Will anyone ever match the success of Million Dollar Homepage?

Glad that you got the point.

 

Very good points Matthew, my old buddy. But tell me, what happens to all the fine people who spent time and money trying to make a quick buck out of Alex's idea? What are they supposed to do now?

 

Thanks for making it

 

I got 200 px probably within the first 5% of advertisers on there and got a fair amount of traffic which has been dying down since Christmas. Maybe just a couple of hundred uniques a month from it... still quite good. The reason I did it was just for the heck of it

Wouldnt do it again though for reasons in my post above... anyone else who does it thinks they can make a million from it and they wont Media coverage wont happen.

 

Hang their heads in shame thinking that their copy cat sites would work Thats what they are supposed to do now.

Put pen to paper and think of something completly different. If you think long enough then you might come up with a totally new concept (not in PX advertising).

 

But I have submitted a press release, and have told everyone to 'tell their friends', so surely I will get loads of traffic?

 

I believe instead of wasting your time on pixels, better use your time to think something creative.

 

How about a parody site then? Would THAT work?

 

A press release might get you a few visitors... but it just wont work. Whats exciting about it now? It was unique the first time. Everybody has seen it before.

A parody site? Explain more. LOL

The basic rule is that you need to work hard to earn good money and only a minute (less then 0.1%) actually get a free ride.

 

Oh, I don't know Matthew - say you were to call it Million Dollar JERKS, and then come on to a forum and wind people up. Would that be 'fun', or would it only serve to show how gullible forum 'experts' can be? (hiya Fryman )

 

The answer is no. Just look at all the shitty copy cats. None of them bring any new or fresh ideas to the original, only slight 'spins'. That was a one time thing, 100% of it's success was because it was a FRESH AND ORIGINAL IDEA. This makes it impossible to 'copy' the idea, the only way to replicate it would be to come up with ANOTHER FRESH AND ORIGINAL IDEA and market that.

 

See, this guy has a post history of over 3000 too

 

Why do you people even waste your time with this moron? He sounds like if he is 8 years old

 

Fryman, you are my new best friend It is encouraging to see that a forum expert such as yourself, with a history of over 7000 posts, really knows his stuff

 

oh sorry fry didn't read the rest of this thread...i guess it was my nice way of saying shut the fuck up

putting him on ignore

 

I may be wrong here, but do you not like me guys?

 

Hello?... Anyone?...

Maybe if I call him "fry", and lick his balls - then he might answer me?

 

err..this is so gay!...

 

Are you insinuating something between myself and fry?

Awww, but he was so keen to tell me what he thought of me when I first posted

Have you learned your lesson? Good boy

 

Finally, a good reason to Red Rep someone...