Is this guy creative or what? He’d actually came up with an idea of selling ads space on the Internet by the pixel. Starting with $400 on the first day of sales, and after a week of constant sales of ads space, the media kicks in. And then what? Then, the money just rain on him!! The man behind this ingenius way of revenue generation is, Alex Tew.
First of all, I felt like I was tickled when I read his name. It’s like,
Ah Beng: “Eh, you know who did that Million Dollar Homepage?”
Ah Seng: “Alex.”
Ah Beng: “Tew! It’s him ah? Confirm boh? On ah?”
Ah Seng: “On lah on lah.” (Malaysian/Singaporean way of saying ‘Confirm’. Often used in confirming (illegal) football bets)
Note: ‘Tew’ sounded like the word f*ck in Cantonese. Sorry about that Alex Tew, but no hard feelings okay?
Alright, back to the topic,
I can’t believe it, in just 3 weeks I’ve made enough money to pay for all 3 years of University! This is unreal! Someone pinch me! – Alex Tew
I wish I could be the one who asks for that pinch. Anyway, the website had even been featured on Sky News and Five News, both of them are major TV channels in the UK. The media has helped him a lot nonetheless. Thanks to the mass media, the site’s advertisements had actually performed better, actually, much better than other advertisement programs out there. Check out his case study to find out how companies’ web traffic increased by 100-fold after advertising on his site.
Since then, lots of copycats copied his concept and racked in a profitable shares of the market! Site like this one at http://www.millionquarterwebpage.com offers advertisements at only $0.25, 75 cents cheaper than the original site. May I suggest TV Smith of doing a Malaysian version of the site, selling each pixel at dua sen (two cents) per pixel. Not a bad idea huh?
Well, there’s another one at http://www.milliondollarhelppage.com does the same, but is doing it for charity though.
Final say, I admire his creativity and his courage to execute his plan. Who would’ve thought that this kinda idea would eventually become a hit on the Internet?
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1. wong | October 27th, 2005 at 1:36 am
There are still tons of site like this, and I’m suspend that they tell lies about university tuition fee. If that so, everyone who wants to go to university all made this up lor… Of course included you and me right?
2. admin | October 27th, 2005 at 2:23 am
wong: Nah, I think what he meant is that he made money from the site, and that the money is so much that it’s enough to cover his University fees. It’s not like a donation site. It’s actually a working advertisement site, only that it’s a new concept/idea.
3. Alex | October 27th, 2005 at 1:01 pm
i heard about this page. this kid’s really creative. earning a lot of $$ now. smart sial.. haha
4. Pascal | November 12th, 2005 at 11:52 pm
Hello I’ve read that you wrote an article about Alex Tew’s MillionDollarHomepage.com brillant idea !
Well, since then he passed the 600 000 $US milestone ! And he’s about to go to the USA for a press tour, so there will be another round of media attention on his homepage very soon. He will do radio/tv/newspaper interviews, that’s going to be fun because we can follow his blog day after day on his site.
If you are planning to write a follow up to your article, you can say that there is now over 500 copycats sites from all over the world !
If you want to take an example of a french website, you can link to mine because it is the foremost french resource on the subject of Alex Tew’s new paradigm and because I tried no to blindly translate the concept. I tried to add a twist to the idea, by drawing an image of France and organizing several little things on my site, like a BEST SPONSOR, a pixel page cheaper than the homepage, and even a pixel page totally free of charge for open source project and caring organisations.
Also, I bought 600 pixels on the original milliondollarhomepage that link directly to my site, that’s my way of paying back Alex..
My site is at http://www.MonPremierMillion.com
Mon Premier Million means My First Million : I am still a bit far from it
Thank you for your attention, I don’t want my email to be too long but if you want additionnal information about anything related to Alex Tew’s idea you’re welcome to email me !
Cheers,
Pascal Cola
5. John | December 8th, 2005 at 10:17 pm
A new Million Dollar Page named MillionPixelPage.Net
This has a new million dollar website MillionPixelPage.Net
Buy Pixels at Million Pixel Page for your Internet Advertisement. Purchase pixels from the Million Pixel page and advertise your website on a prime piece of Internet property for a full five years!
Each 10×10 block costs US$25, equating to a cost of US$0.25 per pixel.
Visit the MillionPixelPage.Net at:
http://www.millionpixelpage.net/
6. Michael Frans | December 20th, 2005 at 5:32 am
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
7. Qi Jong | January 12th, 2006 at 3:57 am
800+ copycats so far, still counting. That said, some distinguish themselves. For example:
http://www.milliondollarscreenshot.com/
http://www.representyourface.com/
http://www.pixelmarathon.com/
The last one is a directory.
8. Gregory Enterprises | January 20th, 2006 at 8:57 am
Entrepreneur Launches $1 Million Apartment!
An American entrepreneur aims to build $1 Million Apartment by selling 500 PARAGRAPHS of internet ad space and hopes his ‘MillionDollarAptsHomepage’ will attract advertisers and Entrepreneur who see opportunities that others may not see.
“I think this will mostly appeal to Entrepreneurs, “he commented,” and perhaps larger companies will buy up lots of PARAGRAPHS to have a more prominent position on the site.”
Find out more about $1 Million Apartment and his business idea at http://www.MillionDollarAptsHomePage.com
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