Cool Marketing Thoughts

Yawn.

Surfing on the wave of the original Alex Tew Milliondollarhomepage we decided to invest our time, energy and creativity to propose to you that page where you can :

• Advertise your mobile oriented company, products , services, content, buying pixels on our page (See Home)
• Get more traffic on your website
• Increase your sales

The idea came up in order to start a project we had a few time ago. Once the funds collected, we will use them to start our own mobile oriented company.

You can buy pixels on our website by block of 100 pixels (10 x 10) minimum. This is the minimum number of pixels required to make your block meaningfully visible (i.e. so that users can actually click on it).

So in order to maximize the scam, they let you buy for at least 100 Euros (120 USD), otherwise it’s a no-show. The marketing benefits are poor, but apparently they expect a lot of coverage, because the (empty) press page is already up.

Why this scam is different than the original million dollar homepage?
Apparently these nutheads are giving away around 100.000 Euros in prize money with lottery jackpots on a few milestones to their way to the million pixels. In fact, the last person that buys a 10 pixel block gets a 10.000 Euro bonus. Something smells bad. Really bad.

If you’re planning to start up a mobile company and don’t have the cash for that, why the hell would you throw away 100.000 Euros on your way to the million pixels? If you’re starting up a ‘mobile related company’ (could it be any less specific) you’ll need every dime you can collect.

Good luck.

Check out the Pixel-Mobile site – via [Textually]

In Nathan’s post of Sept. 21st last year, there are 183 comments, and most of them are promoting a thing like Million Dollar Homepage, be it with another name. I’m not quite sure this one will be ‘it’ just because they named it ‘mobile’.

Even more stupid is the idea Kemal Yildiz came up with. This 24 year old electro-mechanic has based his idea on the million dollar homepage too and he’s looking for 5 sponsors (yeah, you read that right: five) that would like to sponsor him to get his new car (a Volkswagen Golf V, the 1.9 TDI being € 24.105, $ 28.824, to give you an idea).

I don’t know what is more stupid: looking for sponsors that pony up 5000 Euro just to have their logo somewhere on the car for 5 years (and what incase of an accident, for instance?), or thinking this might actually work. For sale: his four doors and the trunk. Send mail to Kemal if you want to be part of this unique plan, and are ready to invest 5000 Euros in someone you’ve never met and probably will never see again. Hah !