20 plus 12 Ways To Make Money As A Student (2)
Do you think there is someone who shouldn’t know how to make money as a student? Everyone should
…Continued from “20 plus 12 Ways To Make Money As A Student 1”
You’re probably pumped up from reading the first part, there’s more below.
- Phone/Computer Repairs/maintenance: Akinsanmi rocked phone and computer repairs and maintenance from his final year to his Masters days. Correct guy. Installing softwares, repairing and flashing phones, selling laptops etc. He has added selling of computer systems to it now.
- Third Party Data Reselling Business: It is a fact that students subscribe on a daily basis, and cannot do without access to the internet. All you have to do is to meet the distributors, but at a certain rate, and resell at a certain rate for profit, and grow it. My friend, Phemstrong Data Services, sells his data at a cheaper rate than is sold by the networks when you want to subscribe for yourself, so which would I rather go for? – I use him.
- Sports Trainer and Fitness Instructor: In a campus community that has sports centres, you’d find staff, students, and parents who are really interested in fitness and sports. You can make money from this by becoming a trainer for any sports you’re good at. Imagine training over five persons per session, and charging them at a standard rate per hour. My friend Femi inspired this one, he does all sports including football, tennis, volleyball, etc, except swimming, and he’s popular on UI campus for this, he therefore leverages on his sports skills for this. All you need is to build a relationship with the sports centre coordinator, or make your own alternative sports ground or gym in your area
- Selling of Wears: Selling of trendy outfits and accessories also thrives, especially if yours aren’t that expensive. Get bulk supplies from big supplies, and sell at reduced rate, you’ll surely become popular for this and have your business grow.
- Online Freelancing: While there’s a lot of angle to this, it’s a very popular space to sell your skills and earn really good money. You can sell any skill as a freelancer on platforms like upwork, fiverr, peopleperhour, anywork247, gurus, etc. Skills like writing, photography, web designing, legal agents, graphics designers, virtual customer service agents, etc, can all be sold on these platforms. I built a career in this, anyone can.
- Online and Offline Marketing: This involves you promoting other companies’ or individual’s products, businesses and services, and earning some commission in form of money or more products as pay for your time and services. Usually, having a lot of friends around or online helps make this work, and the more referral you get, the more money you make. You must also be able to build relationships over time so as to make this work.
- Get A Part-Time Job: It depends on the institutions, there are hundreds of part-time jobs flying around in different universities …like motivational speakers and co. will say …I’ll use my own alma-mater, The University of Ibadan (The first and Best, #winks), as a case-study. The school runs a “work and study scheme” that any student can partake in.
Once you’re a part of the UI work and study scheme, you get opportunities to work in the school library, the school computer training centre (I’m sure most UItes don’t know where that is), ushering and logistics in school-organized events, and recently, I know that the students under the scheme were paid to help in moving the transcripts from the old exams and records to old admissions office (new exams and records) …For postgraduates, UI has research assistants, teaching assistants (I benefitted from this), university masters scholars also do teaching assistants …those are the few things I can remember as regards University of Ibadan.
There are also other opportunities to work with NGOs that have their headquarters inside the university environment. For example, the organization I’m a part of “Building Nations Initiative”, has its national headquarters inside UI, and we run different programs and employ people on a part time scale …we pay all our French and German tutors in our language classes, we pay all our tutors in our skill acquisition classes, etc. You can also get paid for us if you do some freelance work for us, like graphics design. I strongly believe that some other organizations like BNI that gives such opportunities also exist around the country
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Other skills that can earn you money from in school in the quickly include project analysis (using spss and excel), fashion designing, makeup artistry, gele tying, making clothing accessories (including beads, shoes, and bags), playing a musical instrument, artistic drawing, hair making and barbing, modelling. But while blogging and podcasting, making youtube videos, and investing in other people’s business will earn you money, you have to be really patient.
The list above isn’t exhaustive, but it’s a good start. I strongly believe there are many more opportunities around. I would like to reiterate that this list isn’t limited to undergraduates alone, infact, I only ventured into student-based small business as a postgraduate student, while I watched my undergraduates mate start theirs as an undergraduate student.
The interesting thing is, it’s never too late to start, as long as you’re a student. (ssshhhhh, even graduates can do all of these). I must add that while some of the friends I mentioned have moved on to bigger businesses, others have grown the business they started in school.
These are great ways to make money as a student. Click this link “Ways to make money as a student 1” to read the first part
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I know there are lots of business ideas for university students, please share your ideas in the comment section below. You’re surely helping someone