Also, I think the twist was not enough. It must have have some additional stuff that wud have made ppl talk abt it. that did not happen here.

for example, an MDHP of Youtube Videos would probably have doen the trick, plp can upload their ad videos on youtube and bought links here.

There were definitely 2 waves of traffic for MDP, and the first wasn’t PR induced – I saw it on so many marketing forums when Alex had only raised a few dollars, that is that first spike that is very evident.

The PR initially mitigated decline, I am not sure what press coverage caused the second huge spike, but it was a good job.

The first stage of marketing was to be seen as a success, it doesn’t matter how much of the inventory was actually sold, and even whether more inventory was sold.
If Alex had only sold $500K, he would have been looked on as just as big a success story.

Alexa 1 week now standing at 42K… Mike Arrington would say “Welcome to the Dead Pool”

What will happen to the prize pool if the site never reaches payout?

I was hired Oct 13 – through February 7 to do the PR for http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com

My work was not ‘done at the later stages’. It was done when there still needed to be $600,000.00 raised.

The PR was global and it supported Alex Tew’s efforts to dramatically increase monies and traffic to the site.

Check Alexa.

Imal Wagner

anyhow, who better to ask than the man himself, Alex Tew, so Mr Tew, why DID your current project fall foul of our fickle favour… let’s read his own comments to find out….

(from http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39156298,00.htm
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Tew said he is aware of the dozens of websites looking to copy the successful format of The Million Dollar Homepage but said they’ll have little success “because it’s already been done”.

He said: “That just shows how uninventive people are,” adding that it mirrors the reasons why the dot-com bubble bursting was so much worse than it should have been as markets which could sustain one successful business model were often flooded with dozens of imitators looking to replicate it with no added-value of their own.

Inevitably, those jumping on the bandwagon failed and added to the dot-com death count. And Tew predicts a similar fate for the copy-cat ‘homepage’ sites.
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you’re right Alex, in your own words “I can’t just do The Million Dollar Homepage 2.”

anything else? LEt’s look at his blog…
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in my view, business success is based on good, unique ideas that are well executed. I had a unique idea (it’s novelty central to its success), and I believe I executed it well. [...] The idea was unique, my story interesting and quirky, and therefore attracted people’s attention.
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yes Alex, wise words indeed! you’re dead right! there was a story to it, you lucked out, and played your cards well right down to a rollercoaster of a finish! Top marks! any future advice for clicking pixels? Indeed there is!

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That’s why it’s sad to see all those pixel-copycat sites sending out badly-written press releases thinking that just sending out a press release will create interest. It won’t! Forget copying my idea, no other individual will become rich from a Million Dollar Homepage copycat site. Do something different! And I do not mean a pixel-site-with-a-twist! Do something TOTALLY different! If you do something unique, totally unique, then you will stand out.
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Yep. So right. Now, if you’ld only tell that pixelotto guy, I think he needs a few pointers…

ah dear, reading the old blog when he went on whistlestop tours of the US, Europe, etc getting on TV EVERYWHERE, selling 100.000 dollars in 5 days… where did it all go wrong?

The whole “story” of MDHP is what kept people interested, along with his Blog. It says a lot that he hardly updated his blog after the MDHP sold out, thus proving he is not such a genius after all. He needed to keep in touch with his “fans” i.e. the people who got him the money in the first place!

People who say that his site is still a success because it brought him a couple of hunred thousand more than he had before, consider this:

Before Pixelotto, Alex Tew was in the position of being headhunted by some big companies. He could have been set with a great job! He also had interest in his “new ideas” and had a great platform from which to launch something original and exciting.

Instead he has ruined his reputation, and lost the interest of the public. So is he really the business genius the press would have had us believe?

here’s why : there is no story behind it. nobody CARES. MDHP relfected well on clickers as they supporte dplucky creative dvertisers as well as plucky creative alex. PL reflects poorly on clickers as it suggests that they are boring losers who will click a page every now and then in the hopes of winning a million bucks. and AT is no longer poor, he does not deserve our money.

That and the traffic will be crap as users are incentivised to click 10 times and close, previously it was “click if you want to”, far more ‘directed’ effective advertising

The person who sings once a year cannot be called a singer.
Ukrainian boxer Klychko defends his champion title every several months. Alex should show the world his other genius ideas! Otherwise, you will be known only as a lucky winner of the Internet lottery, not new trend developer!

“Internet as Pixelotto” discourages web developers to be creative! (See more at http://mini-billion.blogspot.com ).
I believe my Mini-News.com is better, – a really unique Next Big Thing worth a BILLION!

http://mini-news.com