Millionare at 17: Template Queen

Yes. She is 17 & Ashley Qualls is the CEO of a million-dollar internet business, "Whateverlife.com"



She is highschool dropout, had no business connections, no rich dad/mom or relatives, started the business of providing free templates for social networking site Myspace with borrowed $8 from her mom.

Her first Google Adsense paycheck was $2,790, which is astonishingly high for first paycheck, showcasing enourmous popularity of her website distributing templates. And currently she is making $70K/month from ad revenue from Google Adsense, Nabbr and Valueclick.

She started by making web page templates, but her recokoning came with her learning on customizing MySpace. She started sharing these templates in her high school, which spread like fire, and drove traffic like crazy to her site.

Her success factor: "Niche" : of Teenage Girls. She focused her templates/themes on Teenage Girls, which helped her reach to this stage.

Today she is busy honing her business skills, and diversifying into other social networking site templates, and even cell phone wrapper based on her designs.