The page of a million dollars.
One million pixels, and charge a dollar per pixel. Perhaps the most foolish idea that could happen to anyone. Still, Alex Tew, 21 years is now a millionaire.
The Million Dollar Homepage (http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/) is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student fromWiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks provided tiny images to be displayed on them, a URL to which the images were linked, and a slogan to be displayed when hovering a cursor over the link. The aim of the website was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator.
Email from Santa Claus.
A brilliant idea. Get yourself a postal address in the north and chicken are intended to Santa Claus, charging parents $ 10 by sending a letter to his children.
Byron Reese Started his company, www.SantaMail.org, which sells fully personalized letters from Santa Claus all across North America (they're even postmarked from North Pole, Alaska, to give them an authentic feeling). Reese sold 10,000 letters in 2001, his first year in business. Though holiday sales have increased every subsequent year, he still looked for ways to expand his offering. Now, parents can order birthday cards for their children from Santa as well. The strategy pushed 2005 sales to $1 million.
Lenses for Dogs.
Create lenses for dogs and sell them online (www.doggles.com). How did they manage to have stores all over the world with that idea?
Invented by Ken and Roni di Lullo, Doggles are tinted goggles designed to fit the shape of a dog's head.Doggles are constructed out of a polycarbonate material with elastic straps to secure them to the dog's head. Lenses are tinted and provide protection from ultra violet rays.By 2004, Doggles were being sold in 4,500 shops in 16 countries.Prescription Doggles were launched in 2004 for dogs who are losing their sight. Prior to ordering, the dog's eyes are tested by a veterinary ophthalmologist who issues a prescription for the lenses
Laser Monks
A monastery of eight monks who fill your laser printer cartridges. A monk, Fr. Bernard McCoy, O. Cis, accidentally started the business while in need of a printer cartridge for one of the monastery’s printers and realized how expensive laser print cartridges were. This realization triggered the monk to find a way on how to cut down costs on laser print cartridges and distribute the saved money to various outreach programs.
The monastery of the laser monks is part of the Cistercian Order which has been in existence for 900 years. Given the fact that monasteries are supporting themselves, they needed to generate income from various sources such as growing plants and mushrooms, conference centers for company events and even growing Christmas trees.
The monks thought of the laser print cartridge as a viable business since it is regarded as a necessity especially by business owners. Manufacturing a low-cost printer cartridge helps consumers spend less and the monks generate more income to fund their charitable works.In 2005, www.lasermonks.com sales volume reached 2.5 million dollars.
Balls For Antennas.
You can not sell antenna ball online. No way! But that is exactly what Jason did Wallden and now a millionaire.
Jason Wall is president and CEO of In-Concept Inc., the company behind Antennaballs.com, which manufactures more than 500,000 custom antenna balls per month.Based in Glendale, California, Antennaballs.com owes its success to one “man”: Jack. It all started when Wall saw a Jack In The Box fast-food commercial in mid-1997 that said the company had sold more than 3 million antenna balls. Sensing opportunity, Wall came up with a few designs he thought would penetrate the auto accessory and novelty industries. After selling four million balls through local gas stations and convenience stores, Wall recently landed some major national accounts, including AutoZone, Circle K and Wal-Mart, and he’s negotiating licensing deals with Universal Studios. With sales of $1.15 million for 1999 (one year after he started his business), Wall attributes timeliness to his overnight success. Six years later, Jason Wall is a multimillionaire.
Letters of exercises.
Packs of cards with exercise routines in them..
FitDeck (www.FitDeck.com) is a unique deck of Exercise Playing Cards that makes exercise more simple, convenient, and fun. FitDecks are available in 56-card and 26-card Booster decks. 56-card FitDecks specialize in bodyweight-only exercises (i.e. Bodyweight, Junior, Senior, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Prenatal, and Postnatal). 26-card Boosters may require certain equipment (i.e. Exercise Ball, Pull Up bar, Dumbbell, Office, Travel, Kettlebell, etc.)
It may sound like a disaster. But Phil Black, a former Marine and fitness instructor reported $ 4.7 million profit last year
Quotes For Positive.
How would you like to go on a date with an HIV positive person? Paul Graves and Brandon Koechlin thought that someone would, so they created a dating site PositivesDating.Com for HIV positive folks last year. Projected 2006 sales are $110,000, and the two hope to have 50,000 members by their two-year mark.
Designer diaper bags.
Tired of wearing diapers in a cooler? Christie Rein was tired of carrying diapers around in a freezer bag. The 34-year-old mother of three found herself constantly stuffing diapers for her infant son into freezer bags to keep them from getting scrunched up in her purse. Rein wanted something that was compact, sleek and stylish, so in November 2004, she sat down with her husband, Marcus, who helped her design a custom diaper bag that's big enough to hold a travel pack of wipes and two to four diapers. With more than $180,000 in sales for 2005, Christie's company, Diapees & Wipees (www.diapeesandwipees.com), has bags in 22 different styles, available online and in 120 boutiques across the globe for $14.99.
Faux-suede padded covers for game controllers and gel thumb pads for analog joysticks? No one will buy that. Forget it.
Utilizing patented designs, TruGamerz offers personalized controller accessories that focus on the gamer by supplying products that enhance comfort and control over the gaming experience.
The product proved to be so popular, it got picked up by Target.com and Walmart.com and annual sales now exceed half a million dollars.
Bones of luck.
Fake wishbones. Now, this stupid idea is just destined to flop. Who in the world needs FAKE PLASTIC wishbones? A lot of people, it turns out.
No more fighting at the Thanksgiving table over who gets to break the wishbone; this year, just buy plastic wishbones from Lucky Break Wishbone.
Now producing 30,000 wishbones daily (they retail for 3 bucks a pop) Ken Ahroni, the company founder, expects 2006 sales to reach $1 million.
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