Entrepreneur college student Alex Tew made $1 million in about 4 months with his website, The Million Dollar Home Page.
His idea was to sell advertising to people in little boxes of pixels at $1 per pixel and leave the entire page up for 5 years. People who advertised on his home page received, and are still receiving, tens of thousands of hits!
It turned out to be a great bargain for everyone involved. He made money to pay back his student loans and they got advertising at a very cheap rate.
Purplemammoth.com expanded upon his basic idea by adding greater value to the advertiser via our contest and the distribution of our core product, the FREE Anti-Spyware software Spyware Trampler!
How is PurpleMammoth.com different from all the other copy-cat sites which have sprung up?
"The concept quickly spawned hundreds of copycat sites, although the vast majority failed. With the filling of the Million Dollar Homepage it is possible that some may survive, but this is not likely without some form of marketing. Being first, the Million Dollar Homepage became essentially self marketing by its sheer novelty."
PurpleMammoth.com has "some form of marketing", in fact we are utilizing two different and powerful forms of marketing. PurpleMammoth.com is different because we are using FREE anti-spyware software to drive traffic back to our homepage and giving away FREE pixels via our Youtube.com and Myspace.com contests. Even the original Million Dollar Home Page had only press coverage and novelty to attract visitors.
We will be giving away useful software programs (there are more coming) people want and will use. The anti-spyware software was already under development when the pixel ad craze hit, and we just adjusted our business model slightly to capitalize upon it and offer more utility to a potential advertiser.
Our goal is to give away this software 10 million times in 2007!
How does this program work?
If you own, or know of, a website you would like people to visit, simply place an ad in one of our available grid squares. All paid advertisers are guaranteed their ads will appear on the homepage, and will also be shown via banners running in the admin panel of the FREE software the end-user downloads.
When millions of people have downloaded the anti-spyware software and are using it everyday, your ad will be seen by thousands, even millions of people.
Think about this math: Say we reach our goal of GIVING away our anti-spyware software, Spyware Trampler, 10,000,000 times. First, this means at least 10 million people visited our home page. If your ad is clicked by just 1 in 500 visitors, you will have received 20,000 hits.
Second, with 10 million copies of Spyware Trampler installed and being used once a week to clean people's computers of harmful and annoying spyware and adware, if your advertisement is seen by 50% of them and clicked-on by just 1% of those, via the smaller (486x60 banners), where you are competing for the eye of the visitor against fewer ads, you will be receiving 50,000 visitors PER WEEK! Including the original 20,000, the total could be 2,620,000 visitors for the year!
$200 premium grid ad = 2,620,000 visitors = .0000763 cents per visitor = CPM of $.0763 (8 pennies)
Compare to Google Adwords average CPM (Cost per Thousand) of $50, or Overture's average of $100. Of course they guarantee those hits and we CAN NOT guarantee you these levels of traffic. But if we are wrong by a factor of two you'll still pay only 15.2 cents for a thousand visitors to your website. Are you willing to take a chance on the concept of FREE software for the opportunity to pre-buy advertising at ridiculously low prices?
At these rates your site could sell SNOW TO ESKIMOES!
The concept in play here is proven and strong, it's consistent with Eastern philosphies, Christianity, Judiasm and Islam. Spread FREE software which protects people from harm, spread the word among your friends, enter a contest and have some fun, buy advertising at remarkable low rates to fund the further development of helpful and fun software which will continue to promote your investment and along the way, PurpleMammoth.com makes a profit. It's WIN/WIN/WIN/WIN/WIN.
The fact you are reading this is proof the concept works.
BE A PART OF IT NOW!!! Download the FREE software, place an ad or DO BOTH!
What is the product?
Our launch product (we have more FREE software already under development) is something every person who uses a PC computer needs... Anti-Spyware/Adware/Malware protection software.
This FREE, fully-functional, state-of-art software is comparable with other titles costing as much as $39.95 or more! Spyware Trampler has been three years in development and now catches and eliminates over 44,000 different types of malicious code.
More information about Spyware Trampler. (make link to clickbank page)
What other products are planned?
