Reverend
August 17th, 2005, 23:07 PM
If you happened to be at a Hooter's in Pittsburgh recently and saw a waitress with a large temporary tattoo on her forehead, you have Alex Fisher to thank for it.
Fisher is the brain behind Lease Your Body (http://leaseyourbody.com/main.php), a Miami start-up aiming to make a mint by hooking up good-looking people willing to rent out space on their bodies with advertisers in search of a way to get some attention.
And Sarah Dee, the Hooter's waitress, is serving as a one-woman spokeswoman for the company.
"I guess it attracts attention more than anything else would because people look at you like, 'I wonder why she has that tattoo on her head,'" Dee said. "But after I talk to them, they think it's a neat idea."
Fisher said he got the idea for Lease Your Body after seeing the media attention one woman got when she auctioned off on eBay the right to buy space for a real tattoo on her forehead. That woman, Karolyne Smith, ended up getting $10,000 from GoldenPalace.com.
"I thought, why not make a company where advertisers can find thousands of people and pay a lot less money to do this kind of advertising?" Fisher said.
:story: Full Story: c|net (http://news.com.com/For+rent+Your+forehead+for+5%2C000/2100-1024_3-5837180.html)
Fisher is the brain behind Lease Your Body (http://leaseyourbody.com/main.php), a Miami start-up aiming to make a mint by hooking up good-looking people willing to rent out space on their bodies with advertisers in search of a way to get some attention.
And Sarah Dee, the Hooter's waitress, is serving as a one-woman spokeswoman for the company.
"I guess it attracts attention more than anything else would because people look at you like, 'I wonder why she has that tattoo on her head,'" Dee said. "But after I talk to them, they think it's a neat idea."
Fisher said he got the idea for Lease Your Body after seeing the media attention one woman got when she auctioned off on eBay the right to buy space for a real tattoo on her forehead. That woman, Karolyne Smith, ended up getting $10,000 from GoldenPalace.com.
"I thought, why not make a company where advertisers can find thousands of people and pay a lot less money to do this kind of advertising?" Fisher said.
:story: Full Story: c|net (http://news.com.com/For+rent+Your+forehead+for+5%2C000/2100-1024_3-5837180.html)