A Burnaby entrepreneur hopes to strike it rich by selling advertising for every word in a book he’s posted on-line.
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Twenty-six-year-old Jeremy Burghall aims to make US$2.4 million with EveryWordIsForSale.com, which he launched in June.
Burghall told the Straight that so far he’s made US$900—or 0.0375 percent of his goal—by selling six words, including office, travel, and welcome.
“I’m actually assuming that it will work, yes,” Burghall said by phone. “It did work before with The Million Dollar Homepage.”
The Million Dollar Homepage was created in 2005 by British student Alex Tew, and lived up to its name.
Burghall’s site is selling the text of the 1910 book The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles. According to Burghall, the book inspired the idea for his Web site.
Words go for US$100 each, but advertisers have to buy every instance of one.
If he manages to sell all the words, Burghall said he hopes to start a solar-power company, despite having no background in that field.
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I have never clicked thru on a word as in google ad words but I'm sure a few will - providing they are interested in the on-line book enough to read it.
But, like spam, it based on the fact there's always someone that will respond regardless of how silly it seems.
The major hurdle must surely be getting people to go to his webpage and read the book (and click).
Good luck to him - every penny he can earn from the net adds up and hopefully earns him a living.
Anyone want to buy a word on this site,,, http://www.lewiscarroll.ca/ ?