Are You Teaching Your Children Internet Marketing?

That's good work niche man.

My daughter is 14 and I continually expose her to people like Dan Kennedy, Bob Proctor, Frank Kern, and Joe Vitale. Mainly because I always have their audios playing in my truck when I go to and fro.

She laughs it off, but whether she likes it or not, what has been heard cannot be unheard. She'll look back on these lessons several years down the road and thank me for them.

I'm sure your 17 year old will do the same.

I'm also teaching my kids that...In the land of handouts and bailouts, the entrepreneur is king.

Peace,

Shane

I am teaching them more about mindset and creating an opportunity for them selves that will be enjoyable and profitable.

Then I gently teach them the importance of marketing and copywriting second so no matter what type of business they decide to run it will be wildly profitable.

This was an awesome thread!

I am currently 18, but I was first introduced to IM at 17! (When my father took me to a marketing convention for iLearningGlobal!)

At the time, I was so taken by the possibilities of working online, but it wasn't until I was 18 and in my senior year of high school that I got hooked! Keep teaching them and they will run with it if they fully understand it's power!

Yep, my 9 year old just built his first web page a few weeks ago.. it's about *cough* hamsters.

He enjoys it, which is the main thing.

This thread gets me thinking lol! I have a 7 yr old and I really don't think she's too young to start learning this stuff. I think it would be great if by the age of 13 or 14 she could have all the money for college she needs! Thanks for starting this thread!

I attempted it but my children weren't even remotely interested. They are fascinated by me making a living online, but don't want to do it themselves.

I have always taught my daughter to "work smarter, not harder" and she (and the rest of the family) have seen me try, fail, get back up, and try again. I know she is watching with interest as I finally start this online journey and has expressed interest, but I'm still too new at this.

She did tell me she might write a few articles for me about online gaming and she's an award winning writer, but I don't want to push her - either I'll finally do it and she will follow - or she will go her own way, I'm just glad she is starting to consider what "else" is out there instead of thinking of a 9-5 job.

My kids have shown little interest in what I do. They only have interest in FaceBook and the games sites.

When they are ready, I will teach them.

But when they turn 16, I will make them get a job, before allowing them to pursue Internet Marketing as a primary means of earning a living, because it is important for them to work in the real world and have a real appreciation for what Internet Marketing offers to them.

I'm the world's 4th worst speller so I pay my daughter 50 cents to find obvious punctuation and spelling mistakes in my emails and sales letters. She once made $51.50 on a sales letter I wrote - but that's pretty much the extent of the interest they have.

I guess my opinion is that if you support your kids in whatever they do they will develop their own interests and ideas in life. If that happened to be IM, then I would do what I could to help them.

But if it was most anything else I'd be just as happy, as long as it was something they had a passion for and wanted to be doing.

My son's not always as interested in helping me as my daughter is, but another thing I try to do is have him read my letters out loud.

I do this because, sadly, the average American reads at about the same level as the typical 4th grader. So my theory in doing it is that if he is getting tripped up on the words and the sequences then it's very possible that my potential customers are too.

It's also interesting to hear your letter being read out loud by a child, you catch a lot of mistakes that, for some reason, you otherwise wouldn't.

I don't have any kids yet — but I've got the world's best little sister.

As soon as she turns say, 17, I'll teach her as much as I can about IM. I am one hundred percent positive that she'll like what it is I have to offer — most teenagers do

When i finally have children, im surely going to teach them internet marketing. I think kids are lacking commercial awareness nowadays. Although they have more than I did as a kid, its still not enough.

I don't have children yet, but I do try to teach my friends as much as I can. In fact we go to local workshops/seminars together and I explain the stuff they didn't understand after we're done with the workshops/seminars. Hope they still count as they're under 25

Thanks,
Alex

My daughter is 15 and didn't line up a regular job for the summer, so I told her she has to work in the 'family business' which is my IM business. She's my non-virtual, VA. She writes some product reviews and articles and I have her submitting press releases now too. She hates it.

She's a writer, but doesn't like to write about what doesn't interest her. (Typical teen that doesn't want to do what she doesn't want to do). But she wants a car soon and so I'm trying to leverage her help into partnering on a PLR site or something.

I'm trying not to turn her off of internet marketing, but she soooo regrets not getting a job at the mall for the summer!

I don't really fancy having kids of my own, however I'm a qualified secondary school teacher and I was thinking that an easy way to get some extra hands to help anyones IM exploits is with school kids.

In British secondary schools, children in years 10 and 11 do some work experience for a few weeks. It occured to me that it would be plausible to make a link with the school as an employee willing to take on 1 or 2 14, 15, 16 year olds for a few weeks' work experience.

This may mean some vetting by the school to make sure you're not a pedophile, which is simple enough in getting a CRB check.

You could get them doing keyword research, building links, submitting articles, posting on Twitter and Facebook. All that kind of labour they would probably devour, and without the need to pay them. What's more, to ensure you get "decent" kids, you can request from the school you want only pupils with an interest in ICT, who are in the top 5-10% of their year group (or labelled as Gifted & Talented), and who seem to posses a creative and/or entrepreneurial mindset!

To "do your thing for society" you can pass on some of your knowledge and wisdom in IM to these kids, who may well make good use of it.

That was just my thinking the other night. Since the usual work experience period is around about Easter time for most English schools, hopefully I'll be at a stage in my IM career where I have seen some success to make a good go of it and am in a position to recruit such pupils.

Maybe this is something others have not thought of which could help you out with some spare sets of hands!

Please do note that, despite the recent riots, not all kids are ASBOs. I've spent the last school year training in various places and I really enjoyed my time in the classroom. They aint all bad (though the ones that are, need a good slap!)

I wish my dad taught me this when I was 7 or 8.

I would be flying around in donald trump, fixing his wig and sipping his cheap ass whiskey while smoking a cigar. I can guarentee it. LOL.

But once you learn the proper way to create a business,

i.e. no naughty shiney objects....

Just hard core, list building, funnels, high end products

you know the stuff that is going to be around till the day you die. The stuff that is going to work for the next 100 years and more. No one can take that away from you. To pass this info onto your kids....highly powerful...and almost puts a tear in my eye to what this can offer them. A real chance of succeeding beyond their wildest dreams. That is what we are all after when as we grow up, to be HAPPY and SUCCESSFUL

This whole IM thing can do that for anyone willing to put in the hard yards..

I do not think so...I mean IM should be introduced within our children. It is rather safe than finding other outdoor jobs.
Thanks

I think it would be a disservice not to!!

As the old ways of succeeding.. goto school, get a good job, retire on a nice pension - are QUICKLY evaporating in front of our eyes. The future is going to belong to those who take action on the never-ending scalability the internet provides. If anything has been exposed through the economic turn-down, it's the fact that there is no such thing as job security - and it's upto you to create your own financial future!!

But, if my son decides to deliver furniture for a living instead... he will be financially secure with the wealth my internet marketing ventures have provided him!