Do you have any good business ideas for a teenager?
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The nature of a successful small business is that it is driven by the passion of its owner.\n\nWe could give you a ton of good ideas, but you'd probably fail in your business venture because your lack of passion in the product will cause you to be put off by the natural stress involved in running a business.\n\nIn short, if you want to start a business, you first need to identify your passions, then produce a product or service that incorporates that idea.  Then you'll have the drive to see it through.
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this ones easy First of all start by telling friends and family, and even so; its a Internet based business you can still make business cards and hand those out, also when on the Internet do as the Internet, advertise by setting up a page on my space friendsters and such even go as far as making your own web sight
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Try your High school, or one around your area. Most businesses who are looking for teens give the applications to High schools hoping to recruit students that way. You could always try working at the mall or an amusement park, or maybe even a restaurant, those places are usually pretty flexible. However to be completely honest with you it is highly unlikely a business will hire you. Most places won't do it for insurance purposes. Enjoy the summer while you still can. In any case I hope you find a job if that is what you really want. Keep looking, keep asking, and someone will hire you.
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Whats your idea?  I might have some money -
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Yes try your own business. This could be a great start for you. Ask your parents what they think.
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Some 13-year-olds are ready to babysit. Even if you are not old enough to stay with children by yourself, some mothers would welcome your help in keeping their kids busy while they take care of other things around the house.\n\nCleaning is absolutely something you could do. If you can do something at home beyond your regular chores, your parents might be willing to pay you; if not, friends and neighbors might. You could offer general cleaning or specialize in one thing: dusting/vacuuming/laundry/bathrooms . . . whatever. \n\nLawn care is another job--if you can use a lawn mower, great, but if not, how about weeding gardens and flower beds? Raking? Picking up sticks, twigs, and other debris? Watering?\n\nNewspaper delivery--usually means getting up very early, and it's probably a lot easier on a bicycle than on foot. Not a good option if you need someone to drive you around the area!\n\nYou can't work a lot of places until you are 16, but what about a family-owned business?\n\nOne key factor is to let as many people as you can know that you are looking for work. Word of mouth is very important in finding a job.
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These might not be good ones but there the only ones I could think of. (At the time I tpyed this)\n1.Have a lemonade stand.\n2.Have like her and 2 of her friends babysit.\n3.Have her do chores around the house and you could pay her a little bit.\n4.Maybe she could be a paper girl.(Well call you local newspaper company) also she may be a little young to do that depending where you live\n5.Maybe she could walk your neighbors dogs.(If they have any) and she could get paid\n6.She could weed. (Example help your neighbors in their yard like weeding or planting flowers.)\nIF I CAN THINK OF ANYMORE IDEAS I WILL SUBMIT THEM
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If you are under sixteen: make up your own business:\nmowing lawns........especially in a place where there are a lot of senior citizens\npaper route\ngo door to door and ask if there are any odd jobs that you can do\nbabysit\ntake care of pets\nlocal churches usually have a program set up where you can help work..........and get paid if yo uare eighth grade or older.
