Quick Legit ways to make money as a teenager | South Africa

Summary

The video presents app-based earning options and small-business ideas for teenagers in South Africa. It focuses on supplementary income rather than investing or traditional financial products.

Apps and online income

• Money App and Poll Pay: The presenter says users can earn rewards by playing games and reaching specified levels. Money App rewards points; the transcript suggests a $5 PayPal voucher can be redeemed after reaching a points threshold, but the exact threshold is unclear. Poll Pay reportedly displays the value of each game, allowing users to choose higher-paying offers.
• Survey apps: Mobrog, Streetbees, Myiyo, and Surveytime are mentioned.
  • Mobrog may offer frequent surveys, but users may need to complete a long screening questionnaire and may not qualify for every survey.
  • Myiyo awards points for completed surveys and shows their value, though the conversion example is unclear.
  • The presenter says Surveytime pays $1 per survey when the user qualifies and completes it. Payment is described as instant, typically arriving the following day via PayPal.
• Listening to music: An unnamed app reportedly awards points for listening, but the presenter cautions that rewards are small and redemption requires accumulating many points.
• Sweatcoin: The app tracks walking and awards points. The presenter also mentions a related cryptocurrency that is still being developed and suggests the app could be worth downloading ahead of its completion. The transcript gives no token name, price, or assurance of future value.
• Content creation: YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are suggested as potential income channels; no earnings figures or monetization details are provided.

Small-business ideas and practical framework

Suggested services and products include babysitting, doing hair, selling snacks or sweets, selling facial soaps, and reselling clothing, accessories, makeup, beauty products, or lashes.

The presenter’s general approach is to:

• Research what people nearby need before choosing a product or service.
• Source products—Shein is given as one example—and sell them locally.
• Keep prices affordable for customers while ensuring there is still a profit.
• Consider bulk or customer-requested buying as another resale model.

For snacks, the presenter suggests pricing competitively against a school tuck shop while preserving a profit margin. For hair services, she reports earning nearly R3,000 in two weeks at one point. She also says she began selling lashes sourced from Shein but stopped because shipping times were inconvenient.

Key figures, cautions, and disclosures

• Hair-service earnings: Close to R3,000 over two weeks, according to the presenter.
• Surveytime: $1 per qualifying completed survey, according to the presenter.
• Game-rewards app: A $5 PayPal voucher is mentioned, but the points requirement is unclear in the subtitles.
• The presenter cautions that surveys may screen users out, music-listening rewards can require substantial point accumulation, and product shipping delays can make resale inconvenient.
• The video does not provide a financial-advice disclaimer. App earnings and business income are presented as the presenter’s experience or suggestions, not as guaranteed returns.

Tickers/assets/instruments: No stock tickers, ETFs, bonds, or commodities are mentioned. A Sweatcoin-related cryptocurrency is referenced, but no specific token or investment terms are identified.

Presenter/source: Luyanda Maphosa