Being photographed by the paparazzi was once an (often dubious) honour bestowed only on the rich and famous, but today a new service is bringing the possibility to every consumer.
So starts a story over at Unusual Business Ideas That Work (one of our favourite sites). You can read the whole story by clicking on the link above. However, for those of you too busy to click, we can summarise it as follows:
These guys will follow you around – for a fee – and snap candid pictures of you.
On the face of it, this is a very unlikely business indeed. But, in fact, this is just tapping into the same desire that leads people to buy fake goods. We all know the Fendi handbag, for 10 Euros, won’t last as long, or be as good as the real thing, but it doesn’t matter.
So, what other “problems” do celebrities suffer from, that might actually provide good business opportunities?
