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