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Six Ways For the kids To Make Money

March 17, 2011 Entrepreneur
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Most of us know the usual ways for kids to make money, including lemonade stands, newspaper routes and mowing lawns. However, there are more unusual ways. Some of the ways listed here are from my own , personal childhood, once i was always trying to find another way to earn money.

1. Be described as a chef. At about eleven years of age, I did before sell meals to my brothers (I had four of them). I obtained 25 cents for scrambled eggs or even a sandwich, and much more for more complicated meals. My brothers preferred in which to stay front of the TV and let me cook on their behalf. Since the food had been provided by my parents, the income was pure profit.

2. Computer whiz-kid service. Many children know a whole lot about computers. My nephew was getting paid for programming from the time he was fourteen, but even younger kids can display old folks how to use a computer as well as the internet for a small charge. Become familiar with a few more skills, plus they can even setup computers for brand new owners that are using them for the first time. Letting grandparents spread the word would have been a good marketing ploy.

3. Household carnival. I charged my brothers five cents for any wadded up sheet of paper selected from the bucket full of them. Most were built with a penny or two inside them, just some were built with a quarter. It was one among my “carnival” events. I also had them throwing pennies at a bowl throughout the room, that i kept, of course. If a penny stayed inside the bowl they won a dime. I’m almost embarrassed to say simply how much of their hard-earned paper route money I took from their store.

4. Collect returnables. We collected and returned cans and bottles for any deposit as kids. Since more states have return laws, it is really an even better method to create a little cash. Throughout the Cherry Festival, once i lived in Traverse City, Michigan, adults found town just to collect the cans that folks threw around. Using a 10 cent deposit, we were holding collecting greater than $100 worth per day based on several of them. If the kids wear gloves, leave broken cans and bottles alone, and employ hand sanitizer, it is a safe method to earn money.

5. Personal services menu. If there are numerous people in the household, a great way for kids to make money is to sell their services. They can create a menu of things they’ll do and just how much you pay for every. It could include washing windows for 50 cents each, as an example, and perhaps $1.50 just to walk your pet dog. If the list is copied, it may be given out to any or all relatives and possibly neighbors too.

6. Rummage sales and flea markets. If parents agree, kids may have rummage sales, selling not merely household things, but arts and crafts and refreshments too. Parents might even take their kids to a flea market to setup a stand. I sold (as an adult) greater than $1,000 of hand-made walking sticks one summer, while my partner sold hundreds of dollars worth in pewter figurines glued to rocks, sea shells and crystals. Cookies and drinks sell well too. It’s a fantastic way to understand business, along with a good way for kids to make money.

New Innovations

February 21, 2011 Entrepreneur
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How can you produce ideas for first time innovations? Here is a great technique: Extract some rudimentary ideas from existing products and inventions, and then apply these phones new areas.

If you take a look at a thermostat, as an example, you might think “A device to manage the indoor climate.” This is really a thought which you can use to create something new. You have to look a little deeper, though, if you would like more creative innovations. Continue with, “It measures the temperature and then, using that information, turns the heater on or off, to help keep the home comfortable.”

Continuing even deeper, we view which it uses measurement to be able to control something. Let’s assist that concept. With the technology that exists today, we could make things happen automatically, in accordance with just about anything we could automatically measure. It is a powerful concept that can and can result in some fantastic new innovations.

In a article on thought control, I pointed out that since we could measure the changing activity of the brain once we affect the nature individuals thoughts, we could already build a device that’s operated by simply our thoughts. Despite the technology of thirty years ago, we will have experienced a TV start whenever one’s pulse rate increased. If you then trained you to ultimately enhance your pulse rate by thinking certain thoughts, you could start a television with your thoughts.

Other New Innovations

To own many such ideas and new innovations, just look around and commence applying the fundamental idea of control by measurement. Studying the television, and thinking of measurable things related to it, time is definitely an obvious one. You can find “sleep timers” that turn the television off after a specific amount of time, but how about a device that only allows the television to be on for three hours in a given day? Kids can view once they want, nevertheless they defintely won’t be able to watch too much.

A thermometer gives me the concept for any sign that changes it’s message based on the weather. For restaurants, as an example, could have the sign say “Come in out of the cold,” when it had been cold, or “Cool off with an ice cold drink,” when it had been hot, and so forth. I’m sure there are more businesses whose messages could be variously pretty much effective based on the weather.

Once i look at the traffic, I note that speed may be measured. Finances those radar signs now, that tell you how rapid you are going. There could be an indicator in the future saying “Slow down, we’re taking the picture,” or even the radar gun could start a fake siren whenever someone goes ten miles-per-hour over the limit. The idea is simply that their speed triggers something which will hopefully slow them down.

Yesterday I saw a fresh invention that measures your girth. Just what exactly can it do with this information? Well, in the event you hold your stomach in, you get clear sound inside your headphones. If you let your stomach spend time, the music is inferior and loses volume. While I’m not sure how this stomach-exercise-motivator will sell, it can show how while using idea of measurement to manage can result in very different innovations. In reality, any using a fundamental concept to new areas can result in new innovations.

New Concepts

February 9, 2011 Entrepreneur
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We all love to dream up new concepts, don’t we? Here are a few from my imagination. They aren’t patented or trademarked, so bring them and call them your own personal if you’d like.

