll list a few of them below:

www.GoForAds.com
www.Gumtree.com
www.IQZone.com
www.Adflakes.com
www.Adhysteria.com
www.Craigslist.org
http://expo.live.com/
www.EPage.com
www.Oddbark.com
www.Oodle.com
www.FindIt.com.au
https://www.google.com/base/
http://classifieds.myspace.com

Hopefully, this list should be enough to get you started. Remember that when contacting people about taking pictures, you should sound as professional as possible. Also, if you’re already a budding photographer, you should have a photo album of pictures that you’ve taken to show people the quality of your work. Have fun and enjoy laughing your way to the bank in your new found career this summer!

Do you know of other ways teenagers can make money this summer? If so, tell us about them in Teen Money Making Ideas Discussion Forum!

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