2012年9月5日星期三

Ashley Qualls - Confession of a Teenage Millionaire

For modern teens, a social networking site is one area where unlimited access to other people’s profile data is the highlight of their adolescent era. Seeing their crushes’ or their friends’ personal profiles current activity provides a certain kind of voyeurism that is legal in every aspect. Interacting and updating each other through the internet instead of the usual face to face encounters is now the trend. While most of these young girls are busy with the rudiments of iphone 4s audio jack teenage life, one chose to have fun and earn big at the same time through the thing that she likes most. Just ask Ashley Qualls and interesting business success story.For Ashley, work and fun is synonymous as she is the founder of WhatEverLife.com, a website offering free MySpace layouts and HTML tutorials. Syma S031G The site is aimed at her age demographic, which makes it relatively easy for her to connect with the site’s users. The site started as a simple hobby of a fourteen-year old that became a monumental business success story, so much so that her website receives more traffic than the sites of Seventeen, Teen Vogue and CosmoGirl! combined. Ashley, born on June 4th, 1990 hails from Lincoln Park, Michigan. The basement of her home is what she calls her office and has her mother and her friends from school as her employees, along with developers-for-hire in India. Her site is supported entirely by advertising revenue through Google AdSense, where most websites credit their profit to, not withstanding the monthly subscriptions and the like. A lot has seen the potential of her website and the growth and a business success it may achieve in time. Numerous offers were made to acquire her company, some offering 1.5 million dollars and any car of her choice. These things will definitely blind the common adolescent, but with Ashley, who is not just tech-savvy but is business-savvy as well, she opted to decline and chose to sustain it even more. She was cited to saying that she created the site out of nothing, and she wanted 9958 parts to see how she can take it further. And by further meaning Ashley had to offer new features and products such as creating an online magazine (whose contributors are also some of her friends from school) and cell phone wallpapers for 99 cents to $1.99 per download (a business proposal already in the works). This is truly a great business success story for a teenager like Ashley.As Ashley grew from the shy teenager asking her mother to take phone calls from advertisers to a mature person who no knows how to put her foot down without stepping on anybody, Ashley has been very careful who and when to trust in her world. She also values the discipline in her endeavors and makes plans way ahead. Nobody said that the road to a business success story will be easy and Ashley took it all in stride – all twenty years of her.

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