The magic 100

Today we reached the milestone of the first 100 books on the site, well 101 actually, but what's an extra one between friends? As promised the prize duck will be winging its way over to the lucky lister very soon.

Also, after a flurry of activity on Twitter, another prize duck will soon be on it's way to Pennsylvania in the USofA. Thanks to everyone who helped increase our following.

Soon, we will be launching our 'Five reasons to list' campaign, which will encourage students to list their used textbooks. This will be spread through our Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, e-newsletter and on the main site itself. We hope that by getting more books on the site will tempt more people to use it, and so on. We want people to be leaders, not followers.

Recently we have also been in touch with other websites. Our new fave is Doofa, which enables you to list what you would do for cash so you can turn your spare time and skills into money. We recommend you take a look soon. If you can't find them, visit our facebook page and click on the link. Laters.....

Twitter Prize Draw

Am getting a bit more into this Twitter business. To celebrate my new found social-geekness, we are giving away a duck-shaped prize (to be decided) to one lucky Twitter follower who re-tweets any of our tweets about the prize draw. Visit our Twitter page to find one. The prize is yet to be bought, but we guarantee it will be small, cute and duck-like. Just like me!

Nice surprise

Just found out that on the 7th Feb, theBookPond was Pocket-Lint.com's website of the day, which is fantastic. No-one told me! I've been so busy with so much stuff that I hadn't even noticed the dozens of extra visitors who stopped by our site that day and since. Talk about taking your eye off the ball for a second.

Thanks to Pocket-Lint for liking our site enough to give it this high honour and a place in web-history. Thanks also to our parents who are our inspiration, and to God, blah blah blah........

Feb 2011

Good grief, where have the last few months gone? Here at theBookPond we have been extremely busy in so many ways, the time has just flown. We hope you are having a nice mid-term break and spending the time wisely, revising and finishing off those all-important assignments. Good luck with whatever you have got going on.

This term we would like to introduce you to U-Biz. They are a new website that operate to bring you discounts offered by local, independent companies instead of the usual burger chains and high street shops. They are a new start-up with a good ethos and we think you should pay them a visit at least. www.u-biz.co.uk. They are returning the favour by recommending us to their followers, which is fab!

This week we are running a half-term online ad campaign so hope to have more books available to buy very soon. Some new members have started listing already.......and whoever lists the milestone #100 gets a special 'Best of British' duck to celebrate. Get listing now!!!!