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More Telephone Sanitizers?
Submitted by fyl on Sat, 2010/02/06 - 19:21.
In case you didn't get that, it is a reference to the folks on "Ship B" in Douglas Adams' Hitchikers Guide to the Universe. Ship B was sent on ahead of the other ships and was filled with the important people to colonize a new planet. It included marketing executives, hair stylists and telephone sanitizers. For those who don't like Science Fiction, I highly recommend these books as they make fun of Science Fiction with Science Fiction.
Anyway, I am reading an assortment of news about Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela and Bolivia and I run into what seems like a ship B>/i> article. It is a press release on a report about meal replacement products for Bolivia. OK, I am still laughing.
This is a report to help you identify the market for non-food in an amazingly poor country in the Americas. The assumption is that you would want to buy this report so you could figure out how to make a buck selling non-food in Bolivia. OK, it's free market Capitalism but it seems pretty depressing.
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I'm still waiting for the lemon-scented moist towelettes
I recently saw something saying that about 90% of everything on the internet was either spammy or some kind of malicious scam.
Seems like business as usual but always a shock to naive little me.
I just saw this today: "I made $622,322.96 in 2009 from affiliate marketing." (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/azcni/i_made_62232296_in_2009_from...)
It got everyone there drooling. In the vein of "Sure it's bad/dopey/ugly/boring/fake, but if it did really work and you could just do it for a year or two..."
Right.
Forget about whether fire can be fitted nasally. Myself, I like the "convalescence drinks". I see a whole new category of real world marketing opportunities unfolding into the wheelchair-and-bandages set.