In this article am going to show you Five (5) ways you can make money online as a student in Nigeria.
1. Do Freelancing:
Freelancing is one of the ways you can make money online as a student in Nigeria and it is suitable for any students.
What is Freelancing?
Freelancing is when you use your experience, skills and knowledge to work with clients Online without been controlled by an employer, the number of task depends on your ability and experience.
Who is a freelancer?
A freelancer is a person who provide services to multiple client online or offline. A freelancer either use third person freelance platform like Upwork, 99design and Fiverr to provide services to Client or provide services directly to client.
In other to do Freelancing, you should have skills you can render to people e.g
It could be Writing skills, Website design, App Development, Graphic design, UI, Digital Marketing or you can act as a virtual assistance etc. Check out my other post on Where to learn Freelance Skills online.
Why Freelancing as a Nigeria student?
As a freelancer you have the ability to accept or decline a gig (client job offer) at your own time and still focus on your studies.
By learning freelance skills, you can render services offline and to people who need your services.
You have the opportunity to render services to people
beyond your Location.
How to get started?
You can start with rendering Virtual assistance services on sites like upwork and Fiverr. But these services are populated with people offering them and would be hard to get approved and see clients.
You can learn website design, graphic design, article writing and so on and render these services on sites like upwork and Fiverr. Although they are still other freelance site you should do your research and know your choice.
2. Do Affiliate Marketing
One of the way you can make money online as a student in Nigeria or any other country is doing affiliate marketing.
What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate Marketing is a business model where you are paid certain amount of money to refer people to a product or service. This brand pays you for recommending their products to people and for every successful call to action they perform through your unique link.
Where to start?
To start doing Affiliate Marketing you can start with Affiliate platform like Expertnaire, Learnoflix, Clickbank.com, JV zoo and others.
Or you can either directly get an affiliate link from these brand and Start promoting it.
A good affiliate program in Nigeria to start with is Piggyvest, which gives you N1000 for every successfull referral you bring to their platform. Read my full article on How to make money with Piggyvest here.
3. Learn Digital skills
One of the ways to make money online as a student is by learning digital skills online and offering there skills you learnt as services to people who need them online. Skills like: Running Facebook ad, Social Media manager, Google ad expert, Graphic Design, Website design and so on.
Where to learn this skills?
Time duration to learn this skills?
It all depends on your self, usually with strong mind and commitment you can be good with one of the skill in a month or more it all depends on how much time you give it.
These skills will come in handy and you can offer them to businesses around you and start making money online and offline.
4. Sell things Online with little investment
One of the ways you can make money online in Nigeria is by selling things online such as clothes, bags, shoes kitchen appliances and so on by posting them on your WhatsApp status, Instagram page and Facebook page.
You can also act as a third party to people who are already selling these Things and help them sell on your Social Media space and gain profit from it by adding price to it.
Where to start?
Look for brands that sells things online it could be clothes, shoes or bag and send them a proposal about how you intend helping them and also benefits from it.
5. Blogging and YouTubing
Blogging and YouTubing is one of the ways you can make money online although it a long time process but it gradually pays off.
How to start your blogging platform?
You can start blogging through Creating your blog on Content management system like WordPress, Blogger and Medium or you can build your blog from scratch if you have the coding skills or look for someone to do it for you.
When blogging you should focus on a niche and build up your audience from there and start making money for your self Online.
How to make money with your blog?
You can make money with your blog through Ad monetization from ad network like AdSense, propeller, infolink and so many others. You can also run Custom ads from different brand your blog.
Another way you can make money with your blog is through Affiliate Marketing and Joining referral programs that you can refer people to signup and start making money on your blog.
How to start making money on Youtube?
You can make money with your YouTube Channel through the AdSense monetization which you have to pass the requirements.
Another way you can
make money from your youtube channel is By referring products o. Your nitch youtube channel it could be referring your subscribers to purchase a product from brands or simply selling your course or products.
BONUS SITE
One of the quick ways you can make money online is joing this referral program by Piggyvest. Where you refer people to join Piggyvest and you and the person you refer would be given 1000 each. You can read the complete review of Piggyvest here or signup to grab your referral bonus here.
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