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September 26, 2005
We are raising $1,000,000 for the victims of Hurricane Katrina...
... and we are doing it by selling advertising space for $1 per pixel at MillionDollarHelpPage.com. Crazy? Not quite! 21 year old English student/entrepreneur Alex Tew started the concept in early September of 2005 with his MillionDollarHomePage.com idea and to date sold $155,000 worth of pixels already. Alex is doing it for his own benefit (and rightly so, as he created this idea). Personally I thought that it was an awesome idea and besides sponsoring him Chris and I decided it was time to step up to the plate and use the current momentum to raise money for our fellow men and women out there in Louisiana who are still struggling to make it another day. So, we launched
We started this project because, despite our financial support to the Red Cross, we felt that we still wanted to do more. In light of that, we have been looking for effective ways to rally the Internet community and we strongly believe that with the MillionDollarHelpPage.com we have found our vehicle.
For the ones of you who are not familiar with the general concept, we are trying to raise up to $1,000,000 for the victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster that struck Louisiana in late August of 2005, and we are planning to do this by selling 1,000,000 pixels for $1 each at MillionDollarHelpPage.com. The idea is to provide value for the advertisers and help for our people who are very much in need right now. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to buy some pixels. The pixels will be displayed on the MillionDollarHelpPage.com for a period of at least 2 years.
This is the very first time that funds for a charitable purpose are raised on the Internet this way. We plan on having this page up for much longer than the guaranteed 2 years and are hoping that it will ultimately become a piece of Internet history; which many people, regardless of race, religion, nationality, or background will have a part of, if they decide to get some pixels!
So, please spread the word or even better get a piece of Internet history yourself and help some folks in need.
Posted by Ben at September 26, 2005 03:16 PM
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Amazing all the different kinds of parodies this concept has already spawned... good luck with yours.
Posted by: Twinge at September 27, 2005 01:47 PM
Hello,
I have seen a lot of pages that sell pixels too. Do you believe that they can have any opportunity to raise more money than Alex's?
Erika,
Most likely not. The idea is pretty unique and only really works well once in combination with Alex cool backstory.
Ben
Posted by: Erika at October 1, 2005 05:54 PM
Anyone see http://www.unemployedloser.com
Not really the same thing but similar idea and it's unique.
Ed
Posted by: Ed at October 8, 2005 03:11 PM
Hi
Yes, it does work, everyone is using it. I am developing on of the first systems that is 100% template based, uses 3 forms of advertising. You can purchase single domain or resell rights so you can resell the script, an affialte system is in place to sell the script. It's under development, what you see is in 2 days development hope to have a release next weekend.
Jason Peixoto.
Posted by: jason peixoto at October 25, 2005 02:00 PM