1. Creating Your Own Business

2. Why Create Your Own Business?
Learn responsibility
Learn time management
Build your résumé to help you get into college or get a better job in the future
Earn money for college, car, etc.
Learn how to interact well with others
You might still be too young to get a traditional job.

3. Seasonal Business Ideas
Fall: raking leaves, cleaning gutters, growing pumpkins to sell for Halloween,
Winter: gift wrapping, hanging Christmas lights, painting windows,
Spring: weeds
Summer: growing vegetables to sell

4. Carpets for College
Clean carpets with your own machine

5. Able Body Advertising
Make a sandwich board and advertise for local business

6. Manuel Labor
Do any job that require manual labor
“Manuel” Labor

7. Flyers for U
Create flyers for local businesses. Print free sample. Charge for copies.
SAMPLE
Flyers For U

8. Mow on the Go
Mow lawns with your own mower.
Mow on the Go

9. Hoe on the Go
Hoe weeds with your own hoe
Hoe on the Go

10. Details, Details, Details
Wash & detail cars
Details, Details, Details

11. Maid to Clean
Clean Houses with a partner
Maid to Clean

12. Grafix
Design logos, flyers, or other graphics
Designs

13. Promotional Ideas Discounts for first time customers Coupons
Volunteer your way into a job
What do you offer that others don’t?
Customized shirts/uniforms
Mention that you are saving money for college

14. Mr. Clarke’s Own Business Ventures as a Kid
Pac-Man Stickers
Used Items
Suckers
Copy Machine
Sports Bottles
Gum Ball Machine at home (M&Ms)
Gum Ball Machines in Businesses
Graphic Design
Video Yearbook
Wooden Reindeer
Disclaimer: Selling at school is not allowed

15. Don’t Give Up
Door-to-door salesmen expect failure 90% of the time. They get turned down 9 out of 10 times.
They realize they must visit 100 houses to make 10 sales.
Focus on the 10% that say yes, not the 90% that say no.

16. Business Ideas: Babysitting
Landscape maintenance (mow lawns, do weeds, install sprinklers, plant plants, trim bushes, pick up dog poop, rake, etc.)
Website developer
Computer training
Graphic design (create logos, flyers, signs, etc.)
Painter
Dog walker
Pet sitter
Wash and groom pets
House sitter
Clean gutters

17. Business Ideas: Car detailing Tutoring Clean houses Lemonade stand
Handyman (or woman)
Pass out flyers with coupons (25 cents each for those returned to the business)
Write articles for online websites like Ezine.com, Howthingswork.com, and Wiki.com
Sell handmade items on
Photographer
Videographer
Resell items bought with coupons

18. Business Ideas: Window washer Paint seasonal pictures on windows
Be a personal assistant
Clean/organize garages, cupboards, closets, desks, etc.
Cook
Recycle
Pool cleaner
Paint street numbers on curbs
Make address signs with wood and a router
Gum ball machines/vending machines
Party planner
Teach (swim lesson, crochet, knitting, sewing, guitar, piano, another language, etc.)

19. Tips for Flyers Use a larger font for the name of your business
Add a logo
Put contact information (name, phone number, address, website address)
Use a catchy slogan
List your products/services
Limit the amount of text on the page
List your experience or special skills
Print in color

20. Disclaimer: It is a federal offense to place flyers in or on a mailbox
Sample Flyers
Disclaimer: It is a federal offense to place flyers in or on a mailbox

21. On Your Own