In my vision of WealthyStudent I wanted to clear all student debt, make students happier and richer.

I may have just found a solution but it needs some interaction on your part.

In a few days time we’ll be adding a competition to the site. There will be 2 ways to enter:

• Write a forum post

• Film a 1 minute video and post it on youtube with your top student tip

There will be standard prizes of a fully made up CV (courtesy of the CVCentre) and another prize (possibly from lovefilm.com if we can persuade them).

The prizes will be given to the best forum post and most entertaining/useful video.

The thing is…I want to give cash prizes!

The other thing is…I am a student and I’m very poor so can’t give you the £3000 each that I want to!

There are two ways round it:

• To enter, you sign up with a site and we try and get a 50 pence donation out of them per sign up, or…
• You donate 47 pence to the prize fund

Or you can be a tight ass and give nothing!

We would put all the donations into the prize fund. This means if we can get a couple of thousand students to enter we would have a decent money pot to give out.

We are going to be testing it in a few days. We’ll need at least 100 students to enter or we’ll roll it over to the next month.

Let’s hope it works.

Watch this space.

Hey Studs (short for students),

I hope your arm isn’t as broke as mine is right now.

Please don’t try drinking a bottle of wine in 10 minutes on an empty stomach and then diving like superman into a road on the back streets of Bournemouth.

The docs had to re-align my arm with my wrist. Bad times.

Anyway, back to work…

The sites are almost done now. Just a couple of changes to the menus on the sites, the forum and the blog.

We have also done a lot of surveys and we found that you guys don’t want a weekly email. We are still keeping the email sign up but only to send you interesting things, special deals and free stuff. We won’t send more than 2 emails a month and it’s VERY easy to opt out of the email and stop it coming to your inbox.

The highlight of the free stuff at the moment is the Blyk free SIM card you get when you text ‘STUDENT’ to 82595. It comes with 217 free texts and 43 free minutes. Useful as a spare SIM at the end of the month when you are running low on credit.

Keep checking back for more deals and please tell us what you want from us or what you think by either:

- leaving a msg after this blog post

- going to the forums

- emailing us on admin@wealthystudent.co.uk

Oh, some other cool news…we have some videos coming soon (in a few weeks).

Take care,

Steve Burf x