7 Latest Ways To Make Money With Digital Skills

1. Sell Data, Airtime and Money Transfer Transactions

The use of mobile data is essential to everyone's everyday lives. Students are particularly fond of keeping in touch using their smartphones. On good resellers you can MTN Data Plans for very low prices with 30 Days Validity. 

You can also recharge airtime, money transfers and bill payments can be even easier using WhatsApp channels and . You may help students by becoming a data distributor for their diverse data requirements. 

It is possible to get started by joining up for small-scale virtual top enterprises and using the network of friends and neighbors that you already have. You start making money by selling airtime and data in bulk.

2. Sell Clothes (Male & Female)

Students are very fashion-conscious and want to appear their best at all times. Most college students can afford your goods if you purchase in quantity and then resell them at a discount.

3. Write on Medium.com, Hubpages, Tutor etc

The need for authors online is growing at an ever-increasing rate. You don't even need to be an expert in the subject matter you're writing about. My Medium blog is a great source of inspiration.

For those who want to start generating money online, placing your writings online on sites like Medium or Blogger might open you up to writing jobs that pay a little amount of money.

Freelancing sites like Upwork and Fiver allow you to earn money by selling your writing skills for a charge. Get 30% Off your first domain + web hosting. If you have a mobile phone or laptop, you don't need to spend money on new gadgets to start writing.

4. Start Tutoring Sessions

As a student, you may earn money by instructing. If you're skilled at a topic, you may teach it to your classmates in school, or you can provide lessons to the younger children around you.

Take online tutoring programs if you can't find a tutor in your area. Seeing how eager people are to learn and how willing they are to pay for a talent you already possess will be fascinating.

5. Trade Crypto

So, if you don't want to work as a delivery driver for an app, you have a limited number of options. 

The economy is evolving, and those who can adapt fast and embrace transition will benefit greatly when certain doors shut and others open. 

Blockchain and Decentralized Finance are now available to everyone.  For students who want to work on the side while still getting good marks, both of these are excellent options. 

The possibilities range from a beginner's degree of computer literacy to an advanced one. Everyone has a place in the cryptocurrency universe.

Use Platforms like Bundle,  Binance, Yellowcard, Coinbase, Remittano, HaggleX, and Luno 

6. Assist with online Registrations

Your services may be offered for a price to aid students through the registration process, which is something every student has to do at some point in their life.

Even though some of your coworkers are familiar with the procedure, they would prefer to avoid the inconvenience of registering. You may represent them and charge a fee for your services. 

In addition, you'll be able to assist new students in completing the registration process more quickly.

7. Learn Graphic Design & Sell Customized Branding Packages

Another high-ticket service that a graphic designer may provide is branding, which can cost up to thousands in dollars if the demand is great. Feel free to join my Twitter Channel for more content.

This includes a custom logo, color scheme, typefaces, patterns, and other elements that help firms differentiate themselves.

To Wrap-Up, for students in Nigeria, it might be difficult to make money online or offline, it may or can be difficult to keep up with schoolwork while still attempting to gain money on the side. 

Student life is full of responsibilities, but anyone is a lifelong student and we continue to learn every day.

Have a nice day.

2nd Reliable Way To Build Online Traffic ( Banner Advertising)

Read the first part here. 

Time and Money Wasters

The following traffic-building techniques can be summarized in two words... don’t bother. They will waste your valuable time and money, and more importantly, they won’t generate any worthwhile income. Skip the drum roll. Here are the least efficient ways to build traffic... Banner Ads

Banner “click-through” rates have plunged, from 5-10% when they first emerged, to a dismal 0.3%. On a run of a thousand banners, this translates into a miserly 3 visitors to your site. Terrible.

And the cost per visitor? On a general site, advertising costs range between $15 to
$25, per thousand impressions. In other words, Yahoo! will charge you $15 to $25
to show your banner 1,000 times -- this cost is called the CPM (cost per
thousand -- thousand is “mille” in French). OK. Let’s assume you pay a $20 CPM. That means, if you get...


