We just wanted to wish you a very happy new year and tell you about our exciting new developments with facebook.

We have launched our very own facebook page and we are inviting you to become a fan!

Why become a fan?

• Get alerted whenever new offers and features are launched on studentbeans.com
• We can only negotiate bigger & better offers - like 2 for 1 cinema tickets & meal deals with your help - be our first fans and help spread the buzz about studentbeans.com
• Access exclusive offer & deal content only posted on the fan page
• Use the fan page to have your say about what you want to see on studentbeans.com

Click here to become a fan of studentbeans.com on facebook!

Feeling bored? Let studentbeans.com come to the rescue. We’ve just released some dastardly hard quizzes for you to pit your wits against. And the best part is you can win some great prizes and if you reach level 2 you get £5!

In the run up to Christmas if you’re stuck for pressie ideas you should check out the bean board for some awesome savings.

We need your help to make studentbeans.com better and win some goodies while you’re at it……click here to take part in our short survey about the site - you should find it quite interesting and it will only take a few minutes - your feedback will also be very much appreciated.

Last week studentbeans.com underwent a number of exciting developments. This included the release of the much anticipated Bean Board - which lets student from across the UK share useful information on local and national deals, discounts and free stuff that fellow students will find useful and valuable. This powerful addition to the studentbeans.com platform will further enable users to stretch their student loan and gain even more from their university experience. It’s very early days yet but it’s great to see the board already getting a healthy number of valuable posts and we look forward to this continuing.

In addition to the bean board, we released a new homepage portal template which enables easier access to the diverse studentbeans.com content - as you will see the local portal now offers a snap shot of local offers, local bean board content a selection of competitions - my personal favourite at the moment is win a skiing holiday in Vald’Isere, and easy access to the studentbeans.com market section, which offers a unique selection of online retailers that will help complement student life. The portal will also house a number of additional features which are yet to be released so watch this space for further updates.

Finally, studentbeans.com has also just released a West End theatre discount website - where you can save up to 50% on West End shows. In only a week you guys have snapped up loads of tickets so I’m glad to see you’re enjoying that. The ticket site is actually also available to non-students so feel free to spread the word to family and friends!

Have a good week!

We’ve been getting a lot of feedback from students across the country on ways in which we can develop studentbeans.com. Taking this on board we have been developing an innovative user generated content platform that will enable students from across the UK to share and access an even greater number of student deals, discounts and offers.

Students will soon be able to share their own tips with their peers on such things as the best places to buy mobile phones, limited time supermarket offers, great travel saving ideas and where to get some great freebies.

We are currently testing the new application, code named ‘blue banana’, and it will role out across the studentbeans.com network in the next few days. Watch this space for more information.

Welcome to the new studentbeans.com blog!

The bean team has been beavering away over the past few weeks to bring you some great new features on studentbeans.com. Not only have we launched loads of new exclusive offers but now we have introduced the studentbeans.com market and a great competition section.

The market is a unique selection of online retailers that will help complement student life. We have reviewed loads of sites to make sure you’ll get the best deals, discounts and offers from across the web.

If you’re on the look at for a new mobile phone, a present for someone’s birthday, the latest DVDs, the cheapest flights – the studentbeans.com market has it all.

Competition section – we’ve partnered with a number of amazing companies to be able to offer you an awesome selection of competition prizes. Including:

Win a year’s supply of Jelly Belly Beans, win an Apple Powerbook Pro and win the new Peugeot 2007. Click here to see more of our competitions.

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