I used to hear about her too. If good chance , good time and good in com come at the same time, it's so easy to make money through online. 70,000 USD is very impressive amount. She can retire since 30 years old. Oh my god!!!!! I hope I can earn that much, but no,
Ya, but there's probably a lot more myspace websites out there making $70k/month. I believe myspacesupport was also bringing in that much last year with YPN.
no doubt man! i work all the time and i'm not making 70,000/month. I hate to hear things like this where just some nonsense makes a ton of money. for one thing it can be very distracting because then i start trying to think of something like this... and it's really just chance. it's better to keep it real and work on things that will definitely make money instead of trying to come up with some idea.. well i guess unless you really have an idea you believe in... maybe. this is some incoherent insanity. i'll stop this post now.
This was a good example of striking balance in passion,skill and internet marketing ...she has the ability to design well plus she has the tech skill also, combine this = BOOMMM ... but story like this we won't see everyday who knows, she's writing ebook/course right now on how to make money online, isn;t it ? $70 k permonth for 17 year old gal is something AWESOME to do ... had someone 'crack the code yet' ? hmm..what about pimpmyspace.com ? i think that site rank high too on G ...
what i see is she knew exactly how teenage/gals/ eyes respond to certain colour and attracted to it ...and she's a gal attracting gal ...i donno whether a man running a layout site and attract men too..sounds weird right ? it's the OPRAH effect...she's attracting other females with her site, with her design and colours ...this gal is indeed good at SEO + social bookmark i sould say, how's that HUGE traffic is possible without spending a dime ?? the site was so dumb simple, no fancy2 stuff but rely heavily on site design, the way she design it truly shows that she's into this design thing seriously... just my 2 cent lol..
Exactly, and if you reach the female audience, then you have a higher chance of blowing up (i'D SAY).
Come on guys learn to appreciate her for what she did. All throughout this thread I can see people getting pissed and jealous. The major factor is age which is hard to accept for many people here. But look at Raymond kroc that guy was 52 when he decided to promote Mc Donalds the restaurant which took over the world by storm. So age is just a number, You can be 80 and still move mountains. The trait of a true winner is to appreciate excellence and get motivated by it not jealous as jealousy gets you no where in life.
Ive talked to Ash Bo as she is commonly know, a bit to try and help her out. I have helped her with some basics in SEO and marketing, becuase she didnt really knwo to much about seo and marketing... It just seems to me that she was lucky to get into the market at the right time, when their was a need for my space layouts for girls, becuase their was obviously a lack of them. As for people who are jealous of her she is really quite humble about this and she never brags one bit, I know a few people making similar amounts to her and you never hear the end of the bragin...Ash also has a great deal of problems with her family and they have tried to steal her money... I really do feel sorry for her at times.
here is some more info on Ash as posted by her on a forum I am on, Posted by: ashbernie311 (Ashley) Warning; super long. You can leave now if you'd like. Just want to post :/ So, today was an incredibly awful day. I usually don't rant about anything to anyone...but hey "Vent it out"...sort of invites me, hm. If you really don't want to hear about it, it's okay- you can click back and it's all good. Anyways, I usually don't share my personal life with anyone that I'm not super close with (but it's coming out in the magazine anyways, so I don't really care anymore; it's my story I guess). Well, a lot of people are unaware that my only brother and my father once tried to clear my bank account back when I lived with them. It was devastating, people you trust can turn in a heartbeat. And even though they did this to me, the entire family of mine never stuck up for me. I moved back with my mom (and bought the home)- and so even though the rest of my family (and we were really close) doesn't talk to me, I guess I've become numb to it. It really hurt me at first, but you know- You really see who the true person in people are when money is in the game. My family would hit me up for money constantly, and I would give it (all the time; whatever they needed...we're family, right?)- There is a point to the story, or maybe not, I don't know yet... Anyways, since my brother tried to clear my account, a 'conservator' was placed in my estate name- meaning I no longer have full access to my funds because of exploitation (which makes sense, but I couldn't appoint my mom because my dad would have fought it and it just would have obviously made more sense to appoint someone we didn't know?)- Bad idea (wasn't ours...the judge did it)- And I have these bitchy ass people handling my money which I cannot trust, and today one of the associates basically threatened to close all of my funds down. (A lot of people don't know this, but since they've been in place, I have absolutely no spending money what so ever. Think about it...would you work constantly for free?) I have built my business from day one, alone. So the day was ruined and we spent six hours bitching with my lawyer and them. It was such a headache. We're going for emancipation this/next month, so I feel a little better about it. I received their billing statement (mind you, they're supposed to be protecting my assets)- And it is for $xx,xxx since MARCH! I would have NEVER spent that kind of money on personal items since March!? And they're protecting me?! </rant 1> So anyways, about four in the afternoon...things settle a bit, my headache isn't as intense- barely got to be creative all day. Such a bummer. I get online and my younger cousin IM's me. He asks me, "did you go to the funeral?"