yo what's up guys it's josh here with the school of hard knocks hope you guys are having a great day today we'll be giving you the five best ways that you can make some money as a teenager this is we have a list for almost any type of person and there's a lot of different ways so it's gonna be interesting and uh i think you guys will get a lot of value from this and this is actually our first video on this channel so if you guys do enjoy it'd be awesome if you could leave us a like and subscribe would really appreciate and help the channel grow but nonetheless let's go ahead and get right into it the first way to make a thousand dollars is actually a business i started myself when i was 13 and that is lawn mowing it's relatively easy to do and if your family lives in a house or a townhouse there's a good chance you already have all the equipment that you need to get started so what i would do to go ahead and get started in this business is first off you got to know how to mow a lawn so you if you don't know go ahead and practice on your parents or friend and get them to teach you and what you can go ahead and do is go to microsoft word go to google docs and create a flyer for yourself get a picture of a person mowing some grass maybe a picture of yourself with just long t lawnmowing service a little bit about yourself and some con and then your contact information print out about 50 and go around your neighborhood and literally just introduce yourself or just put them in the mailbox or the front door stuff wherever you want them to go and naturally you'll get some customers people will give you a call because they're more inclined to call a teenager to do their lawn then let's say a premier service and the reason being is because you charge less if you were to charge nine people thirty dollars per per visit and you go there once a week that's about a thousand eighty per month and that's on the lower end of things most of these services can go anywhere from thirty dollars to forty dollars to fifty dollars not including mulching or just different things that you can do within landscaping it's a great way to make some extra money relatively easy and fast the average job is about 30 minutes to 45 minutes and it's repeat business if you're in a warm state that's a business all year round and it's a great way to make some money so that's it for number one i'm gonna go ahead pass it over to james for not topic number two what's up y'all i'm james i'm with the school of hard knocks and i'm gonna give you the second way to make a thousand dollars as a teenager starting and growing a social media channel not only gives you the opportunity to build a creative platform around yourself or brand but it also gives you the chance to work with other brands and influencers as you all know the influencer industry right now is a multi-multi-billion dollar industry and it's one of the fastest growing and it's only going up from here whether it's starting a youtube channel and monetizing off of getting paid per views or starting a tick tock account and joining the creator fund and getting paid for views as well you also have the chance to be an affiliate and work with other brands and get paid commission for sales that you drive for them you also have the opportunity here to sell or market your own products and even just build a name for yourself and build a platform around yourself social media as we know is really one of the ways of the world right now and it's giving plenty people a chance to make a lot of money and is a great way to do so in 2021 and beyond i myself back in 2020 started posting consistently on tick tock and was able to gain a mass following of over half a million followers and and close to a million at this point and i've really been able to learn a ton about not only marketing but been able to experience the process and work with brands collaborate with other influencers and have been able to make a good amount of money myself in the industry and now i'm gonna pass it on to jack who's gonna give you the third way to make a thousand dollars as a teenager hey what's going on guys i'm jack with the school of hard knocks another way that you can make a thousand dollars as a teenager is by doing flipping uh that can be either with going to garage sales in your like local area and like picking up cheap items that people might be selling and don't want anymore and flipping them for a profit or retail arbitrage where you can go to different stores like target walmart tj maxx uh just lower end retail stores and just buy a lot of stuff in bulk that they're selling for cheap and then up selling them online so i'm going to take you to through a few ways that you can that can help you do this with flipping the first is if you want to get into garage sales and and flipping through that you can go to this website called yardsalesearch.com uh essentially you just type in you know your zip code your local area so for me uh i live in austin so if you type in austin then it's gonna just pull up it already found like a garage sales in the local area uh just pick a day and you can go bring some cash with you just buy out all the items that you know you think could have some value what would be helpful is if you pull up ebay or amazon and you look up the items there or scan them and basically you can see how much value you'd be able to get for them and hopefully strike out a deal with the seller a couple places if you're looking to sell and flip stuff online uh i do recommend ebay and amazon uh if you want to do amazon fba or just just sell listing on ebay those are the two the two platforms that have the most gravity for for selling um pretty much you just go make an account on ebay and amazon and then if you're going to be a seller it's i think it's about 35 a month on amazon and then on ebay they give you like 50 free items to put up before they start charging you but it's not too much selling at the masses then it's gonna be pretty easy to flip yeah and that's some information on flipping i'm gonna pass it off to josh and he's gonna give you another way of how you can make a thousand dollars the next way to make a thousand dollars is for all my sports lovers out there i personally am a huge fan of soccer got my real legit jersey on but uh if you're a lover of soccer football basketball hockey whatever it may be you can become a youth sports referee and it's pretty easy to do a lot of times you will have to go ahead and get your license and those classes typically cost anywhere from about 50 to 150 on average and it really just depends on your location but it's a great thing to do to go ahead and make some money typically how it works out is you will have to work your way up the ranks a little bit you'll start out as an assistant and then you'll start making on you'll start being the head referee for a lot of the games but look if you just look at what referees are getting paid for the average high school game it's anywhere from 48 to 200 depending on the game if it's jv if it's varsity whatever it may be but it's a great way to make your make some money you pick your own hours most of the time and look you're watching something you love you can't complain about that i'm going to go ahead pass it on to james for the next topic and now for the fifth and final way that we have to make a thousand dollars as a teenager is to sell a service there's a multitude of things that you can do as a teenager to make a thousand dollars in a relative short span of time with this you really want to dig deep down into your skill set and find something that you're really good at and sell it as a service this could really be anything from tutoring a friend to uh carrying out photography videography cutting hair doing makeup there really is no limit on the particular service that it is that you could sell just for example if you have a passion for photography or videography what you could do is find out when you have a certain event coming up in your area whether it's for you know a party or a concert or anything like that you know if you have friends who are coming up on a graduation of either middle school high school college siblings or or whoever really reach out to them and see how you know set a rate for yourself and you know carry out a photo shoot for them uh for payment obviously if you're really getting a particular subject in school you know true to friends that's another good way to make money if you like if if you know how to cut your own hair or if you're good at giving haircuts telling you right now this is another great way that a lot of people have had success with this cutting hair because you'll charge a cheaper rate than hair cutters normally do but if you're good at what you do then you'll get a lot of repeat customers and just i guess one last example would be let's just say you're certified in photoshop or adobe graphic design is another great way that you can you know market yourself it doesn't even have to be in your area but because it's online primarily the work that you're going to be doing you can literally get clients from out of the state and perform graphic design for small businesses small companies brands whoever might need those services but that's gonna be it on our five ways to make a thousand dollars thank you guys for watching be sure to subscribe to the channel we got a lot of good new content coming your way soon thank you all