How I Made $50,000 In High School

Do you ever think “how will I reach my goals of being rich, being a business owner, etc but young?” I did too. In the beginning I didn’t know how but I knew it would happen. The thing that I needed was a plan. And I came up with one with the help of my mentor, books, and videos and I’ll lay out the basics in 4 steps.

1. The first step is to find something to sell. it has to be something that you can access. do it based on friends, capital or money you’re willing to invest in the beginning and what you know already. For me I had a few friends and school friends who I could use to help me. I had maybe 2k in savings from my old sales job. And the greatest thing I had, and that you have is knowledge. I knew how to sell D2D (door to door) because that was my old sales job. So I was fairly broke and couldn’t sell products or anything like that. I had to sell a service, my time and an end result to customers. I chose window cleaning in the beginning. Main reason is that it’s a home service, so I could do it  D2D and everyone cares about how their home looks. You could do car detailing, or window cleaning too, the list goes on and on and it’s based on what you would enjoy doing or enjoy leading.

2. Figure out how to sell it. Back to my few friends. I hired a few to help sell D2D in the beginning and I taught them how too. As a young man, you will have to do a lot of things on your own because our resources are just limited. And I hired one in the beginning to clean the homes. As the business owner and CEO you can’t waste your time on low ROI activities that can easily be outsourced. I fell into this and it was the biggest limiter of my business. And back to D2D, that’s what I know best so that's what I did. Don’t waste time doing things you don’t know until you’ve already learnt how to act on them, otherwise you slow your growth. Best advice I can give is to learn how you can scale sales as quickly as you can. Hire D2D guys, a marketer, other sales methods etc. 

3. Big thing if you’re in high School is time… you can’t really work much with friends on weekdays because most people let school come first. And fair enough if it has nothing to do with their goals. But as a young CEO you need to work after school and on weekends. On weekdays I just worked on scripts, hires, my website and learning, then on the weekend everyone, EVERYONE who worked with me was out working. Don't let people take off whenever they want, you’ll be a joke real quick in your own business if you allow people to do whatever. It’s a job lol. And honestly if you want to become rich through business, you cannot care about school as much as the rest, because school is made to make employees, not business owners. Just do the school work, homework and studying in school. Because if you want what the 1% have you can't do what the 99% do. 

4. The most important part of this is enjoyment. If you don’t enjoy having people work for you, or dealing with customers, problem solving, selling etc, it might not be for you, and that’s ok, not everyone can be business owners, or in the top 1%, that wouldn’t be sustainable, you can still do big things without being rich. Find something to sell that you enjoy, find people to work with that you enjoy, because if it isn’t fun and positive to you, you will start operating with discipline, and then it’s less about growth, enjoyment and doing it because you want to and more because you have too. Most things you have to do aren’t very enjoyable and motivating either, so do something you want to do. If you do it this way, you’ll genuinely start making thousands a month in profit, and living a purposeful life. 

A bit of an extra too, I think teaching everything I did with my business in a paid cohort or community would be a fair way to teach you how to do it too in depth. Let me know if you would want that or think it’s valuable. Thank you for reading :)