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Last week, we treated trading in Crypto currency and Affiliate Marketing, this week we are treating other exciting ways to make money online.
3. START A BLOG (OR VLOG)
Crucial questions you have to ask yourself before going into blogging business is:
What are your skillsets?
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How do you plan to iterate your skills and experience on the digital space?
Okay, let’s uncomplicated a little…is there any word like that? LOL
If you’d love to go into blogging, quickly take a stock of your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, SWOT.
WHY?
Above making money, you’ll need to be sharing your personal unique story, experiences as you build your brand through blogging.
It’s an area I’ve explored and has been quite rewarding.
Rewarding?
Yes… because you’d be sharing experiences about what you love…
Or better still…
What you’re passionate about.
It’s critical you take time to go through a very comprehensive guide on how you can start your blog and get some practical experience that can light you out on a greater pedestal in the blogging space.
4. FREELANCE WORK (UPWORK, FIVERR, ET AL)
Freelance can be compared to being “on your own (OYO as some popularly like to put it)”
A former boss of mine once tagged it “going solo.”
Going solo portrays a lot for the entrepreneur.
You suddenly realize you’re absolutely responsible for everything and need to be more courteous and professional as much as you can.
Here are a couple of platforms you can get work from:
Fiverr, Freelancer, Upwork, Jobberman et al.
These platforms offer you opportunity to make extra income as a student so long you can meet up with schedules, deadlines while ensuring your studies don’t suffer.
You can also adopt these self-empowerment strategies to help you plan better.
TIP: when working with international clients, always make sure, to a large extent, you’re on a favourable time frame for your partnership to work seamlessly.
From simple tasks like offering feedback on websites, apps; taking online surveys, teaching English online; translating materials to more professional work like graphic design, coding et al, the opportunities are endless as a freelancer.
This video shows you how you can quickly get gigs, rank your page and start making income with your freelance work on various platforms.
Enjoy it…
5. Digital Marketing
It’s no doubt with the ever astronomically rising embrace of the info tech age, a huge number of businesses are increasingly taking advantage of digital marketing to promote their enterprise.
Getting to know the basics of digital marketing and why it is important to businesses today cannot be over-emphasized and will help you get started on the right footing.
As a student, you can help businesses around your environs with more visibility, sales if you’re equipped with adequate knowledge of digital marketing.
According to an online training academy, these are some of the most popular methods to make money with digital marketing: content writing, social media management, creating and selling your own digital products, YouTube advertising, ecommerce, managing paid advertising.
BONUS: Tips and Strategies on Making Money Online that Works Today
TIP 1
Put Your Priorities Right
Giving some top tips on how students can start online businesses, a student platform advises students to first count the cost and time for their proposed business in order for it not to affect their stipends and disrupt their academic schedules respectively.
TIP 2
Get Like Minds Together
No doubt that as a student entrepreneur, one of your key qualities is to be able to identify friends, classmates (or course mates) that share similar passions with you.
Get your team together and brainstorm on strategies for a successful online business.
It’s also critical to get mentors in your chosen field.
Find a couple of people (students like you if you can find or your predecessors) willing to help you on your journey.
TIP 3
Do Market Research
This is key in our digital world awash with tools that can show you if there’s light on the path you’re headed in starting an online business as a student.
Research and analytics tools abound to give you a clear-cut direction what to expect as you start.
TIP 4
Pre-sell
Thinkific, in one of its article on creating a successful online course, advisee you pre-sell the course before it’s even created.
This is a strategy I’ve used and saw great expectations before I launched my Professional Website Design Course.
This expectation from netizens was a huge motivation for me as a lot of people were asking for the course long before it was launched.
With this strategy, you can structure your landing page to collect email contacts that you would use for marketing when course is launched.
This tip can actually be applied to any product and service.
TIP 5
Promote! Promote!! Promote!!!
On the inevitable need to promote your online business, Word stream, a data and insight platform, spills it out plainly:
“In order to survive and grow, your business needs customers. In order to get customers, you need to promote your business.”
In one of its articles revealing how you can promote your business with or without money and stating the seemingly obvious….
“Using Google to promote your business is a no-brainer. Capturing more than 90% of the market share, it’s one of the best ways to get in front of consumers that are actively searching for solutions.”
So…
Without further ado, setup your Google Profile, Search Console and Analytics properties to measure, on a regular basis, how you’re fairing.
Again…
Don’t fail to promote your business on all social media platforms.
PHEEEW, we’ve come a long way…
Wow, what an amazing journey!
Congratulations and well done if you’ve followed through thus far.
NOW, over to you!
I would love to hear from you.
What are you taking away from this piece?
What opportunity do you want to try first?
Is it crypto trading or blogging?
Either way, let me know by dropping your comments below right now.
