Another Swine Flu Money-Maker
As a followup to Rich’s earlier post about making money from the swine flu, here’s the story (in his own words) of how one fast acting entrepreneur went from an idea a few H1N1 related t-shirt designs to being profiled Forbes magazine in under a week:
Last Monday, the 27th of April, I noticed the increasing media hype surrounding the swine flu. Not a minute passed where every major news station mentioned swine flu and its inevitable destruction of humanity. I thought it’d be interesting to see what would happen if i whipped up some cheesy shirt designs and sold the shirts online. So I did. At the very least, it would be an interesting learning experience. I booted up Photoshop/Illustrator, created the designs, uploaded them to http://www.spreadshirt.com, and deployed my store – Flu Shirts. Ok great. I had these shirts for sale, but no one knew they existed. I needed to get attention.
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