You would probably never picture me as a smartass with a clever spin. In fact, I have worked for decades in the field of marketing just to be sure people take me seriously. Seriously!
So, I have this question for you that blows my mind. Who really needs cheap textbooks? Well, apparently a whole bunch of students think they do. Maybe once they get through their fancy-schmancy college days of partying down with a bunch of coeds and waking up with puke-breath, they will begin to see some value in things, instead of just cost. For now, they just want cheap. They want cheap pizzas, cheap beer, and cheap textbooks.
From my standpoint, these kids surely just want cheap and easy ways to learn all the stuff it will take to run our world while the rest of us just keep getting older. They surely just want some way to cheat the system and do things easier than grumpy old geezers like me who couldn’t pass a college course unless I bribed the professor or threatened to optimize the college dean’s name on Google for terms like “grades for sex”. I could probably pass the hardest of courses then.
Then again, maybe they just want the same things the rest of us old geezers wanted when we were their age. Maybe they really do have those same challenges, and there is the outside chance they even have a few more battles than we did. Probably not, but just in case, I still get a bit emotional when I picture a fraternity party running out of beer.
Cheap Textbooks Mean Cheap Thrills
If I was a college guy, I would be looking for the best course to be sure I was getting the girls. Hey, you like honesty, right? I would be picking something sexy like physics. OK, maybe I am not so sexy with my Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein dreams, but can you imagine being that dude who just wants with all his heart and testosterone to be the next veterinarian? He just wants to be able to walk a half dozen puppies around the park and earn more than the kid babysitting for him. That dude … he is my hero if he can do it! In order to succeed, he is going to need a pass. Not just a passing grade, but a break that helps to make it through college. It will probably take a lot of breaks, because this student of 2010 that I picture in my head is better at doing a keg-stand than performing surgery.
Starving Students Mean Dying Puppies … and Industries
Do we really want to go in this direction? Wouldn’t it be better if we could help to give them a break? Yeah, I thought so, too. That is why I have taken pride in representing a friend who became a client to promote his textbook price-comparison website at WeCompareBooks.com.
If you have read my blog for any time at all, you know darn well I don’t pick up the keyboard and say something nice about a company unless they have something more than money to show me. In this case, I feel good to work with these people, and I hope you will help me pass their name around.
If you know a college student needing textbooks, or just somebody who wants to find the best price on their book of interest, I will be pleased to introduce you to this resource. Check out We Compare Books for cheap textbooks and books of all types.
By the way … you will not be paying me any commission for going to seek and buy cheap textbooks at WeCompareBooks.com. These fellas money is already in my pocket, so I am just saying this because I like you … and I like them.
I suppose that until the gearheads in Chicago that I wrote about start feeding the gorilla and break me free to earn my Eleanor+++ salary with 99% marketing failure, I am stuck right here trying to make people smarter. So go buy a book!
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