8 Popular Business Ventures Among Students

Summer/Winter Camp For School Children 

Holiday time is the best season to organize an unforgettable vacation for children. First of all, you need a cool location where students (let them be your friends and groupmates) can share their experiences with younger peers and spend time in brilliant company. 

In fact, many children simply adore young adults. And both a small age difference and innovative techniques play a huge role here. You can engage quests with swim lessons, sing songs by the fire, learn languages, watch movies outdoors, ride bikes, etc. 

If you have experience interacting with children and you are not afraid of responsibility, develop a special program for them. Then, gather together a fantastic team and implement such an initiative.

Tours And Excursions

As the world gradually recovers from quarantine and isolation, many of us terribly miss interactions with other people. If you are studying in a city with an extraordinary history, why not organize interactive tours?

It is enough to study interesting facts about the area, create a unique route and gather a group of people who want to learn more about the city. Find something to surprise them! For example, arrange a tour of the rooftops and panoramas, or vice versa, dungeons. You can also do food tours. In a word, experiment and make people impressed!

Website Creation & Promotion

If you are good at programming languages and visual editors, make money by creating websites and blogs and also by promoting them. Although the market is full of such offers, you can certainly win over your client.

Rely on word of mouth and vivid ads, set reasonable prices, and offer additional services. Start small and get some practice. Later, you will accumulate a client base, develop a portfolio and grow your business ventures step-by-step!

Vending Services

Setting up such a business venture is quite simple. Here’s how it looks in practice: you install the device with a certain product and check it a couple of times a week.

Today’s vending machines can sell anything. Surely, the most popular products are coffee, snacks, and drinks. Here, the competition is super high! But you can implement any other idea and, thus, get the attention you need. 

So, what can be sold in vending machines? Basically, anything, from contact lenses to phone accessories, jewelry, and toys. There are even vending machines that cook pizza, hot dogs, and French fries. Others print pictures and sell flowers.

Interestingly, many models of vending equipment are controlled through a mobile app. So you can always see how your business is growing!

Sticker Shop

We all adore accessories that look stylish on phones, laptops, notepads, and even clothes. Such a product is inexpensive, yet hard to forget, that’s why it’s impossible to resist such a purchase! The margin on such goods is quite high, which provides good earnings.

The ideal option would be to sell stickers on the internet. Later, you can collaborate with different illustrators and sell postcards or scrapbooking materials.

Renting Stuff

One of the easiest ways to make money is to rent out anything extra you have lying around. And by that, we don’t mean apartments and parking spaces. Nevertheless, you can rent:

• Evening dresses and masquerade costumes;
• Board games;
• Books;
• Event accessories;
• Equipment for parties;
• Furniture.

By the way, to avoid problems with non-return or things getting damaged, draw up an agreement where all the conditions and responsibilities of the parties will be described. Provide a deposit, i.e., the amount that is returned to the client when they hand the item over.

Party Organization

Finding the perfect location and talented DJs, taking care of the interior and tickets, making the right advertising – all this is super exciting and helps to pump a lot of skills. Later, you can organize performances of famous singers and artists. Try starting small – whether it’s a student flea market or a small faculty party. No doubt, you will never forget such an event!

Creation of Designer T-shirts, Home Accessories, Etc. 

We are all in search of individuality and customized things, so designer items are very popular now! Not only unique clothes and accessories win over us. Candles, pillows, metaphorical cards, pajamas – all this makes our space comfortable and warm. 

First, you need to buy equipment for printing on T-shirts, mugs, phone cases, and so on. But if you can’t afford that upfront cost, you can still use a website like Printful to get custom-made shirts, hats, and whatever else you need to start selling. Next, you can create the first collection of things with unique patterns, inscriptions, logos, or drawings.

Of course, it’s better to rely on social networks in this matter. To do this, create a business account and post design samples there.

The Bottom Line

Entrepreneurship helps students develop as great professionals. As a result, you will get the following:

• Experience. Of course, a university or business school provides you with a theoretical basis, but there is nothing better than doing business ventures in practice. After graduation, you will know how everything really works;

• Leadership. Emotional intelligence, delegating, stress management, communication with clients – all this is only part of what you will learn;

• Important connections. Before you graduate, you will already have an established network of people to turn to for recommendations, mentoring, partnerships, or employment;

• Bright prospects. The resume of an ordinary university graduate usually doesn’t stand out from others. However, having the record “founder of the company” will make you different and, thus, provide you with many cool opportunities.