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re: Advice on my teenage son doing odd jobs around the neighborhood
Posted on 4/16/24 at 4:52 pm to tigerfoot
Posted on 4/16/24 at 4:52 pm to tigerfoot
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congrats to your kid. But have we become so lazy we can’t roll our can to the street?
Most are retirees/middle aged who love to see kids actually working, so they support him.
I made my boy come up with a business plan, how he was going to market it, collections, etc.
Great learning experience for him. I have had some of his customers intentionally not pay him to help work thru that process.
Waking his arse up at 5:45 am, 4 degrees, and a foot of snow on the ground was the best lesson he has learned so far.
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 5:00 pm to tiger91
The kid in my post about having a lawn service literally had more business than he could handle in his own neighborhood just by being nice and approaching people going door to door wearing his football jersey. It is refreshing to see a high school aged kid, more like a young adult, hustle yard work and do outdoor type stuff as a business since it is so rare these days to see that work ethic from kids his age. I will say the dad did help him but it was guidance mainly. The kid got a pretty nice truck, trailer, lawn equipment, and even funded his duck hunting habit all through his little lawn hustle.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 5:12 am to meeple
He can make bank (for a teenager) if he plays this right. Tell him to just go knock on their doors and talk to them about it. Old ladies love that kind of stuff
Posted on 4/17/24 at 5:09 pm to meeple
Target the culdesacs. They are usually pretty tight-knit. Get one of houses, then get them all with a culdesac discount. 5 houses in 3 hours, everyones lawn is cut evenly with each other's at the same time. That's how our culdesac does it. It's a kid from the neighborhood, but he's grown up and married now so not really a kid, but he did grow up here and is still considered a "kid" if that makes sense.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 7:45 pm to meeple
Make sure if he gives his word to look at something or to do a job, that he does. Communication with his "customers" is paramount. People will find someone else in the blink of an eye if you don't show or show up late without telling them. This has burned me more times than I want to share even with good communication
Posted on 4/19/24 at 9:42 am to meeple
A person in my neighborhood hired a kid to do work around the yard and the child got hurt really bad. The lesson I learned from that situation is never let anyone do anything on your property unless they are bonded and insured.
Blows my mind that in this day and age kids getting paid to do yard work is still a thing.
Blows my mind that in this day and age kids getting paid to do yard work is still a thing.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 9:51 am to meeple
Knock on doors.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 9:54 am to meeple
Yea knock on doors. Offer a service so cheap they can’t refuse. $10. Saw some kids knocking on doors offering to paint or repaint their address on their curb For $10
Posted on 4/20/24 at 11:17 am to meeple
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dropping the card off in the mailbox
Federal law prohibits putting non mail items in a mailbox. Nobody’s going to prison for it, but the mailman will get pissy, and there can be a fine.
That law is why our mailboxes are not constantly full of flyers handed out by workers in an effort to avoid postage rates.
Some services try to get around the law by taping a flyer or card to the outside of the box, but that also violates a postal regulation.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 1:59 pm to Motownsix
You sir are a huge vagina.
Posted on 4/20/24 at 2:19 pm to Motownsix
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Blows my mind that in this day and age kids getting paid to do yard work is still a thing.
Most kids have their entire childhood and teenage years without any real responsibilities outside of ‘school.’
So kudos to the parents out there teaching their kids the value of work and money management.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 6:40 pm to LSUcam7
I appreciate all of the advice in this thread. With school winding down, we're about to get this going. He already has a couple of jobs lined up down the street.
Question about making advertisements/flyers. Is a good size one-half of a regular 8.5x11 sheet of paper? I feel like a business card is too small, and want to include the following:
- Title/name
- list of example services
- list of addresses in the neighborhood he's serviced so far (with their permission)
- a couple photos of him working.
How does this sound, and is there anything else I should include on the flyer?
ETA:
This is good to know. The plan is to hand them out via face-to-face contact by knocking on doors, and having those people hand out to their friends.
Question about making advertisements/flyers. Is a good size one-half of a regular 8.5x11 sheet of paper? I feel like a business card is too small, and want to include the following:
- Title/name
- list of example services
- list of addresses in the neighborhood he's serviced so far (with their permission)
- a couple photos of him working.
How does this sound, and is there anything else I should include on the flyer?
ETA:
quote:
Federal law prohibits putting non mail items in a mailbox.
This is good to know. The plan is to hand them out via face-to-face contact by knocking on doors, and having those people hand out to their friends.
This post was edited on 5/7/24 at 6:42 pm
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