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Teenagers ought to use free time to prepare for exams.
This can save their parents a lot of money for college -- far
more than the kids can earn in summer. But they won't do this.
They want a job.
The jobs are usually menial. They are also scarce these days.
How about a job that develops skills that can put them through
college?
How about a job that teaches sales skills that can be applied
to any career?
How about a skill that involves tools that are dirt cheap,
that you have around the house?
That skill is making a short YouTube video for businesses,
charitable organizations, and special-interest groups. Everyone
knows his organization needs a YouTube video, but hardly anyone
knows how to make one.
The software is free if you own a Windows-based computer:
Microsoft's Movie Maker 2.6. It will do the trick, although Sony
Movie Maker 10 is better, and under $100. But anyone can get
started on the Microsoft product. Combine this with a camcorder,
and he or she is in business. Download it here:
http://www.garynorth.com/snip/
It has weaknesses. There are rival free programs that can be
substituted for Movie Maker 2, or else used to supplement it.
http://www.garynorth.com/snip/
The student can learn the software this month in preparation
for the holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. He can
shoot videos and edit them for practice. By summertime, he is
ready to go out and sell.
If a student can set up a local businessman with a complete
package -- promotional video, domain name, simple Website,
YouTube channel, Google search strategy -- one sale a month at $1,
000 will generate as much money as an 8-hour-a-day fast food job -
- if he can get one.
Some of you are thinking: "Teenager, my foot. I could do this
as a hobby and pull an a few thousand extra a year!" You're
right.
Gary "Marketing Pays" North
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