How a 21 year old made $1,037,100 in just 4 months online

United States
December 4, 2008 9:59am CST
When people really make millions on line it hits the news. Alex Tew is and old story but shockingly alot of people don't know who he is. Alex want to make money for college just enough to get by and finish school without fear of getting behind. He sat in his room and brainstormed some ideas to make money online. Never knowing he came up with the next million dollar solution. You see Alex built a site that sells ad space. Customers would buy one pixel for $1 each and the minimum buy was 10x10 pixels. That means the minimum purchase was $100. News traveled fast of this new site and everyone wanted in on it. The more the media took in on the story the more Alex sold. Alex page had 1000x1000 pixels of advertisement space witch would sell for $1,000,000 total. Well getting smarter about it he took the last 1000 pixels and auctioned it off on ebay. The final 1000 pixels sold for an amazing $38,100. This was $37,100 more than the original plan and made the total an amazing $1,037,100 in just 4 months. The site is themilliondollarhomepage and it is still up today. I suggest you take a look at it. The reason for my post is to show that making money online is possible and you can make millions in a short span of time. The only catch is you have to be creative and you have to push your idea out to people. I hope this will help motivate everyone to the possiblities of making money online. Best of Luck,
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25 responses
@becnh83 (806)
• Philippines
5 Dec 08
wooooowwwwwwww...that was so vast i never heard that before how could that happend? he so smart thinking about that imagine it is not just a thousand but a million dollar...OMG he is a already a millionaire at the age of 21? how i wish to be like him.lol i will make money in net too...lol happy mylotting
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@rsa101 (38126)
• Philippines
5 Dec 08
Very nice and interesting to see that he made money out of his creativity. I think it needs a lot of creative juices behind that. Although it was simplistic before but it worked already and is now making money.
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@tombiz (2036)
• Philippines
4 Dec 08
You are right, sometimes it will take a very creative approach to earn good money thru the internet. There are times that a simple system could do it for you -- making great amount of money on the process.
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• United States
5 Dec 08
Wow lot of money!!! he was so creative... well have a nice day ;)
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• India
21 Dec 08
its really inspiring to hear from you that he did his best.
• United States
5 Dec 08
I never knew the creator of that site was 21 years old! I had heard about this before and thought it was stupid but in the most brilliant way possible because of how catchy/quirky it is. Congrats to Mr. Tew.
@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
5 Dec 08
H[i]i Joe, I know everything is possible but it needs perseverance, skills, patience and hard work..This story is very inspiring but unfortunately, not everyone has the skills about computer....I have a friend who is earning $1000 per month in her blog and web designing but it is something I cannot do! LOL![/i]
@brew2x (3094)
• Philippines
5 Dec 08
Thanks for sharing this story. Just need to be creative and hardworking and everything will fall into places. Nice to hear success stories like this. I wonder what course Alex would take in college :)
@magojordan (3252)
• Philippines
5 Dec 08
I've read that story too and it was really inspiring that someone's creative idea really became the accomplishment of a dream. Yes it is possible to make a lot of money online all one needs is a creative mind to accomplish it.
@insulin (2479)
• Philippines
5 Dec 08
Well I do really believe that there is no impossible in earning online as long you have the great goal and motivation toward it.Well I really don't dream to earn online as long it helps me for my tuition as well as what did alex did but I guess I am not that too smart to make it at all but I do believe we can earn.God bless and have a nice day..:-0
@heart98 (57)
• Philippines
5 Dec 08
thanks for sharing this inspiring story.it's really amazing when people reads a story like that it helps to motivate them to do their best.
@srganesh (6340)
• India
5 Dec 08
Well,there are always pioneers there in every field.Their basic is to think different from others.To say it in other words,it is parallel thinking.Hope no one follow his foot steps to find the same fortune again.Let everybody think of a new way to be no.1.Hats off to him!
• India
7 Dec 08
so strange friend so nice idea.i was totally unknown to this fact.thanks for information.
@Rexdoron (345)
• Malaysia
5 Dec 08
wow..!! that is really amazing.i always wanted to have a lot of money since i was a kid.but, i never had a good idea like he did..what he thought was really a good idea..he must be a creative and critical thinking person.i bet he would be a superleader if he has his own company.anyway, i would love to have at least the same skills as he has..haha..
@jamie08 (430)
• United States
4 Dec 08
wish i knew how to do all that fancy stuff so i can make some money so i can finish college. I barely can pay for my classes now and i am thinking about just stopping because i cant afford them.
• United States
5 Dec 08
I never heard of this story but to know that it can be done is rewarding! I mean if a young kat can doit with a brainstorm then for the rest of us and company should use him as a lightening rod to get something going in the right direction. Not saying we will be millionaires in 4 months but we can be well off, which is still great in this tough economic time!
@jlovesbsb (243)
• United States
4 Dec 08
wow!!! why didn't i think of that? i've never heard this story before. thanks for sharing. i guess that guy can retire now. a millionaire in 4 months.
4 Dec 08
wow i have never heard of this story before it is truly remarkable. It definatly shows that it is possible to make money online and that this story should inspire many different people to earn money online.
• India
4 Dec 08
Hi JoeBrat, Really inspiring and nice story. It always takes either talent or hardwork to make money anywhere, wgether it's internet or real world. Hope to hear more from you.
• Spain
4 Dec 08
Thanks, this message has made me think that anything is possible. Fight for it. Good luck