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* Baby-sitting - Babysitting is a tried and true way for any responsible teenager to make money (IF you like kids!). Any community that has families with small children needs baby-sitters. However, it is extremely hard to find trustworthy and reliable baby-sitters who are available on a regular basis. Your business would provide in-home baby-sitting services. There are several things you can do to make your services more valuable. First, you should go take a Red Cross first aid course so that you know how to handle emergencies. You might also want to volunteer at your church if there is a day-care center there. You can pick up a lot of valuable experience that way. Second, you might want to consider teaming up with some like-minded friends. That way your group will be able to say "yes" more often and that will increase the number of calls you get. See this page for some great advice on babysitting.\n    * Lawn or yard care - Another perrenial favorite. During the summer you mow lawns, trim hedges and so on. In the fall you rake leaves. In the winter you shovel snow.\n    * Indoor house painting - You advertise your ability to paint individual rooms in a customer's house. Before undertaking this adventure you should make sure you know what you are doing by reading, working with someone with experience and practicing in your own home.\n    * Baked goods (cookies, cakes etc.) - Many families are too busy to bake their own cookies and cakes these days. However, having fresh-baked goods around the house is nice. Also, a family might need a home-baked cake for a school bake sale or a party. You could provide baked goods for special occasions like these or sell baked goods at local craft or farmers' markets. Check local health laws as you are starting this sort of activity.\n    * Cleaning - If you enjoy cleaning and do it well, then house cleaning for others is straightforward and easy. Find busy people in your neighborhood and clean for them once every week or two.\n    * Dog walking or vacation pet care - Most people who have pets want to give them the best care possible. Your business would help pet owners to do that by walking their pets daily or by providing in-home pet care when owners are on vacation.\n    * Errand-running for busy people - Busy people often do not have time today to stand in line to get their license plates renewed, to buy groceries or to run other errands. Your business would handle these tasks for them.\n    * Washing cars for neighbors - You can simply wash cars. There is also a whole industry called "car detailing". A detailer washes and waxes the outside and REALLY cleans the inside: vacuuming, washing the windows, armor-alling, etc.\n    * Teaching older people how to use computers or the internet - Many older people are totally affraid of computers. If you understand computers you can help them. You could come to the customer's home (or they to your home) and you could charge on a half-hourly or hourly basis.\n    * Using a computer application - learn Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc. and then go get or create a part-time job in a small business using your skills (see also the Job Skills article).\n    * Creating Web Sites - If you are artistic and technically minded, there is a great opportunity available right now creating web sites for small businesses. Or try creating your own web site that generates a lot of traffic and make money selling ads on it. (see also the web site article)\n    * Making and selling something unique: A newsletter on something that interests you, something arty, etc. If you are artistic create greeting cards or draw portraits. You will discover that your greatest difficulty doing this is finding outlets, so work to solve that problem (you will learn an incredible amount in the process).
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From the article "10 Weekend Home Businesses: Ideas for Part-time Work at Home Businesses" at   http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol67/weekend.htm, here are some business ideas that you can do on a part time basis:\n\n1. personal fitness trainer\n2. cake decorator\n3. freelance writer\n4. cooking instructor\n5. fund raiser\n6. musician\n7. tutoring service\n8. tour guide\n9. personalized children's books\n10. antique restoration service\n\nDan Ramsey's book "101 Best Weekend Businesses" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1564142574/powerhomebizguid offers more part-time business ideas for you to consider.
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I have a lot of business Ideas, it's difficult to know which one will be good for you. But I can tell you what's hot right now on the market...\n\nTechnology\n- VoIP (Interent or Broadband Services and systems)\n- Storage (Computer storages, Servers)\n- Security (Online Security Software, and Hardware)\n- Computer Repair (Software and Hardware)\n- Smart Homes (Security, Survilance, Remote Systems)\n\nOnline\n- eBooks (Help people do something easy and better)\n- Adsence (Nich information + adsence = money)\n\nOthers\n- Real State (Buying and Selling)\n- Carpet Cleaning Business (Own or Franchise)\n\nDo you research and inform yourself about business and marketing, then apply your knowledge own you new business idea and make it work...\n\nGood luck!\n\nLuis Galarza, Business and Telecommunication Consultant\nGet communication tips at http://www.cogni360blog.co.nr and free business tips at http://luisgalarza.blogspot.com
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If you are looking for a business idea, I suggest looking at various business ideas books and check if any interests you. One example is Dan Ramsey in his book "101 Best Home Businesses" made suggestions on the best home businesses according to type. Here are a few of them:\n\nBest Businesses Using Craft or Physical Skills\n- antique restoration\n- auto detail service\n- carpet cleaning business\n- errand/delivery service\n- housecleaning business\n\nBest Service Businesses \n- bed and breakfast operator\n- caregiver\n- catering service\n- senior day care center\n- tutoring service\n\nBest Professional Businesses\n- desktop publisher\n- magazine writer\n- import/export service\n- income tax preparation service\n- event planner\n\nHe also has a chapter on how to find YOUR best home business. He suggests these 10 steps:\n\n1. List 5 things you do best\n2. List how others would benefit from what you do best\n3. Find out how to give people what they want\n4. Learn the value of your services to others\n5. Find out who else offers similar services\n6. Learn from the successes of others\n7. Learn from the failures of others\n8. Plan your own success\n9. Make low cost mistakes\n10. Enjoy what you do and how you do it\n\nSome other websites where you can find business ideas:\n\nTop 10 Home Businesses with Rapid Break-Even Time http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol33/breakeven.htm\n10 Profitable “Go-Out" Home Businesses http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol31/goout.htm\nLow Cost Startup Businesses http://www.entrepreneur.com/lowcostbusinesses/0,6617,,00.html\n\nOther business ideas book include: \n\n- Turn Your Talents into Profits: 100+ Terrific Ideas for Starting Your Own Home-Based Microbusiness \n- The Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century \n- 121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home \n- The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start \n- 101 Ways to Make Money at Home  \n\nNote that the best home business that you can be sure is not a scam is one that you start yourself. It will depend on what you want, how you define to be interesting. A person may consider a pet sitting business to be the most exciting work in the world, while another person would rather watch TV than take care of dogs. \n\nThe key is to determine what your interests are, what you want to do, what is suitable for your lifestyle and your overall goals, and what can fit with your resources.
