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WTF is planking? And owling?
I hate this planking craze and now that I've seen someone doing it on such a beautiful car, I hate it even more. I'm only 24 but I'm already starting to feel out of touch with young people when I see these new idiotic trends like planking, owling, etc.
Planking is lame. But he can do whatever he wants with his car. I'm not mad at him.
I dont get the idea of planking or owling.
You just make yourself look like an idiot in front of a crowd
Planking is lame. But he can do whatever he wants with his car. I'm not mad at him.
Just to be clear, I don't do any planking (I think it's weird and pointless) but I think there is opportunity in fads like these.
Imagine how easy it would have been to rank for "planking" in Google when this was just starting to get popular. I realize that these fads usually go stale pretty quick and they're not based on a "need", per se, but if millions are searching for it there has got to be a way to monetize it. Community sites, photo sharing networks, etc. It's already been done for planking, but spotting these things early on may be a way to get some relatively easy access to millions of lives that you can impact.
Thoughts?
Just to be clear, I don't do any planking (I think it's weird and pointless) but I think there is opportunity in fads like these.
Imagine how easy it would have been to rank for "planking" in Google when this was just starting to get popular. I realize that these fads usually go stale pretty quick and they're not based on a "need", per se, but if millions are searching for it there has got to be a way to monetize it. Community sites, photo sharing networks, etc. It's already been done for planking, but spotting these things early on may be a way to get some relatively easy access to millions of lives that you can impact.
Thoughts?
There's definitely money to be made by being quick to spot trends and execute. I started paying attention to this kind of thing when i heard about the guy who made 120k in a few days by setting up a site and selling shirts when bin Laden was killed.
The nice/bad part is that these events or fads usually violate the commandment of entry. Nice because those who move quickly can make a killing, bad for reasons that have been covered pretty thoroughly in this forum.
Fads and interest in current events fade pretty quickly, so I don't think making money from these things is a sustainable business strategy (unless you do it a few times and then sell the system in the form of books/seminars/etc).
Still, I wouldn't mind having an extra $120k to turbocharge my fastlane plan
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