This one should be a business… one that offers a web service/software app which is all about the opposite of “remind me.”
So the nagme system would allow you to enter websites, search terms, time amounts, times of day, etc. which trigger the system to hit you with a pop-up or warning asking “are you SURE you want to be doing this?”, giving you a chance to stop short of a behavior you’re trying to change.
Whether it’s surfing to those meaningless websites, searching for random wastes of time, or spending 5 hours sorting through your junk mail folder – however you waste time, you can have the system remind you periodically that you asked yourself not to do that anymore.
Sort of anti-del.icio.us
As I’m in a new contracting role, I’ve found myself evaluating work and what are it’s worths to my life. One of the most obvious is money. And I actually commented to someone that “I’m doing it for the cash infusion.” That’s pretty frighteningly like what might come out of an entrepreneurs mouth as he talks about taking some VC funding.That made me then think: What other types of unorthodox financing are available?We’ve heard of people maxing out their credit cards to fund their ideas. Those who inherited money from their family. But has there been any entrepreunerial women (or men) who’ve turned to the lap dance to fund their ideas?This came to mind as I’ve read where some strippers who work in Vegas don’t live there and just fly in for select weeks/weekends when certain conferences are in town. They earn enough from that short period of time to live well for the rest of the year.Why not earn enough to fund that start-up? Maybe the business has nothing to do with matters of an adult nature, but rather is a baby’s nappies estore and the spunky, go-getter mom who founded the company leaves the baby with her husband and heads to Vegas for a few weeks to bring home the bacon AND the venture financing.Would that mean that strip clubs would have to get detailed financial backgrounds on their customers? Would the SEC be following the money as it moved from the edge of the stage to the middle of the bosom (or other places too risque to go into here)?
1900 You Sing
Ad… Guy in a shower with various accoutrements of a recording studio in
it with him…
“Don’t just sing in the shower, record an album”
Ad… Woman in a car in traffic, in car is recording gear, backup singers
in the back seat, maybe a producer up front?
“Don’t just sing in traffic, record an album”
Set up a 1900 number where people can call, choose from a list of songs
and then have the actual songs, with lyrics play as they sing along. They
then get a chance to 1) listen to their recording, 2) order a cd, 3)
record another. Their vocal tracks are added to the karaoke tracks to
make a finished recording. It would then be available for download (for a
fee?) or on a cd.
Great pitch is to people hosting parties… they put their drunk friends
onto the service so they have actual evidence of the karaoke to use
against them.
Ad… “Your friends dragged you to Karaoke and proceeded to butcher ‘Love
is a Battlefield’ and you had nothing to show for your pain. Now you can
get the evidence in all its horror on CD or as an .mp3. Simply offer
1-900-Your-Song to your friends the next time they have the itch to sing
along.”