How To Make Money - As a Teen

Step 8 Mechanical Ability

So you've made your list. You like riding your bicycle. You also don't mind working on it, greasing chains, truing wheels, tightening spokes, changing cables.

With a flyer, a phone number and your bike you can make this a job. It is easy with any flyer campaign to get swamped. Don't be afraid of this. Just get some paper or open up Excel and schedule. Leave yourself free time.

Put up your flyers just far enough away from home that you're anonymous, but close enough that it is easy to ride your bike to a job. Give one to each house. Leave it tucked behind the storm door or, if they don't have a storm door, get it wedged in between the door and the doorjamb. Fold it so it's not hiseously huge. Try to avoid scotch tape. Also avoid putting it in their mailbox. Tucked between the mailbox and their siding (if their box is on the house next to the door) can retain your flyer but avoid pissing off hte Post Office.

Flyers should say something like "Bill's Bicycle Maintenance. Riding a poorly maintained bicycle can be difficult and potentially dangerous. But who has time to fuss over it? Having your child's bicycle tuned up is both easy and affordable with Bill's Bicycle Maintenance. It's as simple as dialing 555-1234" Have a diagram.

Rishnai

Comments

[MattandJora]

im pretty sure putting stuff in people's mailboxes is illegal now...

[onemanarmy675]

it is wich is why you leave it on there doorstep lol

[=SMART=]

well give it to people in the street then!

[nathan brown]

No, its illegal to put something in someone's mailbox because it confuses the Postal Service. So, go ahead, put it behind their mailbox (If it's on a wall) or on the cheap plastic thing. Its perfectly legal for that. Just DON'T put anything IN the mailbox, it will look like mail. You will probably tick off the mailman and whatever you do DON'T TICK OFF THE MAILMAN, he has more power over your life than you think. (Like bills mysteriously being "lost" in the mail) lol

[JamesTB13]

Wow, excuse me, but, are your mailmen stupid? I would be very surprised if a mailman (or woman, whatever that's just the word I use) was confused by finding something already in your mailbox. Just, wow. Biggest issue with Canada Post is sometimes having to give a letter to a neighbour,.......wow. Putting stuff in people's mailboxes is illegal? Man, I'm glad no one actually cares what's in their mailbox. How hard is "Oh, a flyer. Hmm, nope" *trash*. NOT HARD.

[Fascination508]

Never a good idea to stick stuff in people's mailboxes -unless you're a federally employed mail carrier, of course. The Post Office gets testy about it and will call you, the first time they catch you, and tell you to stop. If they catch you again, you'll be fined. If you keep it up, I suppose you could land in jail? And then you'll REALLY be wishing you had some $$.

[Rishnai]

Excellent point. I've never had an issue, but then again the vast majority of the folks in my area have storm doors, and I didn't do flyers for very long. Got it fixed.

[=SMART=]

Put it on the floor underneath the mail box then..