How to make some money online.

Teenagers need cash - that's sure. But when you're at school and studying it can be hard to hold down at part time job, and sometimes the pay is not enough. If you have access to a computer and some spare time it's easy to set up websites to earn commission from sales or services you promote and sell.

Even if you don't have a website - you can sign up to a blog or get a Wordpress account, advertise on Facebook or Myspace, get a Twitter account and write some interesting articles and encourage people to click on your links.

Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Networks are online companies who enlist the help of "affiliates" to place links on their own website to advertise a "merchant" of the network. When someone visits your site, clicks on an affiliate link and goes on to buy something from the website you sent them to, you can earn commission. Your earnings go into an account that the Affiliate Network holds for you. Every month they send you a cheque for all the commissions you have earned. You can earn anything from £10 to £3,000 a month from each site. You must make the site popular - so choose a niche subject - something you are knowledgeable about and can give expert editorial on, and make the site high quality and competitive on the web.

Check out the Affiliate Networks on the right hand column >>>

Buy and Sell on eBay
Many youngster make some extra cash by selling stuff on eBay. Buy from a Charity Shop or Car Boot Sale or buy Job Lots from eBay and split the items to sell them separately. Choose a product type to specialise in.

Set up a "niche" website
Use affiliate networks to supply the "market" for you and specialise with a website that concentrates on a small, but popular enough subject. i.e a fan site, reviewing a type of media (i.e Star Trek films), pets or hobbies, a sport, your town - anything that you think will show up high on the search engines to anyone looking for that subject.

To set up a website you need computer software for web design and for creating graphics. You need to buy a domain name and find a Web Hosting company to host your site files.

Careful Planning
When you start out on an idea to make money make sure you plan it carefully and run through the idea with friends, teachers or parents. Beware of some money making scams who sell you a business idea. Never, ever pay out money upfront to join a moneymaking scheme. Avoid claims that look too good to be true - things like pyramid selling and viral selling are bad. A good business will work with you and only take a realistic fee from you if you make the money first.