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Maybe put up some posters in apartment complexes offering your services to the elderly, such as taking out their trash or running errands.\n\nSome people might need dog walking services or even someone just to come and play with the dogs; or, someone might need you to clean their yard weekly if they have dogs in their backyard.  Some might need a young man to rake the lawn or mow the lawn.\n\nThink about all the things you can do and all the talents you have and the various things you've learned from your parents and grandparents.\n\nBe creative and be persistent!  See if you can do things first for people who know you so that you can build up references to offer people to show them that you are a young man of good character.\n\nGood luck!  Young people such as yourself are hard to find these days.  =)
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Entrepreneur Magazine has a list of Low Cost Startup Businesses that you may want to check out: http://www.entrepreneur.com/lowcostbusinesses/0,6617,,00.html\n\nSome other home business ideas:\n\nTop 10 Home Businesses with Rapid Break-Even Time http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol33/breakeven.htm\n10 Profitable “Go-Out" Home Businesses http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol31/goout.htm\n\nThe best home business of course will depend on what you want, how you define to be interesting. A person may consider a pet sitting business to be the most exciting work in the world, while another person would rather watch TV than take care of dogs. \n\nThe key is to determine what your interests are, what you want to do, what is suitable for your lifestyle and your overall goals, and what can fit with your resources.\n\nDan Ramsey in his book "101 Best Home Businesses" has a chapter on how to find YOUR best home business. He suggests these 10 steps:\n\n1. List 5 things you do best\n2. List how others would benefit from what you do best\n3. Find out how to give people what they want\n4. Learn the value of your services to others\n5. Find out who else offers similar services\n6. Learn from the successes of others\n7. Learn from the failures of others\n8. Plan your own success\n9. Make low cost mistakes\n10. Enjoy what you do and how you do it\n\nHe then made suggestions on the best home businesses according to type. Here are a few of them:\n\nBest Businesses Using Craft or Physical Skills\n- antique restoration\n- auto detail service\n- carpet cleaning business\n- errand/delivery service\n- housecleaning business\n\nBest Service Businesses \n- bed and breakfast operator\n- caregiver\n- catering service\n- senior day care center\n- tutoring service\n\nBest Professional Businesses\n- desktop publisher\n- magazine writer\n- import/export service\n- income tax preparation service\n- event planner\n\n\nYou can also check out the following books:\n\nTurn Your Talents into Profits: 100+ Terrific Ideas for Starting Your Own Home-Based Microbusiness \n The Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century \n 121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home \n The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start \n 101 Ways to Make Money at Home
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Well, i don't really want to star a business rigth now, but i have a couple of ideas i'm starting to explore.\nI'd like to open this place for kid's parties.\nI'd like to start a child development center. \nAnd i have a proposal for getting a franchise to sell icecream.
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You'll probably need a work permit, and you can get one from your school...see the counselor for one; and your parents or guardians will need to sign it.  Try the refreshment stand at your local park or swimming pool.  Or try the local newspaper for an available paper route.  \n\nOr you can do what I did when I was 14...I loaded up car washing supplies onto my brother's wagon, and travelled all over the neighborhood and washed cars (I just used their garden hoses).  I made a lot of dough, and it was all tax free!  I even made flyers and homemade business cards to hand out.  Good luck, I hope you have a profitable summer.
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Be a waste of time anyway! sell itto some spotty teenager and then go to a concert or sumthing.