1 Powerful Trick To Earn Money As a Nigeria Student
If you are a Nigeria Student, and you are not yet making money by your own means, I must say that you are wasting a golden opportunity as a student. The student environment gives you the leverage to establish a big market which by all means is your golden ticket to passive income.
The real estate market is a high income ticket market in addition to one of largest affiliate schemes in Nigeria with large demands from students and working class looking for accommodation.
So how do you start?
As an Nigeria student, you will agree with me that accommodation has been a big issue for most students especially in schools like Unilag, Yabatech, Unilorin, Lasu, Uniben etc. that are located in Urban areas.
Where there is a problem there are definitely opportunities. It’s no new tale that there is always a high demand for accommodation and people are earning everyday by providing solutions that help those seeking accommodation to get the house of their choice.
However, some of these students have to refer to local agents within their community who might not understand their taste and desire to live in an environment conducive enough for a student. So, as a student agent that is a big problem you can proffer solution to. All you need is a large network of students seeing your post or broadcast everyday and your phone will keep buzzing with calls.
Where to Advertise your Properties
- Instagram: You don’t even need large followers to start getting calls from students, all you need is to start uploading pictures of available apartments for rent and people will buzz your number. Ensure you drop a WhatsApp link that people can reach you on at any given time.
- Facebook: If you think Facebook is Outdated then you are absolutely wrong, even the big real estate guru advertise on Facebook so how much more you a newbie. Facebook is a powerful tool to reach your target audience. You can either post properties on your facebook timeline or create a Facebook Page on Student Accommodation for your school.
- WhatsApp: This is another powerful tool to reach your target audience and this platform is highly recommended. You can have a broadcast list of students you want to be sending housing info to or you can join various school group chats to connect to more students in your school
- Telegram: Get as many students to join your telegram list so you can have a large network of students to connect to at a time.
- Nigeria Property Center: This a paid platform where you subscribe to get clients to call you for properties you have listed online as available.
- PropertyPro: It is Just as powerful as Nigeria Property Center and it is also a paid platform to get massive clients requesting for inspections
- Jiji: It’s also a paid platform where you subscribe to list your available properties online and get as many people calling you.
There are so many other platforms but these ones are all highly recommended if you want to go into the real estate business and get as many people calling you to proffer solutions to their needs. Most of these paid platforms are free for the first one month and you don’t have an excuse not to make money.
How To Get Properties To Advertise to Student
As a newbie in the Real Estate Industry this can be quite challenging but I must say that you should not panic, there are ways around it. I will give you four tricks on how to start getting properties to advertise even if you have no connection at to anyone already in the Real Estate Industry.
- Act as an Intermediary between other student agents and student Clients: connect and network to other student agents in your institute and promote their content as yours and ensure you participate in the field work.
- Act as an intermediary between Local Agent and Student Client: Another way to network is by reaching out to local agents within your community. This can be a whole lot of stress but you don’t need to know so many local agents, 3 or 4 is enough to get their listing and advertise them to people in your network.
- Network with agents on an online real estate platform: Check out what other agents online are posting and serve as an affiliate to proffer solutions to clients in your network.
- Survey your community for ongoing housing projects and get the contact information of developers or house owners.
Now you know how to get massive student clients and where to get properties to market to them, stop grumbling about Nigeria’s economy and how it doesn’t favour you as a student. come out from your comfort zone and do something for yourself.
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