A new personal business model, sell ads on your Laptop

The next million dollar home page idea “For $150 a square inch, I’ll etch (almost) whatever you want on the top of my new laptop.”

Are you in need a new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with 3GB of RAM and a 200GB hard drive and have no way of paying for it? Then why not sell advertising on the lid of the laptop to places like Firefox, Technorati, Digg, and other Web 2.0 startups? That is exactly what Leah Culver did and now she has a shiny new laser etched laptop to use wherever she goes.

Here was her sales pitch

“You can contribute a bit of money to help me buy a new computer – a MacBook Pro laptop. For $150 a square inch, I’ll etch (almost) whatever you want on the top of my new laptop. Your ad will be shown all around the Bay Area coffee shops, start-up offices, and Web2.0 conventions! I now work at Instructables, a how-to/DIY website full of cool projects. Instructables is located at Squid Labs and I have access to their laser etching/cutting machine.”

This is the video of Leah laser etching the logos onto her new Mac at Squid Labs where she works.

I appreciate the marketing in this. I was looking for a way to get a free Mackbook pro myself. This is brilliant. According to John Chow, she could have further improved upon this business model by asking the advertisers themselves to send her decals to stick on the lid. She could then charge by the month and then add or remove advertisers as contracts come due.

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