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Yet Another Business Marketing Idea

With the development of business marketing ploys such as pixel ads, it seems that many other technological developments are quickly coming in as competition. Hundreds of pixel ad banners are being displayed through the internet, and soon a new type of advertising ploy is sure to be seen everywhere you surf, Sticky Notes. In this Sticky Note website, Support My Education, business and website owners can buy a Sticky Note that is located on the websites? homepage. This innovative idea stems from Brandi, a student from Illinois. She is currently taking classes at a community college and plans to start attending the prestigious Saint Louis University in the fall. Overwhelmed by the financial burden of SLU, Brandi has started the website to help raise funds.

These Sticky Notes will be available for sale through Ebay. Brandi started the website last Friday. While she is putting some finishing touches on it, she has listed the first Sticky Note for sale. She started the bid under a dollar and is hoping for the best. There are 120 Sticky Notes available and Brandi has said that the selling price of the first will determine the pricing for the rest. To view the current status of her auction, or to place a bid yourself, you can find a link on her site. The website has only been up for a few days and has already seen hundreds of hits.

Brandi expects within the next few days there will be a drastic increase. While the original pixel site million dollar homepage, did extremely well, people will eventually tire of the hundreds of other pixel sites popping up every day. This is a creative way to bring in viewers and advertisements. Brandi has stated that one of the things she read most about others pixel sites is that people offered to donate money to the cause while not necessarily wanting to buy pixels. So taking that into consideration, she has set up an option to donate with the use of PayPal. Again, the idea is that a few pennies do not mean that much to you, but a whole lot of pennies would mean a lot to her.