Blog Summary

It was been over eight weeks working on this website, trying to improve it any way I can with the help from the comments from my classmates and looking at what my competition does (i.e. Chegg). It has been a process, seeing it change every week and looking like a real entrepreneurship idea. My website is the exchanging, selling and buying of college textbooks from actual students and from companies (if they are willing to lower their prices). Its name is www.collegetext.com. It is similar to the way eBay works, except it is with college textbooks. This website will be completely reliable. If someone does not fullfil their order, they will be charged with a fee and perhaps even banned from the website. I do not want people just playing around on the website. This is a way students can save and earn money.

There will always be ways to improve the website but for now, I am happy with how it is developing. I definitely want there to be an office in New York City with a few employees. I want this company to be like a family. I do not want it to become a corporate company where receiving service means that the customer is talking to a recording on the phone. I want my customers to be able to freely talk and discuss any problems they might have or even something they really enjoyed on the website. I want there to be a chat room within colleges so people can discuss everything from professors to what to buy for college. My website will be easy to use for people that are inexperienced with computers.

My goal is to free up the burden of buying and finding all these college textbooks for four years (maybe more). I know from personal experience how annoying and irritating it was to find and buy these unfairly priced textbooks. I know how expensive college is already. Why have the costs go up just because of these books you will only use once a semester, maybe not even at all? I want there to be an easy way for students to just focus on school and their studies, not the cost of it.


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