Vent to College Students about Your Misery
Students Levi Blackman and Brandon Brady, residents of Denton, TX, have decided to take a bite out of the stress of others by starting their own stress relief service. For years these two friends have listened to others vent about how horrible their life is, and now they have decided to turn it into an occupation. In order to connect to everyone who needs it, they had decided to use the phone as their medium. With a listing through the website www. keen. com and 1-800-ASK-KEEN, Blackman and Brandon plan to sit around on the phone all day while playing video games, studying college text books, and changing peopleÂ’s lives, one at a time.
(PRWEB) September 28, 2004
Students Levi Blackman and Brandon Brady, residents of Denton, TX, have decided to take a bite out of the stress of others by starting their own stress relief service. For years these two friends have listened to others vent about how horrible their life is, and now they have decided to turn it into an occupation. In order to connect to everyone who needs it, they had decided to use the phone as their medium. With a listing through the website www. keen. com and 1-800-ASK-KEEN, Blackman and Brandon plan to sit around on the phone all day while playing video games, studying college text books, and changing peopleÂ’s lives, one at a time.
By signing up for an account with Keen, either through the website or over the phone, you can be connected to one of many different college students ready to hear your woes. You can call from almost any phone in the world and for a fee of $1.50 per minute vent to college students about your misery. Once on the phone you can just talk to the person who picked up, or ask for your personal favorite.
About the College Students
Levi Blackman - 19 year old studying News and Editorial Journalism at the University of North Texas. Likes computers, drums, girls, video games, stock market analysis, and food.
“I like to hang out with my friends in my small little apartment and talk about how our day was. I enjoy playing the drums, and I have started to learn the guitar. I dream of being a investigative journalist one day so that I can travel the world. I love music from bands like Modest Mouse, Radiohead, The Rapture, Sublime and many others. I like to write short stories, essays and columns, and run a web site called cricketsoda. com where I publish many of the things I write. I’m also interested in snow boarding, movies, computer science, and many more. Call me to know more!” - Blackman (09/09/2004)
Brandon Brady - 20 year old studying english and herbal research. Likes music, THC, TLC, TV, Acronyms, Chuck Palahniuk, House of Leaves, sex, and selling things for more than they are worth.
“I’m not actually studying English, and I do absolutely no kind of herbal research. Since however I live with college students, I lie to our peers so as to fit into the appropriate social standard. Despite my bohemian lifestyle, I am in all honesty much more intelligent, cocky, and charismatic than any of my friends listed around me. Music is good, and I plan towrite a book some day. Probably about people like you.”- Brady (09/14/2004)
Crissy Blah - 19 year old studying Film at the University of North Texas. Interests are music, movies, Brownsville, the border patrol, the beach, surfing, getting high and watching the sunset, and talking on the phone to really rad people. All my friends say I am super sexy. I am shy and can't wait to talk to you.
Michelle Mashburn – 20 year old studying Public Relations at the University of North Texas
Kayla Olson – 19 year old studying Theater at the University of North Texas
Vicky Riddle – 20 year old studying English at the University of North Texas
About Keen. com
For most of us, every day is filled with small moments when we need advice or information: "How can I prepare my taxes?" "How do I upgrade the memory on my computer?" "Is this relationship right for me?" Until now, getting the advice we needed was often a time-consuming challenge - when we could get it at all. But now there's Keen, offering live, immediate advice for everyday life by connecting customers and advisors. The Internet is a valuable research tool, but there's nothing more satisfying than getting information live from another person in a private one-on-one conversation.
That's where Keen comes in. Blackman and Brady for example, are prepared to give people their time on the phone, and help them work through their personal problems by letting them yell (vent).
"For years, friends and neighbors have been coming to use to vent their frustrations about life.” Blackman said. “It felt good to help people, so I decided I wanted to bring my help to the entire nation, and hopefully earn a little for my efforts.”
How Keen Works
Launched in November 1999, Keen has helped over 10 million members get advice easily through a website, www. keen. com, or by telephone, 1-800-ASK-KEEN. Once connected to Keen, members select the advisor who's right for them by browsing a directory of listings -- from dieting and relationship advice to computing and Internet help or counseling on life's everyday problems. Listings include the type of advice the advisor wishes to provide, his or her per-minute fee, and how Keen members have rated their calls with this advisor in the past.
Once they've chosen an advisor, members can simply click that person's "Call Now" icon and Keen will automatically connect the two parties for a live, anonymous phone call. People accessing Keen through 1-800-ASK-KEEN simply follow spoken prompts to choose an appropriate advisor. Advisors can also provide recorded or email advice to their customers; these other options also protect both the advisor's and the customer's anonymity. Keen offers a full money-back guarantee if customers aren't completely satisfied with their experience.
Keen Lets Consumers Build Businesses Online
Keen makes it easy to build your business as an advisor by creating a listing or listings that describe the knowledge you wish to share and giving advice to customers for a per-minute fee on topics ranging from personal advice to computers to taxes. Some of Keen's top advisors are now making over $2,000 per week!
There are three ways to make money on Keen:
•Live Advice - You can list yourself in as many areas as you like and set a per-minute fee for giving advice over the telephone. You keep 70% of the revenue from every call you take.
•Recorded Advice - You can record a message for regularly updated information such as ski conditions or horoscopes, as well as "evergreen" information such as health, fitness or tax advice.
•Paid Keen Mail - You can set a fee for written advice such as reports, financials or detailed instructions.
Keen is Private and "Customer Approved"
Keen maintains privacy and quality in two unique ways. Because Keen initiates the call to both parties, the privacy of both customers and advisors is completely protected, since no one's name, phone number, email address or any other personal information are ever revealed - not even on Caller I. D. devices. Keen employs a consumer-based rating system which lets customers rate advisors on the quality of the advice and information they provide. Advisors can also have their credentials verified by a third party, in order to assure potential customers that their academic degrees, professional licenses or employment history are valid.
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