advice for young entrepreneur

[jon#1]

Can someone from the 'expert' world please give me some advice to several questions...

1. How I can go about getting funding for any business ventures that I want to start whilst I am still young?

I am only 19 years old and currently at university, so I am technically in debt already because of my student loan, and banks won't touch me with a barge pole because I don't have any assests that can be used as security.

Secondly...

I have tried getting a job, but nowhere seems to have any vacancies, and most employers are turning me away because I need flexible hours in order to cope with my studies. I have seen so many of these 'get rich quick' schemes on the net, and I am aware that a large percentage of them are just scams, but are there any genuine ways of making money through the internet that would have minimal start-up costs or can anyone suggest some suitable ideas of how I can generate some money for myself?

Any advice/suggestions would be greatfully appreciated.

[NeeJam]

you could try www.prosper.com

[NeeJam]

and/or you could sell some of your junk on ebay.

[Lex]

Hey,

Its easy to earn money on the internet if you know what to do. I have never put any of my money earned from jobs offline to online projects but i have $500 currently in my paypal and ive earned alot more which ive put into my real bank.

You can get jobs online! I suggest you find forum posting services, they need people to post on all those forums and pay $0.09 - $0.12 usually for each post you do. I was offered a posting job which paid $100 a week but i really couldnt be botherd to take it.

You could also look to learning some skills which is totally free then selling your services, i learned how to use a browser program called BrowserBob i helped the makers of this program by finding bugs i got the program free (was $800 at the time) and i was able to sell my services in making browsers for Hundreds of dollars and one time even thousands.

You could also look to reducing how much it would cost to setup your online projects, i myself use free hosting and i design sites myself the only thing i ever need to pay for is php coding and marketing which you can also do free simply by posting in forums, you could even attach your sites to your sig when you get paid to post in forums

Then if you still dont have enough you can start up smaller projects before a big more expensive project, i am myself starting up an Arcade and a Dating site which should provide me the funds needed to start a big secret project i have planned out which will cost me thousands.

I am only 18 myself and ive been doing this since i was 13 so i know alot about what works when it comes to making money online.

Good Luck!

If you need any more help feel free to PM me.

Edit: You can also PM me for the contact information of the owner of a forum posting service (guy who offered me $100/week) by pm'ing me as i dont want him to get any spam from email bots.

Lex

[nado]

I'd agree with Lex, start a website and learn SEO and online marketing techniques.

With the web, it's all about traffic. If you can get considerable traffic to your website, then you increase the chancs that people click on your ads (like google adsense) and if you get enough traffic you can even source your own advertisers.

Some people make $15k+ per month from a single website. It's rare, but it happens. This video is pretty inspirational: www.adsensevideos.com

A lot of people fail to see that there is actually very good money to be made online, and if done well it can turn out to earn more income than most offline jobs.

cheers
nathan

[NeeJam]

Lex im interested i've pm'd you.