With as little as 200 bucks, wht business could I start with?

Question

Any suggestions? I would like to start a business for my teenage kid for her holiday, but would like to continue it if possible.

Answer 1

Dog walking? Pet-sitting? baby-sitting? Snow shovelling? general yardwork stuff (raking leaves, shovelling, planting flowers, etc)? Picking up doggy doo from the back yards for people who don't want to do it themselves?

Can she craft/sew/create something that's inexpensive and sell online/through friends?

Answer 2

With 200 buck in your pocket, the world is your oyster. Your 200 buck jurdiciously spent can set you on your way........ to more pocket money and down the road to financial freedom.

I have 3, 5 and 15 yr old kids. This has worked for the elderest. The other two are having fun with it too. Essentially what my 15y old has done is changed her email habits. By just using some new web tools, a few of her friends have said they'd like to do the same and so on. It is making her a decent pocket money. It is done after school, she does not have to go out to a J.O.B, and the more she uses it the more she promotes it.
None of the heavy duty nocking on doors.
From this you may gather, I am not advocating you advertise with pay-per-click, walking and talking to people or print business cards. Just send them an email....
Hope this works for you too.

Answer 3

Well, a few months ago, I would have agreed with most of the other answers in here, but now I know that there's a great online option for you!

Since you asked directly, I'll answer directly - My Power Mall is one of the only ways that you can get into a business for the amount that you suggested.

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I hope that this is the answer you were looking for!

Answer 4

Has to be sales of some sort.
See if those Christmass card catelogs still exist. Popular about 20 years ago.
Get the kid into sales and if he likes it he's on his way.
(most people hate it, thats why the ones who can do it make so much money)

Answer 5

1. Lawn care items. $20 biz cards at Kinko's, $10 dot com at GoDaddy.com, free blog at wordpress.com or blogger.com as "site". Knock on 30 doors a day, 6 will say yes. Charge $50 per home to say clean gutters, takes 1 hour. 6 jobs per day, 5 days per week, after expenses, after taxes, take home of $1000.

2. Delivery service for old folks home. Many don't take the bus out to the store and many don't have family who visit often. They need socks, rolaids, TV guide, crossword puzzles, etc. No med's as that is taken care of by the home. Go door to door in the home offering the service. Take list of items wanted. Hit say 30 doors and get orders, head to store. Pick up all needed, come back, divided into bags per room with price sheet. Hand back to person with bill, cost of items, tax + 10 or 15% delivery charge. If they get only $20 in items, that is $2 in charge. $2 x 30 rooms = $60. 1 hour talking, 1 hour shopping, 1 hour delivery. Not including gas, taxes, that is $20 per hour gross pay. For doing nothing more than taking care of the elderly.

3. own land? find and buy some worthless building land in the country on the side of town, say 10-20 acres, cheap. Fence it off, put up a pre-made simple shed/barn. Have a well put in. Now offer horse boarding. 1 horse per acre on average, average rate is $2-$400 per month. 10 acres = 10 horses x $300 = $3000 per month. For what? $200 land mortgage, free well water, free pasture grass (maybe buy some hay bales for winter), electric for lights and well, say $40. Thats well over $500 a wk for just making sure 10 horses had water and the shed was cleaned out. Not a barn, but more of a 3 walled shed that they can go under during rain/snow. Barn, stalls, stable you charge higher prices for boarding.

4. a soy candle company. make natural pure soy candles, few sizes, nothing fancy, keep it simple. Say 22oz candle sell for $14.95 yet only costs around $5 to make. Thats $10 profit per candle. Sell just 10 per day via web site, ebay, craigslist, flea markets, local hallmark stores, etc and you make easy $100 per day. You can find natural soy wax in 50lb box form in flakes. Just melt, add scent, pour in container, add wick, let cool, sticker, box, ship, sold. Being pure soy, you can also sell to churches as they must use natural candles (hint).

5. if either of you are good at drawing, specially on walls, boards. Car dealers, fast food joints, and others actually pay people good money to come and paint marker their front windows for sales, specials, hiring, etc. Just look around, you'll see them. Normally they are signed by who does them at the bottom. Check some of them out and see what they do. Normally teen girls are good at drawing big w/ markers n such. Not sure of the money but being ex-fast food upper mgt, I'd say a Taco Bell that had 3 windows done it would run $200 and be about $20 in paint and I'd guess 4 hours. $40'ish an hour to draw on windows? Can't say thats bad.

Money is all around in front of you... just a matter of seeing it and NOT using a want ad's.

Answer 6

there is very little you can do, but check out SMC if you think you and her can be good sales people. they have a payment option for membership and it really does work. nice products, easy sales and you get a real sales coach for 30 days. the sky is the limit with ways to make money with the products. check it out www.smc.com

Answer 7

lawn care. print flyers for raking leaves, buy a rake and some bags and put the rest in savings. she's gonna have to save her money to buy a good mower and edger/trimmer/blower for the spring summer!

Answer 8

you should only get in business if you got something to sell, so try to think of what your strongpoints are and start something around there.

Answer 9

considering its winter i guess instead of a lemonade stand you'll have to make a coffee and hot chocolate stand.

Answer 10

You could clean houses, offer to run errands, do yard work, pet-sit or babysit.
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