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6 Best Small Business Ideas For Students In Tertiary Institutions by luigiajah(m): 6:08am On Aug 23, 2014
Please ensure you Share this
information.
Today I want to share with you 6
business ideas that will provide you
with some funds and also support you
through your days in school, most of
the students sometimes find it difficult
to get some stuffs done while in
school
due to some financial challenges.
There are some parents that get easily
offended when their wards request for
money to get some things done while
in school, some parents even think
that it is all about paying their wards’
school fees and that is all, they think
their wards are trying to cheat on
them if the request for more funding
after school fees payment, there are
much more things to be done while in
school financially after paying your
fees.
As a student with great goals to
achieve, you must not depend fully on
your parents financially when there
are a lot of things to be done there on
campus to get some funding for your
academic activities, your parents are
not there with you to know your
needs,
this implies that they may think you
are trying to play over their
intelligence by requesting for more
money for your needs. Let’s get down
to the business of the day. Here are
six
(6) things you should do to get you
some money on campus.

*Start tutoring your fellow students
As a university or polytechnic student,
you may be good in a particular
course
that your fellow students see as a
challenge in their academic, organize
a tutorial class for them and start
tutoring them. Charge them a
particular amount you wish to take
from them. In higher institutions,
especially in surveying and some
engineering departments, most of the
courses they teach is full of drawings,
if you are good in drawing, help them
out with the drawings and charge
them for your service, when you can
mostly achieve this is when the
lecturer gives an assignment to be
submitted in probably days or weeks
time, the ones that are not really good
in drawing will be lamenting on how
to
get the assignment done pending the
submission date. Don’t sit down to
watch them lamenting when you know
that you can be a solution to their
problem, get the assignment from
them and get it done for them, charge
the for the service, but make sure you
charge the a moderate price so they
can pay you, after all, they are also
students like you.

*Offer Transportation services for
your fellow students

Why I ’m bringing in this particular
idea is that most of the tertiary
institutions in Nigeria have two (2) or
more campuses which will involve
transporting from one campus to the
other. Your dad might probably have
an abandoned car which there is
nothing really wrong with it. Get a
mechanic to fix the car for you and
use
it for inter campus micro
transportation business. The school
might have a bus for this, but most of
the students may not be comfortable
going with it, they will rather pay you
to transport them to the other campus
for their academic activities. You must
not allow this number two (2) means
of getting extra money to interfere
with your own academic programs, do
it in your spare time and make sure
you balance the business with your
education not forgetting that the
cardinal thing that brought you that
campus was not to make money but
for your academics.
*Be a career counselor
If you are good in communication,
probably you are a communication art
student, you can meet with the
employers and recruiters on and off
the campus, ask them questions
about
the qualities they may desire to have
in their job applicants, after getting
the required information from them,
you can come back to your school to
hold a mini seminar, counseling them
about their different careers and what
they should expect to get from their
employer.

*Organize a Party for the students
Most people love party, that may
serve
as a source for them to cash fun
while
on campus, you can make good
money
from this if you can get good DJ to
play
in your parties. You can also organize
a party that involves singers,
comedian
and entertainers generally.

*Sports and fitness training
You may be good in a particular area
of sports or may be fitness training,
there may be students who would
also
love to be as good as you are in a
particular area of sport that you are
already a professional. Offer to teach
them and charge them for it.

*Graphic design services
If you have the knowledge about
graphic design, you should not be
lamenting about money while on
campus. Go ahead and help your
fellow students in beautifying their
project work or seminars. Also, there
are a lot of events that will be
happening on campus that will need a
graphic designer, events like student
union government elections, which will
involve designing of flyers, posters
and
other things. As a graphic designer,
avail yourself of those opportunities
and make more money for yourself.
Now that you have the idea of what to
do while on campus to keep your life
going, get up and start implementing
these ideas and see the outcomes you
will have. How would you rate these
ideas, please use the comment section
to share your own thoughts with us,
perhaps if I have omitted some of the
ideas you think should have been
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Re: 6 Best Small Business Ideas For Students In Tertiary Institutions by Tundeiab(m): 7:24am On Aug 23, 2014
I guess it could have made more sense if your points were itemized. Mere looking at the write up, I am discouraged to read.
Re: 6 Best Small Business Ideas For Students In Tertiary Institutions by luigiajah(m): 8:39am On Aug 23, 2014
Tundeiab: I guess it could have made more sense if your points were itemized. Mere looking at the write up, I am discouraged to read.
hm
Re: 6 Best Small Business Ideas For Students In Tertiary Institutions by abujamal: 9:23am On Aug 23, 2014
it could have been better if you were able to numberize your points
Re: 6 Best Small Business Ideas For Students In Tertiary Institutions by adekzy: 11:51am On Aug 23, 2014
Am a testimony to the last option.

I personally financed myself (school fees+other expenses etc) throughout my university years * 5years course *Enginerring Related) and full time with graphic design. Made a final G.P of 3.43 after graduation

There are several challenges that has to be overcome, but provided you good @ it, you can never get broke.

Currently serving in Ekiti state and i still design for for a living, Allowee is just a bonus to design money.

My advice: Learn the graphic design trade, master it and create a good network with potential clients....@ the end of it all, (God) will surely crown your effort with greatness. Stay Focus, work smart.
Re: 6 Best Small Business Ideas For Students In Tertiary Institutions by Nobody: 11:57am On Aug 23, 2014
how about courses that take a lot of time and concentration, like medicine for instance? What can u do?

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Re: 6 Best Small Business Ideas For Students In Tertiary Institutions by Rexyl(m): 4:54pm On Aug 23, 2014
With very useful biz tips and good mindset to achieve the best at all times, someone will make it. Success is achievable thru good approach and attitude.

Hacuna Matata

God is in control.
Re: 6 Best Small Business Ideas For Students In Tertiary Institutions by myjobsfinder(m): 8:01am On Oct 30, 2014
@ luigiajah the thread poster. It would it's a nice thread, but you would have linked to the article source and arrange it well.

I found http://bisthoughts.com/2014/05/business-ideas-for-uni-students.html to be the original source of the above thread.

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