Is social media consulting a good business?

[908]

I am a 13 (almost 14) year old boy. My friend and I are both very entrepreneurial and are always thinking up new business plans. He currently owns and operates a window washing company, that as far as a kid is concerned, is quite successful. I currently have no income besides some soccer refereeing i do on the weekend, so I took it upon myself to find a good business to start.

The first thing I did was browse online and look at what others were doing, and I finally settled on the idea of social media consulting and management. Many firms, all ran by adults, were charging around $5,000 a month for their services, or up to $200 an hour. This seemed ridiculous to me and I knew that as a kid with no expenses I could charge a lot less and still make a hefty profit.

Unfortunately, I've been worried that many adults won't take us seriously or pay us the amount we ask for. So my question is, will we be taken seriously, or will all our efforts and money be wasted because we can't find any clients.

[Jake]

You would have to present a kids perspective as a value to some companies catering to kids, that the big time companies might not have.

Realistically few can join into any sort of business contract with someone under 18, this alone may prove to be a serious obstacle.
Working as a social media worker, participating in forums and promoting products on the sly may be a more practical way to be involve for now.

Some kids selling on Ebaty get their parent to sign up and handle their banking, if you can get someone to sign up on your behalf you can probably get some task chores.

One possibility, micro task sites that pay small change for a few minutes work, popular with 3rd world countries, some in the U.S. do them instead of crossword puzzles, the original was created by Amazon, the online store to 'automate' tasks a computer couldn't do, like pick the better of 2 pictures they named mturk.com after the 18th century Mechanical Turk chess playing machine that had a man hidden inside, shortTask and microworkers have similar micro tasks, some individual jobs are a bit shady, like signing up for product trials, doing surveys, but you get to choose which tasks to perform. You would gain some insight into how some web site promoters are effectively paying for your computer to show some small interest in it, just to nudge their search engine ranking.

[Jayh Marketing]

Although I'm much older than you, I got my start in SMC by offering an exchange of services (A review & recommendation offer) for testimonials and referrals. This helped me build a portfolio and some credibility.

Once, I threw up a dot com with testimonials and service descriptions for my consultancy, it was a much easier sale.

Btw, I still offer free consultations to acquire new clients... It's a simple review of what they've got along with basic (non-in depth) recommendations.

"Give em' value, and they'll beg you for more..."

[john]

Social Media is getting lot of attention these days. Every one is looking to increase their presence on social media websites that would help their respective business. so, it's a great idea to start up with. You would end up getting client once you yourself get published on these sites.

[jibon]

yes