I have often seen people put fake hiring ads in an attempt to get more exposure for their company. It was a little interesting though to see that people are doing the same when it comes to looking for things like partners or investors where they aren’t really looking for any kind of a collaboration as opposed to simply a way to get people to look at them.
This feels more like an immediate gratification type of tactic which I suppose it could work in certain scenarios. In some ways though it just reminds me of people doing anything to get thousands of visitors with no real plan to get qualified traffic or strategy to convert them into say a customer. Isn’t that what it is all about in the end in terms of getting someone to take action? I can only imagine how greater the negative impact could be too when people find out that these types of advertisements aren’t legitimate.