Sometimes business and industry has a sense of humor.
Sometimes it is even intended:
From Jane Wells at CNBC:
America runs on bacon, and so does this motorcycle
Hormel has created a custom motorcycle that runs on 100 percent refined bacon grease. The bike is part of a marketing effort to promote Hormel's Black Label brand, and an entire story around the marketing stunt from ad agency BBDO can be found at BaconBike.com.
Why a bacon bike?
"It was more like, 'Why wouldn't you do that?'" said Steve Venenga, Hormel VP of new products marketing. "I mean, it was such a great idea."
Now here is an entrepreneur with a vision:
A new way to join the 'Mile High Club' (for a fee)
People do a lot of crazy things when they go to Las Vegas. Andy Johnson is counting on that. Johnson has created Love Cloud Vegas, an airline where people pay to go airborne so they can join the "Mile High Club."
And hints and tips from a master salesperson:
Cold, hard business lessons from a Girl Scout
You think selling Girl Scout cookies is easy? Well, of course it's easy. They're delicious.
But selling more than 21,000 boxes? That's an art. The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, apparently.
In a hilarious parody video created by Mashable, the very real 12-year-old Katie Francis of Oklahoma City reveals her strategy for selling the most cookies in Girl Scout history.
The video starts sweetly enough, as the sixth-grader announces that she recently broke the old record "by selling 21,477 boxes of Girl Scout cookies." Her secret?
Play hardball.