Facebook Applications - What do you use? What would you create?

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Everyone you know is probably on Facebook, or at least all of the people within the younger generations. Social networking and media has become such a large part of the daily experiences and life of college students, that there are so many opportunities for businesses to be developed out of it.

There are literally thousands of Facebook applications or “apps” out there already and more are being created every day. Some cost nothing to create and some costs hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars to develop and launch.

So, if you could create any app to be developed on Facebook what would it be? Would it be something as simple as a quiz or something more in depth such as an eBay app that pulls in different auctions and puts them on your profil

What would you create?

I am trying to do some research as to what kind of applications people are actually thinking about and what they might actually use.

Are you on Facebook? Do you have a super long profile that is loaded down with apps? Which ones do you use and why?

Uniqueness is Power Radio Show Podcast

Thursday night I had the opportunity to be a guest on a local radio show out of Atlanta, GA called Uniqueness is Power, hosted by Andy Greider and Lee Kantor. I called in to discuss different topics about Dorm Room Biz, its future expansion, student business ideas, and entrepreneurship in general.

About the show:
Uniqueness is Power is a marketing, business growth solutions show, centered around the idea that businesses can thrive and expand if they are given fresh ideas of how to market themselves, and shown ways to save bottom line cash each month.

About the hosts:
Andy Greider and Lee Kantor are acknowledged marketing and business growth experts, and each week, we explore hot topics, have on a Business Booster guest (someone who can either save you money, or increase sales) and our Unique of the Week (someone standing out in a crowded industry who is willing to share how they do it.)

Listen to the podcast to hear our discussion. If you don’t want to listen to the whole show, forward through the first 5 minutes or so and then I’ll be on around the 8 or 9 minute mark. I am sorry if I sound a bit muffled on the recording, I have been fighting a cold the last few days and am just starting to get over it!

You can download the podcast here.

To listen to podcasts of previous episodes, you can visit the Uniqueness is Power website at http://uip.libsyn.com/.

Dorm Room Biz Theme

So, I know that I blogged about this a few weeks back, but we are coming down to the final days before I launch the new theme and design for Dorm Room Biz. Once this gets launched, and we work out any bugs, posting will ramp up and hopefully everything will start to get back to normal around here, including the posting schedule!

So, be on the lookout over the next week for that to come…a nice little Christmas present to myself and our loyal readers!

FreelanceSwitch Releases First Book: How To Be A Rockstar Freelancer

The authors of FreelanceSwitch have done it again, this time with the release of their new eBook, the first of what will soon be a series, entitled “How To Be a Rockstar Freelancer”

212 Pages of Expert Freelancing Advice

Covering everything from getting started to expanding your business, How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer is the official FreelanceSwitch book. Written by Collis & Cyan Ta’eed - the founders of the site - it’s packed with new information, advice and insights not covered on the blog.

If you haven’t already done so, I would encourage you to read the quick review that Darren at Problogger wrote about the book. If you are tired of reading long and boring sales pages like I am, you will like the way that they have put it together at FreelanceSwitch. Everything is nicely outlined and to the point.

Although I have not had the chance to purchase the eBook yet and read it, just from looking over the topics covered, I can tell this is well worth the moderate price tag. I would strongly recommend you head over to their sales page and make the purchase. I will probably be doing so soon!

November Earnings Recap

So its about that time again where affiliate commissions have been paid and it is time to recap the earnings from November. For the month of November, Dorm Room Biz pulled down $47.92.

Here is where it came from:

• AdSense: $12.92
• ReviewMe: $15.00
• Private Sponsorships: $20.00

The AdSense figure is a little skewed because it also factors in the money pulled in from a couple other sites of mine, so not all of it was produced from Dorm Room Biz, but it is still a decent number for not having much prevalence on the page. I also picked up a little bit of money from a few Google searches that were performed on another site of mine.

The ReviewMe amount was from a couple different paid campaign reviews that I wrote. Although there is not a lot of payout involved with these, it is nice to wrote a quick 200-300 word post and get paid for it.

Dorm Room Biz also had one private sponsorship for $20 for the month.

So over all, not too bad of a performance compared to the last time that I wrote one of these recaps. Hopefully we keep going up from here!

On that note, if you might be looking for some low priced advertising opportunities for your business, website, or blog, please contact us as with our new theme launch, we are going to be offering some ridiculously low priced advertising spots for the first month. You can also read about the other advertising opportunities offered by Dorm Room Biz here.

Student Entrepreneurs Launch Online Menu Hosting Website

As some of you may remember, I am heavily involved in an on campus organization called the Collegiate Entrepreneurs which is focused on helping students get real world business start-up experience while being a college student.

For the past couple months, we as an organization, have been working on developing a new online menu hosting website called Radmenus (http://www.radmenus.com). The idea of an online menu hosting website is not revolutionary, other sites such as Campus Food have been around for a few years. However, we feel the moves that we are going to be making in the next few months will really set Radmenus.com apart from the other competitors.

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