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GetOnTheShelf.com Walmart American Idol-like Contest for Entrepreneurs
Looks like Wal-Mart.com might be the next best place to get the publicity that you are craving for your new product. Can’t seem to get the amount of sales that you hoped for when you invented your first gadget? Wal-Mart might be able to help with that as they announce today they are running a contest to help inventors and entrepreneurs get virtual shelf space at Walmart.com.
The contest, called “Get on the Shelf”, will be run similar to American Idol. The top products will be voted on by the public, at GetontheShelf.com and the top voted product will get “shelf” space on the largest retailers website. Having a contest like this is pretty much opposite of how Wal-Mart typically picks products for their stores. Giving product owners just one hour to wow the Wal-Mart buyers and give reasons why their product would be bought by shoppers.
“For a long time, the ability to get a product into a retail store was at the sole discretion of the store buyer,” said Venky Harinarayan, senior vice president of Wal-Mart’s global e-commerce unit. ”Today we are removing these barriers by giving anyone the chance to launch their product at Wal-Mart and reach millions of shoppers nationwide,” he said. [source]
Any resident of the United States that would like to get their product on the Walmart.com website should submit their product by Feb. 22nd. The first round of public voting will go from March 7th to April 4th and will narrow the field down to 10 finalists. The second round of voting will go from April 11th to April 24th to determine the top three winners.
From that point Wal-Mart will offer assistance that is needed with production, etc in order to get the amount of stocked merchandise the website could potentially sell. After the initial offering, Wal-Mart will decide whether or not the product will be sold on the Wal-Mart website again.
Americas Next Top Model News & Blog
It looks like one of our favorite TV shows is back for another season! America’s Next Top Model Cycle 12 begins this week (on Wednesday) with a 2 hour show. From the looks of some of the news that I have read, this cycle is all about the shorties.
Yup, the show is going to be models that are all under 5 foot 7 inches tall. That should be something different since most models are quite a bit taller than your average joe. If you want to read more, you can just take a look at the official website of ANTM. There you will find information about the cast, crew and even little trivia about past cycles.
If you think you are a ANTM pro, you can test your knowledge with a little quiz or game right on the website. Enjoy and stay tuned to ANTMtalk.com for more news and information regarding cycle 13.
More Recent Bigfoot Sightings
I was talking today with a friend or two today about recent reports that a body of bigfoot has been found. One said that it was a hoax and the other wasn’t real sure what the story actually was. After a quick search of the internet (of course I used Google), I found many more stories and reports about an alleged body of bigfoot.
According to the CNN web site the bigfoot body is a hoax and they even have a video of the two men defending their claims (big surprise). It all appears to be some sort of “need something to do this weekend?” hoax, and I think the same, but who really knows?
Do you know how much of the worlds forest is undiscovered?
$14 Million for Baby Pictures?
I was just reading some of the headlines on MSN.com and I noticed a title alleging the amount that a specific magazine is willing to pay for the rights to pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s twins. Have you seen this article yet?
According to the article, People has partnered up with Hello magazine to split the $14 million dollar bill for rights to photos of the new twins. That is nuts. The first thing I thought was “what do you tell your children if they ask later in life”? I guess they won’t really care since they will have more money than they need and a million other distractions in their day.
I started to wonder if that was the most that was ever paid for baby photos and proceeded to do a normal Google Search. According to this list on MSNBC.com, the Pitt Jolie twins are on the top. I think that is pretty remarkable and of course the fact that Pitt and Jolie will donate every penny to a charity is even better!