• 3 visitors from those 1,000 impressions, it costs you $6.67 per visitor.
• 5 visitors, it costs you $4 per visitor.
• 10 visitors, it costs you $2 per visitor.
How about advertising on a specialized site? Good question! Advertising costs are
much higher, generally around $50 CPM. Okay, back to our little experiment again.

If you get...

• 3 visitors from those 1,000 impressions, it costs you $16.66 per visitor.
• 5 visitors, it costs you $10 per visitor.
• 10 visitors, it costs you $5 per visitor.
That’s not great. Really not great. In fact, it’s simply too, too expensive.

Banner advertising makes no sense at all, unless you have a fantastic Conversion Rate (CR) as well as a HUGE profit on each sale. Even then, there are a million better and (more importantly) cheaper ways to drive traffic to your site.

So what’s the problem? Why is the banner ad “dead?”

Three BIG reasons...

1) People have become so desensitized to flashing ads, they don’t even look at them any more. Some even go so far as to download shareware programs that actually prevent banners from being displayed. And of course, they all have something in common --they feel “pitched.”

2) Pay-Per-Click-Search-Engines and other “pay-per-performance” models have made the banner ad an impractical traffic-generating strategy. Why fork out big bucks for visitors who might come to your Web site, when you can get guaranteed results, even with a tight budget?

3) The dot-com shakedown means there’s less disposable income to access. Marketers must choose the “biggest bank for the buck” means of advertising.

So what’s the bottom line on banners? Simple. There are better and more effective ways to spend your advertising
dollars online.

However, we can’t just ignore banners all together...

You’ll often hear Internet gurus discuss the role of the banner ad in “branding,” a powerful advertising process.

And in fact, recent research by AdRelevance indicates that a large majority of online advertising is not geared towards getting a visitor’s click-through. It’s about “building the brand”...

So what does branding involve? We’ll use an example to demonstrate...

If I see your ad often enough as I surf my way around the Net, eventually your company name or product will percolate down into my subconscious. Next time I need what you’re selling -- ZING! Your company’s name will be the first one to
POP into my mind.

But there is a speed bump on this route. The exact number of times a person has to see your ad before it makes a lasting impression is something the marketing experts are heatedly debating. Some say 7. Others say 10. Still others say 13.

And that’s with all things being equal. You still need to factor in the effectiveness of
the banner, the sales message, yada, yada, yada.

Yes, banners are a great branding tool. Wonderful, in fact. But they are completely
useless to the little gal (or guy). Why?

Imagine the size and expense of an advertising campaign that will get your ad in front of people’s eyeballs 7 or more times --across the breadth of the
entire Internet.

Phew! Exactly. Small companies simply cannot afford this sort of financial commitment. You need
millions of dollars. And very few of us have that kind of spare change in our
pockets.


Not so coincidentally, whenever you read that banners are really great for branding, it’s written by someone with a vested interest in selling banner advertising!

This situation reminds me of a famous old offline business saying...

“I know that I’m wasting half of my advertising dollars...
... I just don’t know which half!”

But the Net has changed all that. Advertising is now trackable -- stats do tell you what works and what doesn’t. You can be the judge!

Luckily, there is a way banners can be used to help brand your product across the entire Net --and only for the cost it takes to create them.

How?

By implementing an affiliate program, and allowing partners to use banners as part of their own advertising strategy. Sure, the best affiliates will recognize the importance of text links and personal recommendations, but for many affiliates, participation in your program will consist of nothing more than posting your banner on their site.

Effective? Nope. But it IS better than nothing. And the more people come across your brand (even in banner format)...

The better it is for you!

An Overview Of The Process On How To Advertise With Banners

 Still feeling adventurous and want to advertise with banners? Here’s an overview of the process...

1) Design a banner ad that will catch the eye of your target customer.
2) Negotiate a deal with the Web site.
3) Place a banner on a Web site that your target is likely to visit.
4) Banner compels visitor to click-through to your site.
5) Receive and measure click-throughs (and orders)
6) Evaluate the campaign.
7) Improve the results.

