17-year-old Girl Makes $70,000 a Month Via Myspace

May 6th, 2008

Ashely Qualls is a regular girl. That is if you consider regular to be an internet mogul by the time you’re a junior in highschool.

Ashely is indeed living the good life. Her website, whateverlife, has earned her approx. 1 million dollars. It recieves nearly 7 million unique visitors per month, resulting in 60 million page views. Ashley is true to the entrepreneurial spirit, keeping control of her company despite offers of 1.5 million and the car of her choice.

So what does Ashely sell to make all this money? Nothing. The products are absolutely free. Page designs for myspace are yours for the picking, free of charge. The money she makes is predominantly from Google Adsense and Valueclick.

Now that she’s dropped out of highschool and bought her own house, Ashely is attempting to emancipate herself to gain control of her company’s finances. Courts ruled to let neither Ashley nor her parents control the money made from the company, she must appeal to gain funds outside her set budget. She only has until next summer before she turns 18, so either way she will be faced with economic freedom most of us can only dream about very shortly.

It’s a testament to the oppurtunity of the internet, regarless of location, size, age, or experience.

For those of you who are curious of what the site looks like, here it is.

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