How many hours do you waste each day on Facebook or playing videogames in your dorm room? Ever wished you could turn that time into cash? Well, making money from your dorm room isn't as difficult as you might think.
To get you started, we've unveiled five simple money-making ideas.
Although we're not promising that you will be able to drop out of college like Bill Gates, these ideas will certainly put more beer money in your pocket.
They've worked for us, and they can work for you too.
Blog for dollars Starting a blog or a simple website can pay off big time.
By placing advertisements from Google or Yahoo on your website, you can be paid every time someone clicks on one of those advertisements.
With Google's Blogger.
com, you can set up your own blog in a matter of minutes.
Pick a topic you are passionate about and start writing.
When you build a following of loyal readers, your blog will begin to throw off steady cash flow.
Some of the most successful bloggers earn over six figures a year writing about what they love.
You can too! Be the hall barber In general, college students are cheap, and they all need haircuts! Buy an inexpensive hair clipper and offer to buzz your friends' heads for $5 a pop.
If you've got talent with barbers shears, add traditional cuts to your offerings and charge a little more.
As long as you undercut your college barber and do a good job, your business will grow by word of mouth.
Although you won't become a millionaire from cutting hair in the dorms, you'll certainly make some decent pocket change, and the risk is extremely low.
Get paid to promote parties Are you in the know about what's going down around your campus? Plenty of students are not, and they might actually pay you to let them know what's happening on the weekend.
Here's how to do it: attend freshman orientation parties; identify those students at the party who don't appear to have many friends; tell them about your service and hand them a business card with your email address offering a free trial version; create a PayPal account and begin charging $10 dollars a semester for biweekly emails and text messages informing subscribers about the hottest parties around campus.
If you gain enough of a subscriber base, you can begin charging campus organizations to promote their parties.
Think Van Wilder.
Become an internet image consultant Are you a pro at creating cool Myspace layouts? How about up to date on all the latest trends in Facebook applications? Believe it or not, your friends might actually pay you to manage their image on the web.
When you think about how important social networking sites have become in the college lifestyle, it is easy to see why your technically challenged friends might be willing to pony up so that they can be part of the crowd.
Start an airport shuttle service If you have a car on campus, starting an airport shuttle service can be one of the easiest ways to earn some serious cash.
Do some research and find out the most popular times students at your college fly out of the closest airport.
Create a schedule and promote your service on campus forums, such as rideshare programs.
If your college doesn't have active internet forums, promote your service by placing flyers in the dorms.
Posting flyers in communal bathrooms always works well.
Make sure to charge a little less than competing shuttle services and business will boom! The key to making money in college is initiative.
With a little motivation and some hard work, you can turn your free time into cash in no time.
While your friends are wasting all of their time on Facebook or playing video games, you'll be raking it in.
Plus, with all of the money you'll be making, you'll have a lot more fun in your free time!
To get you started, we've unveiled five simple money-making ideas.
Although we're not promising that you will be able to drop out of college like Bill Gates, these ideas will certainly put more beer money in your pocket.
They've worked for us, and they can work for you too.
Blog for dollars Starting a blog or a simple website can pay off big time.
By placing advertisements from Google or Yahoo on your website, you can be paid every time someone clicks on one of those advertisements.
With Google's Blogger.
com, you can set up your own blog in a matter of minutes.
Pick a topic you are passionate about and start writing.
When you build a following of loyal readers, your blog will begin to throw off steady cash flow.
Some of the most successful bloggers earn over six figures a year writing about what they love.
You can too! Be the hall barber In general, college students are cheap, and they all need haircuts! Buy an inexpensive hair clipper and offer to buzz your friends' heads for $5 a pop.
If you've got talent with barbers shears, add traditional cuts to your offerings and charge a little more.
As long as you undercut your college barber and do a good job, your business will grow by word of mouth.
Although you won't become a millionaire from cutting hair in the dorms, you'll certainly make some decent pocket change, and the risk is extremely low.
Get paid to promote parties Are you in the know about what's going down around your campus? Plenty of students are not, and they might actually pay you to let them know what's happening on the weekend.
Here's how to do it: attend freshman orientation parties; identify those students at the party who don't appear to have many friends; tell them about your service and hand them a business card with your email address offering a free trial version; create a PayPal account and begin charging $10 dollars a semester for biweekly emails and text messages informing subscribers about the hottest parties around campus.
If you gain enough of a subscriber base, you can begin charging campus organizations to promote their parties.
Think Van Wilder.
Become an internet image consultant Are you a pro at creating cool Myspace layouts? How about up to date on all the latest trends in Facebook applications? Believe it or not, your friends might actually pay you to manage their image on the web.
When you think about how important social networking sites have become in the college lifestyle, it is easy to see why your technically challenged friends might be willing to pony up so that they can be part of the crowd.
Start an airport shuttle service If you have a car on campus, starting an airport shuttle service can be one of the easiest ways to earn some serious cash.
Do some research and find out the most popular times students at your college fly out of the closest airport.
Create a schedule and promote your service on campus forums, such as rideshare programs.
If your college doesn't have active internet forums, promote your service by placing flyers in the dorms.
Posting flyers in communal bathrooms always works well.
Make sure to charge a little less than competing shuttle services and business will boom! The key to making money in college is initiative.
With a little motivation and some hard work, you can turn your free time into cash in no time.
While your friends are wasting all of their time on Facebook or playing video games, you'll be raking it in.
Plus, with all of the money you'll be making, you'll have a lot more fun in your free time!