Another enterprising individual has made a million dollars via the Internet. I think all the good idea were taken though – this one is just exploiting advertisers’ willingness to spend money without any proof that their “investment” actually makes them any money. Seriously; they take the shotgun approach without ever actually bothering to prove that their now-missing money actually resulted in income of some kind.
But I digress.
This fellow wanted to pay his way though higher education, and decided to simply sell the space on a webpage. A simple idea that paid off. He sold every pixel on his page – which you can still see for historical reasons (and monetary – he promised his investors they would have a page up for 5 years at least). He made his million dollars though I think he was surprised that he did in the end.
Check out his blog for a little history and his plans for the future. Do you think we’ll ever hear from him again? I didn’t actually hear about this while it was happening, so his media penetration wasn’t quite maximized. Don’t tell his investors that though. Of course just because I didn’t hear about it doesn’t mean that it wasn’t wildly successful. I’m not that egocentric. But then again here I am blogging about myself again rather than about this fellow. Gee, maybe I do have a problem!