Saturday, November 22, 2008

How Teens Can Make Money Online

By Yuki Shoji

If you are interested in teaching your teenager how to be an entrepreneur and take charge of his own finances an affiliate site is a great choice. Pretty much all teens are internet geniuses. They have online networks that most adult entrepreneurs could only dream of. If you teach your teen to use his internet savvy to make money you could help him create a career that will carry him through the rest of his life.

You have probably protected your teenager from online business opportunities thinking that he might end up getting scammed. If you do your research you will find that there are legitimate ways to make money online, and building an affiliate store is one of the best.

The first step your teen must take to making fast money online is to choose a topic for his affiliate store. Let him choose something that he is really interested in so that he will be more likely to stick with it once he starts. Video games, music and technology are all great topics that many teens are interested in.

Next learn how to create a site. This is something that you can do together. There are a lot of programs that make it very easy to build a website. Choose the one that makes the most sense to you and your teen and design a cool site that he will be proud of.

Now that you have a subject and a site you have to create content. Let your teen write a few articles about the subject he has chosen for the site. This is the most important part of running your own affiliate store so don't do this for him. The better he is at writing content for the site the more successful he will be over all with his affiliate program.

Now you join an affiliate program and choose the products you want to feature on your site. You need to create the site first because many affiliate programs will not accept you as a member unless the site is active. Once you have some products on your site, write about those products. Let your teen write reviews of the products and you can even get reviews from his friends.

Now it is time to market the site. Remember that the point of the site is to sell the product s you have listed. This means that you want to market the site only to your target market. If your kid's friends are that market then use his online network such as myspace or facebook to get started.

Teenagers spend so much time in front of their computers they really do need to use that time to learn something useful. The computer is a tool that can help them achieve financial freedom throughout their entire life. The earlier they learn to use it the better.

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