The Million Dollar Idea

This is one of the most brilliant ideas. A 21 year old student wanted to raise money for his university education and ended up with the idea of creating a homepage with million pixels. He then sold the million pixels for $ 1 each and raised a Million Dollars.

The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks provided tiny images to be displayed on them, a URL to which the images were linked, and a slogan to be displayed when hovering a cursor over the link. The aim of the website was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator.

Alex Tew launched the website on 26th August 2005 and sold the entire one million pixels by 11th January 2006. It took just 18 weeks for him to raise the Million dollars. He promised the customers that the website will be up and online for atleast five years and has already fulfilled that promise.

Please visit the web page: http://milliondollarhomepage.com/



This is truly one of the wonders of Internet Marketing. I salute this genius for this wonderful business initiative.

T.P.Anand
Dubai, U.A.E.
23rd February 2012