When people think outside the boundaries...
It truly amazes me when people come up with new, ingenious ideas and actually turn them into something. As you can see from my previous posts, I use Reuters Oddly Enough as one of my main feeds. There are a couple of reasons for this. One, it is not usually the depressing news you normally see. Two, the articles make me laugh and think. Which brings me to one of todays articles about thinking outside the box.
I have had many money making ideas which have not or will not come to fruition. Some are unattainable because they require money, of which I have very little. The other reason is because I am behind the gun and someone already did it. For instance, before Amazon.com became the goliath of an online store it is now, one of my ideas was create an Amazon type mall called Mall.com. At that time, the name had not yet been taken and I built an entire business plan. Well, three things happened. I didn't register the webspace. I didn't build the website. Amazon beat me to it. Yeah, it took about 4 years to beat me to it, but they did none the less.
What prompted this blog, you ask? Well, MyLifeAndWorld commented to ilsurvive about the news and how he wishes one channel had good news instead of death and destruction (my words, not his). Great Idea! Someone needs to build a newscast that is not only regional but filled with nothing but good news. The news today is so depressing. Additionally, Reuters ran a story about a college kid with another million dollar idea.
I have business ideas galore that will never see the light of day rattling in my pea brain. Most of my ideas are complicated and require functions I am not able to provide such as:
A reverse EBay (you request the item and the people who have it bid to win your business with the lowest bid). Imagine buying a car THAT way. I would like a 2006 Honda Civic, Blue with a real spare tire. You have 48 hours for bids. Lowest bid wins.
A single store card (get rid of the grocery store, book store, pet store, coffee club, sport store cards and consolidate to a single store card). Stores would LOVE to have more demographics and I would LOVE not to have to fill my wallet with all of those cards.
There are more ideas that I am not willing to share yet. Maybe I should just play the lottery. I think my odds are better.
Cash pours in for student with $million idea
By Peter Graff
LONDON (Reuters) - If you have an envious streak, you probably shouldn't read this.
Because chances are, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet.
Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels, the tiny dots on the screen that appear when you call up his home page.
He had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page, called, logically enough, www.milliondollarhomepage.com, while lying in bed thinking out how he would pay for university.
The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A 10 by 10 dot square, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $100.
He sold a few to his brothers and some friends, and when he had made $1,000, he issued a press release.
That was picked up by the news media, spread around the Internet, and soon advertisers for everything from dating sites to casinos to real estate agents to The Times of London were putting up real cash for pixels, with links to their own sites.
So far they have bought up 911,800 pixels. Tew's home page now looks like an online Times Square, festooned with a multi-colored confetti of ads.
"All the money's kind of sitting in a bank account," Tew told Reuters from his home in Wiltshire, southwest England. "I've treated myself to a car. I've only just passed my driving test so I've bought myself a little black mini."
The site features testimonials from advertisers, some of whom bought spots as a lark, only to discover that they were receiving actual valuable Web hits for a fraction of the cost of traditional Internet advertising.
Meanwhile Tew has had to juggle running the site with his first term at university, where he is studying business.
"It's been quite a difficulty trying to balance going to lectures and doing the site," he said.
But he may not have to study for long. Job offers have been coming in from Internet companies impressed by a young man who managed to figure out an original way to make money online.
"I didn't expect it to happen like that," Tew said. "To have the job offers and approaches from investors -- the whole thing is kind of surreal. I'm still in a state of disbelief."
I have had many money making ideas which have not or will not come to fruition. Some are unattainable because they require money, of which I have very little. The other reason is because I am behind the gun and someone already did it. For instance, before Amazon.com became the goliath of an online store it is now, one of my ideas was create an Amazon type mall called Mall.com. At that time, the name had not yet been taken and I built an entire business plan. Well, three things happened. I didn't register the webspace. I didn't build the website. Amazon beat me to it. Yeah, it took about 4 years to beat me to it, but they did none the less.
What prompted this blog, you ask? Well, MyLifeAndWorld commented to ilsurvive about the news and how he wishes one channel had good news instead of death and destruction (my words, not his). Great Idea! Someone needs to build a newscast that is not only regional but filled with nothing but good news. The news today is so depressing. Additionally, Reuters ran a story about a college kid with another million dollar idea.
I have business ideas galore that will never see the light of day rattling in my pea brain. Most of my ideas are complicated and require functions I am not able to provide such as:
A reverse EBay (you request the item and the people who have it bid to win your business with the lowest bid). Imagine buying a car THAT way. I would like a 2006 Honda Civic, Blue with a real spare tire. You have 48 hours for bids. Lowest bid wins.
A single store card (get rid of the grocery store, book store, pet store, coffee club, sport store cards and consolidate to a single store card). Stores would LOVE to have more demographics and I would LOVE not to have to fill my wallet with all of those cards.
There are more ideas that I am not willing to share yet. Maybe I should just play the lottery. I think my odds are better.
Cash pours in for student with $million idea
By Peter Graff
LONDON (Reuters) - If you have an envious streak, you probably shouldn't read this.
Because chances are, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet.
Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels, the tiny dots on the screen that appear when you call up his home page.
He had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page, called, logically enough, www.milliondollarhomepage.com, while lying in bed thinking out how he would pay for university.
The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A 10 by 10 dot square, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $100.
He sold a few to his brothers and some friends, and when he had made $1,000, he issued a press release.
That was picked up by the news media, spread around the Internet, and soon advertisers for everything from dating sites to casinos to real estate agents to The Times of London were putting up real cash for pixels, with links to their own sites.
So far they have bought up 911,800 pixels. Tew's home page now looks like an online Times Square, festooned with a multi-colored confetti of ads.
"All the money's kind of sitting in a bank account," Tew told Reuters from his home in Wiltshire, southwest England. "I've treated myself to a car. I've only just passed my driving test so I've bought myself a little black mini."
The site features testimonials from advertisers, some of whom bought spots as a lark, only to discover that they were receiving actual valuable Web hits for a fraction of the cost of traditional Internet advertising.
Meanwhile Tew has had to juggle running the site with his first term at university, where he is studying business.
"It's been quite a difficulty trying to balance going to lectures and doing the site," he said.
But he may not have to study for long. Job offers have been coming in from Internet companies impressed by a young man who managed to figure out an original way to make money online.
"I didn't expect it to happen like that," Tew said. "To have the job offers and approaches from investors -- the whole thing is kind of surreal. I'm still in a state of disbelief."
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