My advertising solution to the crisis - need feedback

[gabiadlot]

Hi everybody,
This is my first post here.
My name is Gabriel Popa, I'm a 20 years old student from Bucharest, Romania.
After I've read Steve Pavlina's articles and after I've seen "The secret" I've decided to do something. Something original. Something that hasn't been done before.
After months of research and thinking, I've come up with this: Ad-Lot.com - The most effective way of advertising!
It's a mix between advertising and real estate. It's my advertising solution to the crisis. I sell all those "Ad-Lots" to any site/company interested. Everything is for sale except the logo and text .
You can find out more by reading the FAQ on the site.
Please tell me your first impression and your opinion after you'll read FAQ.
Best wishes!

PS: also, I would like to know how can i get in touch with the US press and if you think this site is worthy to be presented in a newspaper

[gabiadlot]

I forgot to say. In the first 2 days the site had 400 unique visitors and 600 pageviews and i already have my first client! It's a good start?

[ruchirkc]

Um, that concept has been beaten to death after the success of the Million Dollar Homepage

[gabiadlot]

I know The Million Dollar Homepage. But this is something else. I now everybody is comparing this site with that one but the idea is different, the purpose of the site is other... there are a lot of differences. But I know i have to fight with this idea "your site is like million dollar homepage"!

[James81]

What exactly are the differences between your site and Million Dollar Homepage?

And yes, I've seen like 20 different variations of this exact idea so far.

[gabiadlot]

I don'w want to make 1 million $ to pay the university.
This site isn't made for a humanitarian cause.
He wanted to sell 1 million pixels and that's all.
My "Ad-Lots" are 40x25 not 10x10
On my site allmost everything is for sale
On my site you can put animated images
On Ad-Lot.com - The most effective way of advertising! you can change your image once every 3 months. )Let's say you put an animated image to promote a product -> in 2 years (granted) you can put 8 different images -> promote 8 products). On "million dollar homepage" you can't
MY PRICE IS HALF OF HIS PRICE FOR THE SAME SIZE (crisis prices ))
you can buy a lot on what page you want
you can indicate the exact location where you want your image
the number of ad-lots on my site isn't limited. there are thousands for everybody
i see it like a mix between advertising and real estate, with this i want to help companies/sites to survive. REMEMBER: CHEAP BUT EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING. this is the idea

but it's ok. you can call my site a copy. no one cares about this. if i have, let's say, 100.000 visits a day, you wouldn't buy because it's a copy? you don't care? i have traffic, you need cheap advertising! maybe million dollar hompage is an example and they will buy now because they haven't trusted that project

we'll live and we'll see
untill then, can you promote me in any way? blog, mail, ym, myspace i don't know. i would be forever grateful

[runningbird]

Why would anyone come to a page filled with nothing but advertising?

[gabiadlot]

why have you entered "Million Dollar Homepage"?

[Brutha]

why have you entered "Million Dollar Homepage"?

Because it's a story.
It's about helping the poor boy to pay for college.
It's a meme that spreads and it spread because it was something that never existed before.

[gabiadlot]

Call it CURIOSITY. The same in my case
Anyway, i wanted you not to entirely criticise me but that's ok. I thought you, people from "new world" are more open-minded.
Anyway, can you promote me (blog,site,mail,ym, etc)? I'm like you, a man trying to make money from an idea.

[Brutha]

I'm like you, a man trying to make money from an idea.

No, in this forum there the ideal that one should focus on producing value to make money.

[James81]

Originally Posted by Brutha

No, in this forum there the ideal that one should focus on producing value to make money.

The way I see it, is that the key focus is to offer value. The money, then, just becomes a byproduct of that value. At least that's the way I interpret Steve's blogs.

[gabiadlot]

you're right, i trust in the same things like you.
let's imagine this situation: my site has 100,000 views and i ask 500 eur to put your 40x25 image on my site for about 4 years. In this situation am i asking money for nothing?
and 100,000 is not to much and is not very hard to reach.
can you even enter once on the site? any click is useful. thanks
Ad-Lot.com - The most effective way of advertising!