The mini-revival of dotcom mania is in full swing. Even The Guardian printed a student entrepreneur story yesterday. A month ago the “bedroom boffin” (as has probably already been described by his local newspaper) had an idea that’s turned out to be a cleverer than it looks on paper. Alex Tew’s milliondollarhomepage sells off space by the pixel on a single collective hoarding/billboard. Each piece of screen real estate links to its purchaser’s own site. He won’t take porn ads, but doesn’t seem to have any moral problems with the ubiquitous Golden Palace Casino. Some advertisers put up their logos; others are more cryptic; some are plain stupid. I had no problem resisting the temptation of a banner carrying the illiterate brag “I’M RICH, YOUR NOT”, but had to click on a tiny blue blob marked with the word “song” to reach its target, a page that streams a not-unpleasant ditty by
a Gloucester band called Ghosting, delivered in an Athlete pretending-to-talk-to-my-mates-dahn-the-pub vocal.
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Check out http://www.PixelAds4All.com – they offer a FREE 100 by 100 pixel “tool tip image” with the purchase of your ad, which acts like a billboard for your site! They are also currently offering their pixels for 50% off, or $50 USD for a 100 pixel block.
Okay, PooterGeekers, do I delete the comment above, or let it live? It is, after all, relevant and you’ve got to admire Christian’s chutzpah.
Yes, but he’s a bad christian!
You should send him a few 9mm fully jacketed packets, to block up his network port.
My hat goes off to Alex Tew, he certainly found a unique idea to sell ad space. I actually took his idea one step further… selling ad space by the BYTE! There are so many “pixel pushers” out there now that I needed to put a spin on the pixel advertising concept. Check out http://www.buckabyte.com
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[…] Back in September I picked up on Alex Tew’s milliondollarhomepage idea of selling advertising space by the pixel. Just as he planned, he’s approaching dollar millionairehood. […]
I feel sorry for anyone who looks at a successful business model and concludes “people are stupid” instead of “wow, that guy was smart”.
[…] Okay, people. I’ve got a new business model here. It’s very Web 2.0. It’s very post-marketing. Basically, okay?, people with per-pixel advertising Websites pay me money per letter to add their comments to the others from all the other dollar-millionaire wannabes who’ve already left theirs behind on my Alex Tew posts. I think it’s got legs. […]
I am happy for Mr Tew.
Anyway I think PIXELS SUCK!
Oh yeah, I’m the milliondollarhomepage opposite!!
Take a look here and you will agree:
http://www.pixelssuck.com
Check out this new concept, a variation of milliondollarhomepage:
http://www.pixelauctionhomepage.net
The highest bidder gets the top ad space with 400×300 pixels.
If I was the kind of person who bought pixel ads, and let me stress I’m not because it’s so untargeted, I might go for something like companybattleships.com which seems to have some quite nice programming behind it and is doing well on Google for “pixels for sale”.
Australia asks Devon Designer for Help
Devon internet businessman and web designer Alan Wheeler has launched an innovative web advertising service which has already attracted an international company to sign up.
Bovey Tracey based Mr Wheeler has also been asked by Australian charity ‘Hope for Children’ to help them design and set up a similar web-based advertising service.
His web-service http://www.millionairepixels.co.uk enables businesses to buy a square of pixels, on the web page. Customers click on the coloured pixels and are immediately transported to the advertiser’s web site.
With each block of 100 pixels costing just £60 (60p per unit) it is, believes Mr Wheeler, one of the best value advertising and promotion options for businesses of all sizes and a potentially valuable boost to tourism related services.
And, in the longer term, advertisers could end up bidding for space on what is being described as internet ‘real estate’.
Mr Wheeler, aged 42, said “It’s a quick and easy way for people to find a service or firm and it also gives competitive advantage to the businesses because, with the millions of web sites available, this will draw potential customers to them much more easily.”
“Without a doubt there are people globally willing to pay for quite gimmicky advertising solutions. The internet is a fast moving place with over eight million web pages added on a daily basis. For a website to stand out and generate sales it needs to stand out from the rest,” he added
Last autumn university student Alex Tew set up the Million Dollar site and since then has been overwhelmed by the success of a venture intended to raise enough money to pay for his way through university.
Alan Wheeler’s http://www.millionairepixels.co.uk is, he says, the next big step in the concept because, in effect, businesses are ‘leasing’ virtual real estate on the web to promote their businesses.
Launched just two weeks ago, http://www.millionairepixels.co.uk has already won the backing of international business Optis Europe Ltd, an operations management company, which is using the site to promote its business.
With more customers advertising it is, says Mr Wheeler, inevitable that like real property, some of the pixels on his site will become increasingly valuable for their ‘owners’ as more business is generated.
However, the last 1200 pixels, or advertising blocks, will eventually be auctioned off in support of the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, said Mr Wheeler.
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wow i´m impressed from
http://www.millionairepixels.co.uk
the first white website in the world wide web.
Hello everybody,
An other original concept is born…and based on a world record !
To know more about that, visit http://www.longestbanner.com
Regards
Renaud
Jobless Boy Launches A Website To Sell 10,000 Jeans On The Internet!
USA jobless boy has set his sights on earning himself a million dollars after thinking of a simple idea of selling brands new and used jeans on his homepage MoneyOrBox.com
He had been thinking of ideas on how to make a little extra money for himself but some of his ideas either never worked out or were just far too ambitious.
So far there are 28 jeans sold on the homepage which has netted him just $1300 but as visitors grow and more people hear about the site, no doubt more jeans will be added and he will progress towards his target of 10,000 jeans on his homepage and one million dollars in the bank.
You can view the website by visiting http://www.MoneyOrBox.com
Check out:
http://www.carinpieces.com/noticeboard/
What happens when you merge the milliondollarhomepage idea with sex (or is it art)? You get http://www.isellbody.com/
Is that the same old idea of Million Dollar HomePage? It made Alex Tew wealthy but not everyone of his copycats.
Have I missed something? What’s the incentive to visit these sites in the first place, if the only things there are adverts?
I believe that Alex’s site still generates some indirect value for advertisers at least by improving their visibility in search engines. It has a PageRank of 7 and many still continue to add links to it (by the way, this article has just added one link). So, getting the link from website with such a high PageRank for as low as 1$ it is clearly a reasonable investment. Good luck to all the copycats 🙂
http://www.milliondollarhosting.net
I’m the milliondollarhomepage opposite!! 🙂
Take a look here http://www.bewerbung-schreiben.org