If you read my last
article on
‘Revitalizing the Nigerian Sports Industry‘ and you’re wondering what you can do to be part of the money makers, then this article is just right for you.
In this article, I’ll highlight 10 ways in which you can impact the nation through sports while earning money from it.
So let’s begin…
If you are a retired athlete or you have experience with coaching athletes, they are a lot of people in the country that need personal training, from people that want to reduce their weights to those that just want to stay fit. Also, some private agencies that recruit athletes and train them in order to market them to national or international sports teams can also employ your services.
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Start a Sports Recruitment Agency
Your major job, in this case, will be to scout for raw talents and market them to major international or national sports clubs. You can set up a small team to help you with this, and you don’t really need an office space to get this started.
Because people want to keep fit, every Saturday you see them troop into stadia in their numbers just to get some exercise. You can capitalize on this and start a standard and affordable gym in a very strategic residential area.
If you can start a sports shop close to a gym or a stadium, I’m pretty sure you’ll rake in more customers, as the number of persons that need exercise kits and don’t know where to find them are quite numerous.
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Start a Sports Viewing Center
Starting a viewing center isn’t really a tasking job as all you need do is find a very lucrative business area to pitch your tent. Viewing centers are almost never empty, and as far as there’s a tournament going on you’ll have people trooping in to watch the game.
This is very cost inclusive, but with successes of privately owned clubs like Eyimba, Ifeanyi Ubah FC, and many more local football clubs, starting a soccer team to battle for the trophies in the national leagues is a bold way to get started in the business of sports.
Just like Pepsi did, you can start up your own academy to grow young talents in any sport of your choice.
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Set Up a Sports Training Facility
With the growing number of young athletes in the nation and lack of facilities to train in, you can set up a sports training facility and charge payments for use of the facility.
The facility can either cater for indoor or outdoor games or both, from swimming to lawn tennis, football, boxing e.t.c.
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Publish your own Sports Magazine
They are already available sports magazines in circulation, and it’s in high demand especially from people who depend solely on newspaper stands to get information about what is going on in a particular tournament or with their favourite teams. You can start your own magazine and give it a unique touch to stand out from the competition.
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Run a Sports TV or Radio Show
Because starting a Television production company would be very expensive, you can start a radio or TV broadcast show that talks about the latest news, trends, gists and other relevant information about the sports industry around the world to the viewers. Starting will be a tad stressful but as time goes on, you’ll definitely find it a lot easier as the number of local viewers increases and you start earning money from advertisements, sponsorship, promotions e.t.c
