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1. How does the site work?
2. Why is this Campaign invitation only.
3. I haven't received an invitation, how can I take part in this Campaign?
4. How much is a pixel box?
5. What are all the green boxes at the bottom of the mosaic with numbers on them?
6. Does it cost more for an animated advert?
7. How many words can I have in my hover message text?
8. What is a pixel?
9. What is pixel advertising?
10. Why are the pixel boxes 100 pixels each?
11. What will the page look like when it?s full?
12. Is this type of advertising effective?
13. How long will my advert last?
14. How long will the site be online?
15. Can I update my logo and hover text later?
16. How do I get an invoice for my Business Accounts?
17. What are my payment options?
18. How quickly do I need to pay my invoice?
19. I suddenly can?t seem to open the adverts or the little doorways, what am I doing wrong?
20. How do you know a pixel advertising page like this will be popular?
21. How will Floyds attract the media attention of the world?
22. I'm definitely interested in taking part what do I do now?..
23. I have chosen a perfect advertising space, how can I describe where it is?
24. How can I get back to the mosaic?
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Question: How does the site work?
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This a front page advertising mosaic. It is divided into pixel boxes. Try clicking on some of the images/adverts/logos and you will be taken directly to our top quality advertisers websites Check out the grey space that is still available and you will see there are lots of little grey dots - each dot represents one of the four corners of a pixel box (or square). Then simply choose the best place on the page for your new advert... and give us a call ! ... We'd love to hear from you :)

 
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Question: Why is this Campaign invitation only.
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To create a top quality browsing experience.
 
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Question: I haven't received an invitation, how can I take part in this Campaign?
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We'd love to hear from you. This is an invitation only advertising opportunity, so please email us through the contact page or give us a ring and we can tell you more.


 
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Question: How much is a pixel box?
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In the top right hand corner of the mosaic you will see it says that 1 pixel box = ?20 and the pixel box is the little red square. The price for our invited advertisers is just ?5 per box.

 
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Question: What are all the green boxes at the bottom of the mosaic with numbers on them?
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Each of those green boxes gives a suggested advertising size. So for example a 24 box advert would be 24 @ ?5 per box = ?120, etc, And there are many different configurations of each size e.g.. 6 boxes high by 4 boxes wide = 24 or 3 boxes high x 8 boxes wide = 24, etc. Most advertisers choose a space and an image and an approximate budget and then we go from there, creating the best image possible for that price.
 
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Question: Does it cost more for an animated advert?
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Please supply us with an animated image if that is your preference, there is no increase in price for the promotion of an animated advert. The final jpeg/gif/image needs to be the actual size of the advert.
 
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Question: How many words can I have in my hover message text?
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This is the message that pops up as you hover the mouse over each advert. It can be up to 50 characters (not words!) in length including all spaces and punctuation.

 
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Question: What is a pixel?
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Pixels are the smallest unit of real-estate on the web. Every page on the web is made up of millions of pixels. The technical definition for pixel is picture element - a single point in a graphical image. Video monitors display images on the web by dividing the display screen into thousands or millions of pixels. The pixels are arranged in rows and columns sufficiently close together so that the displayed images appear connected.
 
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Question: What is pixel advertising?
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This visually striking and unforgettable new form of advertising was the brilliant invention of UK student called Alex Tew in 2005, he captivated the world press with the success of his colourful creation and Pixel Advertising is now an important part of internet history. The mainstream media heralded pixel advertising as the advertising phenomenon of the decade and today there still exists a global media opportunity for the successful follow-on story. We believe that for pixel advertising sites to succeed, there needs to be the support of a big strong media campaign to generate the necessary traffic volumes. We have over 15 years experience of the Direct Marketing industry and we are keen to see this exciting new advertising format and also useful approach to internet marketing and your website promotion, become the absolute best success we believe it can be in this most logical next stage of development. Pixel advertising is a front-page advertising format presented as a colourful, interactive mosaic of micro-sized adverts and logos. As the customer moves their mouse around the page, a little descriptive hover message pops up for each logo and by clicking on one of those logos the customer is instantly transported to one of our specially chosen advertiser's websites... New customers instantly arrive at your business website with just one click of their mouse button... no need to type an http://www.address, research a magazine page advert or read through lists on wordy search engine pages... No longer relegated to banner ads or link farms, advertisers now have the pixel page to offer a montage of unique advertising art, generating years of regular and building traffic volumes and a worldwide fanbase.
 
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Question: Why are the pixel boxes 100 pixels each?
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You will see the homepage or mosaic page is divided into 10,000 boxes (or squares) of 100 pixels each. Each box measures 10 pixels wide and 10 pixels high and there are little grey dots marking each of the 4 corners. The reason for offering advertising space in boxes of 100 pixels is because anything smaller would be too small to display anything meaningful.

 
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Question: What will the page look like when it?s full?
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... BRILLIANT!... As you can see we are right at the beginning of our collection for eco enthusiasts and if you would like to see a page we have almost completed please take a look at our page created especially for car enthusiasts ... just click on the little doorway entrance on the right hand side of the mosaic that say ?cars?!
 
