Customer Interviews- Week 4

I believe an opportunity exists to create an app or website that consists of all the clubs, organizations, and Greek life on campus.

This problem is mostly faced by new students, who are overwhelmed with the size of a college campus.

After talking to 5 potential customers about the opportunity I found, I determined that there really is an opportunity for an app or website that serves as a central page to all of the clubs, organization, and Greek life around campus.  Most of the time, people find out about these organizations through word of mouth, but there are a great number of groups at our University that have trouble getting members because information about them is not often spread through word of mouth. Word of mouth is also not a very efficient way to advertise organizations, and emails are often not very efficient because students already have to spend hours sorting through junk email and important ones.

I found that I did not have as hard a time interviewing potential customers because the group I was focused on was my fellow classmates.  I went on a couple of floors of my dorm to interview people I found in the common rooms and I interviewed a few that were sitting at my table when I was studying at Marston Library.  The hardest part is getting up the courage to say “Hi” but after that, I found the interviews to be fairly easy (although each one took a few takes).   

For some reason the blogger video is not showing up on my blog, in an emergency effort, I uploaded it to YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx7KHylLOnk

Blogger would only let me load a file this large, my fifth interview dialogue is here:

"Are you in any clubs or organizations at this moment?"

"Yes, I am in the honors college, I'm also in a video game club where we play games on STEAM as well as card games."

"How was it that you found this organization?"
"I found out about the honors college through word of mouth, same with the video game club."

"How easy is it to find information about clubs that you are interested in?"

"It was pretty easy for me to find the clubs I'm in now, but I have had difficulty trying to find information about potential clubs."

"Do you feel that you have a good idea of all the clubs here at the University?"

"No not really, there are so many and I don't know of any place that has them all in one place, I mostly receive emails and see things at Burlington."

"If you were starting a club, how would you go about trying to advertise it?" 

"I'd probably try to pass out flyers, and have it advertised at other established clubs that might have kids in it that would be interested in my idea."