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How to Make Money if You are 12 and Have No Money for an Investment

Amber — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:49:31 +0000

The following article is from TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com:“It takes money to make money”. I’m sure you all have heard that saying before. But when you’re 12, money is hard to come by. And as most 12 year olds will tell you, when they ask the question, how to make money if you’re 12, parents can sometimes be no help. Times are tough and parents don’t want to let go of their hard earned money – especially not to their 12 year old kid. So what can be done? Well, one thing that you can do is to try to find ways to make money that doesn’t cost you anything. If you do this enough, you will have enough money to invest in other ways to make money if you are 12.

So, here’s an idea for kids who have no money whatsoever: In almost any area that you live in, you can find places where you can find wildflowers. If you’re not sure where wildflowers grow in your area, just ask around. Picking these flowers which can be quite beautiful doesn’t cost you a penny, yet bouquets from wildflowers are very attractive and are sold in shops all across the country.

By setting up a small table with wildflower bouquets in an area where there is a lot of foot traffic, you should have no problems selling these bouquets for $5-10 each!

Ok, so you’re not going to get rich selling wildflowers, but how does $500 sound?

That’s what a friend of mine made when she adapted this same idea by selling flowers on valentine’s day in her neighborhood. Now, how’s that for an idea for how to make money if you’re 12?

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Hunting for that summer job

Amber — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:42:37 +0000

The following article is from TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com:As warm weather approaches, no doubt our children are looking forward to the end of the school year, which equates to the start of two-and-a-half months’ worth of rest and relaxation, possibly coupled with some enriching activities.

And that ought to sum up summer vacation for children in elementary and middle school — but for teenagers, not so much.

For high school students, the summer can be a great time to dip a toe into the adult pool by obtaining employment. A summer job will keep your teen from becoming bored and restless, but it will also be an opportunity for growth and development.

“A summer job will help a child learn about responsibility and dependability,” says Long Island child development specialist Lori Barrett. And these lessons are different than those related to school. For instance, she says, “If you slack off as a student, you are only hurting yourself. Slacking off on a job usually means you are affecting others negatively.”

Showing up on time, being courteous and respectful to both the employer and

customers, learning new skills, accepting tasks without complaining — these are all part of handling a job with maturity and finesse, which can do wonders for your child’s self-esteem and self-confidence once school begins again in September.

Then of course, there’s the monetary reward. Earning one’s own money is an empowering experience, but also, a steady paycheck is a great opportunity to teach your teen about value, budgeting and saving.

So how to know if your teen is equipped to handle a summer job?

“Your child is probably ready if he has no problem getting himself up and out for school in the morning and if he keeps track of and manages his own assignments,” says Barrett. But perhaps most important, she says, he’s ready if he says he wants to get a job and feels he can handle the responsibility.

The hunt is on

Depending on your teen’s age, maturity level, interests and availability, a summer job can run the gamut from working 9-to-5 in an office environment, to flipping burgers to cleaning and maintaining neighborhood swimming pools. So before your child begins the hunt, sit down together and go over what’s truly attainable and what isn’t. For example, suppose your teen wants to work at Splish Splash in Riverhead but you live in Holbrook. If she drives, are you comfortable with the distance? Or, perhaps you’ve heard that counseling jobs are available at a nearby day camp. The location may be great, but does your teen do well with young children? Once you’ve discussed these and other logistics, there are myriad job opportunities that await.

“Unemployment is at historic lows and there are plenty of positions out there,” says Suffolk County Labor Department spokesperson Peter Simeone. And now is a great time to start looking, before college kids come home.

Where to begin

During the academic year, 16-year-old Jake Myers of Northport has been working one day a week after school at a local bowling alley. This summer, however, he’s expected to get either a full-time or part-time job. “In the past, he’s gone to sleep-away camp, but at his age his father and I feel he should stay home and experience a job. Plus he wants to make money,” says his mom Susan.

Finding the right job might be challenging, though. Like the parents of many teens on Long Island, Jake’s mom and dad both work full time and he doesn’t drive yet.

Transportation to and from a summer job is one of the biggest challenges suburban teenagers face. But if counting on a parent, older sibling or public transportation is out of the question, one’s own neighborhood is a great place to begin, perhaps by creating an entrepreneurial enterprise — dog walking, mowing lawns or maintaining landscaping, cleaning pools, becoming a mother’s helper, or taking on household chores for an elderly neighbor or the parent of a newborn or infant.