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Question: Is this type of advertising effective?
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For the presentation of our campaign we chose this unique, quirky, strangely beautiful and completely unforgettable advertising format. The invention of this format has been widely discussed and celebrated within the worldwide media and has become a fantastically well promoted UK entrepreneurial success story. The original version, by Alex Tew, still enjoys phenomenal international browsing figures, a well established global fanbase and has a truly mind boggling myriad of social networking connections that are already in place. Choosing this format gives us a powerful, positive PR story to launch our Campaign with and instant browsing traffic - arriving from all areas of life - ready to discuss, investigate and recommend the Campaign. The results of this form of pixel advertising for British entrepreneur Alex Tew are well documented. The Times was so impressed with his original pixel site, they bought their own ad! People are fascinated by the collage of images and will click away for hours visiting and bookmarking and returning again and again to discover who or what lies behind the logos of each advertised site. We are offering the experience of carefully chosen top quality browsing time for internet users and this captivated browsing audience becomes a growing fanbase of loyal customers ? recommending individual websites to all their friends and colleagues and generating HUGE numbers of unique clicks to your company website. We have lots of publicity ideas ready to promote your website ensuring targeted promotion in addition to all our National and International PR.
 
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Question: How long will my advert last?
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Whatever date your business joins - your advert will run until December 2015. In December 2015 we will be offering all our advertisers the chance to renew their page positions.
 
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Question: How long will the site be online?
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The site and webpage will be online indefinitely and at least until Christmas 2015 and beyond.
 
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Question: Can I update my logo and hover text later?
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Yes, you can update your pixel space with a new logo and hover text at any time to reflect the progress of your business.
 
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Question: How do I get an invoice for my Business Accounts?
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We will send your invoice as a PDF attachment via email.

Press the print prompt when ordering through Paypal.

 
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Question: What are my payment options?
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We accept cheques, bank transfers, PayPal, credit cards and debit cards.
 
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Question: How quickly do I need to pay my invoice?
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This is a mosaic of logos and as we build the page it is really great to know that all the space has been finalised as a new advertisers starts to choose their page position. We would really appreciate it, therefore, if you could pay your invoice as promptly as possible and on receipt of invoice would be marvellous. Thank you so much!

 
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Question: I suddenly can?t seem to open the adverts or the little doorways, what am I doing wrong?
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Don?t worry, you have probably just opened the page in a new window, if so there will be a new browsing window stored at the top or the bottom of your screen .... simply click on it and close it as you would when browsing conventionally.


 
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Question: How do you know a pixel advertising page like this will be popular?
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All browsers are encouraged to bookmark our sites and recommend them to their friends, families and work colleagues... creating a great fanbase as Alex Tew has done.

Alex invented something that is now called pixel advertising and he is currently getting approximately 31,000 traffic ranking a day with Alexa.com and this is more than 5 years after it's initial launch, he has a worldwide fanbase and receives tens of thousands of browsers from all over the world. He has already proven that this form of advertising is a highly popular, entertaining and incredibly enjoyable browsing format.

 
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Question: How will Floyds attract the media attention of the world?
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Pixel advertising is the successful invention of a young entrepreneurial UK student called Alex Tew ... Alex hit world headline news with his colourful invention. Alex Tew has been celebrated and talked about extensively in the world press but he has also been widely questioned by the media for creating an advertising format that nobody else has been able to use. There were hundreds of pixel mosaics in quick succession but no real way of generating the necessary traffic volumes. This means that there is still an enormous global media opportunity for the successful use of the Alex Tew format. ... We therefore have the most incredible international "follow-on story" media opportunity of re-capturing the attention of the press who followed the original whirlwind success story of Alex Tew..... the press in Ireland, USA, Germany, Russia, Netherlands, Israel, Italy, Sweden, Ukraine, Po/fontland, Croatia, Belarus, France, India, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Slovakia, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Dubai, Hong Kong, China, Brazil, Argentina, Iran, Hungary, Albania, Czech Republic, Canada, Slovak Republic, Spain and Portugal
 
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Question: I'm definitely interested in taking part what do I do now?..
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To take part all we would need you to do is provide a jpeg for your pixel advert, our design team can help you with this free of charge - and we may be able to lift your chosen image directly from your website. After that it is a simple matter of choosing the best place on the site for your advert.

 
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Question: I have chosen a perfect advertising space, how can I describe where it is?
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Once you have decided on the best position for your new advert, click on the relevant box/square that will become the top left hand corner of your advert. In the drop down menu you will be given an x coordinate and a y coordinate. If you let us have these x/y coordinates when you order, we will know exactly the position you liked... (To close the drop down menu and return to the mosaic, simply click "Home" in the top left hand corner of the page.) .... Don?t worry though, we can easily go through all this together.. and if you have questions please contact us via the contact page ... We look forward to hearing from you. :)
 
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Question: How can I get back to the mosaic?
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If you look in the top left hand corner of the page there is a gold bar with the word "home" written in it, click on that and you will arrive back on the mosaic.
 
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