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    LONDON, England -- If you have an envious streak, you probably
    shouldn't read this.



    Because chances are, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town
    in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool
    million dollars in four months on the Internet.

    Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels, the
    tiny dots on the screen that appear when you call up his home page.
    He had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page while lying in bed
    thinking out how he would pay for university.

    The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and
    sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A 10
    by 10 dot square, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $100.
    He sold a few to his brothers and some friends, and when he had made
    $1,000, he issued a press release.

    That was picked up by the news media, spread around the Internet, and
    soon advertisers for everything from dating sites to casinos to real estate
    agents to The Times of London were putting up real cash for pixels, with
    links to their own sites.

    So far they have bought up 911,800 pixels. Tew's home page now looks like
    an online Times Square, festooned with a multi-colored confetti of ads.
    "All the money's kind of sitting in a bank account," Tew told Reuters from
    his home in Wiltshire, southwest England. "I've treated myself to a car. I've
    only just passed my driving test so I've bought myself a little black mini."
    The site features testimonials from advertisers, some of whom bought
    spots as a lark, only to discover that they were receiving actual valuable
    Web hits for a fraction of the cost of traditional Internet advertising.

    Meanwhile Tew has had to juggle running the site with his first term at
    university, where he is studying business.

    "It's been quite a difficulty trying to balance going to lectures and doing
    the site," he said.

    But he may not have to study for long. Job offers have been coming in from
    Internet companies impressed by a young man who managed to figure out
    an original way to make money online.

    "I didn't expect it to happen like that," Tew said. "To have the job offers
    and approaches from investors -- the whole thing is kind of surreal. I'm still
    in a state of disbelief."
    Last edited by VodaHost; 12-30-2005, 10:37 AM.

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  • #2
    Re: Student cashes in with $million Web idea

    I wish I thought of that one.

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      Re: Student cashes in with $million Web idea

      Started my own website after hearing about that....www.onemilliononlineads.com....I hope that it will be as succesful as his. I am brainstorming of other ideas to make money on the net. But check it out.


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      • #4
        Re: Student cashes in with $million Web idea

        hmmm.

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        • #5
          Re: Student cashes in with $million Web idea

          Too late. It was a brilliant idea, but now you're beating a dead horse (Sorry, Trish!).
          My NASCAR Forum

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          • #6
            Re: Student cashes in with $million Web idea

            So I should think Racefan! Only live equines on this site please!
            Trish
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            • #7
              Re: Student cashes in with $million Web idea

              Originally posted by limebrook1
              So I should think Racefan! Only live equines on this site please!
              What are equines?

              As a matter of fact....

              What are live equines?

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              • #8
                Re: Student cashes in with $million Web idea

                Main Entry: equine
                Pronunciation: 'E-"kwIn, 'ek-"wIn
                Function: noun
                : a member of the family Equidae; especially : HORSE

                See lots of live ones at www.limebrook.com!

                Cheers ***** - have a good weekend (do you guys get weekends??)

                Trish
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                • #9
                  Re: Student cashes in with $million Web idea

                  Tut tut, Mr D. Not been paying attention during SG1!
                  Teal'C "undomesticated equines could not dissuade me"
                  O'Niell "That's wild horses couldn't keep me away, Teal'C!"
                  Teal'C [the eyebrow thing]. Lol.

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