Million Dollar Homepage, Now Half a Million Dollar Homepage?
by: Alexdownik@gmail.com
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Many of you remember Alex Tew’s Million Dollar Homepage
which was a major success with the general internet population. So successful,
in fact, he actually did become a millionaire by selling 1,000,000 pixels for
$1 Dollar each as advertising space for 5 yrs. That was in 2005. Here in 2008 a
new young entrepreneur is taking Alex’s idea and modifying it to make it his
own.
Stephen Gilbert, a young Tennessean of the age of 18, has
created what could become one of the internet’s newest hits. What’s he call it?
The “Half a Million Dollar Homepage.”
His product is virtually the same as Alex’s, other than the
fact he’s selling his pixels for half price, and is guaranteeing that your ad
stays on the homepage for… a lifetime? That’s right. Stephen is promising that
the homepage, www.halfamilliondollarhomepage.com,
will stay up for his entire lifetime.
Skeptics of the page have come out and stated that Alex’s
success was completely based off luck, as proven by his second installment in
the Pixel “selling” chapter, Pixelotto. However, none of this has discouraged
Stephen.
“I’m pretty excited about this whole thing.” He says, “I do
realize that a lot of people agree on the fact that Mr. Tew’s success was based
off complete luck and viral marketing, but I really think I got a shot here.
I’m not even sure if I will sell out all the pixels, but at least I will be
giving those that missed out on Alex’s site, or even those that came along at a
later date and thought, “Man I missed out,” a shot at participating in what I
see as a ‘Second’ internet time
capsule.”
Though I’m not sure if Stephen will be as nearly as
successful as Alex, I guess only time will tell.
Alex was not available for comment.
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Alex Downik is a freelance journalist trying to make a name for himself
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