1)You: I am a psychology student which means I know a lot about human behaviors and that could help me find the best ways to advertise my product. I am also very organized and hard-working. I was the business manager for a school newspaper for two years which gave me a lot of experience n trying to sell ads to different businesses and companies which could help my app.
2) What are you offering to customers: I am offering an app that would help students find the best-priced textbooks. It would also be a platform for students to buy and sell their old textbooks.
3) Who are you offering it to: all my customers are college students who are trying to save money on textbooks.
4) Why do they care: My customers will pay for my product not only because it will save them more money in the long run, but also it will make buying textbooks a lot easier.
5) What are your core competencies: This app will have every opportunity to buy textbooks in one place so it is easier for students to find what they need instead of looking through many different groups. It would also show students the best places to buy each textbook for the cheapest price.
I did not get a lot of feedback on my last blog, the only one I got was just to make sure I try to set myself apart and find ideas to market my idea. I do not exactly what could set my app apart, other than the fact that I do not of any other platform that does the same thing and that is tailored for UF students.
I definitely think your app would be very useful because as a student here, I struggle with selling my textbooks. When I used to take chemistry here, the books were a couple hundreds of dollars, but would be offered barely anything when I had to sell them back. To market your idea you could look into handing out fliers around campus and even find classes which are known to have expensive text books and hand out fliers before their lectures.
ReplyDeleteHey Maria!
ReplyDeleteI think you did very well with breaking down the specific sections of your business and explaining why it matters. Through this whole semester I have thought that your business idea is great. I know that I, amongst many others, would use your app to ensure the best price possible for us to get our textbooks. I think that getting the word out is key. Getting a table in turlington or putting fliers up like Matthew suggested could be great for your business!