5 Small Business Ideas for students

Hey Guys, here are five small and profitable business ideas for students or if you are a stay at home mom or want to earn extra income. 

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Please open the links I have mentioned in this article, they are to help you with your business and also I earn a little from affiliate marketing from these links.

With the news of recession coming your way, you need to prepare on surviving the recession or making as much money as possible and saving them up for the hard times. It's not hard and with a few learning steps, you can easily make side money and help your family survive through these tough times.

If you are a student and want to earn side income, then there are number of ways you can do that. I have created a list of small business ideas that you can start from the comfort of your home. This list is well researched and if you follow all the guidelines I mention, then you will definitely succeed. 

I have mentioned all the ideas with the most simplicity so that you can understand all the concepts well.

Read on to learn more:

1) Affiliate Marketing

So guys, affiliate marketing is a type of business where you can sell products and services to your customers without having any inventory or physical products. All you need is a computer with internet and a phone with internet and good marketing skills. You can start by creating a blog (whether free or paid), creating engaging posts on your social media accounts like facebook, instagram, twitter and tiktok. But merely creating posts will not earn you money. So first you have to create an affiliate account with websites that provided affiliate programs. 

After creating your account with the affiliate program, you can start adding links to your blogs and posts. When someone clicks on your link and buys the product/service that you are promoting, then you get commission on that product. This is how you earn from affiliate marketing.

2) Starting a Jewelry Business from home

Starting a jewelry business or any small product business from home is very easy. You only have to invest a small amount of money for the inventory and can create a website for your business and start selling your products online.

Other ways of selling you products from home without doing the selling bit, is to bring retail buyers or sell your products to other small business owners who will then sell your product to the customer. Here you do not need to talk to the customer yourself or ship the order to them yourself. Pitching yourself correctly to the retailers or other business owners is very important. If you do not have enough inventory yourself to sell in bulk then you cannot approach any other business owner to sell your product.

If you are planning to make handmade jewelry then you can first take up a small course on how to make jewelry or learn yourself. Here is a link to all things you will need to make jewelry at home. And if you are thinking of buying jewelry form a wholeseller and selling them to your buyers at higher price, then you can first search local wholesellers or click on this link for wholesale jewelry.

3) House Cleaning Business

If you are a student or a stay at home mom or a retiree or someone who wants to own their own business and make lots of money then this course is for you. You too could be enjoying the freedom and money that comes with owning your own successful home cleaning business, it’s one of the best businesses you can start with little to no money that will continue to pay you month after month! Trying to start your own house cleaning business without the help of someone who has already done it is like driving at night with sunglasses and no headlights….it’s a recipe for DISASTER.

Fortunately, there’s a much easier way to make a goldmine in the house cleaning business. Everything you need to get your $2000 a week house cleaning business up and going in as little as 7 days, is included.

4) Food Business

If you are someone who loves to cook and is best at at least one of your dishes, then this business can be very profitable for you. Food never goes out of business, in any season or circumstance. So, if you are good at baking or making delicious recipes, or have delicious healthy recipes, then you should start a small food business from home.

You will need to first decide if its going to be catering services like big party orders or daily tiffin service or a small stall or van where you sell street food. After you decide what kind of food business you want to get into, you will need to decide on the cost of inventory. This may take up a chunk of your money, but in the end quality and taste matters. So don't ever compromise with the taste or quality of your food. 

Start from, storage material, containers, cutlery, cooking equipment, delivery charges, packaging, utensils, gas and of course labor charges. You obviously would want to keep your costs low but please do not compromise with the quality of the product.

5) Become an Etsy Seller

Etsy is a platform where you can sell your products or someone else's product. So I will dig into the one where you sell someone else's product. There are two main websites that can help you make profits without you spending a dime on the product or shipping costs. Printful.com and Printify.com, both of these websites sell tshirts, hoodies, cups and all sorts of clothing and accessories online. 

You can go to their website and create your account. Then you can pick up a product that you want to sell. You will need to design it as per you wish and link it up with your etsy store. When someone buys this tshirt from your etsy store, printify will get the order directly and will ship it to your customer directly. You earn the chunk in between the seller's price and what your buyer pays you for the product.

You can click here to view my Etsy shop.