Ashley Qualls was not out to become a millionaire when she launched her tutorial site whateverlife.com on the fledgling Internet of 2004. Catering primarily to other young teens her age, the 14-year-old posted free graphics she’d created, building a community around sharing free web layouts and graphics for anyone with an interest in design. Qualls later expanded the site to share free MySpace layouts and HTML tutorials so other teens could build their presence on the popular social media platforms of the times. The site itself developed into a social platform of sorts, with other users sharing their own designs.
The concept of sharing designs over the internet and connecting with other individuals with similar hobbies is very familiar to most millennials today, but it was fresh enough in the early 2000s that Qualls, by unintentionally tapping into a fresh market, gained almost immediate success.
From the beginning, Ashley had perceived the site as a hobby; everything available on her site was free and it had all spun out of her own personal interests. Once she realized she could start making money off what she was marketing, she began hosting ads on the website. Although this was her only source of revenue, Ashley generated so much web traffic due to her content that by age 17 she had become a millionaire.
As social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have taken off, Qualls has maintained the site, increasing its social community appeal, and it is still incredibly successful today. An early lesson in internet content creation, Qualls’ instant success might not occur in the same quick way today as it did back in the early days of the Internet, but the options available to current bloggers and designers are perhaps now more plentiful than ever.
Very cool that she could come up with an idea like that. She took her passion for something and took charge of it and did something with it. Especially with design become a big thing, I definitely think someone could feed off of this.
This is the American dream, she loved doing something so she found a way to make a profit by doing and she kept doing it. She stuck with what she loved and it has certainly paid off.
She is truly an inspiration to us all through the fact that she realized her passion and followed through on them. She stuck it out through the growing pains and is now reaping the benefits.
It is interesting how she tapped into a fresh market, which ended up making her a millionaire without really trying to be. I also love how she was just pursuing her hobby at first. It shows that passion can lead to success.
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Thanks for the above post. I have come across the tutorial website whateverlife.com by Ashley Qualls. It is surprising to know that Qualls started to come up with unique web layout at an early age of 14. The HTML tutorials of Ashley would be useful for beginners who are into website designing. I would recommend the above post to my friends.
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Thanks for sharing your ideas. I would also like to mention that video games have been actually evolving. Technology advances and improvements have made it easier to create realistic and interactive games. These kind of entertainment video games were not as sensible when the concept was first of all being used. Just like other forms of technological innovation, video games way too have had to evolve by many generations. This itself is testimony for the fast development of video games.