Following a ground breaking nationwide recruitment drive, for campus brand managers, which involved students submitting video applications on youtube (for more info see this blog entry: http://www.blogging4business.info/B4B/2791), 60 successful students from across the UK descended on Birmingham for a 2 day conference, run by the studentbeans.com team and our national partner Procter & Gamble. The conference provided training sessions on personal leadership, communication skills, persuasive selling techniques and interactive viral marketing.

The studentbeans.com campus brand manager programme is the UK’s largest campaign of its kind and provides students from across the UK with a unique opportunity to explore a wide range of grass-root consumer marketing activities, learn tangible skills and gain an insight into the UK’s fastest growing student website. The programme culminates in June 08 where successful brand managers can receive a higher sought after Chartered Institute of Marketing Career Development award.

We’ve been working hard under ‘top secret’ conditions for the last couple of months, unable to breathe a word about our new developments… and today we launched our new site!

We’re really excited about our launch ready for the new year, and are brimming with ideas of loads of really cool things that we want to offer you. We’re making it our mission to save you even more money and make your student life better than ever!

Want to tell us what you think? We’d be really keen to have your input.

Have fun, and bring on Freshers!

The bean team