Wednesday, August 10, 2011

CollegeBudget brings daily deals and group buying campuses

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I think it's safe to say that Facebook is the leader when it comes to Collegiate and high school social networks. I hope not hurt anyone's feelings. When it comes to meeting people in College, the beer is always a good choice, or Facebook, or some might now prefer LikeALittle.

While social networking is important at any campus, there are also a few social networking tools can integrate a more useful resource for students. Take it from CampusBuddy, which offers students College social platform where they can also access the official record class and view comprehensive reviews of professors, classes, departments and campuses.

This is a great resource for high school students looking for a deeper dive in colleges, they plan to cooperate because they can use for data acquisition and real student reviews on prospective schools. Or, since CampusBuddy is the official record class for the classes (platform currently has more than 80 million marks from hundreds of institutions), students who wish to obtain more information about how hard certain classes, you can view trends data class by using a few mouse clicks. You can read our initial coverage CampusBuddy here and further coverage here.

And since its launch in 2008 was CampusBuddy to see some reliable grip on campuses in the United States is the founder and Executive Director Mike for this add-on to start telling me that, between its Web site and Facebook application, CampusBuddy more than 200 K monthly active users, with more than 1.5 million, and revenues have increased over the last year. Due to this growth CampusBuddy is launching a new initiative called CollegeBudget, which aims to provide daily deals and group buying campuses across the country. With the explosion in popularity of daily transactions said for this add-on, it was unable to miss. But, more importantly, he thinks that this is a great way for students to reduce the cost of their college experience.

In addition to student bargains, CollegeBudget expects to bring social buying every level of experience of the campus, including textbooks and student loans — and one day in the future, potentially learning. The company kicked off his official presentation with Palooza "back to school", which will be submitted to more than 100 merchants offering discount deals on 50 per cent (and above).

There are deals on admission books, posters, iPhone cases, etc. but this is only for students College; You must have a working e-mail address ".edu" to register.

Since its launch in private beta in March, CollegeBudget already has 600 K students from CampusBuddy platform and has already saved students more than $ 1 million collectively. For this add-on is telling me that he thinks that CollegeBudget will be attractive to brands looking to use the highly coveted College age demographic. The platform also invites brands social media marketing campaigns on a grant basis, prior to the signing of the advantageous offer merchants received a testimonial video student YouTube were a college student, as well as the social media explosion in the CollegeBudget-130 k plus Facebook fans and twitter followers.

CollegeBudget also clearly delivers a complete social media marketing campaign for merchants
no upfront costs. To get merchants sign up offer student transactions through CollegeBudget
Characterization of a YouTube video made by a real College, and the social media explosion in CollegeBudget
more than 130 thousand Facebook fans and twitter followers to 3000. The following is an example of a type of YouTube marketing, which is included in the platform.

This is a great resource for college students targeted discounts on things they need in school and for brands, they have a built-in access for students and CampusBuddy, which was first and foremost, make money through tutorial sales, subscriptions, and advertising, it will provide another source of income. From the perspective of the cut, which will take the CollegeBudget of transactions for this add-on is telling me that the site is trying to make the experience at dealers and will be flexible in its share in trying to accommodate a variety of industries. However, on average, it will offer merchants 60 per cent.

CampusBuddy fully initialized at this point, the founder of said and not in any hurry to raise as they "big believers in the loader. Which is a breath of fresh air. Yes, and in the Appendix: soon mobile applications CollegeBudget.

Merchants can sign up for discounts for students here.


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