Net-ting a Profit Kid businessmen make money a new way online.

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Net-ting a Profit: Kid businessmen make money a new. way: online. By Janice Arenofsky. Lots of kids cruise the Internet. Some ride the Information …

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Net-ting a Profit: Kid businessmen make money a new
way: online.
By Janice Arenofsky
Lots of kids cruise the Internet. Some ride the Information Superhighway all the way to the bank.
Take Cub Scout Sam Perl of Pack 270, Westfield, N.J. He’s the owner of SamArise Wake-Up Service
(www.mjbovo.com/SamArise.htm).
“On my computer, I keep a list of people with their phone numbers and the times I have to wake them,”
the 9-year-old says.
Then he programs his telephone to speed-dial up to 20 clients a day. “Some day I might use a computer
program that calls people automatically,” he says.
For his cyberduties-which include updating his Web page, answering customer e-mail and printing
out bills-he says he’s netted more than $2,000 in profits.
Making money isn’t the only advantage of becoming an Internet entrepreneur. You can also work when
you want to, be your own boss and make lots of new friends.
Monitoring Customers
Safe friends. Instead of traveling to shows and answering newspaper ads, Internet biz kids can transact
business from the privacy-and safety-of their house.
“And it’s easier…