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FAQ's
1. What's the big idea?
The idea is simple: to try and
make $1m by selling 1,000,000 pixels for $1 each and give
your site powerful, yet inexpensive, exposure. This is
not a 'link-farm'... we are not asking for a reciprocal link
- you will have an image with a link, which means an
'incoming link' (search engine magic) coming from a powerful
page. The more that the homepage builds and the longer
that it exists on the search engines, the more powerful it gets. Not to
mention the daily thousands of people fascinated by the
homepage and clicking directly onto your site. It's
the simplest form of internet advertising. It's a
permanent banner for a one time cost.
So, everyone who has a site is
welcome to buy our pixels, which are available in 100-pixel
'blocks'. You will see that the homepage to be divided into
100-pixel blocks (there are 1,000,000 pixels in total). The
reason for selling them in 100-pixel blocks is because
anything smaller would be too small to display anything
meaningful and would make the page appear 'messy'. We
will stop at 1m pixels.
You can buy as many pixels as
you like, as long as there are some available (you will see
the updated stats in the top right corner of the page). When
you buy some pixels, you can then display an image/ad/logo
of your choice in the space you have purchased. Your image
will click through to your website. No obscene or
offensive images are allowed.
The pixels you buy will be
displayed on the homepage permanently. The homepage will not
change. Using some of the money I make from the site, I
guarantee to keep it online for many years. I want it to
become a kind of internet time capsule. So, in the long run,
we believe the pixels will offer excellent value. You will
have a piece of internet history!
- 2. Who are you?
My name is Robert, I'm 40 years old and I live in a
small town in Florida (USA). I'm a husband and father of
a beautiful 6 yr old daughter. I recently lost my
job and also on the verge of foreclosure of our home of
10+ yrs. I'm doing this in an effort, while I look
for another job, to help us save our home and have some
stability.-
- Life is not cheap, and
faced with the prospect of unemployment with debt, I
thought I'd try and make some money for my family ($1m
should do the trick!).
3. Is this for
real/genuine?
I am completely genuine and although this site might
be entertaining in some ways, it is not a joke! I really
am selling pixels for $1 each, because I don't want
monstrous debt and don't want to lose my house. I want to
get back on track and want to enjoy my family. I am a
pixel peddler for now trying to do just so. I'm
offering a unique, quality, and tremendous product in
order to make money. Pure and simple.
Am I actually 40 yrs old and jobless? Fair question I guess.
The answer is of course yes.
- 4. How did you come up
with the idea?
Well, I'm not exactly inventing the wheel here.
Just tweaking it, simplifying it and making more
interesting. I believe that there more ways than
one to do something. You see, I have a passion for the
internet and internet marketing. I used to own a small
local rental company which is where I learned how
awesome and powerful the internet is... and how it
works. Through the years that I had our business
website, I learned a lot about how Google and other
search engines work, as well as their relationship with
websites. I was fortunate enough to have learned
'search engine optimization' from someone who did it
full time for a living, and there the passion was
born... in conjunction with the success I had with
various websites I built. So, in order to provide
a powerful and interesting website marketing port, while
making money at the same time, I built this site... and
I will build no more like this. 1m pixels and I'm
done. This site will the one and only I create
like this. But the bottom line is to make money. I
see nothing wrong with making money and I'm not going to
lie about that.
- 5. Why do you need $1m?
I don't. Raising a family with debt is expensive,
but not quite that steep, at least in Florida. But with
this project I knew I had to aim high - my thinking
being that even if I only got a small percent of a
million dollars, that it would help get things back in
order. More would be icing on the cake.
In fact, making any money
whatsoever by selling pixels had to be worth a try. After
all, I had plenty of pixels to start with! Furthermore, I
knew the site had to be interesting in order to catch
people's attention - anything else just wouldn't cut it.
Remember, this is the internet.
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6. What will you do
with the money?
First and foremost, if I make enough money, I will
catch up on the mortgage and other bills. Would be
nice to pay them all off, but I don't want to be greedy.
Next, if any funds remain I would like to also put some
money in savings and set up a college fund for my
daughter.
I would lalso ike to pay
off money owed to our family and friends from money we
borrowed to stay afloat (alive, if you will).
Finally... if I reach the $1m
target and what money we have left over after catching up
paying bills and setting some aside, then I have a couple of interesting business
ideas I would love to invest some money in. So watch this
site!
7. Why should I buy
advertising on your site?
Because you will have an image and
a link to your site on the homepage of a site that will
potentially be seen by millions of people over the coming
years. Not to mention the all powerful 'incoming link'
that search engines love. The site will be online for many
years, that's guaranteed, but the idea is to keep it online
forever. So you really could own a piece of 'internet
history'!
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- 8. Why can't I buy just
a single pixel?
I decided that although it would probably be cool if
individuals could buy a single pixel each, in truth, it
wouldn't effective. The reason I believe this is because
you can't display anything meaningful in one pixel - nor
click it easily - so visually, it would be pointless.
With thousands of random tiny colored dots all over the
place, the homepage would look messy and blah.
I also thought that the site
would appeal more to people with businesses/websites to
advertise than it would to individuals, or to put it more
accurately, businesses would pay more to have a meaningful
graphic on the homepage. Hence the minimum purchase is $100
- 100 pixels.
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- 9. If you need money,
why don't you just get a job?
- Well, I am currently
looking for employment or for an honest business
opportunity. I've had a few different jobs in the past,
but it's not really how my brain likes to work. My
natural disposition is to think of ideas and be more self
sufficient. I like to create interesting things
and create ways of doing things differently than
'corporations' do. This is
much more pleasurable to do, with a potential higher
reward. That's no joke, it's just honesty. If I
can provide a good service and make money, then I'm
happy.
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