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		<title>Lawn Sign Fiasco Revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen those lawn signs around your city that say something like &#8220;Single? SanDiegoSingles.com&#8221; or something similar? I certainly have seen them everywhere. I have been very interested in how this company&#8217;s model works and how successful it has &#8230; <a href="http://www.dylanbutler.com/2008/11/lawn-sign-fiasco-revealed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you seen those lawn signs around your city that say something like &#8220;Single? SanDiegoSingles.com&#8221; or something similar? I certainly have seen them everywhere. I have been very interested in how this company&#8217;s model works and how successful it has been thus far. Apparently they are pulling in a &#8220;solid six figure&#8221; revenue. I am no expert in guerrilla marketing or the matchmaking business, but I imagine it can get interesting and quite lucrative. After all, they aren&#8217;t really selling anything but opportunity. I&#8217;m more interested into the legal implications of a business model that relies massive scale print marketing (involving signs that are often placed illegally). Apparently not much has been done by way of stopping them, although I wonder if a company sponsoring gross illegal sign placement is guilty of more than hundreds of thousands of &#8220;petty crimes&#8221;? Well, Robert Moore didn&#8217;t touch on that aspect of it but he did <a href="http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2008/11/06/single-lawn-signs-conquer-the-american-landscape/">break it down every other way possible</a>, with great graphics to boot! Definitely a great read about one man&#8217;s insightful modern investigation. Update: Tim Williams has posted <a href="http://www.dylanbutler.com/2008/11/lawn-sign-fiasco-revealed/#comment-475">more information</a> about the prosecution of this company.<br />
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