Aditional programs will be based around the same concept, software people will use on a regular basis, showing YOUR ads within, and driving traffic back to our homepage and YOUR ads.
After we launch with the Anti-Spyware title, Spyware Trampler, other products now in beta testing will made available for FREE download to the public. We will announce the details of these programs later. These software titles are being designed to be useful, utility-style programs, needed on a monthly, weekly or even daily basis, providing plenty of opportunities for people to see your ads.
Under development in the alpha stage is a little program with a very high comedy buzz-factor. It is guaranteed to garner media attention and drive masses of traffic back to the site.
Tell me more about your anti-spyware software, give me technical specs and features!
We don't blame you for wanting to know as much as possible about any software you put on your computer. You can't be too safe these days.
Read all about spyware trampler on the following page. (You can download the free version from there too, or buy the full (no banner ads) version!
Other pixel sites are free or cheaper. You are charging more than the original guy for your "Top of the Front Page" premium pixels. Why?
Free sites are usually worth what you pay for them. How is a free site going to get traffic?
We charge more for our best real estate because we are going to have millions of eyeballs looking at it over the next few years. You buy an ad with Purplemammoth.com, and the money is used to develop software which is then given away for FREE. Millions of people will use the software and our advertisers receive many impressions for a small investment over a long period of time. (Three years)
How does the banner rotation work?
Purplemammoth.com FREE software shows banners in the admin screen the user sees as they operate the software. Make an investment and your pixel ad will be put into the banner ad rotation throughout ALL our software. (Spyware Trampler now, more to follow...)
Premium grid ads will be weighted more heavily than regular grid ads, (at least 2.5 to 1) but all advertisers (and prize winners) will be in the rotation. Those people who invest early and in the top "Premium" section earn the greatest return on their investment in two ways. First, by taking action early, their ads will simply be seen by more people. Second, the order of the banner rotation will favor our early advertisers. We reward your investment.
Here is a screen shot which may help better explain how it all works. This screen is what people see when they run the software to rid themselves of spyware.
The software typically takes, depending on the size of the hard drive, number of files to check and the speed of the machine, from 2 to 20 minutes to check a computer for spyware and adware. During this time, the user will see your ads, click on them and they will open in a new window. He or she can then be doing whatever it is you want them to do, (shopping at your store, learning about your cause, checking out your Myspace page, etc) while the Spyware Trampler scans their computer for malicious code.
What is this Myspace.com contest all about?
The Myspace.com contest is part of our overall $75,000 "Promote the Mammoth" contest.
It's very simple, here is a link to the Purple Mammoth page at Myspace.com. If your already a member, just put The Mammoth on your friends list. If you haven't joined Myspace.com yet, do so, its fun. Twenty-six million people can't be wrong?
At the end of each contest period, currently scheduled for the ends of December, January, and then the end of each week until the contest squares are exhausted, a friend of The Mammoth will be chosen at random and awarded FREE squares on our homepage. Consult the example grid below, the contest squares with black in the middle, are for the Myspace.com winners, those with red are for Youtube.com winners.
The $15,000 Myspace.com GRAND PRIZE will be awarded on July 31, 2007. The Grand Prize is to be determined by the Mammoth staff based on the following criteria: The profile on the friends list of Purple Mammoth who did the "best" job of promoting Purple Mammoth on their Myspace.com page and has the most friend on their list. Yes, this is subjective, no whining if you don't win.
(Example: Someone does a tremendous job of customizing their profile to promote purplemammoth.com but has only 2 friend on their list. This profile is unlikely to be selected. Or, someone has 5000 friends but did nothing other than befriend The Mammoth. It is doubtful this profile would be selected. Or a profile which puts forth a decent effort to promote purplemammoth.com and has 250 friends in their list. Of the three, the latter would have the best chance at winning the $15,000 Grand Prize.
Your FREE squares can be used for just about anthing...to promote your Myspace.com page, your business, a worthy
charity, your favorite band, anything you want, subject to our rules about porn, violence, racism, etc.
Winners will be contacted through their Myspace page. PurpleMammoth.com is in no way affiliated with Myspace.
What is this Youtube.com contest all about?