A small but potent tip to make your banner campaign more efficient...geo-target!

Put yourself in this scenario... You sell pre-owned cars in San Francisco. Your
business is booming and your Web site is up and running. A modest-size banner
campaign has begun.

How valuable is your banner ad to a surfer from Australia? That’s a totally wasted
impression. Your business focuses on people in the greater San Fran area so you
only want to advertise to them.

And now you can! Geo-target your ads through I.P. addresses. Let me explain...

Each country (and its regions) have an assigned series of I.P. addresses which
makes it easy to track visitors’ origins. All you have to do is set up your site so that
only surfers from San Francisco see your banner ads! (More later.)

OK, reach for the biggest gains that you can with your banner campaign. Follow this advice...

1) Rivet eyeballs to your design.

i) Depart from the typical -- be high impact, visually striking, and consistent with
your marketing theme.
ii) Use subtle animation (especially horizontal movement) to get attention -however, it must be a part of the ad, not a gimmick.

iii) Keep loading time to a minimum -- keep the banner size as small as possible
(max. = 10K, under 7K best). If the page itself is huge and painfully slow, visitors
will give up before they even see your banner -- but you’re still charged for the
impression!

iv) Reduce competition. Are you the only ad on the page, and where will it be
placed?

2) Negotiate a deal. Negotiate, negotiate, negotiate.

What more can I say? Show some serious, long-term intentions. Negotiate hard
on price. You’ll get a break.

And if you can’t cut much of a deal price-wise, negotiate on placement location.
Maybe you can get your banner on the top and bottom of the page for the same
price! Be in the spotlight!

Web sites can charge in one of three ways...

i) per-impression -- banner pops up, you pay

ii) per click-through -- viewer clicks on banner, you pay

iii) per-sale -- viewer buys, you pay.

Per impression means you are paying for a banner’s exposure, whether your
prospect actually looks at it or not. Ask about what is being done to ensure that a
banner is seen before a reader scrolls or clicks away.

Banner vendors dislike the last two models (from above). If there are no
click-throughs or sales, they don’t receive income. Vendors feel that they are being
penalized if a banner (which they did not create) is ineffective.

A pay-per-click-through fee structure is probably the fairest compromise. It
guarantees that a prospect has seen the ad, but no sale is required. If you can
negotiate a click-through deal, design your banners to “qualify” your prospect (i.e.,
“weed out” non-targets).

Search Engines sell banners according to keywords.

For example, PennyGold buys the keyword -- “pennystocks” -- from a SE. From
now on, when a searcher uses that keyword at that Search Engine, the PG banner
pops up. Direct target! Even though this strategy costs more than a rotation of
banners, it’s worth it.

Check it out yourself. Go to one of the Search Engines. Punch in “pennystocks”
and hit “SEARCH.” What banner do you see? Is it related, semi-related or
unrelated to “pennystocks”? Hit “Refresh” or “Reload,” or “Next 10.” Check the
banner again... related or unrelated?

If the majority of banners are related to the topic, your competitors are already
there, and your bargaining position with the SEs is weak. But don’t waste this
golden opportunity. Study the banners carefully. What do they do right? Do it
better!

If the banners are totally unrelated, no one is buying this word. You should be
able to negotiate a better rate... maybe even get a jump on the competition.

Of course, if you can get your site listed at the top of a search results page by
mastering the SE’s algorithm, you can get the same results for free. And a listing
on a search results page is far more valuable than a banner ad on that same
page!

3) Place a banner ad on a site visited by your target market.

You can either...
i) do it yourself -- if you know what you’re doing, you can negotiate a better rate
ii) purchase through your ad agency (for those within a budget).
However you do it, your core target market must make up most of the audience for this site.

Get the bull’s eye!

4) Be creative. Get the click-through.

All the rules of good sales writing apply, but you’ve got a problem. You have
to cram it all...... into a teeny little container!

Here’s how to maximize your click-through rate...