Or try seeking jobs at shopping strips, fast food or regular restaurants and business centers that can be reached by foot or via bicycle. Fortunately, the Myerses live within walking distance of Northport Village, so Jake has been applying at the retailers and service businesses that line Main Street. Other local options are checking job postings at supermarkets and libraries, and the employment section of your weekly shopper’s guide.

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BY CLAUDIA GRYVATZ COPQUIN

Special to Newsday

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Teen Summer Jobs: Rethinking Fast Food Option?

Amber — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:31:52 +0000

The following article is from TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com:A study quoted in one recent article “shows that about two-thirds of the 14- to 18-year-old age group employment in [Washington] state is in the fast-food establishment, an industry many students say they want nothing to do with.”

The article continues: “High school students want the ‘cool’ jobs: Working at popular retail chains, camp counseling and ice cream shops are some examples. But some find the only jobs available are in the fast-food industry or manual labor.”

An adult in the recruiting industry provides a reality check: “the stigmatized jobs are not that bad . . . McDonald’s has a wonderful training program . . . . Sometimes our perceptions are off. If we were more open to learning about a company . . . maybe there would be more opportunities.”

To break into the job market, an expert suggest new applicants try companies such as Chick-fil-A, which hires students as young as 15.

So How Bad Is a Fast Food Job, Anyway?

I wrote about “McJobs” way back in November 2003 (“Burger flippers get no respect these days”). This is worth repeating:

“While these days I try to avoid the [fast food] cuisine, unless forced to go there to satisfy family members, I am an unabashed supporter of McJobs. My first job, at age 16 in 1974, was at the McDonald’s on East Third Street in Bloomington, Indiana.

It was very hard work, especially on [Indiana University] football weekends, but we really had a lot of fun. So much so that when I got together with some old friends last summer, with whom I had worked there, we stopped in at the old store and posed for this photo (that’s me on the right). I met store assistant managers intent on working up through the ranks, and regional managers who had already done so. To them, it was certainly not “dead-end work,” but good old-fashioned American opportunity.

I learned the work ethic through the famous words of revered founder Ray Kroc: “If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.”

While I wouldn’t envy anyone trying to support a family working a McJob, I heartily recommend it as a life-stage job for young people, and would hope a good work record at such a job is viewed positively by persons making hiring decisions for higher-paying jobs as well, rather than as a sign of lack of ambition.”

A Smattering of Statistics:

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics shines some interesting light on the food preparation industry as a whole:

* 1/5 of cooks and food prep workers are between 16 and 19 years old.
* 2/5 of food prep workers are employed part time
* Because many workers “burn out from the fast work pace and pressure to fill orders quickly,” job openings are plentiful.

For those who can hack it, there are rewards for sticking with the job. The BLS states that “experience as food and beverage preparation and service workers is essential for promotion into managerial positions.” (Duh.)

A bonus for future fast food and restaurant managers: The growing U.S. population means more mouths to feed. The restaurants that crop up to feed the people need managers. You get hired. And isn’t that the happiest of endings?

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Story - employmentblawg.com

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Teen Job Seekers Hurt By Slow Market

Amber — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:24:28 +0000

The following article is from TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com:For some teens, summer is a time to kick back, relax, and soak in the sun. But for many others, it is a time to make money by landing a summer job.

However, across the nation the job market has been weakening and teens are feeling the impact.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nation’s teens, ages 16 to 19, are experiencing a record low employment rate since the late 1940s. In 2007, 34.8 percent of U.S. teens were employed, the lowest average employment rate for teens since the end of World War II. All ages, races, and genders are experiencing the weakening job market, but teens who are 16 or 17 years, males, black and Hispanic and low-income are most at risk of joblessness.

Although it can be difficult for all young people to land jobs, high school students have other obstacles besides a slim amount of available jobs—especially now.

Senior Parker Bonello has had a difficult time securing a summer job. “A lot of people are not really looking because they have people from college coming back or they need more than part-time employees,” he said.

Bonello tried unsuccessfully for a job at The Original Soup Man restaurant, which he found listed on Craig’s List. He then applied to work at Urban Outfitters, but once again was turned away.

