Teenage Millionaire Feats

Teenage Millionaire Feats

Cameron Johnson

How is it possible that a number of teens have made millions before they could even vote? Why one young man even made more than $50,000.00 before he was even 12 years old. Cameron Johnson was eight years old when he had a desire to stay at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and see the suite in the hotel where Macaulay Culkin stayed and where the movie, Home Alone II, takes place. Johnson wrote to Donald Trump to ask for his help to make his dream come true. While Trump never wrote back to him, when Johnson and his family arrived at the hotel, he received a great surprise. Trump had arranged for Johnson and his family to stay in the same suite that Macaulay Culkin. This became an inspiration for Johnson to become like Trump.

Johnson soon began a newsletter where he enlisted friends of his family to be his patrons. He made only a small income of a few hundred dollars a month from this venture but it was a beginning. He states that to a nine year old this is a lot of money. Soon he began buying and selling Beanie Babies on ebay. At his peak he was shipping about 40 orders per day. It took only those few years until he had made his first $50,000.00 prior to the age of 12. Next he began launching websites where he sold ad space. His second website grew to a customer base of 200,000. He was displaying 15,000.000 ads each day which at that time equated to $15,000.00 daily in revenue. At this point he was 15 years old. That very same year he became a board member at a Japanese company, he wrote a bestselling book and before he graduated from high school he had already made his first million dollars. Quite a feat wouldn’t you agree?

Ashley Qualls

Ashley Qualls, owns and operates www.whateverlife.com and runs a six figure income business at the age of 17. Ashley noted that her friends liked to personalize their social network sites. She enjoyed graphic arts and began making designs for them. Qualls borrowed eight dollars from her mother and began her website. It was here that she allowed anyone to upload her designs for free. Her designs were geared to the teenage market where she understood that teens like her who liked bold colors and funky designs filled with hearts or the latest song titles or lyrics. Almost immediately she had millions of visitors per page and even Brittany Spears contacted her with the potential to design custom designs for her albums. Qualls revenue came from ads placed on her site. Customers began lining up in fact to become one of the advertisers on her site. Qualls first check was for $2,700.00. Her parents cautioned her to not become too excited. She remained optimistic and believed it would become a profitable way to making money. Her next check was for $5,000.00 and the next for $10,000.00. Quall was savvy. She did not blow the money. She updated her equipment, bought a house and hired her friends to work for her. Ashley dropped out of high school to manage the business. Her friends work after school and Ashley even hired her mother to manage the business. Mom states that she manages being a mother and a manager with a good sense of humor.

Qualls loves hearing from young people that she has inspired them to go to school for graphic design. Knowing that she comes from a working class family this is all a great compliment and a good feeling for Ashley.

Christian Owen

Imagine getting your first computer at age seven, teaching yourself to design webpages by the age of ten, starting your own company by the age of fourteen and making your first million by the age of sixteen. Well that is what a certain British teen has accomplished. Christian Owen is that kid and he sells Mac applications under the name Mac Bundle Box. Owens bundles popular Mac applications for just under one hundred dollars that would usually retail for at least four hundred dollars. He was able to negotiate the price with the developers to lower the cost. In its first two years, Mac Bundle made $2,000,000.00.  Owen did not stop there. He began a site called Brancher that sells pay per click advertising. In fact he distributes over 300 million ads per month on more than 17,500 websites. In its first year alone, his site has generated over $800,000.00. The key he says is that there is no magic formula. It takes hard work, determination and the drive to succeed. Owen credits Steven Jobs as his inspiration.  



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