• Your banner must set the tone. Design it to appeal to the viewer.
• Use a single, benefits-oriented headline. There’s not much space in a banner ad.
Your headline will usually double as your offer -- make it audience-appropriate and
compelling.
• Offer something for free -- you can even put a free subscription form on the
banner. When they click, they subscribe and proceed to the site!
• Hit with your biggest USP gun.
• Teasers and intrigue are effective -- pull the viewer to your site.
• Ask a provocative, yet selling, question. Or use an incomplete thought -- a phrase
that begs to be...
• Use a graphic that will “stand out,” and fits the theme.
• Sex sells -- maybe I’ll put up a banner with a gorgeous babe and ask..
“Want to know how to make your site sell...
... without putting me on a banner?”

• Create urgency (“Last Day!” or “Limited Time Offer”).
• Your call to action must be clear and strong --get the click!...
• Tell them -- “Click Here!”
• Button-style graphic makes it clear what to do -- click!
• Blue border around the ad implies “clickability.”
• Add a clickable text link just below the banner.
• The overall tone and message of the ad must be appropriate for the audience.
• Interactive banners can be very effective.
• Use compelling “click me” ALT text for those surfers who turn “graphics off.”
OK, ready? Think you’ve got a banner that compels a click-through? Take the
acid test...

Be the customer... Would you click on your banner? Be honest -- think of the thousands of banners that you don’t click! What would make you click on yours?

5) Receive and measure click-throughs (and orders)

Ask your banner vendor to provide you with a real-time stats page -- one that
reveals the following, for each banner...

• the number of impressions -- i.e., the number of times they showed that banner
• the number of click-throughs -- i.e., the number of times visitors clicked on it
• the calculated click-through rate.
You must be able to verify these numbers. Here’s the best way...
For each banner ad at each banner vendor, create a unique blank Web page.
When a visitor sees your ad and clicks through, she goes to that unique page


When she hits that page, a CGI script does the following...

i) It keeps track of the number of times this page has been visited (daily, weekly,
monthly and yearly totals). Since that page is unique for a certain banner placed
with a certain vendor, you can now keep score of your click-throughs.

ii) It redirects your visitor to a preset page (usually the Opening Page) from your
Web site. Your customer never sees the blank receiving page.

iii) It sets a cookie for each visitor. Since that visitor now has a cookie, you can
track her response to your site (ex., purchase, subscription, etc.), both on the
current visit and on future visits. Yes, you can measure actual sales, even if the
sale occurs a week later!

6) Calculate whether it’s worth it or not. You know how much the banners cost
you. And you know what they generated. Was the cost worth it?

Are you making an acceptable profit? Acceptable profit may be “break-even” if
you attribute extra value to the lifetime value of a new customer. Or it may even be
a loss if you are simply trying to generate subscriptions for a newsletter, or build
brand awareness.

The key point is... you must have an iron-clad way to measure the return
generated by your advertising dollar.

7) Improve the results -- Be systematic in your testing/tracking. Use the banner
vendor’s stat page. Keep effective ads (high click-through), and drop the others.

Banners burn out -- ask the vendor how long a banner remains effective. Watch for
signs of burnout and be ready to rotate a new and even better banner into the mix.

Look ahead -- if you keep the good banners, and replace the bad with better ones,

could your banner program become profitable long-term?

To learn more about banners, visit...

Banner Tips

http://www.bannertips.com/

and...

ClickZ has taken down its superb banner critiquing site, Microscope. Luckily, the
articles remain in the archives for your perusal!

Bottom Line?...

Forget about banners. They’re expensive (especially compared to the SEs!). The
click-through rate is low. People come in with an attitude...


...“OK, ya got me here --waddayagot?”

If you come across an extremely targeted site that sells banners, contract for a one-month trial run. They’ll say they don’t sell for just a month, but insist...

“Hey, I’m serious here. But why should I lock myself in for six months if the first month proves that this is not a viable marketing tool for my business? On the other hand, if it’s successful, you’ll have a happy, long-term customer. How about it?”

