developingeyes’ Entrepreneur of the Week: Ashley Qualls
This weekend I thought about things that motivate me to continue my tries at financial independence. One of those things is reading about persons who are doing it currently. I know very well I may never have that level of success but at the same time I find their stories very inspirational and motivational. As a result I decided to post about one every Monday as a nice start to the week. I will try and focus on the younger guys and also try to research those that are under the radar and not the traditional Mark Zuckerberg (facebook) and Kevin Rose (Digg) posts, I think most of us already know these guys’ stories. So here is my entrepreneur of the week. I chose this person because of their age (very young) and because I was not aware of them. So this week’s Entrepreneur of the week is…..Ashley Qualls of WhateverLife.com
I’m guessing quite a bit of you know her story already, I saw tonnes of articles online about her which kinda makes me wonder if I was the only person out of the loop. For those of you who don’t know who Ashley Qualls is allow me to make you familiar.
Ashley Qualls is 17 year old Web Entrepreneur who owns and runs the website whateverlife.com. She provides myspace layouts for teenage girls and her stats are averaged at 7 million visitors and 60 million page views a month according to an article at fastcompany.com Oh and did I mention she’s a MILLIONAIRE? Yes, she has done the norm: made more than a million dollars in revenue, dropped out of high school, bought a house and turned down buyout offers. I think this is an excellent story and I wish her continued success.
What does this show us? Well it holds true to the wonderful possibilities of the internet and the possibility of making money online from social networking websites. From a broader point of view it speaks alot to niche marketing and focusing on things you yourself can relate to. Ashley is a teenage girl so she knows what teenage girls want and she chose that niche. If we could all be so lucky to find a familiar yet profitable niche. I hope you’ve found this somewhat motivating, you can read more on Ashley Qualls and a case study of her business model at doshdosh.com. It’s an excellent article.
Thanks for reading
Hey, I got a story for you I’m doing it as well.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Keep it up b, you soon get like her.
I feel to become successful like that, you just have to keep at it and put in the hard work. Eventually you must strike gold.
This has definitely been added inspiration for me. Keep the posts coming Brett.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
cool, whats the story mlm..feel free to email me the details
March 18th, 2008 at 12:26 am