How to Set up a Lucrative Computer Training Centre and Make Huge Constant Income

In this computer age, the need for computer literacy cannot be overemphasized.
The level of computer literacy in the country is still very low and setting up a computer training centre in your own locality is will go a long way in empowering people with computer knowledge and skills.
There is very bright prospect for computer training centre in the country.
Although computer education is being taught in our schools, colleges, and universities, what is being taught is mere theory. In most universities in the country, undergraduates studying computer science are not provided computer facilities. All they are taught are being is theory. They know little or nothing about the practical aspect of computer. At the end of the day, they graduate with little or no practical knowledge in computer.
Those that are computer literate today acquired their practical knowledge and skills not from the university, but from computer training centres.
You can earn huge constant income from your own computer training centre. Your prospects are students, undergraduates, applicants, employers, and employees.
More than ever before, people are becoming more aware of the need for computer literacy. Employers now prefer applicants who are computer literate. Examination registrations have now gone online. Our schools, colleges, and universities are going online. Who knows? One day candidates may be required to take their NABTEB, NECO, WAEC, and UTME exams online. Again, the Internet offers great money making opportunities and people cannot avail themselves of these opportunities unless they are computer literate.
So, your job as a computer trainer is to properly equip trainees with the practical skills they need in order to be relevant in this computer age.
Do you know that many computer training centres are not really equipping trainees with these practical computer skills? What they teach is theory. I have come across several graduates who attended such computer training centres and were awarded certificates, yet they said they cannot operate the computer.
You don’t run computer training centre teaching only theory, and hope to make fortunes from it. Those half-baked trainees would never recommend such computer training centres to people who want to acquire practical computer skills.
The quality of practical training you deliver is what will market your training centre and bring in more trainees.
Starting from the Scratch
If you are living on tight budget, you may start your computer centre from the comfort of your home. By so doing, you bye-pass the cost of renting a shop, at least, for now.
You need not be computer literate to set up a computer training centre, though your knowledge and skill in computer will help you to cut down the cost of hiring a computer trainer. If you are computer literate, don’t hire a computer trainer for now. Be the computer trainer until you start to have more trainees and start to expand before hiring trainers. You can function both as the proprietor and a trainer.
If you are not computer literate, you can hire a computer trainer. You will pay him only on an hourly basis.
If you are using your home as the training centre, then you don’t need much capital. You can start your computer training centre with just #50, 000. Here is a breakdown of what you are going use the money to buy:
1. A unit of used desktop computer Pentium 4¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬___________________ #20, 000.
2. Standing fan (small size)¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬___________________________________ # 3, 000.
3. Three plastic chairs (#1, 200 each) __________________________ # 3, 600.
4. Two plastic tables (#700 each) ______________________________# 1, 400.
5. Generator _______________________________________________#15, 000.
6. Fliers (for adverts) ________________________________________ #7, 000.
Total _____________________________________________________________ #50, 000.
Location
Location matters as far as computer training centre is concerned. When you are big enough to rent a shop, obtain a shop in an urban area and in a conspicuous part of the city or town. If you are residing in a city or town where there are many educational institutions and many businesses functioning, you will not have problem of enrolment of students.
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Like every newly established business, you need aggressive marketing. Nobody knows about your business unless you go out to tell them. So, you need to print fliers and distribute regularly at homes, schools, marketplace, on the streets, etc.
Operating Your Training Centre
The number of students you have determines how you will run your centre. Where many trainees are coming, you can operate two or three shifts per day from Monday to Friday. You can also run weekend class for those who cannot attend the daily class.
You can operate the following Computer Appreciation programmes:
a) Crash programme – one month duration (3 lectures per week);
b) Two months programme – (3 lectures per week);
c) Three months programme – (3 lectures per week); and
d) Six months programme – (3 lectures per week).
Note that for each class, you can have 3 – 4 persons on one computer.
Others
Apart from the computer appreciation programmes listed above, you can also introduce other IT programmes like:
 Desktop Publishing
 Web Design/Development
 Internet Skill Acquisition
 Computer/Laptop Engineering
 AUTO CAD
 Networking
 Accounting packages (Peach Free Accounting, Business Accounting, etc)
 Oracle OCA & OCP
 CCNA
 CCNP
Training Fees
There are no hard and fast rules in respect of the amount you should charge as tuition fee. In some urban areas, the tuition fees for computer appreciation programmes are as follows:
1. One month programme - #5, 000;
2. Two months programme - #7, 000 - #10, 000;
3. Three months programme - #10, 000 #15, 000; and
4. Six months programme - #15, 000 - #20, 000.
For other IT courses, higher amounts are charged as tuition fees. In any case, you must visit other computer training centres to enquire the tuition fees they charge for all their programmes. This would enable you to fix your own fees.
Diversification
You can make more money by venturing into other related fields like running a business centre where you do typesetting, printing of documents, and photocopying of documents. You can also venture into cybercafé business where people can come to browse, read their emails, and register for NECO, WAEC, and UTME examinations.
When you integrate these three businesses – computer training centre, business centre, and cybercafé, there is nothing stopping you from making enough money which you can use to embark on your building project or any project you wish implement.
Yes, I mean it! There is someone who made millions from photocopying business. The man had only a small size photocopier (photocopy machine) which he uses to photocopy documents from the comfort of his home. His house happens to be located in a busy business premises. As the money started coming in, he began to buy more photocopier and establishing more photocopying centres. He had made millions from this business and he is still making more money presently.
If a person can make millions of money starting with a small photocopying machine, then the sky is the limit for you if you set up your own computer training centre or you integrate it with business centre and cybercafé business.
What You Need for Expansion or Diversification
 Two or more employees who are computer literate, internet savvy, and can operate the photocopying machine and computer printers.
 More desktop computers.
 Laser jet/desk jet printers
 Several units of UPS (uninterruptible power supply)
 Stabilizer.
 Punch-bind machine.
 Bigger generator.
NOTE: We have in stock a comprehensive, step-by-step, and pictorial manual (in eBook format)which you can use to teach your trainees for the Computer Appreciation Course. The eBook covers instructions on:
 Word Processing -MS Word.
 MS Excel
 MS Access
 MS Powerpoint
 Corel Draw
To order a copy of the eBook, contact:
Conqueror.adaji30@gmail.com or call: +2347061016859