Skint student's money-spinning Internet idea pays off
A skint student has already raised £1,000 towards his university fees - thanks to an Internet brainwave.
Skint Spyros Pyrgiotis, 23, is the youngest person ever to secure a place on a prestigious MBA course.
But with no job and multiple loan refusals the budding entrepreneur turned to the internet to fund his £17,000 course fees.
His website www. thetextpage .com is just that - a page full of text which links to advertisers websites.
And the broke business student has already attracted the attention of advertisers – thanks to his rock bottom prices.
He said: "Each characters costs less than £1.50 ($2) and I've already sold £1,050 of advertising.
"You only need to buy enough characters to provide a link to your website so it's a cheap way for business to advertise."
"Perhaps it is not the most sophisticated website but it definitely does the job."
The website only launched last month but already has more than 2,000 unique visitors a day thanks largely to a 1,200-strong fan group on social networking site Facebook.
Source: Sourcewire
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April 14, 2009, 9:13 am