Business Ideas for Teens: Techie Ways to Make Money Online for Techie Teens

This is a six-part article on ways for geeky teens to make money online.

The Internet is being constantly harnessed as source of income for adults and teens alike. Teenagers are now given more options and opportunities to have their own business and earn beyond the usual menial offline tasks such as babysitting, cleaning cars and the like. Now, with just a computer in good working condition and an Internet connection, the possibilities are endless.

Here is one of the most commonly recognized business ideas for techie teens that is now gaining more and more popularity in the world wide web.

Make Money Online as a Web Designer

Put a dose of creativity and a savvy for computers and what do you get? Web designing at its finest and nothing less. Young web designers are given high priority especially in websites which cater to the youth because their ideas are fresh, unique and extremely valuable in keeping up with the times.

All it would take for a teenager to be a competent web designer is to have a passion for creating web pages, well-functioning computer and available resources be it in the form of elective subjects on web design, online web design tutorials, web design e-books as well as pieces of advice from experienced web designers. The number of hours required for such a work depends on the project.

Freelance work is the usual norm for these types of jobs but a teenager can also secure a more stable source of income by means of offering to maintain a website of established companies.

How to look for web designing gigs?

Put up a portfolio website or a web design blog that has information about your expertise. Keep on updating it and include tips so people, who can be your potential clients, may know that you definitely are the person to hire for their web designing projects.

Check out job boards that offer various techie jobs including web designing such as:

CrunchBoard 

37 Signals Job Board

the IT Job Board

 College Job Board

 You can also look for web designer jobs from free job listings like Craigslist. When you start to get the hang of these gigs and you are definitely enjoying the job, it would be easier to build your portfolio of great web designs for future clients to see. Marketing your skills, most preferably via word-of-the-mouth, will help a lot in growing your client base.

Now if you also enjoy tweaking blog layouts, you may also try creating weblog layouts and sell them or make money from them in various ways - as a blog designer or through other ways.