CampusCombine ...

http://www.campuscombine.com

Hey!

We (The ActiveCiti Team) just wanted to inform you about the new initiative we just started - CampusCombine.

How many times have you felt the need to know what was going on in other colleges - from which questions were asked by the external examiner during the viva to which companies are coming for campus placements to when that inter collegiate event is going to take place. How do you know if the college/stream you are entering is the right one for you?

How many times have you felt frustrated while completing an assignment which even the staff members had no idea about? Wouldn't it be awesome if you could ask people from other colleges for help - those who had completed the assignments you wanted...

How many times have you got stuck due to lack of ideas and guidance while working on a project and had no one to take help from or turn to...

Well, trying to provide a solution to all these problems and thousands more - which students face, we give you "CampusCombine".
CampusCombine aims to bring students, ex-students, companies and interested mentors - all together on a common platform so that they can help each other out.

So, if you are a student and the next time you are wondering how a particular problem can be solved, or what questions were asked by the external examiner in other colleges, all you need to do is log on to CampusCombine for your particular city and get your doubts and queries cleared.

And if you are someone who has gone through the rigors of the Indian education system and wants to lend a helping hand to people still stuck there, you can log on to CampusCombine and help out the students and make their lives a little easier.

So, please head on to http://www.campuscombine.com and be a part of this revolution that we're trying to start.

Aao banaye education behtar :)

- The ActiveCiti Team

PS: As we are very short on our advertising budget, please could you forward this email to all the people you know who you think could use this service?
Thanks :)

What you just read up there was the pitch to a new site that we started a day before called CampusCombine.
As this is a non profit venture, with no revenues whatsoever and no venture capitalists or angel investors backing us up, it gets kinda difficult to sometimes spread the word.

So we have to resort to emailing friends, asking them to forward the link and hoping that they will do. We had already done this for ActiveCiti - and the initial response was great - but once you run out of people to email, the number of people signing up everyday slowly dwindles down.

The important thing then, becomes to get as many people as you can email to actually join the site and hope that you did a good job with the site - so that people can refer people and so on ...

The very difficult and thus quite interesting part of this job becomes to word the email.
You have to keep it somewhat short and get all your ideas in place - worded properly so that your readers can empathize with what you're doing.

However, this time I think we're working with a more serious problem than we were with ActiveCiti - coz the response has been fairly decent.
Not to mention these are very early days and the student population of Pune is monstrous.
So only time will tell ... :)