Best is to build your portfolio by offering low price tags for a month or so however even if you do it for a low price do it in a high standard, Im 13 and I have earnt £118 from this site and £150 from personal clients, Design logos and a few website designs (IN ONE MONTH) Yh I know you wont believe me, Learn tutorials make use of this summer holiday (ur UK right?) Have a look at my portfolio if you get some time, http://mohammad-fuaath.blogspot.com/ and Yh like someone said dont tell them your age! as they try to rip you off
Hi, 50-200$ you say? I would recommend getting to know your spelling and grammar, then start up a ghostwriting service and charge approx 1$ per 100 words of content you write.
Quicks ideas to start right now: 1. Write articles 2. Earn from Site Flipping 3. Sell Domains 4. Do affiliate marketing
Domain squatting and AdSense blogs are great investments. If you can learn a programming language, you'll be well ahead of even 20-30 year old "designers" Looks aren't everything with a website, content is king! Learn from the mistakes of others on forums like these. It's a great place to get plugged into the right (and wrong) ways to do things. Also, get certified. Certifications in programming or web standards from organizations like W3Schools or Microsoft will bring credibility to you - young or old. Best of luck!
15, I bet you're in school. Take advantage of your school's elective programs and take all the computer classes you can. Learn the basics, and use the web to advance on them. If you're teachers are cool, use them to help you get creative with techniques. Once you have established a good set of skills, you can pretty much do anything for money online. Plus, if you get all your class work done in those classes you can use that time to work on your own stuff, with some help if available. Then like most people suggest to beginners, open up a blog. You know, go ahead make it fictitious, tell the story of how this 15 year old kid made all this money online. Trust me, you'll get a tone of readers. And then you'll be on your way to making money. This guy I went to high school with took a flash gaming class (it was more then just flash gaming, but he already knew some flash so he primarily worked on gaming with teacher assistance. my high school was pretty cool like that....) and he opened a flash arcade online, and due to marketing, bought a brand new bwm m3 before he graduated. If THAT tells you the kind of money he made from the site.
Man your 13 and already made that money! This just motivated me! Thanks everyone for the friendly advice! I'm going to try hard and also learn a bit more XHTML/CSS and possibly PHP .
Dude i think you are me. I'm 15, pretty decent at graphic design, i come from the UK, know a bit of coding, but still suck at it. Looking to make a steady income like you requested. Weird xD Anyway this thread's helped me a bit, i think im going to concentrait on graphic design more than affilate marketing and SEO jobs. Once i get my portfolio up, then go out and advertise it and hopfully make soem money though it Good luck to you
Lol how true, Same I'm gonna concentrate on Graphic & Web Design and get my portfolio up live, once I learn to code properly in Xhtml/CSS plus a bit on PHP I'll advertise my services in the real world using Business cars, Leaflets etc...
I've got a friend who's my age that's decent at coding, we're doing a partnership kinda thing, i design, he codes. I have no time to code really, id rather just get good at designing. Maybe later on, ill learn some more coding.
That's good I was thinking of doing the same thing but my friends don't know how a website design and devoloping works so that won't work, my online friends ... well some of them know how to code in XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, javascript etc... But I just don't feel like partnering up with them. Good luck Cheesy
Your link appears to be broken? I would like to read that blog post- I am currently trying to get up a PTC affiliate, in order to make some money to upstart my other ideas. Its proving to be rather difficult and I am looking for more advice.
Sell shit online, Find a niche, create a website, get good targeted traffic, include useful information, whether you want to come up with your own or scrape and rewrite, up to you. Get with a ppc program like adsense/yahoo publishers. Use keywords, promote your site by posting articles(associatepress, ezine, etc.)
It can be done, when I was 15-17 I made $xx,xxx annually. However now I make a little less. Age means nothing in the online world, go for it!
Exactly what I was thinking when I saw this post. I'm exactly in the same situation as you guys, strange coincidence, eh. Anyway, try to find something you enjoy tajio. I found I enjoy Twitter so I made a website www.followtwitter.net. After a week of coding it and designing it, it needs only a bit of advertising and some maintenance. It hasn't hit off, but I hope soon I'll be making a good amount of money. If you enjoy designing websites, as many people have suggested, design for the offline community! I've had offers of crazy amounts for simple websites as they aren't so knowledgeable about the competition. If you want to talk to me on MSN:
I am played and learned lot from Dp. Now i know how to make traffic. How to attract customer via net.
Great thread! A half a year ago I was 15 too and I was in exactly the same situation. The only difference was that I sucked at English pretty hard.... I still do I guess. I made some nice money as a graphic designer too, knowing almost nothing about designing and the software I were using (photoshop) But anyway, go for your goal- it can be done! You can move mountains! Just have no doubt about it and believe in yourself.
make cash with twitter man. It's extremely easy. I make passively $100+ after 1 month of 1 hour of work per day. If interested in mentoring PM.
Learn XHTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP/SQL and you are set. BTW XHTML and CSS aren't coding. I learned at w3schools.com . Once you are good, just hire a sales person and do the jobs. Easy, right?
Concentrate on getting really good... and as you're doing so, become a familiar face on the forums. Give helpful advice where you can and if you've got a decent signature with a link to some *hot* web design, work will find you.