The life of a student is quite difficult, especially when you have a lot of career tensions, assignment problems, and knowledge development issues. But did you know that you can manage your student life along with some kickass business ideas? Yes, you can! Most students are under the high pressure of their careers after college. Well, to deal with the pressure, you must consider pulling off some business ideas that will give you money along with more market knowledge other than the studies.
Many times, half the potential youngsters have is snatched away because they get into unsatisfactory jobs after college, not giving them time to explore their skills and confidence. This is why you must think of having a side business in order to establish it vastly once you pass out. However, not all businesses are for students and one must look for ideas that involve less investment.
Here are some business ideas or practices that you can get involved in without hurting your studies and personal space:
Dropshipping
One of the e-commerce models, dropshipping is another great choice of business, especially when you don’t want to invest in ordering stocks of products that you wish to sell. For this, you have to learn digital marketing to run digital ads promoting products of big manufacturers under your own label so that people can place the order and you sell the product at an inflated price that suits your choice. This will be a great start if you want to get into the other models of e-commerce.
E-commerce Business
The eCommerce market is extensively growing and many research claims that it has a great future, therefore, you can try an e-commerce business by making a small investment in creating websites, buying some stock products and running ads online. You can easily build your e-commerce websites with Shopify, WooCommerce or similar website plugins.
Digital Marketing/SEO
Digital marketing and Search engine optimization are the new popular fields that have gained momentum with time. There are many courses online that teach you about these fields. You can easily learn from the courses and practice these with small-scale brands in exchange for some money. This is a great way to start off your own business in the first place. If not, you can always use these skills to scale your family’s or relative’s business to some extent.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming Coach
The new word in the town has got the soul of every corporate employee out there. Nowadays, since companies are expecting more input and skills from their employees, as a person they’ll require to learn and practice the basics of Neuro-Linguistic Programming which involves several corporate skills and you, as a student, can learn it and become a coach. Neuro-Linguistic Programming coaching can be your great way to earn money as an individual coach or work under any other coaching institute.
Baking/Cooking
Any business may fail but cooking and baking can never be undermined. If you learn cooking or baking even from YouTube, you can easily start your own bakery and operate it from home, without putting much investment and easily earn from home. This also gives you an additional skill to practice other than the subject you are studying. As a student, you will have some time for yourself and you must utilize this time to create new dishes, pastries or other foods to start your own brand. After all, everything starts from zero.
Conclusion
There are plenty of business ideas that you can accomplish, all you have got to do is decide for yourself and then work fully towards it. Many students don’t do this simply because they are either too scared or low in confidence. Let me tell you, student life is the time when you can totally experiment with your career, pocket and business ideas because once you get outside college, you’ll not take any risks for your pocket.
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Prabhleen Gupta is a LifeCoach, NLP Practitioner & Master Hypnotherapist who works with people from all walks of life and helps them deal with past traumas, insecurities, and workplace issues that help them lead happy lives. She runs the Personal Mastery website and offers different courses for the overall development of a person.
