Rent Advertisements in a Young Entrepreneur’s Room
For so long, internet advertising has seemed to be in a slump for creativity. It’s always been the same old types and sizes whether it’s banners, or cost-per-click advertisements. But now a new more creative advertising has emerged.
A young entrepreneur from Nova Scotia, Canada has promised that he would place advertisements in his bedroom to help him raise enough money so he could start his own business, without going through the hassle of taking out loans and finding investors.
The website, http://www.richpixels.com/, shows his room constantly being updated with the new advertisements. The unique twist of this type of advertising is anyone who physically enters his room can see all the advertisements, as well as visit the website online and view the advertisements online via the pictures of his room.
But this type of innovative advertisements has been seen before, and very recent, such as Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from Wiltshire, England, who developed TheMillionDollarHomepage.com to raise funds for his university education. Tew launched the site on August 26, 2005. Within three days of the launch, with no marketing budget, Tew sold his first 20 x 20 pixel block. Motivated, he put out a press release. Two weeks later, he had made enough money to pay for his first year at university. He has now made more than three-quarters of a million dollars.
Patrick Hankinson, the owner of http://www.RichPixels.com, credits Alex Tew for his innovative room advertising service. According to his website, “In the beginning I was going to start a website similar to Alex Tew's Million Dollar Homepage, http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/, after seeing how successful it was. I actually had the website built and was about to officially go live, and showed it to a few people. They criticized it for being too similar to Alex's website, so I stared at my wall and said what can I do to make it different? Then I said to myself man, my walls are bare, I should buy a poster or something. My two ideas had collided with each other in bringing you the first ever website to sell advertising space inside a bedroom!”
But like most other teenagers he does have one mention in terms and conditions. “I also can't guarantee my room to always been clean, so bare with me”
About the Author
Patrick Hankinson is a 17-year old entrepreneur trying to raise enough money to start his own company by renting out advertisements in his bedroom, which is constantly updated at http://www.richpixels.com/
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