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1. admin
   Key Master
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   The latest entrepreneurial venture in the recession has arrived:
   
   http://billboardfamily.com/
   
   Where to begin?
   
   via AdRants.com:
   
   Carl and Amy Martin, along with their two children Layne and Kaitlyn, are selling themselves to advertisers. The family has launched The Billboard Family, an offering that allows advertisers to own the Martin's lives.
   
   For advertisers who buy in, the Martin family will wear a brand's t-shirt "all day long, taking loads of photos and videos. We then promote your company online on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and our Website, as well as to all of the many people who ask us why we are all wearing the same shirts."
   
   And like others of its ilk, the cost for a brand to participate increases as the year goes on. No brand has bought in yet but stranger things have happened.
   
   It's one thing for a guy to sell his wardrobe or his forehead or hot chick to sell her body but for a family to sell themselves...and their kids. We're just not sure about this one.
   
   What are your thoughts? Sound of in the comments section below.

2. robstathem
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Exactly Brad and Noam. I find this very odd. Also, wouldn't you want your own staff representing your company as opposed to some random family you've never met? This is just too strange.

3. Anonymous
   
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   well I guess I can say, where there's a will there's a way ^^

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4. simont
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I have seen the concept before and it was quirky. However, seeing a family embrace it like this just causes me concern that the children are, at some level, being exploited for parental gain.

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5. Agustin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Reading the comments of the new at AdRants, Carl Martin writes all the children do is to wear t-shirts. If he says the truth, is this exploitation? I don't think so. In my opinion the problem could be what sponsor they accept.

   Maybe I'm wrong, or I haven't read something, but they aren't selling themselves. At their website they are offering to do certain jobs.

   I only wonder how all of this will affect those children life.

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6. ypstars
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #
   

   It may be difficult to imagine, but pouring juice into a plastic mug can be a great challenge to a robot. While one hand holds the aluminum water bottle firmly, the other one must gently grasp the cup. House of Deputies late on Wednesday, paving the way for beer to be sold in plastic cups inside the venues.

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