“I was having a hard time finding places that were hiring right now at places I am interested in. I don’t want to settle for a job I won’t like,” said Bonello. “Places are just not hiring a lot of people. There’s a lot of demand [among job searchers] but not a lot of supply. There are a lot of people looking for jobs and not nearly enough jobs to fill everyone. I have definitely felt the decline in jobs for people my age.”

Senior Jane Lucas from Hopkins High School in Minnesota thinks that being too selective may be the problem.

“There really are a lot of options. The thing is if you are picky, it can be hard to find a really good job,” said Lucas. But she does agree with the statistics showing a weak job market. “I definitely see that it is the teens who are getting most of the job opportunities taken away.”

Lucas works at the Bryn Mawr Coffee Shop and The Tea House, a Chinese resturant. She secured both her jobs through family or friend connections.

Senior Annalise Sundberg struggled all last summer to find a job. “It’s hard because realistically you need to be 18 to get a lot of jobs. I turned 18 at the end of the summer, but I wasn’t at the right age at the time. It’s also hard to compete with the college kids. You have to apply earlier than you realize.”

This summer may be one of the worst times for teens. In a new survey, researchers at the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston predict that this will be the toughest job market for teens since 1948, when the federal government began measuring teen employment.

Because of the weak economy, they report that only 33.5 percent of the nation’s teens, ages 16 to 19, had jobs in the January through March period compared to 35.8 percent a year earlier. This summer will also be weak, they predict, with only 34.2 percent of teens employed.

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Teens May Need to Look Harder for Summer Jobs

Amber — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:18:55 +0000

The following article is from TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com:The Problem

According to the Center’s study, “The overall teen employment rate (36.6%) in the past three years (2004-2006) was the lowest in the past 60 years.”

Traditional teen jobs like newspaper delivery are now done by professional services. Food service and retail jobs are largely going to immigrants, rather than teens, according to Andrew Sum, a labor market expert at Northeastern University. “And if you walk into a mall or grocery store, you’ll see large numbers of older people working at jobs teens used to have,” he said in a Knowledge@Wharton report.

The brunt of this unemployment falls on racial minorities. According to the study, White teens were employed at nearly twice the rate of Asian and Black teenagers (51%, compared to 27%).

But low employment levels are bad news for all teens. The study, which advocates a federally-funded teen jobs creation program, said:

The loss in teen job opportunities has become extraordinarily high, depriving teens of a chance to obtain work experience, develop the soft employability skills desired by employers, and receive earnings to support their own personal consumption and contribute to their family’s economic well-being, especially among low income youth.

A teen’s first job can help him build confidence, responsibility, and money management skills. The extra pocket cash is practically a bonus! George worked at McDonald’s as a teen, and he owes a lot of his work ethic to the experience. I think his manager’s immortal words still haunt his nightmares: “If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.”

Some Hopeful News

The Department of Labor regulates child labor conditions, and it has outlawed “hazardous work” for anyone under 18. In April, the agency declared its intent to strengthen these regulations by forbidding such practices as riding on forklifts, selling door-to-door, or operating certain types of industrial machinery. At the same time, it reportedly “signaled its willingness to open additional opportunities for younger teens in such jobs as banking and information technology.”

How to Find a Job

To get a job (and all the attendant perks), teens should start looking hard even before they get out of school for the summer. But it’s not too late. A smattering of tips from Shawn Boyer, CEO of SnagAJob.com, should prove helpful. Boyer recommends casting a wide net in your job search. Let family and friends know you’re on the hunt, and apply to many different businesses.

Boyer also recommends thinking outside the mall. For example, hotels and airlines need help caring for the influx of summer travelers. Amusement parks also need lifeguards and concession salespeople. Banks may hire teenage tellers, sometimes as young as 16. Companies like Mass Connections Inc. hire teens as product demonstrators. SnagAJob.com lists over 100,000 of these hourly jobs, searchable by zip code.

If you don’t get hired within the first week of your job search, don’t get discouraged. A SnagAJob.com spokesperson said:

Those who have already found a job might leave those positions in June, so there will be openings. In general, there is frequently churn in the hourly job industry and positions do become available.

Artistically or mechanically-inclined teens might consider doing a little entrepreneurship, making candles or soap or repairing bicycles. Growing herbs is also a clever possibility– but stick to legal herbs!