...I was completely confused. Long story short (and a lot of upsetting tears and what not later)- I was told that my great grandmother passed away on Saturday, and my 'family' had told him not to 'tell me' because I was no longer 'part of the family'. They also didn't tell my mother (obviously) and my other uncle... It has really made me realize how cruel and cold people can be. People I grew up with and loved...really. I no longer have trust for most everyone. I cannot believe my family would do that. I was the type of kid who stayed at all of my aunts/uncle's houses, and practically lived with my grandma. I guess in a way I'm relieved because I finally know my great grandma is in a better place- and them avoiding me has finally pushed me to write a staggering five page letter to each member of my family about my true feelings of betrayal. I know I'm ranting about a lot of personal things, but hey, it's true. And I needed to. What also sparked me to vent tonight, was a little IM I have gotten from "GREENSPEED21" a few minutes ago. He had asked for a link exchange, and I had told him (as I have told others)- that right now I just didn't have an open link exchange (polite...and fair). I also talked to him before about developing a custom slide (he wanted $5000)...and I was still looking; and wasn't very comfortable at the time with doing the project. Moving on, he kept asking for an 'invisible' link on my page...again, I said it just wasn't fair. I wasn't being rude or saying flat out 'no, go away' or anything like that. He kept saying how he was short on cash, and how his recent surgery was $4000...I am generally a really kind person, but this was begging to me! He kept asking, and then eventually said: Him: omg alright ill remember that Him: : seriously if someone was in need of cash i would of helped them out Him: : hope you feel guilty :'( Me: I hope you understand it's business, not personal... Him: : sometimes you need to give to get. Him: : karma . Me: I surely believe in it, but begging doesn't get anyone far. Now, I have helped a ton of people out in the past, and I always do when I can...it's just not always fair and you can't always get what you want. You want to talk about karma? You should really realize that begging isn't too good for the soul either. Anyways, bad day gone worse, and worse. Regardless, I really do try and help people out when I can. I am usually really busy and I do have a social life, so it's about maintaining balance, and I apologize if I cannot always get back right away about something- It's been really hard the past year, and we all have our ups and downs. Urrrg. I was just so upset by his comments, because I do as much as I can for others, while I'm trying to grow my own business, and keep my life going too...
dude I think the story is true, I know this chic off another forum she does make bit money the adsense account is in her MUM's name. she does not do link exchanges. she is a humble person... thing is their are a lot of people making 100-200k a month on adsense even way more then that you just don't hear about them, and they don't want you to hear about them lol.
well done to her i say. its what every one on her wants to do, so not liking her achieving it is sheer spite.
I was pissed when I read that. That layout is crappy and hard to navigate plus all the content is mainly stolen. It's the female ebaumsworld!
Interesting to read all the different reactions to this girl's success.. I want to wish her continued good luck and success. Hope all your personal problems are ironed out. Relatives and "friends" can be a real pain in the butt sometimes.
so her site mainly grew from word of mouth ? it is amazing how quickly it grew from nothing into a massive traffic machine.... is it because the layouts and graphics people used had a link back to her site? that must be, because I dont see how this site could just grow because her page looks nice and girls tell other girls... she must have back links in the graphics she uses and then other girls see them and go visit the site because they want it on THEIR myspace page.... and you know how women are competing with other women trying to get attention from guys... that must have been the fuel. the other HUGE thing i think that gave this site huge advantage was the domain name... notice all the other myspace sites are called myspacethis myspace that.. boring names... but the name she chose WHATEVER is used by millions of teen girls so they identified with that name and did not forget the domain name!! in my web browsing, many times i forget the names of sites i have been to because they are so boring and standard. so maybe the lesson in all this is to get our heads out of our @#$@#$@ and stop being so fixated on SEO and techie rules etc. and INSTEAD create a big time brandable name (easy to remember) that identifies very strongly with our target demographic and then use big time brandable MEMORABLE graphics type site. anyone think of any other lessons out of this??? another goofy weird site that I know for a fact was making about $30,000 per month is this one: http://www.funlaugh.com/newsmile.html I don't know if it is still making that much but I know for a fact that it was a few years back because this other guy I know was earning 10% of the daily revenue that site was brining in... he was making 100 per day... so multiply by 10 and you get 1000 per day times 30, 30,000.