Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Teenager Makes $1 Million A Year Giving Away Free Stuff

Assalaam alaikum. Here's the story I shared in class....
Ashley Qualls is a fantastic example of how someone with very little money and experience can become a huge success online.
When she was 14 years old Ashley borrowed $8 from her Mom and set up a new website, where she created her own Myspace layouts and gave them away for free.
There is nothing to buy on her site at all, as all her revenue comes from advertising to the tune of $1 million a year, only 3 years after she started.
You can read the full story, and watch a video interview with her on Yahoo news, which includes a chat with her Mom and friends, who she employs to help her run the site:

http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/52250/teen-millionaire

1 comment:

Nor Shakirah Saad said...

salam...

i'm really interested actually to involve in things that can generate more money with my own effort. your story quite impressed me... the person that you have story to us is quite a fantastic example of how someone with very little money, knowledge and experience can become a huge success online although she was very young at that time. Our IT subject lecturer also has told to our class before that if we have skill in creating our own websites, there will be an opportunities to generate a lot of money through that. it just whether we want to do or not only... and the main point, it doesn't require formal education and we don't need a degree in IT to success in that way.


tq...