I put startup in quotes because I'm not actually a company, just a software engineering student.

Can you give me tips on the landing page, the presentation of the listings, the "obviousness" of things you can do at my website?

I've spent a whole day at uni today giving out pamphlets and sticking up paper ads and gotten a whopping 1 new user. How do I market it effectively? There's only half a dozen users so far and I connected maybe 4 buyers to 4 sellers. It's been open for over a week now. I've also setup a facebook page and invited all 262 of my friends. One of my friends also invited all 600 of her friends, but there are only 30 people at the page so far... I'm also buying $1.40 worth of facebook advertisements a day, which equates to 14,000 impressions and maybe 2 clicks.

This is proving harder than I thought when I was just programming.

I may expand to other countries later when I've built up some customer base in Australia first.

URL: http://www.textbookcentral.com.au

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/TextbookCentral/140405375982617?ref=ts