Showing posts with label marketplace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marketplace. Show all posts

Friday, August 20, 2010

AnnounceSchool now in Canada

AnnounceSchool, the online bulletin board for students just added a new country to its set of operations, Canada. 5 Canadian universities now have the services of AnnounceSchool. McGill, Bishop’s University, Universite de Sherbrooke, York, and UofT. This puts the count of universities using AnnounceSchool to 13.

AnnounceSchool allows students to post up ads, events, parties, sporting events, meetings and much more for free to allow all the other students in your school to check out what is happening in school. This makes it easier for students to be aware of what is going on in school and to be up to date. This also removes the use of notice boards, bulletin boards orkiosks and wasting papers.
AnnounceSchool also has a marketplace to allow students to post up listings for housing, books and items they have for sale and would wish to sell to their school mates. AnnounceSchool is an important student tool.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Learn how to sell stuff in school

The life of a college student goes through a lot of things throughout the year. Problems, successes, girls, partying and much more. Problems are things that college students go through a lot since most are living on their own for the first time. As a college student a major thing we are faced by most of the times is money problem. College students always run short of money throughout the academic year. To solve the problem of money we students either take little jobs that we can bounce within our school schedule or do a lot of selling of items. For the latter, students either sell mostly textbooks or school instruments. They could also go on in selling, video games, phones, mp3 and many other things they normally roll with.
The task lays hence in finding the appropriate clientele for the student goods. Sometimes students can find a mate who will be willing to buy some of their stuff, also sometimes by word of mouth or by posting up flyers on noticeboards or kiosks you can get some responses for your stuff. However, selling on craiglist would be the easiest way to do your business attracting customers from your city. With that you could easily get your stuff sold without so much displacement. However selling on craiglist could get out of hand for college students as craiglist and other classified ad websites do not target a certain type of population and go on to whoever in the city.
Now with ads only destined for college students many students selling would want their ads to be focalized on students from their college only. With selling in our own college only, students could easily make contacts with other students and sustain their things. This would also avoid much movement.
The best way to solve this problem will be to create a student only marketplace to allow students to sell their stuffs to other students of their college and also giving them a platform to grow other students business to reasonable scales. Online will be the best source of such a student marketplace and after some search there are websites that give this opportunity to students. A particular interesting one is http://announceschool.com this is a website worth checking out.

Tools needed in the school community

College is a huge step in the life of a teen and even though it seems super exciting it has its huge share of rough moment. Living alone is not always easy and students will have to battle through a lot to overcome these problems. Luckily there are many tools to help the life of students to be easier.
On campus there are many organizations that would serve students probably for tutoring or textbooks and things in that sort. However students need some other tools to make them enjoy the whole college experience. Students want to meet other students in school and socialize. They want to be entertained, they want to go to all the cool events or sports games. They want to be able to effectively sell their items and make money. Some students want to be able to read whats going on or know the places to visit in the college town or city.
The internet represents the biggest place where many of these students needs can easily be satisfied. Luckily, there are several websites that can help that. Facebook is a major tool in this process, another one will be campuslive. An interesting upcoming website that will be a great tool for the student community is announceschool. The website was developed some time ago and it allows students to place up ads, events and much more as well as read news on it from your school. It also has a school marketplace, a site worth checking out. http://announceschool.com
Chatroulette was an interesting website for entertainment but due its nudity it has slowly gone downhill. So students check online for solutions to the college life rough times.

Monday, June 21, 2010

How to make Big Colleges feel small

Around the country, most of the big colleges like ASU, Ohio State, Florida State with over 40000 students on a single campus feel amazingly huge. You see so many people walking around that you see for the first time and probably won't ever see again. You are surrounded by so many people who just seem to walk around like busy, going somewhere or chatting in groups. You then tell yourself why is this place so big, I feel like a no one. To bridge the gap, you try to be friends with everyone you can come across, you try to join every club possible. But even after that, you still think the school campus is still super huge. So the questions comes up, how to make your school community appear small. Whatever you try to do, there is always a time that you feel that there are so much more people around that you have never seen. You could just ignore the fact and walk with your group of friends and forget the rest or you can try your best to be Mr. Popular. There are various was to become Mr. popular in school. You could be the star quarterback on the team or the running back. You could be the Basketball team star point guard or President of the Student Government, but for the normal student, the key of becoming this easily lays on the school kiosks system, where about 80% of the cool stuff in school are advertised. Well now you can't start walking to each kiosks trying to write down everything going down in school, but now there is a website that can easily allow you to do that, AnnounceSchool. This is a website that allows students to post up pretty much everything and more that you will post up on a kiosk and even more. So when other students post up a party or an event club event or sport event, all you need to do is to open up your computer and check the website in your school section and check what is going on. As simple as that. With that you will be able to attend much more events and thereby meet much more people. This website thereby a simple way of making huge campuses feel small. Check it out, http://announceschool.com