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Owning a business is not the easiest thing in the world, it requires time and money, something that students do not have. You have to find cheaper ways of doing things and they still have to be effective. The best time to start in business is from an early age, ideally in High School and Tertiary. As a student, you have a market all around you and you should use this to your advantage. Whether selling labelled T-shirts or food, you always stand to make a bit of money. Owning a shop or renting space is expensive, however, there are cheaper alternatives like having an E-Commerce platform.

Creating an Online Store/ E-Commerce platform might sound difficult but it’s really not, getting a product is. You have to decide what to sell, how to get it and how to price it. For instance, if you are going to sell T-shirts, you need to know where to buy them, where to print, how to distribute and so on. When the business is established, a simple online store can be created. At this stage, this is an alternative to having to rent a room somewhere to have your shop, where you would also be restricted to people who are around that shop or people who are willing to come to the shop. The beauty of having an e-commerce platform is that it is very affordable (or even free) and it avails your business to a wider market because people from all over can browse through your store and see all of the cool stuff you have.

There are a lot of different platforms where one could create an online store, to name a few:

Shopify.co.za

Prostore.co.za

Wix.com

WordPress.com

Getbuild.today

These websites are examples of platforms in which you can build your E-Commerce store, they are referred to as ‘site-builders’ or ‘content management systems’. They all give you helpful tools and guide you as you create your store. With WordPress, you would need to install an E-Commerce theme, you can get one for free from woothemes.com under WooCommerce. Without any knowledge of coding, you can then create your online store with awesome payment methods.

When the online store is created and is running, you can also use some of the space on your website to place adverts with Google Adsense or Affiliate Programmes and make secondary income from them.

To attract customers, you can then consider advertising the site, http://brands.paybook.co.za is great for businesses who are starting out. You would need to register as an advertiser on the platform, create a campaign for social media ambassadors to share. What is great about Paybook is you only pay for the traffic that lands on your website and they give you a free R99 test campaign to get comfortable with using the platform

It costs money to make money, but with inexpensive alternatives at your disposal like this, there is no excuse. Of course, there are other issues to consider such as delivery and keeping up with the demand, but two thirds of the battle are won when you have a business and an online store.

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Tutoring

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Let’s face it, as students, we’re always looking for ways to make an extra buck. There are a number of ideal ways to make that cash but they are hardly ever aligned with what you’re actually doing or studying. If you’re a BCom student for instance, getting a job as a waiter might brush up your table clearing skills but there are other ways to make that money while staying in your lane like tutoring.

It’s pretty simple, if you’re doing your first year in tertiary, you’ve most probably completed matric and there’s probably a subject which you enjoyed more than the others. With a bit of polishing, you will be in a position to teach someone else what you have learnt and how to get through as you did.

First things first, what is expected of you as a tutor?

Be approachable. No learning will take place if your tutee is uncomfortable with you.

Understand the syllabus. You need to have a crystal clear understanding of what you are going to teach, be good at what you teach. Preparation is key so you also have to practice your lessons.

Understand your tutee. Tutoring sessions are usually on a one-on-one basis so you need to know what your tutee is struggling with and what their strong points are in order to make your lessons more effective. If you know what your tutee is really into, you might be able to use this to help them understand the work better, for instance, if your tutee loves soccer, you could use soccer analogies to explain maths concepts.

Persistence and patience. Understand that your tutee might struggle with a few things even after your lesson, you just have to put apply more effort and continue being helpful.

Now with the capabilities of being a good tutor, we need to get you started. There are two ways to go about this:

Tutoring through an agency

Private tutoring

Tutoring through an agency is a good way to go as it minimizes on the administration and advertising on your part. The agency you register under will basically do all the advertising, getting tutees, arranging the sessions and billing the tutee, all you would have to do is show up for the session and teach. Agencies will charge a standard rate for tutoring and keep a certain percentage for themselves. Examples of tutoring agencies where you could apply are:

www.teachme2.co.za

www.gemitutoring.co.za

www.firsttutors.com

Private tutoring is when you decide to branch out on your own and do everything yourself. This would be ideal if you already have people to tutor (a customer base), if you don’t then you will have to market your services. You can do this by posting ads on online classifieds (perhaps Gumtree), handing out flyers or even word to mouth. With private tutoring, you get to keep all of your earnings but you would also have to do all the admin yourself.

Tutoring is not an easy buck, you have to really work for your money, but it could be very fruitful as you get more clients. The more experienced you are, the higher the rate that you can charge so it works out in the long run.

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New Post has been published on http://www.studentbrands.co.za/making-money-social-media-brand-ambassador/

Making money as a social media brand ambassador?

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Being a student is one of the more exciting and challenging times, you will ever experience in your life. It teaches you the life skills necessary to balance your heavy school workload, have a social life and learn how to make each cent stretch.

Being a promoter has always been a way to make some money on the side. You attend the brand briefings, wake up early on a Saturday morning, put on the brand’s t-Shirt, travel to the particular store and tell random strangers how amazing the brand’s product is. You are paid a certain amount no matter how well (or badly) you do for that brand. You travel back home exhausted, wake up the next day to repeat this and then need to put in the hours for your assignment due on Monday.

Well Paybook wants to change this! What if you could be paid as a social media brand ambassador? You simply watch an ad, answer a question, share on social media and earn. The concept is straightforward. Now you can do the training online by simply watching/reading an advert and answering the question. Now you can wear the t-shirt and talk to your audience directly on social media by sharing the message. Furthermore, the structure of Paybook means you are paid for all the activity you get on social media, so you share in the effect you create for the brand. This means you are paid each time someone interacts with your twitter or Facebook post. You become the brands salesforce and are rewarded for the sales, leads and visitors you generate for the brand.

The future of our economy is dependent on how well we can exploit the digital space. Technology is there for our convenience and having a convenient way to make the extra R100 to R2000, a month by simply using your mobile can go a long way.  We are on our mobiles a ridiculous amount of time and a large majority of this is spent on social media. Paybook wants to allow you to get something back from you palm held lifestyle. What is great is you begin to own your place in the digital economy. You become a catalyst for change, and because how much you make is dependent on the effort you put in, you are always in control of your income.

While working with big brands such as Mr Price online, Paybook also works with entrepreneurs and start-ups such as Lendico, Rubybox and QplayMusic who operate in the online economy. Therefore, as a brand ambassador you become a channel of economic growth in the country, while making your paper!

Social media has allowed us the people to own our media. We decide what is relevant, and this power can be used to better those around us and ourselves. Without getting too philosophical, check out Paybook and see what changes you can make. If nothing else, making money should be fun!

Visit: http://www.studentbrands.co.za/url/paybook-recruit