The ideas below all work online, most without having your own website. Several companies have set up revenue sharing lately, and you can benefit. Without ever learning Java, HTML, or Flash, you can set up your own little kingdom or queendom of money earning sites.
Take a look at these:
1. Studentoffortune.com
This is a paid research site, where a student or teen can post a question with a bounty, then you can answer and win the bounty.
Do you have a cool hobby? Read a bunch of books on one subject? Maybe you work in your parents' business. You can earn money from this site. Everybody knows about something.
2. Treasuretrooper.com
Lets you fill out surveys that pay or offer free goodies. In case you think this won't work well, think about this. Companies pay people to try their stuff, to comment on it, and to give the company their opinion. You could be one of those people, getting paid for your opinion. Available to teens over 13 can make money with this. Pretty sweet, right?
3. Cashcrate.com
Works similar to #2, but some like it better. Either way, you make money for college. Also available to teens over 13 with parental permission.
4. Squidoo.com
you can build a lens (to focus on a topic) for free, then you can add in affiliate links, adsense and so on to earn some money from it. The key here: think broad, and update often. Hubpages.com has an approach similar to Squidoo, but offers a one-time payment for doing serious work on a page. You have to meet their guidelines, but then you get $25 for building a resource page.
5. Build your own Website
When you do it right, you can build a great website, even if you have no programming or web design skills. Seriously, you can make money in a ton of ways, too, like your own list, advertising, and selling your own products. And if you build your own site, you can keep it forever. Be careful what host you pick. Find one with a great block builder and the right formula for success.
6. An extra: be an affiliate.
This works best if you have a site, but you can also use your Myspace or Facebook page. You earn with this by first affiliating with an online seller. They can sell anything, you just need to be their affiliate.
Then, you tell people about it. Careful - you don't want to spam yourself off of Myspace or Twitter. But you can help people find answers and refer them to the company you represent. Just do a little search for affiliate programs on a search engine, you'll be swamped with good opportunities.
Better yet, pick a product, and then add affiliate program to it, then search.
My Experience
When I was a teen, I tried painting house numbers on curbs, mowing lawns, and washing cars. Here's another idea for you: set up a webpage on your hobby, then sell advertising to Google and Commission Junction or tons of other places.
You can check out the Google Adsense program for more, or hop over to some places like CJ and learn how they work. Pretty cool programs, and I am earning with them.
Basically, you just write up some good information about your hobby, what you do, some pictures, how to do it right. Get it online on a few pages. Then talk about your pages to friends, in your emails, on forums or your favorite social site. No selling yet, just good information.
This will bring some traffic. Do tons of this stuff, without trying to sell anything. When you have some traffic, you go to Google's program and apply to get in. After that, you cut and paste some ads and stuff. When people like the ad, you'll get paid a bit. Over time, it adds up and makes a great little business.
You can find tons more of these kinds of offers if you look. It only takes effort. Teens make money online just like this.
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