Other Tips

A job search site like SnagAJob.com can widen your opportunities by connecting you with companies you don’t know about. That also introduces some risk. SnagAJob tries to weed out fraudulent companies by making sure employers have legitimate addresses and phone numbers. A SnagAJob.com spokesperson also recommended that applicants make sure they feel comfortable with the job for which they are applying:

* Job descriptions have varying levels of information, and if you feel there’s not enough information for you, don’t apply.
* Don’t apply to a job if you are asked to pay money to receive a job.
* Don’t go to an unidentifiable address for a job or to any place that makes you feel uncomfortable.For more information like this, visit TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com.

28 Teen Home Based Business Ideas You Can Start This Summer

Amber — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:46:07 +0000

The following article is from TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com:Summer time doesn’t always have to be about working for other people. If you have the will and the inclination, why not start your own teen home based business? By starting your own teen business, you can achieve a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction that you probably won’t get by working for other people. Not only that, but due to the fact that there is so much competition from other teens, it’s may not always be easy to find a summer job. So coming up with your own teen home based business ideas that you can start is better than spending your summer unemployed! If you’re enterprising enough to go into business for yourself, here are 28 ideas for businesses that you can consider:

Face painter

Word processing service

Silkscreen service

Sign painter

Grocery delivery service

House cleaning service

Dog walking service

Baby-sitting service

House sitting service

Tutoring service

Hauling service

Telephone wake-up service

Site designer and developer

Handyman service

Gift buying and delivery service

Lawn, yard, and gardening service

Recyclable materials pickup service

Home and commercial window washing service

Car washing, waxing, and detailing service

Door-to-door flyer distribution service

Door-to-door sales of a product you truly like

House number painting service

Hardware or software consultant for installations, repairs and troubleshooting

Food delivery service, representing one or more restaurants

Manage a concession stand selling food in a busy part of your area

Make and distribute coupon booklets that represent local merchants in your neighborhood

Small catering service for parties, receptions and private dinners.

Organize yard sales to sell your things and other people’s things

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42 Teen Job Ideas For Summer Job Hunting

Amber — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:41:41 +0000

The following article is from TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com:As a teen, looking for a summer job can be quite stressful – especially when you’re not sure about what kind of jobs are out there that teens can apply for. If this is the problem you’re having, then check out the list below of 42 teen job ideas to help you find a job this summer. Some are skilled jobs, but the majority of these teen job ideas are jobs for unskilled workers.

Camp counselor

Swimming instructor

Amusement park attendant

Counter attendant

Fast food worker

Messenger

Maid

Gas station attendant

Recyclable material collector

Car washer

Bellhop

Farm worker

Mover

Cashier

Cook

Babysitter or nanny

Daycare assistant

Home companion

Nursing aide

Retail salesperson

Deckhand on a fishing boat

Warehouse person

Receptionist

Hotel desk clerk

Restaurant host or hostess

Waitperson

Janitor

Kitchen helper

Kennel attendant

Dog and cat groomer

Landscape worker

Groundskeeper

Web site developer

Graphic designer

Word processor

Construction helper

Data entry keyer

Printing press operator

Computer programmer

Painter’s helper

Carpenter’s helper

Auto service technician

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How can a Teenager Photographer Make Money This Summer?

Amber — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:31:28 +0000

The following article is from TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com: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!

Additional ideas:

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20 Good Ideas for Teenagers Who Want to Start Their Own Small Business during the summer to Earn Money

Amber — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:31:15 +0000

The following article is from TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com: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:

Personalized Baby Newspaper Business. How To Start Your Own Personalized Baby Newspaper Business.

Start A Cookie Business From Home. Start A Home Business Creating Cookies.

How To Make Money With Card Making. Turn Your Card Hobby Into A Business.

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How College Students Can Make Money in the Summer In 12 of the Top Home-Based Businesses

Amber — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:52:31 +0000

The following article is from TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com:How college students can make money is one of the most pressing concerns that most college students have today. Between the fees associated with tuition, books, transportation and other expenses, the financial obligations that many college students face can be overwhelming. However, one way to overcome this is to start your own home-based business to help cover the expense of going to school. There are a number of tried and true home-based businesses that college students can start on a shoe-string budget. Many of these require very little, if any, startup capital at all. Below, you can find a discussion of 12 of the most popular ways for how college students can make money over the summer so they can have the extra cash they need when they start back to school. So are you ready to find out what these business are? Ok, let’s go!

