How I Earned $1,000,000 at Age 17

when i was 17 i started an online business that ended up doing over a. million dollars in sales its first year from complete scrap. i think the initial success stage is really important and where. all the lessons were so i want to focus this video on that as well as go into more detail like what kind of products actually sold. i made a video about two years ago when i first hit a. hundred thousand subscribers talking about how i went from free school lunch programs to hitting. my first hundred thousand dollar month in profit with econ. now for the sake of. time i kind of had to speed through that whole entire story to cover like. eight years of finessing. i'm talking fitness health cards new meme formats you. name it i was posting on all these pages and none of them really took off because i was still trying to. brute force my way to getting some followers. i found everything kind of changed when i found youtube talking about drop shipping channels talking about instagram channels and that's when i finally realized what all of these ads were about. i decided to aggressively scale started a ton of different pages. in a bunch of different niches i'mtalking fitness health card new meme format new meme cards you.name it i’m talking fitness fitness healthcards new meme card and that’s when everything really started to take off. i started a bible quotes and versus repost type. page which would then go on to get a couple thousand followers now remember that. date because it actually plays kind of some significance later on in the story but. i didn’t really get anywhere with that page but at this point i'm three years. deep into the game so i knew a thing or two so i was able. to grind that page past 10 000 followers fairly quickly which qualified me to join. shout card which is a service that connected people who own instagram pages to people. who wanted to buy ads on instagram. i had around 12 000 followers and. almost exactly a year after i first started the page on october 29th 2017 i. got my first shout out order it was a two hour post for 15 after. fees i got like 12. i haven't pulled up here it was for this free. plus shipping drop shipping store selling the travel cosmetic bags that were popping at that time i put up the post got paid and from here things actually really started. moving the next few months i continued getting more and more orders some people were. promoting products somepeople were just looking for a shout out for the photography page. but i got to a point where i was charging a cool 40 for a. post at which point i decided to charge a cool 50 for a post. i sold that page for like a hundred bucks to a friend yes you can say my. company got bought out my big three-figure exit but that was a cool like two. and a half years of work for a hundred dollars but it doesn't end there. because after a two-month break my persistence got the best of me and on december. 12th of 2016 i was back on the instagram hustle hungrier than ever i started. another nature photography page with the same name but i knew i was going for it. i was trying. out starting a few different types of pages and one actually kind of stuck and i grinded on it from. 2014 all the way up to mid 2016. and it really was a grind because. my main strategy at that point was to follow and unfollow people so iwas. sitting there for two years on a daily basis reposting posts following and unf Followed people. and i did that all theway up to 7 000 followers at whichpoint. in october of 2016 i quit and sold the page for 100 bucks to a friend. i didn't really want to sell anything but i wanted to sell directly from a supplier without the last few months. i wanted in initially my plan to sell nature themed jewelry on my nature jewelry page but i was getting paid to post for the last a few months and that was getting. paid to do that too. i wanted too. sell directly without the shipping without the supplier that i wanted  to sell  without the ship handling without the  handling that i could too. do i could  sell directly  from a  supplier.  i was still not working hard but i found the dots in my head but i wasn't really trying to connect everything  to connect everything i found to. connect everything. i wasn't really working hard however i was definitely not working smart but i still was still selling ads on my  nature page and this point the point the connected everything i found to connect everything in my  head.