http://www.stuwd.com/bluwg A blog for the Stuwd service. Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:34:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey guys. We trust you had a fantastic summer? Good... No doubt you're left skint now and awaiting that big fat student loan? Well, have no fear because we are on a mission to save you as much money as possible this coming 2008-2009 academic year. So, we are ... http://www.stuwd.com/bluwg/2008/09/28/welcome-back-to-student-discounts-and-money-saving/ So, the end of what no doubt was a great year at University, and was definately a great first year here at Stuwd HQ. We sent out some fantastic discounts, had many thousands of subscribers, and to this date we have sent out over 100,000 text messages to our awesome ... http://www.stuwd.com/bluwg/2008/07/10/summer-time/ The predecessor to Stuwd was originally founded in Nottingham, and had varying degrees of success in informing students about discounts around the city. Stuwd was the natural evolution of this, to help inform students nationwide about discounts that are available nationally. However, that original ideology of informing students about local discounts ... http://www.stuwd.com/bluwg/2008/03/30/stuwd-local-nottingham/ Hey guys. We have just launched a new forum for Stuwd - a place to share and discuss various deals, discounts, savings, offers both offline and online, national and local, student and non-student. It's currently in beta, and a we will be testing the response over the next month or so, ... http://www.stuwd.com/bluwg/2008/02/12/stuwd-forum/ Well, a little bit late, but Happy 2008 anyway! Just a quick update to let you all know that we are working hard, and are trying to speak to as many big companies as possible to get them to use Stuwd to offer a Student Discount through. We have had many fantastic ... http://www.stuwd.com/bluwg/2008/01/09/happy-new-year/ We recently received an email from someone who asked whether or not some shops only accepted NUS cards when giving discounts, and this was our response; "Hello, thanks for the email. The thing is, the NUS actively discourage HMV, Topshop and other affiliated partners from offering discounts to students without valid ... http://www.stuwd.com/bluwg/2007/12/15/the-nus/ Ok, so it's getting to that point in the year. Term is coming to an end, and everyone is beginning to think about what to get their loved ones for Christmas. So over the next few weeks we will be trying to save you as much money as possible from ... http://www.stuwd.com/bluwg/2007/12/08/christmas-money-saving/ Ok, so as you can see by our archive we have sent out a total of 6 student discounts via text message. We have had some good positive feedback, but we have also had some not so positive feedback. The positive feedback is generally revolving around just thanking us and ... http://www.stuwd.com/bluwg/2007/12/03/the-discounts-so-far/ It would seem that Stuwd has hit a sweet spot and we have been inundated with sign ups! It really is great to know that you guys like Stuwd, and we are very happy at the response thus far. As some of you might know, we have begun sending messages out, ... http://www.stuwd.com/bluwg/2007/11/11/this-is-fun/ Hello people! Just a quick blog post to keep you updated on happenings here at Stuwd HQ. Well, in the next couple of weeks we will start sending out text messages with some fantastic student discounts contained within. To begin with, we will send a message a week, and if ... http://www.stuwd.com/bluwg/2007/10/18/stuwd-is-coming/