Wacky Business Models
A reader sends this one in, after reading my book BMOC. One of the characters in the book is a business man who has a knack for monetizing wacky business models (one example: providing free fountains to malls in exchange for being able to harvest the coins out of them). The book is named after his new company called BMOC, which specializes in making teens popular.
This caused a reader to send me this web site for FakeYourSpace.com. They are selling popularity their own way, by providing you comments and visits from hot and cool friends on your MySpace pages. Sort of sock puppetry for teens.
Welcome to Fake Your Space. You have found a new and
exciting service which offers help to all the men and women out there
who don't feel like they are popular enough on social networking sites
such as MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster.
If you are tired of seeing everyone else with the hottest friends and
want some hotties of your own, then this is the place for you.
LOL. Wish I had thought of it for my book. Below the fold is the business model for BMOC, which I thought was crazy enough: