Ideal Job Crashes Site

Yesterday, it was mentioned on various sites (including this one) that the ‘best job in the world‘ was taking applications. It seems that this caught the interest of many people. There were so many people that the site crashed:

“…”We’ve been inundated, with around 300,000 people visiting the site yesterday,” said a spokeswoman for the Queensland state government, which is offering the six-month post of “island caretaker”.

“The website crashed — in one hour alone 25,000 people were trying to visit — but we’re working on it and it should be up and running again later today,” Nicole McNaughton told AFP.”

link: Rush for ‘best job in world’ crashes Australian website

It is wonderful marketing. The site has world wide press coverage, without a fee. And certainly, the lucky person will receive enormous publicity which will be ideal for marketing Australian tourism. Whatever the job pays for the island caretaker and the cost of the web site, the dollars have been well spent.

Catherine Forsythe