Making money is not about pinching pennies and cutting back on your cash flow: It is about making smart decisions. The Teen's Ultimate Guide to Making Money When You Can't Get a Job will put you on the right track to start earning your spending money, even if you cannot land one of those traditional first jobs. You will learn how to start exploring other options, such as pet sitting, babysitting, and tutoring. You will also grasp just how to leverage the Internet to help you make money by taking paid surveys, blogging, or even teaching your parents and their friends how to use social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Most importantly, you will discover how to take your hobbies and turn them into your personalized income generator.

A bit of legwork, persistence, and creative thinking are all it takes for a teen with writing ability to generate income. This title covers a number of lucrative ideas, including tutoring other students, writing articles for the Web, and creating social media content for local businesses. Teens can even try their hand at writing youth-oriented features for newspapers and magazines. The author provides sage advice for getting jobs, finding freelance writing assignments, and identifying markets for their work, as well as a crash course in professional writers' etiquette. Readers seeking additional information will find a wealth of helpful resources.

With parents constantly seeking safe, fun, and enriching experiences for their children, there are many opportunities for teens who have the patience, energy, creativity, and responsibility needed to work with kids. A number of money-making opportunities are presented, from traditional employment within established businesses like camps and after-school programs to unique entrepreneurial ventures. In addition to sharing tips for job hunting or, alternatively, making a business plan, the author gives useful advice for working successfully with children, communicating well with parents, and preparing and planning for child safety. Ample resources for further research and professional development are provided in the back matter.

Outdoor enthusiasts may think of their interests and passions as purely recreational. They will be surprised and inspired by the wealth of creative money-making opportunities, tailored specifically to those who love physical work in the great outdoors, contained within these pages. Best of all is that these money-making and career-building opportunities are available to readers right now, not years down the road. Moving well beyond lawn mowing and dog walking to include such exciting possibilities as adventure tour guiding, working at farmer's markets, and staffing animal shelters and summer camps, this is a fresh and creative guide to 21st-century teen money-making opportunities. It also includes valuable information on the career-building potential of outdoor-oriented entrepreneurship, internships, and volunteer work. Teens who want to make money now, while also indulging their passion for the outdoors, have found their ideal resource.

As tales of YouTube and MySpace fortunes float virally throughout the blogosphere and media, kids wonder: "Could I do that?" Financial expert Peter Bielagus emphatically answers "Yes!" Quick Cash for Teens provides smart strategies for earning big bucks, with step-by-step instructions for identifying opportunities, creating a business plan, and implementing it successfully. Bielagus includes it all: sample budget worksheets, marketing plans, press releases, and more! Sidebars throughout include: - Dollars & Sense: basic business concepts and strategies - Extra Credit: more advanced concepts, such as tax info - Tales from the Front Lines: real-life stories from young entrepreneurs