A $623,800 Idea

I read about Alex Tew's www.milliondollarhomepage.com a few months ago when it first came out. I wondered every once in a while how it was going but never wondered enough to bother to check. So I was happy to see an update in today's newspaper. Alex's idea of selling pixels for $1 each in 10x10 pixel blocks is intriguing but would people buy? Well apparently they did. The site averages 600,000 unique visitors a month. So far Alex says he has raised $623,800. More interestingly purchasers of space on his site have found it to be well spent marketing money. Postings are guaranteed to run for 5 years and Alex would like to see it stay up forever, without changes. For a few hundred dollars advertisers get space on a page with lots of visitors and unlike banner ads people can come back to the milliondollarhomepage if they want to revisit a link. In some instances companies report thousands of new visitors to their company's webpage linked directly from milliondollarhompage. It remains to be seen how close Alex will come to reaching his goal of $1million. With copycat sites and his original site becoming cluttered,sales will likely slow. Alex however has raised enough money to pay for college and then some. It may be one more internet fad but who knows maybe 20 years from now we'll see his page in an internet museum. Maybe I should buy a block?