These days, they’ll probably jump at a paying customer.
Experiment with different banners. Rotate at least 3 or 4 during the month.

As you measure the returns of your campaign, you’ll know whether or not banners will be part of your long-term strategy.

But unless you have money to burn, focus on free traffic-building methods, and Pay-Per-Click Search Engines first.


Banner Exchange via Banner Networks
You can exchange links, and you can buy banners, so it stands to reason that you
can exchange banners. Companies which facilitate this exchange are evolving
into full-blown “banner networks.”

For more info...

LinkExchange

http://www.bcentral.com/services/bn/default.asp

Safe-Audit

http://www.safe-audit.com/

SmartAge.com

http://www.smartage.com/ 

A major downside to banner exchange? Customers click a banner on your site
and leave it before they get to your Order Page. I prefer to keep the customers I
have worked so hard to attract.

You usually have to include a “LinkExchange” notification under the banner, which
makes you look rather “small fry.” This hurts your credibility -- you don’t see
Microsoft using link exchanges.

Plus, you’ll often need to display two banners on your site, in order to receive credit
for one banner exposure elsewhere on the network.

If your main purpose for joining an exchange is to build site traffic, you can fully
expect to see the dawn of a new ice age before it happens.

Bottom line?

Not a viable alternative for serious businesses with major ambitions.

Banner Advertising Networks are companies that manage your banner campaign
on the Web. These services often represent hundreds of merchants, and use this
“group” force to bargain better deals with the banner vendors...

24/7 Media

http://www.247media.com/


engage

http://www.engage.com/


Bpath

http://www.bpath.com/


ValueClick

http://www.valueclick.com/

ValueClick’s service is slightly more expensive because it works on a per
click-through basis.

1st Reliable Way To Build Online Traffic (Search Engines)

Let’s get right to the point and summarize the most important way to build traffic with 13 little letters...

S-E-A-R-C-H E-N-G-I-N-E-S.

Why? Because if you work the Search Engines (SEs) well, here’s what you get...

• They bring mountains of traffic.

• It’s targeted traffic -- people are interested in what you’re selling.

• High rankings on a search result page add to your credibility. There’s an implied
“credential” to showing up on the first page.

• When customers find you, they hit your site with an open, interested mindset.
They feel smart.

• But best of all, Search Engines are just plain “do-able.” Follow the advice in this
chapter -- if you do, you will succeed with the Search Engines.

I spent months studying how the SEs work. Then I put that theory into practice.

PennyGold, a narrow-niche site if there ever was one, grew from a few thousand
visits per week to as high as 60,000 visits per week, mostly via the SEs.

Building traffic this way is, by far, the most time and cash-efficient method to attract
targeted customers. Of course, if you have to spend months riding the learning
curve, it’s not really a time-saver. This volume helps you “cut straight to the
chase.”

You really can get a great ranking at the Search Engines (i.e., the first page of
search results)... without using any tricks, or less-than-honest tinkering. 

Build highly-optimized SE-friendly Web pages, and you will “score well” for several
different keywords.

Search Engines are so important that I devote an entire chapter just for them.

Other strategies fade into the shadows due to the SEs’ powerful beams of light.

We’ll start with the real.....time-wasters, “tried and true” ways to get the least results for the
most time (and money).

Why not! Then there’s only way one way to go after that... UP! ...time-wasters, “tried and true” ways to get the least results for the most time (and money).
Why not! Then there’s only way one way to go after that... UP!

Learn E-mail Marketing For Online Business

As tempting as it might be, never spam. I can’t be any blunter. It doesn’t work. And you’ll die a brutal, cyber-death.

Oh yes, one other thing...

Spam by any other name is still spam. That includes UCE, (unsolicited
commercial e-mail) and the “reply” messages generated by the free-for-all-links
and classified pages.

Unless a customer specifically gives you permission to contact her (for example, by
filling out a form on your Web site), don’t!

Ask yourself this question... do you like receiving spam?