A human kite: Years ago I did previously design and build kites while living alone in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. I thought hang gliders are just like kites. Since there’s not much altitude in Michigan, I wondered if you can use them in high wind, rather than from high hills. If tied to the ground by a strong line, you’d rise up in to the air in the hang glider, being a kite. When done, just detach the road and glide back down.

Magnetic paintings: Produced from an appartment “canvas” of magnetic material, and selection of many colors of iron dust or small shavings. Just apply the metal dust carefully to produce any picture imaginable. Something similar to a Buddhist sand mandala, maybe it’s very intricate and beautiful, but better permanent. It could even be hung in the wall.
When you wish to start a new painting – wipe it clean. The colored metal dust couldn’t be salvaged and separated, but this is an excellent thing from a marketing standpoint, since users have to buy more to be able to “paint” more.

New Concepts For TV Shows

Real survival show: I liked “Survivor,” but the drama was too much. Obviously it sells the show, but there are other markets too. Why don’t you start all contestants on an island or other isolated locale, and let them quit once they want, but provide them with no assistance otherwise. No special competitions should be made, as the levels of competition are to determine who best survives. This could be dependant on who loses the smallest amount of weight, for instance. This certainly indicates some skill in obtaining food.

A street survivor how: No things, money or ID, , nor even let them use their real names. Discover who is able to survive, and have the best situation (maybe a good job?) a month later. Any breaking of laws disqualifies a contestant. If you will find real testimonials, the resulting show could be an excellent instructional video to inspire those who are really homeless to help themselves more.

New Concepts In American Justice

Don’t allow criminals exercise. Do we want violent offenders to leave prison stronger and therefore more dangerous? We can not stop exercising in cells, but why provide equipment to help them develop muscles? Let violent offenders be out of shape. Doesn’t that make more sense?

Use video testimony. At virtually every trial, lawyers say things they shouldn’t say, and the judge tells the jury to forget the comments – as though they are able to. What if witnesses were questioned and cross-examined on video tape. In the event the jury only saw this, any parts with sustained objections might be edited out. Problem solved. Obviously, all parties might be present during the viewing when they wished.

New Concept For A Business

Balloon rides are somewhat dangerous, and very dependent on weather, especially the speed and direction of the wind. Because of these reasons, they are certainly not cheap. but what if someone offered rides that didn’t take you far, but gave a view from high above? Why don’t you have “tethered” hot air balloon rides? The balloon can go up one thousand feet or maybe more, then be retracted in. This could be safer and more reliable, and be profitably offered by a cheaper price ..

Hopefully you found at least one interesting or entertaining idea. Maybe you’ll even be inspired to create your own personal new concepts.

SanDisk Ad Blitz

January 12, 2011 Advertising
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SANDISK, maker of the world’s 2nd best-selling mp3 player (behind Apple’s iPod) initiated a policy of a brand new anti-iPod advertising campaign. Read about it in more detail here:

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49273890,00.htm

Here’s the hoopla in a nutshell. SanDisk is said to be porting Rockbox, an open-source OS for digital music players (which supports a variety of mp3 devices), onto its popular e200 mp3 player. To take the matter to public consciousness, SanDisk initiated a policy of releasing the before-mentioned anti-iPod ads so that they can blatantly attack its arch-nemesis, Apple.

The ads depict graffiti-like illlustrations made to resemble posters with an underground revolutionary movement. One shows a monkey sporting ipod and iphone earbuds with all the line “Are an iChimp?”, and another is of your guy strung up in white iPod cables like a marionette, with all the text: “Have you become an iPuppet?”

Okay, okay. Mp3 competition is fierce- I buy it. SanDisk wants to play rough- fine by me. In terms of I’m concerned, open source is good stuff, and there is no doubt in my mind that SanDisk makes a good product. Competition is great for capitalism and also the consumer. I’m not here to tout the technical prowess of just one geek gadget over another.

Things i will touch upon, however, will be the nature of the ads themselves. I took one examine these items and I’ll let you know at this time that I’m not going to switch from iPod to e200. You understand why? Because as an iPod user, I’m like I’m being insulted. Hey, I’m not a complicated guy so I won’t enter in the whole nitty-gritty of “Apple enables you to do this-and-that blah blah blah also it is only for iTunes blah blah blah.”

I plug ipod and iphone into my computer and also the damn thing works. That’s why I personally use it.

In my opinion, SanDisk’s whole “revolutionary” ad approach, however provocative, is ultimately misguided. For one thing, SanDisk won’t win me over by insulting me and comparing me to some monkey, puppet, sheep, or any other sort of farm animal. Secondly, SanDisk’s ads also evoke a political edge, helping to make no sense. For better or for worse, people buy iPods because they Desire to, not because they’re forced to. Furthermore, Apple allows its products to face independently merit and so they never insult people because of not using them. Although Apple has poked fun at PCs in their own individual internet and TV campaigns, it is a long way away from SanDisk’s “Are an iPuppet?” approach.

Perhaps I’m an iPod user who’s taking this whole thing a tad too personally. However , if the e200 and Rockbox are so excellent, which I’m sure they may be, maybe SanDisk should just inform us why and allow the people decide.

It really is SanDisk’s anti-iPod effort, Apple could easily fire back and say SanDisk remains #2, and 2nd place will be the first loser. Even though it’s true, it might be insulting, right?

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