Crazy Marketing Ideas 2005 - Million Dollar Homepage

Would you like to buy a few… pixels?

A client sent me this link a couple of days ago: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com. I figure that was no accident, as this site is now hitting the radar screens of news agencies and tabloids worldwide. (I was also timely as I just finished reading -- and re-reading -- a great book on P.T. Barnum written by Joe Vitale.)

Alex Tew, a 21 years old Brit, created a webpage consisting of 1 million pixels. Now he sells them (pixels, that is) as advertising space at $1 per pixel.

If you go this website right now, it may not even come up: It’s a stampede of Internet users from all over the world rushing there to take a look-see or buy some pixels.

According the the man, it all started as a simple idea – a very outrageous idea – to make a few bucks that would pay the university tuition. Nice score on that one! There no shade of doubt in my mind this tuition will no longer be a problem. The real question is, does Alex Tew need it anymore? I think those university professors have a lot to learn from him!

Hmm… maybe I should go buy me some pixels before they’re all gone.

See you in 2006!