Saturday, March 13, 2010

making money on campus 3

hey welcome back. i hope you are enjoying our discussions. if this is your first time, welcome to my blog. please do not forget to leave a comment or rate this post. i would also love to hear your views.
now lets talk about making money. today i want to talk about decorations and organizing. have you noticed that the stage in church or any programme has a very profound effect on the atmosphere of the service or programme. YES. it does. and that is the power of stage decorations. what about how programmes are organized. the arrangement of chairs, the setting up of the technical items, the arrangement of the seats on the high table and many other things. do you know of world renowned event organizers, promoters and publicists. do you know how much people and organizations pay to have their events organized and publicized? i personally know a friend who is now the CEO of her own company and she is just in her final year. a company she started in second year and is now making it big and having branches across all the traditional universities in Ghana! and believe me, she is earning big money. i remember she even had to turn down a contract on the 14th of February this year because she was fully booked. and amazingly all she had was a passion for decorations and a training in the organizing wing of her church. hers is not the only success story, i had the pleasure of working with a group of students last year and these were event organizers. the have made a name for themselves and were executing big contracts all across campus and the non surprising secret of their success was their membership of various organizing and executive bodies. the question, therefore is why are you not doing something to acquire soft skills? the answer i discovered was the failure to realize that these skills are money making equipment. the word to you, my friend is what you just read. come on, lets make money.. to be continued.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

how to make money on campus 2

hey welcome back. now lets continue with our lessons. after you have considered getting computer fluent, lets consider joining the technical team of your church. now that is a mine of experience, knowledge and skill. here most people learn how to set up a P.A system, how to repair basic instruments and gadgets, how to operate a mixer board, how to tune and synchronize microphones and monitors, how to arrange various sets of drums and other instruments, how to mix and edit video and audio recordings and so on. the list is endless. now what you do not know is that these lessons,skills and knowledge are not free out there. people pay a lot of money to learn these skills for their lifetime professions. radio presenters, DJs, sound engineers, professional musicians and instrumentalists all pay a lot of good money to learn these skills. i personally know people who have made millions and are still making a lot of money because they took that little time and that little effort to join the technical teams in their churches. several graduates have diverted from the courses they pursued and are making it big as sound engineers, radio presenters, professional music producers and music teachers.you can also easily do the same. just recently, i had to work with a sound engineer during the Independence Hall 50th hall week celebration and i had to pay the former technical head 300 Ghana cedis for a four hour job during the jazz night programme. Yes, a whooping 300 Ghana cedis for a skill he did not pay for. that could easily be you. you can also learn how to play an instrument by joining the instrumentalists in your church. its a whole lot easy to learn and become quite proficient in playing an instrument on campus at little or no cost at all. now if you know an instrumentalist just pause here, go and ask if it is worth it and come back. the little said about them the better. remember all these skills become a bonus to your original course you are studying on campus. now that is a way to make money on campus.... to be continued.