Are you exasperated with the thousands of hours your teenager spends in front of the computer? Instead of declaring war on that computer, why not help it become a real ATM? Discover 3 different areas in which your teenager will be able to take advantage of his interest and innate technological skills to foster his entrepreneurial skills and earn money online.
If you are a parent of a teenager today, the following picture should be your daily bread:
Your son or daughter spends hours in front of the computer. If you talk to him, he or she answers with their gaze fixed on the screen, focused on a video game or the last comment of their friends on Facebook. No matter what goes on around them, that screen has the power to absorb your full attention for endless hours.
Desperate, right?
In the face of such indifference, we parents remember with nostalgia those days when technology had not yet invaded our space. For many of us, the world of computers is an unknown and mysterious terrain.
This great difference of appreciation can easily transform you into a subject of constant discord between parents and children. While the children run to their PC in every free time they have, the parents get exasperated and ask: "Can't they do something more useful?"
And the answer to this question is: Yes, of course yes!
That device, which seems to have bewitched your children, can become a valuable educational and money-generating tool. Rather than declaring war on you, you can take advantage of their interest in computers and the innate skills they have to turn it into something that fosters their entrepreneurial skills and generates income.
Believe it or not, you can help your children make those hours in front of the screen in highly productive time.
3 areas in which your children can use their technological skills to earn money online
1. With affiliated products:
Your kids could earn commissions by recommending other people's products among their friends on Facebook or other social pages. They just have to join a product that they have used and that they liked. By registering as an affiliate of that product, they will receive a personal link that they can distribute among their friends. Every time one of your friends buys that product through your child's affiliate link, he will earn a commission on the sale.
The good news is that commissions on the internet are typically 40% to 50%!
Websites where your child can find affiliate products:
2. Selling products on e-bay or other auctions on the Internet
Surely you have several items in your home that you do not use and that are in your attic or are taking up space in your house. Why not invite your teen to sell those items through online auctions? Aside from making money and helping you get rid of the useless things in your home, you will learn important selling skills that will last a lifetime.
Sites where you can sell products:
www.ebay.com/
You can learn more about how Internet auctions work at this link:
3. Providing service to third parties
If your son or daughter is an innate "computer", look no further than their ease of getting on well with computers. That skill is highly required today. He or she may offer services to less gifted people in the technology area.
Some of the services that are in high demand:
1. Webmaster:
The assembly and management of web pages or blog, especially WordPress
2. Virtual assistant: Virtual
secretary service that has a wide field of application, from managing email accounts, posting on forums, Twitter and Facebook, uploading material to the web, up to the accounting itself of a client's website. A virtual assistant can have several clients at the same time and they can be geographically located anywhere in the world.
3. Graphic design:
If your child demonstrates artistic skills, he can offer graphic design services. You can design images for a web page, banners, logos, CD covers and virtual books, etc.
4. Writer of articles, press releases or blogs:
Despite the rise of audio and video on the web, the main language of communication on the Internet remains the written language. The problem is that many Internet business owners cannot or do not want to write. They hire third parties to write for them. If your child has writing skills, she has a cutting edge skill that can be successfully exploited on the Internet!
Addresses where your child can offer their services:
www.guru.com
5. Selling photography and videos:
If your child is one of those who take photos and then love to play with the images on their computer and make videos with them, they can upload their products in photo banks and sell them there. Every time a video or photo of them is sold, they make money.
Photo banks in Spanish language:
www.gettyimages.es
Do you see the tremendous potential the Internet has for your children? Instead of declaring war on your children's computer, share this information with them and help them use their skills in something productive to earn money online.
