Is there any point bothering with this?

[shave]

Hi, first of all this isnt an advert or anything, just a genuine question. Me and some friends recently created a website where for a certain price an advertiser can place a banner on our site (same old story blah blah blah:redface and just to add some randomness :| one of us would cut off a hair everytime a banner was posted and we'd update with photos. However, we're not sure if we're charging correctly or if this is an idea we should even bother following. Anyway any feedback would be welcome. The website can be found if you search for 'expensive shave' on google - should be the 2nd one down. Sorry if the last part sounded like spam (its not). Cheers

 

[Ernest Andy]

About the hair cutting idea. It doesn't have any real benefit or even perceived benefit for the consumer (advertiser) so I wouldn't think they would be interested.
Unless i'm missing something? Sorry if I'm being a killjoy.

 

[omnivore]

Hi, first of all this isnt an advert or anything, just a genuine question. Me and some friends recently created a website where for a certain price an advertiser can place a banner on our site (same old story blah blah blah:redface and just to add some randomness :| one of us would cut off a hair everytime a banner was posted and we'd update with photos. However, we're not sure if we're charging correctly or if this is an idea we should even bother following. Anyway any feedback would be welcome. The website can be found if you search for 'expensive shave' on google - should be the 2nd one down. Sorry if the last part sounded like spam (its not). Cheers

who would search for `expensive shave`? sounds like a very unlikely source of useful traffic. unless your idea gained a lot of media exposure (not very likely) then the traffic that the advertiser would enjoy would be rather tiny i would guess

 

[Mike W]

I'm sort of with the other guys. Not a lot of point and no-one's going to be searching.

The only way this kind of thing might work is a) if it was being done for charity, and b) you got the local papers involved.

 

[LicensedToTrade]

Is this based on the success of Alex Tew (Million Dollar Pixel)?

Unfortunately you are many many years too late. You need to come up with something a lot more ground breaking to attract advertisers. If it isn't bizarre enough to hit the national newspapers then your success will be limited.

 

[The Topcopy]

You have about 100,000 hairs on your head. And we all lose about 100 hairs a day naturally.

I'd not be too excited about getting you to shave off ten of them, sorry!

 

[Mike W]

You have about 100,000 hairs on your head. And we all lose about 100 hairs a day naturally.

I'd not be too excited about getting you to shave off ten of them, sorry!

You mean a 10% increase on the norm wouldn't do it for you?

Hmmm... back to drawing board methinks ...baldly going where no man would dare to go.

 

[Experienced IT guy]

Expensive sends the message that its going to be expensive to me and therefore not any real value. I think its going to go down the plughole with all the other hairs we loose when we wash our hair. Simple answer: No

 

[Sarah Harvey]

I think the idea is to be similar like the one guy on youtube that buys an iPhone and then smash it to pieces in the shop with a hammer. Brings in a lot of publicity for that guy and he has companies sponsoring him now.

It's still viral marketing in it's best form. Do something weird and wacky, draw attention to yourself and companies fall all over themselves to buy a piece of you to advertise their product or service.