New Feature to Raise Capital

theprodigy101

I recently added a new feature to my blog (www.rohailrizvi.com) to help
raise funding for my first project. As my blog notes, I need to come up
with $500 in 15 days so I decided to sell pixels. Do you guys think
this is a creative way to approach this? Has anyone ever had success
before doing the same thing on their personal website?

theprodigy101

Hey Vincent,

Thanks for your comment. I always appreciate constructive criticism.

First off, I probably should have made this more clear, but my site is
charging $7 for each square, as opposed to an actual pixel. So you
could get a fairly large advertisement block on my site for a very
decent amount. Say you wanted four squares- that`s $28 for a permanent
ad that spans a good 1 inch by 1 inch.

You mentioned that the price for each pixel is quite high at $7.
However, compared to several other sites such as nevblog.com (who
charges $50 per pixel), I think my pixels are priced appropriately.
Also, I have much larger pixels on mine, which makes the $7 for each
one even more valuable.

I can`t say I have the same traffic as nevblog.com, although my hits
have been pretty decent. It`s now the 14th of June and I have 659
pageloads so far this month with 427 unique hits and my numbers keep
rising every month. I would be more than happy to provide the graphs
illustrating these figures.

Perhaps you`re right that your particular ad dollars could be spent
better elsewhere. Although, I can honestly say my site reaches a wide
variety of people, young and old, business and non-business related.
Plus you would be helping out a young entrepreneur in his first
entrepreneurial endeavor

theprodigy101

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

iouone2

I understand better now. thank you.

David

Presenting advertising stats is a good way to justify expenditures on the part of businesses.  I recommend pumping existing capital into more marketing for your blog as well as presenting concrete numbers and a solid plan for how you`ll help a potential business client.Being that thorough for a pixel ad will differentiate you from your "competitors" and shows a business you`re serious about working with them.  A little preparation goes a long way.

theprodigy101

Thanks, David, that makes a lot of sense. I`ll be sure to do that.

Chuck

The original million dollar home page - where this idea took root.

iouone2

What a mess. I don`t think I would visit more than once. Why once... just to say... yeah, I have seen it.Thanks Chuck. Because of you, I have seen it.