Teen Money Making Ideas

Making money as a kid is not easy. That’s why you have to get smart and start thinking creatively if you want to make some real money. There are a variety of ways for making money as a kid discussed on this site and you should take the time to read through them. But one idea of how to make money as a kid is to start your own image and file hosting website. An image hosting website can be a fun way for you to have your own website and make money.

People all over the world are finding it convenient to share files and images online. But, it’s not as easy to share with so many people via email. To do this the person would have to upload each file and mail it out to each person. Many people like the convenience of sending only one link that anyone can use to find their images or files easily.

This is where image/file hosting services come in handy. Thanks to file sharing, anyone can upload images, documents or any sort of file and share it with friends, family or with co-workers. Examples of image and file hosting services are shareapic.net, photobucket.com and .imagehosting.com. Even youtube is a file sharing site that specializes in the sharing of videos!

Who uses image hosting?

Just about everyone uses image hosting, including, teenagers, college students, office workers, business people, ebay sellers, small business owners, families - everyone you can think of!

And as for you, you can start your own image hosting site just for kids! They can store images, videos, mp3’s, songs, computer games, computer software, cell phone ring tones, digital camera photos and albums, plus, much, much more.

How to make money

One way you could make money as a kid with an image hosting site is through advertising - i.e, you could place google ads on your site that will entice people to click on those ads (learn more about putting google adsense on your site here). One of the main ways that free image and file hosting sites make money is by this kind of advertising. Don’t belive me? Just check out any website which is a free video/image/file hosting site and see how many of them use google ads to make money. The only thing that you need to do to make money with google adsense is to sign up with their adsense program. Then log into your account once its setup and copy a small snippet of code in your pages, and viola! - ads automatically appear.

In this business model, a free hosting site owner places advertisements around the pictures that people upload to his site. When the ads are clicked on, the site makes money! It’s not a get-rich-quick scheme, but it is a way a kid can make money from their own website. Another way is, of course, to charge a fee for the use of your service.

Getting started

So, just how do you get set up? First, you need to sign up with a webhost to host your website. And of course you would need to know how to build a website yourself. This, of course, is the tricky part because you would have to have some experience to do this or you can just use an image hosting script such as the one below:

With this script you can have your own image hosing website where other kids can upload, download images by using their computer. They can access their files from any Internet accessible computer, anywhere, anytime!

What can this script be used for?

Start your own Image and file hosting site

Fast and easy image and file uploading.

Edit file names and descriptions.

Short and simple image and file URLs.

Edit and delete the images and files you have uploaded.

Create and share picture galleries.

Create downloadable URLs for digital files.

With the help of the above script, you can provide your friends and other kids with an easy to use image and file sharing system with two different types of memberships.

With the two membership types, your customers can choose between a free membership or a pro membership - pro membership is where they have to pay to use your site. The script will automatically take care of the purchase of a pro membership for you. You can sleep, go on vacation with your family or got to school and the image and file hosting program will continue to make money for you. Your paying members will pay you through paypal and you will instantly be paid for every customer who signs up for your file sharing system. Through paypal, anybody can pay you using any kind of credit card.

Also, this script makes it easy for you to make money with google adsense thanks to the innovative features included with this software, it allows you integrate Google Adsense onto every page or you can turn this off for paying members.

If you like the Internet and you like fiddling around on your computer, then a image/file hosting service may be a great way for a kid to make money. This script is available to Subscribers of this site. If you are a Subscriber of TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com, click here, and then download the the script discussed above to begin building your own image hosting website.

However, the script isn’t necessary if you have the skills to program your own site. Either way, it’s a great business idea that you and a few of your friends can do together. And a nice idea would be to build an image hosting site just for kids at your school or for people in your area.

Do you know of other ways to make money as a kid? If so, tell us about it in the comment box below, or visit our TEEN DISCUSSION FORUM.