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Fast Company published an article in the 2007 September edition of their magazine about the 17-year old Ashley Qualls.

This girl runs a MySpace layout and graphics site called Whateverlife. According to the article the three-year old site receives 7 million unique visitors and 60 million page views a month. That’s a larger audience than the circulations of Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and CosmoGirl! magazines combined.

The revenue from Google AdSense and ValueClick is up to $70,000 a month. Ashley is evidence that internet business is real business. It doesn’t care of funding, location, size, or age.

The power of the blog is a steady supply of designs for MySpace pages and attracted a few hundred-thousand girls a day. Then she made the website a community.

It all started as a hobby. She began web-site design eight years ago, when she was 9. she was teaching herself the basics of Web design. Originally, Ashley created the site in late 2004 when she was 14 as a way to show off her design work. So many classmates asked her to design their MySpace layout that she began posting layouts on her site daily, several at first, then dozens.

By 2005, her traffic had exploded and she needed her own dedicated server. With no money, she was adviced to try Google AdSense, a service that supplies ads to a site and shares the revenue. The first check, her first paycheck was $2,790.

Ashley has a great business instincts. She decided to offer her designs as cell-phone wallpaper, creating a new service and revenue stream based on existing inventory. Ashley, has a vision for Whateverlife that goes beyond a MySpace tools site.

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