If you are looking for how to make money, and you don't know where to start or which one to choose from, we have got you covered.
Are you a student in a university, college, polytechnic, or secondary that doesn't know how to make money by him/herself? Do you still depend on your parents for foods stuff, house rent, or pocket money while at school? Do you know you can make money and take care of yourself while at school without asking money from your parent? Well, this article is going to help you to see some of the ways you can make soft and clean money. Follow along with this article to the end to see the one that will be okay for you.
At the end of this article, you will see the 10 different ways a student can make legit money. This article mostly focuses on online aspects of making money. Nevertheless, it still talks about other aspects of making money like teaching in a physical or online class. You will still learn other ways that are most common around us - running a POS business.
With that being said, let's begin to list these 10 ways.
1. Learn Graphic Design
You may have heard of what graphic design is. If you are unaware, read it here. Anyways let's move on. One of the ways many people are making cool money is through graphic design. You get paid when you design logos and flyers for individuals or even companies. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the annual wage for this career was $59,970.
Graphic design is not complicated to learn. It does not take up your time. If you are a fast and enthusiastic learner, in just a period of 3 to 6 months, you will be able to pave the way for yourself and make cool money.
2. Learn Programming/ Web Developments
This is another cool way to fetch yourself some awesome income. Web development is one of the top 10 current jobs in the word right and also one of the highest-paid jobs. The average salary of a web developer job in Nigeria is ₦101, 9425.
To be a programmer/web developer, you will need to enroll in school for 3 or 6 months. Sometimes it even is up to a year or more depending on the type you are learning. You can learn it for free online. There are many YouTube tutorials and many online sites that are teaching it for free. Some of these sites are w3schools, Freecodecamp, and StackOverflow
This work will require a laptop or desktop computer to start.
Learn this skill now and you will enjoy it later for the better payment that comes from it.
3. Start a blog
A blog is one of the lucrative ways to make money right now. If you are a good writer I will recommend this to you. Even if you are not that good at comprehensive writing, you can still learn it. A blog is very easy to start. See my guide on how to start a blog.
You can start your blog or you can blog for another person or company. If you want to start your own, you will need to choose a niche that you want to be writing about. This niche can either be tech, food, etc. The most important is the passion you have regarding the topic you want to be writing about.
You can make money from blogging by helping people to advertise or sharing affiliate links on your blog post. You can also make money with Google Adsense.
There are hundreds of companies or individuals out there looking for who to write for them. If you are interested in this, you can use Freelancer or Fiverr.
4. Participate in Affiliate Marketing
Do you have a website or a social media platform that has engaging followers? If you do, this might be your calling.
With the affiliate marketing system, you get paid when people buy a product from a company by using your affiliate like. You don't have your product before you sell. You help people or companies to sell their products on your social media account or website.
There are many companies you can register with to sell their product. Amazon Associate and Jumia KOL are some good examples
Other forms of affiliate programs you can try.
1. Search Affiliates.
2. Email Marketing.
3. Review Sites.
5. Create a YouTube Channel
Nobody in this world can deny that he/she does not know that YouTubers make money from YouTube, even children know that you can make money. If you are not aware, know now that you can make a huge sum of money by posting videos on YouTube.
What videos can you make? You can start any video that you are capable of that can have a positive impact on the lives of people and start to make money
YouTube has made many students millionaires while still at school. You can try it out if it is within your strength.
6. Become Opera News Creator
Since early 2019, Opera News has started to employ people most especially students who are good at content writing.
You get paid every month by the management of the Opera News platform base on the number of views your article received. You can earn up to ₦500 000 (five hundred thousand naira) if you are good at writing.
Opera New is free to join. You don't have to pay anything. All you need to get started is your email or phone number.
7. Start a teaching tutorial
Let me tell you a secret. One-third of students at the University are doing either online or physical teaching.
One of the best ways to earn at school is by conducting lessons for children or college. Private lesson teachers nowadays earn more money than full-time teachers. Just imagine you have a lesson that pays 10 to 15 thousand monthly and you are teaching up to 15 or 20 students. That's a lot of money!
You need to size any teaching opportunity that comes your way when at school because it will help you in the long run.
You can even do a tutorial class for a fellow student and still earn cool cash from it.
8. Start a Recharge Card Business
As we all know, recharge card is All Weather business. I call it All Weather because it does not have a season. We always use airtime data every day. You only need a small capital to start this business. With just 10, 000 to 20 000 you will be able to start reselling for companies.
This work requires a laptop to start.
9. Start a POS business
Do you know that you can make up to 10, 000 daily from POS by sorting out the transaction for people? Yes, you can even make more than that.
Most colleges and universities are not closer to banks. So owning a POS you are operating will make cool money.
10. Write and sell your books
If you are a good writer, you will make money if you write and sell your books. Many platforms allow you to sell your book. One of the ways you can sell your book online is by using Amazon KDP. You can visit the website to know more.
These are the 10 major ways you can earn money as a student in Nigeria. Which of these are you planning to start? Let me know what you think to start.
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