Busy Electrical Engineering college student looking for a couple extra dollars per week.

Offer something at Fiverr.com for now and build some sites on the side.

Tina

Thanks again for the responses.

One thing I HAVE noticed is no one seems to say that any of the WSO's are worth following. Maybe SEO isn't for me, but is there any other content in the WSO section that would cater more to my situation?

You could start a resell rights business and start selling products via mini niche sites. Since you don't have the money to advertise, you can do article marketing and provide helpful advice on forums - like we do here.

Digital products may be up your alley if you don't have the time to fulfill physical products. You just have to get started doing something, since lack of movement doesn't make income. It isn't easy, but if you keep at it for a while you can have success.

If you're an electrical engineer then you're a smart man many with many skills. I wouldn't worry about making money on the internet because if you don't have the time, then its not a good idea to jump in. I would recommend setting up advertisements for general subjects such as math and physics. There are tons of undergraduates that struggle and fail these classes yearly. If you know you stuff, you can easily charge $10-$15 an hour, and you can tutor the students in your university library which is free. Just advertise on the parts of campus that students typically have these classes, you should be able to make $100 weekly easily all for free. Cheers.

What is it that the other students hate doing? Can you do it for them for a fee?

Okay, I may be bucking the trend here. I just finished my B.App.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. It's not as difficult or time consuming as you're making it. What you need to do is organize yourself first. Knowing engineering students (I'm working on my M.App.Sc. now), your time management is probably not the best. I bet you can find more than 2 hours in a week. Actually, you can probably find 2 hours a day. You just need to make hard choices.

If you want little to no investment, start with a .info domain and one month of web hosting (about a $12 investment total). Have your mini site and marketing plan ready to go before hand. Use a free autoresponder service. There are tons out there. You can migrate your list later if need be. It's not that hard.

Choose an affiliate product to promote, please not in the MMO niche. Clickbank is the typical starting point, and a good one.

You'll need to learn how to write though if you can't already. I know how engineers write.

Write a quick 5 page report (2500 words, think of it as 5 articles) in the niche and use the free eBook Cover Creator (Google it) and Paint.Net (free graphics editing program) to create a cover and image for your squeeze page. Write a 10 week autoresponder series, basically write 10 informative articles on your niche. In each message, add an affiliate link to your product.

Now, traffic. USE FACEBOOK. Create a group or fan page and start inviting people in similar groups to it. Post a link to your lead capture page on your group or fan page and write some status updates that give INFORMATION on your niche. Do NOT make every status update an ad.

If your group is informative, you'll reach a critical mass and your subscribers and group members will invite others, it will self promote and you'll make a reasonable online income.

Now go do it! If you have any questions feel free to send me a PM.

Use the concepts and principles that you learn in your electrical engineering classes, and compile the most important principles and theories into your own book or report.

Maybe something like Electrical engineering made easy for college students.

Then sell the book or report to other students. Market it online or such.

That way you can learn and make money at the same time. Know what I mean?

You aren't taking any of your study time away this way. You are using what you learned from studying to earn money. In other words, you are providing others the value which you have gained.

Just use the notes you normally take during classes or study time as the basis for your book.

So you only have 2 hrs a week and you want to make some money online... I wonder if I could make any money working 2 hrs a week. I mean, making money online require total dedication and complete commitment on your part to make it work. Even if you do any kind of writing for someone, how many articles can you write in 2 hours a week?

I don't want to disappoint you but there really isn't anything you can do to make extra hundreds working only 2 hours a week. Not that I know of. Anyone?

Joe

Go with writing for now until you have the time to get into something that requires a little more effort and momentum to get going. If you produce high-quality articles and position yourself well, you can charge $20 for a 500 word article fairly quickly. I can personally whip out about 5 of these in an hour and a half. Buy some voice to text software and you can possibly get even faster.

So if you just lined up enough clients that you were producing 10 of those a week (possilby just one client), that's a light work schedule with an additional $200 a week. That's $800 a month, not including elance and paypal fees. You'll have to spend a couple hours each week doing some marketing and communicating with clients, but in my opinion, that's not too shabby at all.

If you want advice on getting started, feel free to drop me a pm.

Cheers,
James

In my mid 30’s while I was working 50 hours a week as a controller of a company I went back to school and got a Master’s Degree in Accounting as well as studying for and passing the CPA exam.

Therefore, I have no sympathy for you at all. I worked 50 hours week, went to school 10 hours a week and studied 30 hours a week.

Damm, don’t be so lazy and stop making excuses why you can’t do something and come up with reasons why you can. If you need quick money, get a job delivering pizza’s or being a waiter someplace, you will make it much quicker than you will starting something online.

If you need fast money online, start bidding on writing jobs. That takes a long time to get good accounts though and that is if you deliver consistent high quality work.

You sound like I did when I was in college and so many of my friends, you think you start at the top, you don’t, you start at the bottom. Then you take a lot of crap for a long time and if you are real lucky somehow you make it to the top.

You have to learn how to survive first, then thrive latter. So, the moral of the story is to get off you as s and make something happen for yourself, because nobody else is.

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would you be interested in writing for my engineering blog on a regular basis with good useful content?
if interested send me a PM

xwg, i know some people have good interests and you've asked people to PM but watch your PMs very closely. Generally whenever someone new asks for advice, they usually get PMs from people trying to make a sale or two off their affiliate link and sometimes the product they're trying to promote may or may not be worth it.

just be on the lookout. It happened to me so I'm sure it'll happen to you.

I would like to make an addendum to this post, a couple of people are going off course of what I'm looking for.

First off, anyone that does not understand the difficulty of pursuing an engineering degree, let alone an electrical engineering degree, should take the time to analyze the amount of work and the shear difficulty of the work that needs to be completed. For someone that isn't a natural born genius (which actually tends to happen a lot in this major) it takes every possible minute of your free time to even have the chance of receiving an A in any of the required classes. What I'm getting at is that finding any way to make money without severely limiting your studying time in this major is pretty much impossible unless you happen to be a very gifted student.

During the summer I work 60+ hours a week as a waiter. I know HOW to work, I know how to work hard. My father owns a construction and carpentry business which I have been working for since I was old enough to swing a hammer. Laziness is by no means the issue here, I have the work ethic, I simply do not have the opportunity.

The point I'm trying to make with why I want to see how I could make money on the internet is that my class schedules are inconsistent throughout the entire work week. I've tried finding a job close to my area, and for one, most businesses don't even bother hiring full-time students because they know how their schedule changes every 3 months, and they are very undependable when it comes to having a set work schedule. If everyone here is business savy, they know that they would not employ someone who you can only guarantee hours for 3 months for. Businesses are looking for long term employees, always.

I spend a lot of time on the computer in the first place. Doing hw, etc. I am extremely internet and computer savy, I am trying to capitalize on this opportunity by getting into some sort of IM business. I can put in the required work in my own time.

And also, I never once said that I only have 2 hours a week to make money. It doesn't say that in my post. And quite honestly I'd have to be pretty idiotic to think I could pull that off. I can make the time to put in, whether it be limiting my sleep or spending less time on cooking meals. I can do it. I just need to take strain off of my parents by them having to worry about me being able to support myself.

Hi...

Though you are an engineer student, opting for website designing will be the best option to start earning income. Once you get habituated and be expert in web designing you can start offering services to build sites for others. As of now, to design a single website people normally charge $50-$60.

You can also lookout for some cheap and reliable hosting service to gain profit out of your Job.

go for iPage, wordpress, etc.

Hope this works wonders for you.
Best of luck!!!