Comments on: The Bigfoot press conference and the art of selling a website

The alleged Bigfoot finders proved themselves masters of selling their website at their Palo Alto press conference.

[vivalaroma]

For a quintessentially "technically incorrect" approach w.r.t. the art of selling a website, check out "A slice of the mother's day market within easy reach" at http://trak.in/discuss/ and the comments-with-blinders at the auction site...

[txdeveloper]

Too bad the website is so heinous! They should have included a professional developer in that rockin' business plan!

[cnetblog]

All it takes to figure out how to create online business model that generarates revenue is to call companies who do that (like http://www.attention.cc/) for example - they even tell you on 1st page how to do it. So it is not that hard - what is hard is to get FREE traffic. And this is what bigfoot story does - creates FREE traffic that still has to be converted and monetized. Comparisons to volumes of facebook and youtube.com are amusing but very far reaching.

[antwawn]

The bigfoot they found was actually killed by a famous British hunter: http://tinyurl.com/5n82gx

[richiemgood]

BIgfoot? Where would you like me to put that bigfoot? OK, think about that a little. As for me ( http://www.currentnewsonline.com/2008/08/14/chupacabra-caught-on-tape/ ) . . . I'm going with the chupacabra story. . . . Bigfoot is 'so five minutes ago'. . . . Like I say, nessie is next ( psst ) pass it on.

[caw23]

Interesting take but poor reporting Chris (unless you're using their hats as a metaphor.) I agree this is clever marketing but apparently you didn't actually bother to even read their hats from the presser or notice they wore none on Countdown so the hats apparently didn't do them THAT much good.

[ChrisMatyszczyk]

Oh, I try not to do reporting, caw23....and I was, indeed, being allegorical.

However, just for you, I have amended the above to reflect what was actually on their hats. And yes, I know they didn't wear the hats on MSNBC, but I quite clearly say it was their words that enhanced the beautiful and spiritual intentions of their hats.

Sigh. I've already bought my cap. Haven't you?

Chris

[GuyBlaise]

All is a pure fabrication. As the Bangala of Congo say,?The lie can go upstairs taking the elevator. However, the truth that takes the stairs also gets there.?
http://guyblaise.com/

[ChrisMatyszczyk]

Guy,

That is a great quote. You will see it again in print one day.....

Thank you for that.

Chris

[Kreuzer33]

$24.99 for a hat! Man, I am in the wrong business!!

http://kreuzer33.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/bigfoot-press-conference-revealsnothing/

[redwoodcoast]

Want real proof that Bigfoot lives? Watch this video shot in the Northern Calfornia redwoods this week. The L.A. Times calls it much more credible than the Georgia claim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p22BGJ6dXU

[redwoodcoast]

Want real proof that Bigfoot lives? Watch this video shot in the Northern Calfornia redwoods this week. The L.A. Times calls it much more credible than the Georgia claim. Go to YouTube [dot] com [slash] redwoodcoaster

[t26l]

Unfazed. It's "unfazed," Mr. Professional Journalist, not (aargh) "unphased."

[ChrisMatyszczyk]

Ah, t261,

How lovely of you to comment. Are you familiar with the concept of dual nationality?
Here is an article from my hometown newspaper from today. Hope this helps to explain my sometime international flights of fancy:
http://www.birminghampost.net/midlands-birmingham-sport/west-midlands-sports/wolves-fc/2008/07/06/jody-craddock-unphased-by-arrival-of-stearman-at-molineux-65233-21272064/

[taxonomyst]

Yeah! And at least "analization" creates an interesting picture of what they should do with their so-called evidence, but "unphased" merely makes the writer sound ignorant.

[HAL 9K]

"Faze" vs. "phase"...

While it's true that there are regional (continental) variations in English
spelling, each considered correct within context (such as "color" vs.
"colour"), this is not one of those cases.

The verb "faze" [http://Middle English fesen, to drive away, frighten, from Old English f?sian.|http://Middle English fesen, to drive away, frighten, from Old English f?sian.]
has a different meaning, etymology and spelling from the verb "phase" [Greek phasis,
appearance].

This is true no matter what side of the ocean you may call home. Anyone who says
"phased" for "fazed" is simply in need of an education.

[franglais--2008]

Really, their website is abominable ! Have they heard of variable width tables? Or as another poster suggested, hiring a pro?
And they're being offered teaching positions in a Business School?!
Blimey!

[ezdate123]

well if bigfoot is real I am sure he would be using ezdate123 to find a mate... The forest can be pretty difficult to find that special someone since we have spent all these years and still have not found one bigfoot either dead or alive, Mike/ezdate123

[ezdate123]

if he had any real photos he could sell them on a photo site like royalty free stock photo gallery and make some real money.....But as we all know this is just a big hoax....what a shame....

[davet210]

"unfazed"

[ChrisMatyszczyk]

Please see my reply to t261.

Chris

[roonskapper]

Well lets set the record straight, Dyer and Whitton have their own website @ bigfoottracker.com, Searchingforbigfoot.com is tom biscardi's website and has been for YEARS, and he has always sold hats and other bigfoot related items! So maybe before you jump on the bigfoot hater wagon you should do some background research.

[seeingeyeseesall]

This is what we get when Britney takes her lithium and keeps her panties on...

[CrabbyGolightly]

Crabby speculates that this latest discovery might have had something to do with the million dollar reward offered in June by binocular manufacturer Bushnell and Field & Stream magazine. The two companies offered the joint reward to anyone who can "provide an unaltered photograph/video, verified and substantiated by a panel of scientific experts [including a zoologist and biologist], the evidence required to prove a Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Yeti exists."

But as LiveScience's "bad science columnist" points out, "This is, of course, a marketing promotion and not a genuine search for Bigfoot. There's no way to authenticate a Bigfoot photograph by itself; the image is simply a two-dimensional pattern of pixels. To truly prove a Bigfoot exists, you'd need corroborating hard evidence like a body, teeth, or bones."

Crabby predicts that today we will definitively learn one thing: where we can buy"Bigfoot for President" t-shirts.
CrabbyGolightly.com

[ChrisMatyszczyk]

Crabby,

Welcome. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance and see that you bring us fine, interesting information.

I am also delighted that you are not objecting to my dreadfully anglicized spelling of 'unphased.'

Chris

[propwash44]

I concur that their assertion that the DNA is in for ANALization (the proper term is ANALYSIS) is indeed hilarious, but I suggest that the writer double-check the applicability of the term "phased" as used in this report. The correct (and more appropriate) word is FAZED, as in "they weren't FAZED..."
Look it up in your Funk & Wagnalls.

These dudes are just doing what they should....PT Barnum describes this situation best.

dj

[ChrisMatyszczyk]

Oh, propwash44,

I explained to several commenters above, that, being of dual citizenship, I am allowed to use anglicisms occasionally.

really. please let me.

Chris

[ganderhook]

BIGFOOT is alive and well. He roams the hills of Southern Ohio and visits our hunt club very often and sacks out in our guest cabin. To see, click on lazyshuntclub.blogspot.com