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Recently I’ve been getting extremely frustrated with the fact that sometimes it takes forever to get something done by e-mail. It’s ridiculous that something that should simply take less than a day to confirm takes three or more days. It simply kills productivity. I’m not saying e-mail is a bad thing, just that it might not be the as efficient as simply picking up the phone. I’m going to start using Skype now for more of these tasks so if anyone needs to get in touch with me in a hurry just Skype me at rohailr.
In other woes, I’m extremely disappointed by the lack of effectiveness of Facebook flyers. I put up a total of $25 worth of ads at five schools and only received one response! I put up ads at Rutgers, Penn State, UPenn, UConn, and NYU. I know $25 isn’t a huge sum of money for advertising and I suppose 2,500 flyers at each school except for Rutgers (10,000 flyers) isn’t enough.
Other than that, I’ve accepted an internship myself with Noah Kagan, of okdork.com, which should be very exciting. I’ll keep everyone posted on Walamu and the rest (By the way, my designer implemented a new theme at Walamu.com and the blog looks awesome now).
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Here is something that might help you out when you market to your target market. “Even though you are in your market, take yourself out of it”. No one cares what you think about your product/service, they only care about what solutions it can solve for themselves. So the next thing to do is to ask a couple of random people that you don’t know about what their concerns and challenges in college are and then come up with a marketing strategy to bring them in.
I am pretty sure you have some ways to go about this situation and I wish you the best.
You’re right, it’s definitely important to take a step back and take yourself out of the market for a minute. My aim is to make this the customer’s product so I will continually be asking for feedback and find out what it is exactly that college students are looking for in a service like this. I definitely do have some ways to go…thanks for your feedback though, I really appreciate it
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I read through your blog and really like it. I just wanted to introduce myself to you. My name is Adam Gilbert and I am one of the most passionate people when it comes to business and entrepreneurship you will ever meet! I graduated from the School of Management at Binghamton University in 2005. I was a founding member of the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) club.
I started a number of highly profitable businesses including http://www.Bingcoupons.com and Ultimate Discount Card (www.MyUDC.com). Ultimate Discount Card was my biggest success so far.
My goal now is to meet incredible business partners to help me develop some of my new ideas. I started a blog http://www.GuruGilbert.com and I’d love for you to check it out. I really want to create an interactive website where like-minded entrepreneurs can bounce ideas off one other but more so I just want to meet really like-minded, passionate entrepreneurs as that is what I am truly about!
Anyway, it’s a pleasure to meet you and it’s great to see there are people who are as passionate about business as I am!
Hope to read some of your comments and maybe even doing business with you in the future!
Best regards,
Adam Gilbert
Hey Adam,
Thank you for the kind words. It’s always great to meet another like-minded young entrepreneur. I just checked out your blog and want to congratulate you for taking that step and going public which is sometimes hard to do. You seem to have a great background and I think you have great potential as do a lot of commenters on your blog.
I took a look at your current ventures and I liked what I see. I definitely agree with you in that we all need a place to bounce ideas off each other and at least in terms of getting individual feedback, a blog is a great way to start. I look forward to following your blog and your business ventures and I hope you will continue to follow mine as well. Sorry to keep this short, perhaps we can get something more formal going at a later time. I look forward to being in touch with you.
Rohail