Senin, 23 Februari 2009

Some Fun (And Cool) Ways For Kids to Make Money Online!


What? Ways for kids to make money? Aren't they supposed to only spend money? Oh no, you can turn the tables in your favor! There's several ways for kids to make money, but of course, you have to consider the age of the kid. Obviously, the older the child, the more opportunity they will have.

How much time do your children spend online? A lot? Well, what if they were actually making a little money while they were surfing the net? How would that be? Traditionally, kids started out raking leaves, shoveling snow or running a paper route. Then they would graduate to working in fast food, or a grocery store. That's still totally cool, but not all that exciting for the kids themselves.

Ever hear of internet marketing? If a child can write proficiently, there are lots of ways for kids to make money online. Maybe they could write articles for people or create short reports on a subject such as video games (which most of us have no idea about!). Another cool way for kids to make some money with internet marketing is providing routine, boring services for marketers. Services like setting up social bookmarking accounts, etc. Marketers are happy to pay for this mundane work, usually about $1 per account. So, 25 accounts in one day = $25. Not bad for a kid having some fun on the internet.

Another cool idea is having kids complete online surveys for money. This keeps them interested as they are aware of their earnings with every completed submission. Or what about online auctions such as eBay? Kids are very experts on trading cards, cartoon characters, movies, video games, etc. Put that knowledge to use! Maybe they can eagerly search out an opportunity, where you or I would simply overlook.

A word of caution, you will want to make sure to monitor and restrict access to certain sites to protect a child. You never want their safety to be compromised. Again, all of this depends on the maturity level of a child. Maturity, keyboarding skills and grammar, of course, play a big role in what they are qualified to do.

Really, you are only limited by your imagination when it comes to finding ways for kids to make money online.

1 komentar:

Gina Alfani mengatakan...

Great ideas to teach kids to be responsible and make money . . . and keep them out of trouble.