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Re: Remember this?

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Post by forcetenhen »

cjoh wrote: post #4

It'd be interesting to see where the advertisers ended up in all of this. I'd imagine they got some SEO out of it but it doesn't strike me that "tabmarks" has gone very far since the million dollar homepage launched. I wonder what the average ROI was, and if the million dollar homepage served as an effective launchpad for anyone or anything.

I used to work for one of the companies who bought in early (they're top left somewhere :). Not sure it brought us much, if anything, though it did get the company logo on TV a few times when it was picked up by the news.

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Post by motters »

I remember hearing about this a long time ago. Even then I thought it was a dumb idea. How many people would repeatedly visit this site to see the adverts, other than the advertisers themselves?

Did the fellow ever end up making a million dollars?

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Post by forcetenhen »

motters wrote: post #23

I remember hearing about this a long time ago. Even then I thought it was a dumb idea. How many people would repeatedly visit this site to see the adverts, other than the advertisers themselves? Did the fellow ever end up making a million dollars?

He ended up selling them all yeah. Minus tax and whatnot, he still pocketed a tidy sum and decided to forego university (which it was originally to pay for) and become a business god.

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Post by civild »

The same guy had a startup fail spectacularly afterwards, with investor money ('low six figures') down the drain. It was a cheezeburger-style funny video/picture aggregator called PopJam.

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Post by jgoewert »

Ah.. one of the lightning never strikes twice type of ideas that worked well for one guy but all the followers and imitators were left in the frigid cold wasteland.

I knew a lot of people that would just sit there and dartboard the site for a half hour each day. I just went a few times and looked at how it was filling up and trying to figure out if there was anything else to do like that myself.

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Post by apgwoz »

rymngh wrote: post #6
VMG wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, what is so noteworthy about making a million dollars with a 1000x1000 pixel image? (this is sarcasm)

well, it generated him million dollars overnight.

Wasn't exactly overnight (5 months)... And it ended up being more than a million because he reserved some pixels and then auctioned them off on ebay. $1,037,100, according to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Homepage).

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Post by sdz »

cjoh wrote: post #4

It'd be interesting to see where the advertisers ended up in all of this. I'd imagine they got some SEO out of it but it doesn't strike me that "tabmarks" has gone very far since the million dollar homepage launched. I wonder what the average ROI was, and if the million dollar homepage served as an effective launchpad for anyone or anything.

Well, if the testimonials are to be believed, some people did appear to make some conversions:

http://milliondollarhomepage.com/testimonials.php

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