The Youtube.com contest is part of the overall $75,000 "Promote the Mammoth" contest.
The rules are simple, just upload a video you think people will want to watch at Youtube.com. It can be anything; you breaking your arm falling off your skateboard, a re-cut movie trailer, a comedy skit, or if your a hottie, you might win by just standing in front of the camera wearing some of our Purple Mammoth gear and moving your goods around. Your imagination is the only limit, subject to the following rules.
Don't do any of this...
1. Nothing pornographic. 2. Nothing promoting hate or racism etc. 3. Nothing showing you or anyone committing a felony.
But you MUST do at least one of this...
4. In the video, mention purplemammoth.com. Example, you scream "Go to Purple Mammoth dot com!" just before you attempt a backflip on your cycle and break your femur. Instead of your friend/cameraman saying the obligatory, "Dude, are you okay?", have him say (Dude, this is gonna win you so many pixels at Purple Mammoth dot com!"
5. Or place a title effect at the beginning, the middle or at the end of the video, which lasts at least 4 seconds, and clearly displays the url "purplemammoth.com". (Example: For FREE anti-spyware software, go to purplemammoth.com)
6. Or place the url as an overlay, for the entire length of the video. These are usually at the bottom of the screen.
7. Or be a good-looking, interesting-looking or talented person and buy a Purple Mammoth shirt from our store to wear in your video. Get a close-up so people can read it.
8. Or some combination of the above.
And you MUST also do this...
9. In your Youtube.com profile, in the field for "your website", put a link to "http://www.purplemammoth.com".
Once uploaded to Youtube.com, alert the staff at Purple Mammoth to your video. This can be done here or via our Myspace.com page. Then try and get as many people as possible to view your clip.
The contest is divided into time periods - December, January and then each week afterward until all prize squares have been awarded.
Winners are decided by the most "views" as recorded by Youtube.com itself, but as established by the Purple Mammoth staff at the time we check Youtube.com to determine winners. Multiple prizes are available for each contest period. For example: At the end of December, when the staff checks Youtube.com, within the last 48 hours of the calendar month, the video meeting the qualifications and having the most "views" would win the 1st Prize for December, 10 premium squares, a $2000 value. The video viewed the second-most times wins the 2nd prize of 4 squares, an $800 value, and the third-most viewed video wins 2 squares, a $400 value.
The contest then enters the next period, and only NEW videos uploaded after the end of the previous period are eligible. This continues until the end of the contest. Should any prize not be awarded for a period, that prize is rolled over into the next contest period and an additional prize will be awarded for said period. All prizes will be given away.
The GRAND PRIZE is worth $15,000 and will be awarded last on July 31st, 2007. The winner of the GRAND PRIZE is the video, which meets the requirements and has the absolute highest number of "VIEWS". A video which has already won during a previous period is still elibigle to win the Grand Prize. The Grand Prize winner will probably be the best, most clever and most original of them all, so if you want $15,000 of FREE advertising, put some effort into your video and then promote the heck out of it.
(Example: You upload your fan-video of you doing the "Fergalicious" wearing a Purple Mammoth t-shirt in December. During the month your video is "viewed" 150,000 times and you win the 1st Prize for December. Your video continues to be "viewed" even though the contest moves into new periods. On July 31st, 2007, your video has been viewed 1,550,000 times, the highest number of any qualifying video. Your video would then win the Grand Prize.)
It is possible for a video to not win its initial upload time period, but then become popular later and still win the Grand Prize.
Here is a visual guide to the prize locations for the months of December and January and the weeks of the following months. The locations of the prizes follow scientifically determined eye-patterns of how people actually view webpages. We are giving you a chance to win our best real estate not the junk!
This contest is VOID where prohibited by law! And we have no idea where that might be, probably China, maybe Singapore, definately North Korea.
Purplemammoth.com also reserves the right to change or amend these rules in any way we see fit, and at any time, to protect the integrity and the spirit of the contest. (Translation...If someone tries to, or does "game the system", we might have to change it to keep it fair.
Winners will be contacted through their Youtube.com profiles or via Myspace.com if applicable. Purplemammoth.com is in no way affiliated with Youtube.com
