Dave's Business Ideas That Stunk

[Von Halen]

I read yesterday, that Dave lost $7 million on this venture gone wrong.

[Vinnie Velvet]

Apparently Tony Iommi is coming out with his own cologne. No joke.

[DFVH5150]

Not that I have a tattoo, but that sucks for Dave. My girlfriend has a couple so I did buy one for her.

He was selling cologne? I would've bought some. Was that through INK?

[Seshmeister]

Most people try and become rock stars so they don't have to work, maybe becoming a tequila salesman doesn't interest him.

Not everyone cares about having $60 million in the bank instead of $30 million. Those LLCs would only have cost him a few hundred $s each, it's pocket change.

[Vinnie Velvet]

Dave is an interesting guy and lot's of attention getting potential there but no effort made. Rick Nielsen owns a pizza joint in Chicago and does a great job promoting it using his quirky personality and just selling the product which is a great thin crust pizza in a deep dish town. It's called being in the game. You can't do business half assed.

Exactly.

"1980s Dave" can be a hot seller in itself. People, heck a lot of young people, marvel at him on all those old videos and concerts. He can push a lot of that onto anything and people will eat it up.

But he doesn't. Not sure why.

[Nitro Express]

Every celeb has a hot sauce.
Or a barbeque sauce.
Or a clothing line.
Or an alcohol line.
Or a perfume.
Or a podcast.

Celeb endorsements have become so ubiquitous as to be meaningless.

Yup. A few do a good job at marketing their stuff. Our daughter came home to visit with a bunch of friends and the bathroom was full of Gwen Stefani makeup. She must be doing ok.

[Nitro Express]

Dave should've hired people to do all the marketing for him and have him just be the approval guy. I actually thought he did have people do that for his tattoo cream.

But he didnt use his own celeb cred to help market it. Maybe it would've moved sales big time had he attached his name and likeness to the product. Ads for it could have used old footage of Roth doing his acrobatic feats from the old days including the famous mountain climbing footage from Skyscraper.

Dave is an interesting guy and lot's of attention getting potential there but no effort made. Rick Nielsen owns a pizza joint in Chicago and does a great job promoting it using his quirky personality and just selling the product which is a great thin crust pizza in a deep dish town. It's called being in the game. You can't do business half assed.

[Nitro Express]

Here's my VH Mailbox.


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Too bad your address isn't 5150.

[Vinnie Velvet]

Dave should've hired people to do all the marketing for him and have him just be the approval guy. I actually thought he did have people do that for his tattoo cream.

But he didnt use his own celeb cred to help market it. Maybe it would've moved sales big time had he attached his name and likeness to the product. Ads for it could have used old footage of Roth doing his acrobatic feats from the old days including the famous mountain climbing footage from Skyscraper.

[Von Halen]

Here's my VH Mailbox.


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[ZahZoo]

I believe frog motif mailboxes would be a very limited market...

WVH wouldn't allow the striped pattern even though Dave invented it...

[FORD]

Maybe Dave should sell Van Halen mailboxes??

[Terry]

Every celeb has a hot sauce.
Or a barbeque sauce.
Or a clothing line.
Or an alcohol line.
Or a perfume.
Or a podcast.

Celeb endorsements have become so ubiquitous as to be meaningless.

[Nitro Express]

Bass Sobowleski sells a mean hot mustard sauce. That’s worth buying.

[Nitro Express]

Outdoor sports are huge now. Tattoos are big. I see a bunch of tatted up people here doing all the outdoors stuff. Dave could have sold them some product but they didn’t know about it.