This could be big or just die in some kind of void but you can’t say it’s not an interesting idea. Despite the domain and tag line this isn’t a clever get rich scam. Basically, you register your avatar and homepage then the site will randomly rotate a certain number of avatars on the site.
I think it has some potential to catch on. Definitely, get in on the action while you can. I think a lot of bloggers are more receptive to the idea of promoting their avatars now that MyBlogLog is going mainstream.
A suggestion to MillionDollarAvatar: let us pull our avatars from MyBlogLog or Gravatars (if they’re up now).
MDA is a web solution, built on AvatarConnect – an avatar based social networking platform I developed during those 3.5 weeks I previously mentioned. At it’s core MDA is an advertising service, but I added a few twists to provide users and members a more enjoyable experience. MDA was created to become a tool for users to advertise their own site(s) and find new sites (companies, blogs, MySpace band pages, etc). The “fun” aspect of MDA is the “random” features. The goal for members is obviously getting noticed. The easiest ways to get noticed on MDA is by getting your avatar onto the homepage or backpage and into The Daily 20. Those locations offer the greatest amount of user traffic and work best in driving users back to your site. That’s the core of MDA – getting your site traffic. Hence the tagline – get hits or die tryin’.
Nothing like getting in on the ground floor!
Hey, thanks for the post! And that’s a good tip. I’m gonna have to think about how I can incorporate those two services.
The only “action” to get in on is that the first 100 members will be on that homepage until we reach 100 members and then we begin to randomly generate the homepage. After that its random every 24 hours on the homeapage. But there’s always the backpage, RSS feeds, tag searches, checking out users who also have the same members in their favorites, etc, etc.
I need to create video tutorial for all you can do actually – its on the list.
Any more tips or ideas are appreciated. Cheers!
[...] Mad props to Baron for breaking this story to me on his blog Million Dollar Avatar – get hits or die tryin’. [...]
Then D*gging it to fame! lol
Kevin,
Even with the first 1000 you have a one in 10 chance of staying on the homepage so that’s not bad. Glad to see you paying attention to the sites submitted because there are so many many spammers out there. I’m sure this idea wil catch on because it’s simply brilliant!
I don’t know if I would want this on D*gg. Don’t they bury everything related to blogging?
This an interesting idea , I wonder if it will take off? I shall give it a try..
Btw I like the change to your website 🙂
P.S Stop being so nice to me – you have not had the opportunity to witness my bad side… wink
Good point about the 100/1000 chances!
Very happy you like the site. Please feel free to promote away ;P It’s very much appreciated.
Peety,
Really? This is like my “old” design but it feels better to me too. Bad side? 😉
kevin,
I’ve done everything in my power. Time to get sleep. Sure it will catch on soon though. Nothing like a good self-promotion tool to get bloggers yapping like there’s no tomorrow.