1. Private tutoring – now here’s a home-based business idea that doesn’t require much to get started. You can start a business tutoring students in just about any subject that you’re good in. You can advertise your services at places that are frequented by families such as schools, community centers, libraries, supermarkets and more. You can start first in your own neighborhood by passing out flyers to your neighborers, putting flyers on cars and under doors, etc, etc. Then, from there you can move on to your broader community to advertise your services. in the article, How English Can Be Your Ticket to A Quick Money-Making Career, we discuss how you can tutor English to the widely growing immigrant community as a way of making money. Also, the article Teenagers Earning Money in the Summer, discusses non academic areas that you can tutor children in. Both of these articles offer helpful tips for staring your own home-based business over the summer.

2. Building computers – building computers is not as hard as you might think. It basically boils down to snapping parts into place. You can offer to build custom built computers for people at a cheaper price than they would be able to buy it for in a store. If you don’t know anything about building computers, get a book and learn, or find some online tutorials that will show you how (check out this tutorial on how stuff works). Learning to build computers is something that you can learn in just a few hours. After that, you can spend your time perfecting your ability and practicing it on your own.

3. Child-care services – child care services is one of those tried and true home-based business that’s been around for as long as we can remember. The reason it’s so tried and true is because people are always looking for good people to care for their children while they are away at work. Now you can turn your love of children into one of the most popular home-based business opportunities around.

4. Catering service or personal chef – if you have a knack for cooking, why not make some money off of it by starting a catering service or personal chef business? You can start right in your own kitchen and the expense will be very low. To succeed, you can specialize in certain type of dishes such as gluten free cooking or vegetarian food. We go into much more details in the article: How To Start Your Own Highly Profitable Catering Service.

5. Gift baskets business – this is a business idea which we’ve written about several times here on TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com. The gift basket business is a popular one for good reason – low overhead and repeat sales. Just as with the catering service mentioned above, you should try to specialize in a particular area so you can set yourself apart from everyone else. Here are 50 Gift Basket Making Ideas and you can check out the article: How To Start a Gift Basket Business on a Shoestring Budget for more idea.

6. Concierge service – concierge service is not just for the very rich any more. With so little time to do things, lots of people would welcome the idea of hiring a concierge to take care of mundane tasks for them. You can benefit from this by making money by offering a personal concierge service to busy people. If you live in an apartment building, you can start there by knocking on doors or slipping flyers under people’s doors and offering your services to them. You can do things for people like pick up their laundry, shop for them, pick up and drop off stuff, run errands, etc. etc.

7. Desktop publishing – If you’ve got a knack for brochures, making flyers, newsletters, or anything of this sort, you could offer desktop publishing services to small businesses in your area.

8. Web design – If you’re good at designing web sites, you could consider making money for your skills by offering to build websites for people. This makes a perfect home-based business. You can hawk your skills at the numerous webmasters forum around the World Wide Web such as sitepoint.com or warriorsforum.com.

9. Make your own jewelry – Not only can if be very lucrative, but designing your own jewelry can be very satisfying. If you have the skills, you should definitely turn this into a home-based business idea. Be sure to wear the jewelry that you make as a way of advertising what you do.

10. Personal trainer or exercise instructor – If you are any kind of exercise enthusiast, then you may want to consider starting a home-based business as a personal trainer or exercise instructor.

11. Cleaning service – If you are good at keeping everything clean, you could start a home-based business offering cleaning services. Again, you can start in your own apartment building – if you live in one or you could start in your own neighborhood. Cleaning is something that a lot of people wish they didn’t have to do and you can capitalize on this by offering your service. Try to pick a specialty or offer different kinds of cleaning services such as carpet cleaning. Or maybe you can offer to go around to people’s homes on Sunday mornings and clean their cars.

12. Personal shopper – if you’re a talented shopper with an eye for style and fashion, consider starting a home-based business as a personal shopper you can supplement this further as a mystery shopper. We offer a list of several sites that hire mystery shoppers in this article: The In’s and Out of Becoming a Mystery Shopper.

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