How college students can make money is one of the most pressing concerns that most college students have today. Between the fees associated with tuition, books, transportation and other expenses, the financial obligations that many college students face can be overwhelming. However, one way to overcome this is to start your own home-based business to help cover the expense of going to school. There are a number of tried and true home-based businesses that college students can start on a shoe-string budget. Many of these require very little, if any, startup capital at all. Below, you can find a discussion of 12 of the most popular ways for how college students can make money over the summer so they can have the extra cash they need when they start back to school. So are you ready to find out what these business are? Ok, let’s go!
1. Private tutoring - now here’s a home-based business idea that doesn’t require much to get started. You can start a business tutoring students in just about any subject that you’re good in. You can advertise your services at places that are frequented by families such as schools, community centers, libraries, supermarkets and more. You can start first in your own neighborhood by passing out flyers to your neighborers, putting flyers on cars and under doors, etc, etc. Then, from there you can move on to your broader community to advertise your services. in the article, How English Can Be Your Ticket to A Quick Money-Making Career, we discuss how you can tutor English to the widely growing immigrant community as a way of making money. Also, the article Teenagers Earning Money in the Summer, discusses non academic areas that you can tutor children in. Both of these articles offer helpful tips for staring your own home-based business over the summer.
2. Building computers - building computers is not as hard as you might think. It basically boils down to snapping parts into place. You can offer to build custom built computers for people at a cheaper price than they would be able to buy it for in a store. If you don’t know anything about building computers, get a book and learn, or find some online tutorials that will show you how (check out this tutorial on how stuff works). Learning to build computers is something that you can learn in just a few hours. After that, you can spend your time perfecting your ability and practicing it on your own.
3. Child-care services - child care services is one of those tried and true home-based business that’s been around for as long as we can remember. The reason it’s so tried and true is because people are always looking for good people to care for their children while they are away at work. Now you can turn your love of children into one of the most popular home-based business opportunities around.
4. Catering service or personal chef - if you have a knack for cooking, why not make some money off of it by starting a catering service or personal chef business? You can start right in your own kitchen and the expense will be very low. To succeed, you can specialize in certain type of dishes such as gluten free cooking or vegetarian food. We go into much more details in the article: How To Start Your Own Highly Profitable Catering Service.
5. Gift baskets business - this is a business idea which we’ve written about several times here on TeenMoneyMakingIdeas.Com. The gift basket business is a popular one for good reason - low overhead and repeat sales. Just as with the catering service mentioned above, you should try to specialize in a particular area so you can set yourself apart from everyone else. Here are 50 Gift Basket Making Ideas and you can check out the article: How To Start a Gift Basket Business on a Shoestring Budget for more idea.
6. Concierge service - concierge service is not just for the very rich any more. With so little time to do things, lots of people would welcome the idea of hiring a concierge to take care of mundane tasks for them. You can benefit from this by making money by offering a personal concierge service to busy people. If you live in an apartment building, you can start there by knocking on doors or slipping flyers under people’s doors and offering your services to them. You can do things for people like pick up their laundry, shop for them, pick up and drop off stuff, run errands, etc. etc.
7. Desktop publishing - If you’ve got a knack for brochures, making flyers, newsletters, or anything of this sort, you could offer desktop publishing services to small businesses in your area.
8. Web design - If you’re good at designing web sites, you could consider making money for your skills by offering to build websites for people. This makes a perfect home-based business. You can hawk your skills at the numerous webmasters forum around the World Wide Web such as sitepoint.com or warriorsforum.com.
9. Make your own jewelry - Not only can if be very lucrative, but designing your own jewelry can be very satisfying. If you have the skills, you should definitely turn this into a home-based business idea. Be sure to wear the jewelry that you make as a way of advertising what you do.
10. Personal trainer or exercise instructor - If you are any kind of exercise enthusiast, then you may want to consider starting a home-based business as a personal trainer or exercise instructor.
11. Cleaning service - If you are good at keeping everything clean, you could start a home-based business offering cleaning services. Again, you can start in your own apartment building - if you live in one or you could start in your own neighborhood. Cleaning is something that a lot of people wish they didn’t have to do and you can capitalize on this by offering your service. Try to pick a specialty or offer different kinds of cleaning services such as carpet cleaning. Or maybe you can offer to go around to people’s homes on Sunday mornings and clean their cars.
12. Personal shopper - if you’re a talented shopper with an eye for style and fashion, consider starting a home-based business as a personal shopper you can supplement this further as a mystery shopper. We offer a list of several sites that hire mystery shoppers in this article: The In’s and Out of Becoming a Mystery Shopper.
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