Monday, December 15, 2008

New Trade Lead Oppty

Pres. Bush dodging a protester's shoes has now been viewed worldwide, and will be iconic. Expect people to hold up a shoe when a politician is bloviating on the stump, or when some official is laying down a line of manure. I am looking forward to a means to silently protest when in the presence of politicians. Especially now that there is talk that the billionaires who lost money in the Madoff scam may be compensated by the taxpayers. (Will your retirement account or pension be made whole by the taxpayers?)

A product that would probably do well would be a very lightweight (styrofoam?) shoe on a flexible post that can be attached to a car, or even just the automobile antenna. As people drive down the street others will know the driver is protesting official politics.

I would carefully follow the gameplan here, enough orders to cover suppliers minimum and then do frequency because this IS an item that will get copied quickly (or more likely plenty of others have thought of it too...)

Still, for someone in the novelty biz, this is an easy home run...


1 comments:

Unknown said...

John,

GREAT idea. Have to come up with a funny name for that shoe.....Not quite the shoe bomber, Richard Reid.

Tim Howes