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I need a little imput On A Difficult Situation I'm in.
I love writing and thought it would be neat to have an online job.
I had the assumption I would never get hired or have any luck so I set up A few ads. Before I knew it I had a business set up and doing all kinds of services.
I'm 11 and Its awesome. I won't take the whole thing down so don't recommend that.
I want to know as far as hiring people how to go.
Promoting services. Doing them and stuff.
I do want to keep the business and work on it. Although I'm not sure how to maintain it because of my age. With school and keeping it secret.
Thanks and email me
Also I'm a female
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With your drive, you can go far dear. There's no reason why you can't have a business because of your age. The only on line job I can think of that is inappropriate would be if you were doing on line sex camning as an underage person. Otherwise, whether its writing or creating things, helping people set up web site design or whatever, the skys the limit.
Understandably, most parents would be shocked to find out their child is a business entrepenuer at an early age as children doing so are very much in the minority. But that doesnt mean a parent wouldn't support it. My 2nd husband has a story of his one daughter who began creating outfits and such for purchase to players on IMVU long ago. She was your age. She asked them if she could have her own bank account and they never questioned it and said okay figuring she wanted to save Christmas and birthday money in it. She then got set up on Pay pal and before long was making approx. $135. a week. She would then begin to order large clothing purchases from Pyramind collection and the parents freaked when packages began arriving that they knew they hadn't ordered so thats how they found out. She wasn't trying to hide it, just independant. She was a good student too and kept up with her school work.
That will most likely be the parents biggest concern is your keeping up with school so I see no reason to not tell them. It would be good to have their support.
As for hiring others, not many kids your age may have the skills or if they did, not the drive to stick with it for long. You may have to hire out to older kids and thats when it may become awkward. If the parents notice you associating in any one older than you, like teens. Depending on the nature of your business, perhaps you could tell a teacher what you have going on and ask for their recommendation, if they know of any students they think would be perfect to fill the spot for you. As far as legal implications, I believe that the usual laws that pertain to grownups for business like having a business license and deducting taxes from an employees gross pay, don't apply until you are of legal age at 18. But thats where it would come in handy to have your parents to help check on that for you.
Not knowing what your business is, I can't really recommend where to advertise, promote it. Think on who you are selling your service to. If its young people, perhaps you can have your ad on all your social media sites. I know of many adults starting up a business recently who created a facebook page for their business and asked people to post their page to all their friends so they could meet their goal of 500 likes. A recent example had over the 500 likes, 3 days after creating the page and the word keeps getting spread and its free.
If you're going after older people for customers, other than people in their 70's and older who tend to not be as much on computer or even have one, everyone would eventually see an ad online. Some local coffee houses have bulletin boards where you can leave your business ad/poster/card. If you have a good printer, you can design and create your own business card. Have these on you always. Hand them out to all the adults who know you. Offer to show them examples of your work so they will have the confidence to pass your cards on to other adults if thats your target market for customers. Often, us older folks have trouble keeping up with technology that is constantly changing on us. I know if my husband didn't know more than me, that I would hire a teen computer whiz to sit and teach me how to use whatever. All I need to have is confidence that they know what they are doing. Once you have a few satisfied customers, ask them if they are willing to write a letter of recommendation for you and your busines. Have copies of these to pass out to people. Hope this helps you some. Good luck dear.
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