Now that I had decided I was going to try to work on Coursicle full-time after graduation, we had to make money from the damn thing.

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What we have

  • Student attention during March and November
  • Information about students
    • Their major
    • Region (South, Northeast, etc)
    • Classes they’re interested in
    • Times they are free
    • What textbooks they’ll need
  • Up-to-date data on courses for a lot of universities
  • Classes that are in high demand (Class Checker)
  • Data analytics on courses

How we can make money from it

  • Targeting Advertising
    • LSAT/MCAT prep books (GRE)
    • Tutoring services
    • Advertising for textsurf.com and similar
    • Dorm appliances/decorations
    • Facebook ads
    • Jobs/recruiting
    • Housing (sublets)
    • Books related to a class they’re in, not necessarily textbooks.
    • College-targeted apps/products (lots of brands want to target college students)
    • Campus representative positions
    • The brands that are looking for campus representatives
  • Pay for use
    • One-time $5 for all four years
    • Freemium/premium model (pay for Q-scores). Instead of paying, you could submit reviews.
    • Subscription model (pay by semester)
    • Rollout (completely free for first semester use, then paywall or freemium/premium)
  • Sell Our Data Model
    • Sell student info to advertisers (to enhance their targeted advertising)
      • Such as student major, etc.
    • Sell data analytics to universities
  • Sister-service which uses our existing data for school comparison for college bound high school students/parents. (Pay for use).