A new website created by 20-year-old student Shane Murphy is turning his dream to become a home owner into reality as he sells building blocks of his potential house as advertising space.
Launched a few weeks ago, Shane’s homepage is fast becoming a new web wonder as businesses snap up the 100euro building blocks to feature their ad or logo which then link back to their own website.
The logos remain on the site for at least 10 years and advertisers can even rotate the house to specify exactly where they want to buy their blocks. The site takes a completely new twist on the pixel selling craze that recently swept the web.
Tired of renting a college property, Murphy worked out that by selling all the virtual building blocks of a potential new house on his homepage he would have enough money to achieve his dream.
Photo by IWantAFreeHouse.com.
www.best-practice-business.de/blog » iwantafreehous - Million-Dollar-Pixel-Hype geht weiter on November 15th, 2006 at 12:32 am
[...] Haben Sie auch den Traum von einem eigenen Haus, nur das nötig Kleingeld fehlt noch? Kein Problem seitdem es die wunderschön Internetwelt gibt. Das dachte sich wohl auch die 20jährige Studentin Shane Murphy und startete die Webseite iwantafreehouse. Nomen est Omen. Sie verkauft insgesamt 2.500 Werbeblöcke auf ihrem virtuellen 3D-Haus für jeweils 100 EUR, um mit dem Erlös von 250.000 EUR den Traum vom eigenen Haus zu realisieren. Gelesen bei prnewswire via business-opportunities-blog [...]
Paul Chaney on November 15th, 2006 at 11:29 am
You know, it dawned on me that organizations could use this same approach for fund-raising purposes. Churches, for example, doing a building project could create a virtual version of the plans. Members could then purchase a section. The same thing could work with libraries, colleges, non-profits, you name it.
Not only would it provide a unique way to raise funds, it would add some competitive pressure to members or constituents to give. After all, if everyone else’s name is on the building, how would it look if their name wasn’t!
Home Owner » on November 18th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
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