These days, it’s in your best interests to make sure all your mailing lists are
“double-opt-in.”

Simply having a surfer enter an e-mail address into your online form is not a
guarantee you won’t be accused of the deadliest Net sin of all -- spamming. Here’s
a common example of what can happen...

A malicious competitor could visit your site and subscribe to your e-zine using the
e-mail address of a rabid anti-spammer. When your autoresponder unwittingly fires
off the latest copy of your newsletter to this person, he goes right through the roof.

Protesting your innocence will do nothing -- since he didn’t specifically ask to receive your newsletter, he’ll claim that you are spamming him. You’ll argue that it was not your doing. But...

While you’re off pleading your case to your Web host, your competitor is raking in the profits.

A double opt-in list works like this...

Once a subscriber signs up for your newsletter online, she receives a confirmation e-mail, which she must respond to, if she is to be added to the list. The confirmation is very simple... it usually involves simply clicking on a link or hitting the reply-to button.

If you’re just starting out, you might want to try single opt-in. As you grow, you may
want to switch to double... especially if you get burnt.

It is possible to buy targeted lists of individuals who have specifically requested
to receive your type of communication. This is acceptable behavior, and works
much like direct mail marketing. These people voluntarily give their addresses
to companies, in return for goodies. The companies, in turn, sell the lists.

How targeted and motivated do you think they are?

Presently, advertising costs range from $0.10 to $0.30 per subscriber, and
depending on the quality of the service, “claim” click-through rates from 5-15%.
You’ll often find minimum start-up campaign rates, which generally hover around
$1,000.

Let’s do a little math to find out if this is such a hot deal...


List subscriptions are often sold CPM, or per 1000 impressions. So your cost to
advertise via opt-in e-mail ranges from $100 to $300 for every 1000 people who
receive your message.

For the lower end of the scale ($100)...

• 5% click-through rate means 50 visitors to your site, each one costing you $2.
• 10% click-through rate means 100 visitors to your site, each one costing you $1.
• 15% click-through rate means 150 visitors to your site, each one costing you
$0.66.
For the higher end of this scale ($300)...

• 5% click-through rate means 50 visitors to your site, each one costing you $6.
• 10% click-through rate means 100 visitors to your site, each one costing you $3.
• 15% click-through rate means 150 visitors to your site, each one costing you
$1.50
Whoa! Doesn’t look like such a great deal now, does it?

Okay, now take the math one step further. Let’s say you achieved a 10%
click-through rate on a list that cost you $0.30 per subscriber. That’s 100 visitors for
$300. If your CR is 1%, you’ll make 1 sale from this campaign -- and you need to
make a $300 profit on that sale to break even. A CR of 5% means you’ll get 5
sales, with a $60 profit-per-sale needed to break even.

Fortunately, there’s a much better way to advertise. Later on, I’ll show you exactly
how to figure out what each visitor is worth to you and how to work the fringes at
the Pay-Per-Click Search Engines (either by hand or with Site Build It!
Manager), to generate hundreds, even thousands of low cost targeted keywords.

If you are still considering opt-in e-mail as an advertising option, it’s important you
choose a list provider that is beyond reproach.


It’s safe to assume every person reading this book has received opt-in e-mail from
a mailing list they never “opted-into.” That’s spam, plain and simple.

And if you buy opt-in advertising from a company that has obtained or built
its list unethically, you are guilty of spamming, as well. Yes, even if you bought
the list in good faith! So a reputable opt-in list provider is an absolute must.

Here’s a small list of the better ones...


PostMasterDirect.com

http://www.postmasterdirect.com/


Topica

http://www.topica.com/advertise/

MyPoints

http://www.corp.mypoints.com/media/

Yesmail.com

http://www.yesmail.com/

There is, however, one powerful and ethical way to market using e-mail... opt-in
e-mail marketing. I mention it here because many people feel it’s a way to build

traffic. It is... but that’s not the ideal focus.

Use opt-in e-mail as a sales tool and a long term relationship-builder, not as a
traffic-builder. Traffic is incidental.