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| Subject: Funny: Rent a friend Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:01 pm | |
| A new website will allow Australians to hire platonic friends for “endless possibilities” with one caveat: no physical contact allowed.
Friends For Hire will open its doors to pre-registered members on March 22, after a three-month, full-time development effort by Queensland communications agency Wildside Group.
Co-founder and managing partner Josh Blundell declined to disclose costs of the project but said he and business partner Jackson Hogan had invested “a lot of time and money” into it, including costs of a three-person web development team, and marketing campaigns on Gumtree, Facebook and Craigslist.
Friends For Hire divides users into two categories: “friends” who may charge up to $60 an hour for their company, and “members” who pay the friends directly as well as a $5 weekly membership fee to the website.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/culture/now-you-can-rent-a-friend-should-you-20140310-34hlt.html#ixzz2vnQiZoMt |
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