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Starting a Scam Social Media Marketing Company (ianalyst.com)

from Bastard Radio | The Tim Dillon Show #372 · #372

2 min

Tim tells the story of helping a friend start a social media marketing scam company out of a WeWork-style space, ripping off businesses for years with no real expertise, using an unpaid NYU intern, under the name ianalyst.com.

In this bit8 moments
  • Tim admires startup entrepreneurs who choose to work in offices by the Freedom Tower for inspiration rather than from home.
  • Old women working alone in those phone booth pods, piled with papers, are experiencing menopause and life change.
  • Tim helped a friend launch a social media marketing company out of a WeWork-type space in the East Village years ago.
  • The company's business plan was to sell social media marketing packages to businesses despite Tim and his partner not knowing how to use social media.
  • They called up businesses and ripped them off, starting the company without any actual expertise in what they were selling.
  • The operation relied on an unpaid NYU intern named Merck, an autistic kid with terrible skin, to handle all the accounts while having no clue what he was doing.
  • Tim's scam company successfully ripped people off for two or three years.
  • Tim attempts to verify whether ianalyst.com is still operating online.
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