Putty Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 Anyone of us with web knowledge could have done this..... http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet. Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels, the tiny dots on the screen that appear when you call up his home page. He had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page, called, logically enough, http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/, while lying in bed thinking out how he would pay for university. The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A 10 by 10 dot square, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $100. He sold a few to his brothers and some friends, and when he had made $1,000, he issued a press release. That was picked up by the news media, spread around the Internet, and soon advertisers for everything from dating sites to casinos to real estate agents to The Times of London were putting up real cash for pixels, with links to their own sites. So far they have bought up 911,800 pixels. Tew's home page now looks like an online Times Square, festooned with a multi-colored confetti of ads. "All the money's kind of sitting in a bank account," Tew told Reuters from his home in Wiltshire, southwest England. "I've treated myself to a car. I've only just passed my driving test so I've bought myself a little black mini." The site features testimonials from advertisers, some of whom bought spots as a lark, only to discover that they were receiving actual valuable Web hits for a fraction of the cost of traditional Internet advertising. Meanwhile Tew has had to juggle running the site with his first term at university, where he is studying business. "It's been quite a difficulty trying to balance going to lectures and doing the site," he said. But he may not have to study for long. Job offers have been coming in from Internet companies impressed by a young man who managed to figure out an original way to make money online. "I didn't expect it to happen like that," Tew said. "To have the job offers and approaches from investors -- the whole thing is kind of surreal. I'm still in a state of disbelief." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
black00ws6 Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 start the 10milliondollarhomepage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wnaplay1647545503 Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 I believe a guy bought a new ferrari and did basically the same thing to pay for the car. He sold of 1 inch squares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowZ06 Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 I'm going to make one for 50 cents per pixel. Beat me to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coty061885 Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 There's a similar page out there, but the money made from it goes to hurricane relief. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88lx5oh Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 smashmyviper.com same deal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lustalbert Posted December 30, 2005 Report Share Posted December 30, 2005 Mine will be Brian relief One expensinve one, or lots of cheaper hookers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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