Somali Pirates – A Franchise Opportunity?
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If you’re thinking of starting a business why not consider a Somali Pirate Franchise?
A couple of days ago, I heard a BBC foreign correspondent talking about how her daughter phoned the Somali pirates – which ended up with the entire edition of the Now Show being, more or less, devoted to jokes about Somali Pirates. (Yes I listen to Radio 4!)
Now I am not being flippant here but one of the things that really gets a business underway – and particularly a new start business- is publicity. It’s really hard to get yet those Somali Pirates have had it in spades! (Should that be ‘buckets and spades’?…no stop).
What would you have to give to get this kind of coverage for your business? Which brings me to the serious bit: if you are London-based or in easy reach of the media you get lots of coverage and lots of business. Anywhere else and you’re struggling – unless you’re prepared to resort to piracy on the high seas.
Actually I am getting quite cross about this. I reckon the only businesses the media are interested in are in South East England or BBC orientated – so in the next few weeks we will put the media under the microscope.
In the meantime let me know how you get your message across. You can phone…. or email us.
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I totally agree with the comment about the media
I live in the midlands and trying to get media coverage for my business is like pulling teeth.
Yet, if I lived in one the ‘zones’ that is geared for goverment grants I would get all the covrage needed.
This has really grabbed my attention.
Okay, my story. I am an artist in St Ives. Immediately before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, I was painting the jazz street musicians – my response to my view of life in The French Quarter. Fortunately, I was able to evacuate with my complete body of work.
Last year, I had a gallery for the summer months. I also joined Second Life, a virutal world, where I managed the newly created Blue Horizon Gallery. I created canvases of my work, hung them on the gallery walls, had links to my own website, New Orleans live radio playing in the background.
Now the launch of this virtual gallery, was held in my real life gallery. Both galleries had large plasmas screens. The avatars, being controlled by their real persona from all around the world, were able to watch us in the real gallery, and those of us in the real gallery, were able to watch the avatars, and ourselves on the plasma screen, in the virtual gallery. How cool is that? But that is not all. Both the real and virtual gallery launch, was played on a plasma screen at Ronnie Scotts VIP Lounge, in London.
This was the first launch, of its kind, ever, and created quite a stir and the press release was sent out to more than 1200 media sources.
I sold work from my website which was wonderful, but the best part was selling my virtual prints, to avatars, to hang on their virtual walls, paid to me in pounds sterling. That is what you call, money for nothing!!!