What’s your Let Me Know story?
Hi,
Thanks for being part of Let Me Know. We’re excited to see you break the information barrier, and to be part of your success.
How has Let Me Know helped you? Share your Let Me Know story, and be featured on our front page. Be it an internship that you bagged, a business plan competition you won or a college festival that you enjoyed, we’d love to hear from you.
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Team Let Me Know
One of the most challenging decisions we’ve had to make was with regard to the Google Adsense ads which were located on the website. There were a few significant draw backs with using these ads; to put it in simple and remarkably few terms, they didn’t look very pretty. However, considering the ever increasing traffic too the website, they did serve as revenue generators. So the big trade off was: user experience Vs money. We chose to “trade off” money for user experience. Our logic was and remains simple, If we give the best possible service to the users, they will love it enough to talk about it. To get customers to talk is perhaps the single biggest achievement for any business. Its big because it means a lot more than just satisfied customers, it means publicity, loyalty and a host of other pretty terms. Most importantly, it shows that we care. So, as we bid goodbye to Google Adsense for now, we request you to keep the comments and the feedback coming, because we’re listening and we care. 
When I speak to the users of Let Me Know, I find that they all have something in common… they’re all hooked. Once they come across the website they find it difficult to not check for new opportunities whether they intend to use them or not. Let Me Know, is indeed quite fortunate to have a loyal user base. Their loyalty and our consistency have ensured that we can only grow from here. Ok… so we have a group of really cool people who are addicted to Let Me Know, thats great, so whats the next step? What can we do to ensure that we can offer them better services and how do we make them part of the process? We believe the answer lies in building a community around the website. We need to give the users something more, so that they have in common something more than just an unquenchable thirst for opportunities. We need to give the users a platform where they can not only interact with us but also among themselves. Google Connect and the newly deployed Discuss Community have contributed to a significant extent in this regard. However, we’ve made it a conscious policy to actively develop a strong community around the website, which means that we’re not going to solely depend on Google or Discuss to do it for us. We believe in providing a more personalized experience to the users based on their suggestions and preferences, so users can watch out for exciting new opportunities to get their opinions noted. So when do we know that our job is complete ? How do we gauge the success of our community building strategies? Well… the one of the pillars around which the community is built is the facilitation of our users to help themselves get a better service from us. Better service can mean a lot things, whether it is to have more number of opportunities or having a more intuitive console on the website. The number of entries we get from customers and their activeness on our forums have proven to be valid indicators.Making the website self sufficient with respect to the content has always been a dream, a dream in which users actively share opportunities which they hear about. Out role, until we achieve such a state is to facilitate their sharing activities, perhaps through better design or through augmentation with other services. Measuring customer satisfaction is a completely different ball game though, how do we check whether our customers are satisfied without dissatisfying them? Now thats something worth pondering about. 
Channel. After testing it for a few days we have found it pretty reliable in alerting the user about the updates on the site. Users are notfiied about any new Opportunity added on the site through out the day.
) and I like writing stuff – be it publicity mails or blog posts. However, the one key factor that makes my like what I do is this – I am part of something that can actually change people’s lives, albeit in a very small way. The very fact that there someone, somewhere, gets to benefit from LMK is sufficient motivation to do my job properly. And I’m sure this is what drives most, if not all of the team at LMK. And this is why we have come as far as we have, in a surprisingly short duration of time. So here’s to the motivation behind team LMK. Join us, in Breaking the Information Barrier!
Fiesta“, starting October 11th, 2009. During this month long festival, we will be populating our portal with a lot of internship opportunities. In order to reach a large number of posts, we need our readers i.e. you, to share opportunities with everyone. We invite all of you to actively participate in the fiesta and help us break the information barrier.
members. We currently have 400+ members connected through Google Friend Connect. We wanted to create a community around LetMeKnow and help visitors participate and connect with others. 
