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Old 08-23-2010, 12:04 AM
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Smile Profiting from the Melle Alizée Bis experiment

The now-closed Facebook account called Melle Alizée Bis, at which place Alizée at one time acknowledged reading messages which fans posted to her there, suggests a revenue opportunity.

It did not take long for fans to start making numerous posts there, and often of the most trivial and silly nature.

The problem of "spam" reared its head as soon as the very first types of no-cost electronic messaging emerged. A solution I offered then is now practical to implement and can be a useful way to monetize celebrity.


Here's how it works. If you want to send Alizée a message to read, you go to the AlizéeStore and select a new messaging service. You pay three Euros via PayPal and then you are given a text-entry field of "tweet"-size in which to enter your message. When you are done, you click a "Send" button and your message is dispatched.

All messages are previewed by a staff member, who discards those which are rude and forwards to Alizée those which are civil. Within a week (or is it a month?) Alizée reads the message and responds in one of two ways, to verify she has seen what you have written. Most of the time, the message is of no deep interest to her, and she responds to your "Two Cents" message with a PayPal payment of two centi Euros. But sometimes, she is delighted to receive your message, in which case she uses PayPal to send you two Euros.

One can argue about the exact money amounts, but I think this could prove to be a system which can appeal to everybody.
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