Entrepreneur Kids Learn Business With The Grown-Ups
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I am writing this post on the sunny Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. I’ve come here to hang out with my friends, Daryl and Andrew Grant, and get the very latest strategies for internet marketing using eBay from eBay power sellers Matt and Amanda Clarkson.
Yes, you heard me correctly. Internet marketing using eBay. Perhaps, like me, you thought that Google was the largest search engine on the internet. Think again. More people search eBay every day than search on Google.
What’s more, when they search on eBay they have their credit card in their hand, ready to buy. What a marketing opportunity!
But more about that later.
When we were waiting for the doors to open on the first day, I met this young man, Logan Edwards. Just fourteen years old, and in the past three months he has made $1320 on eBay. He hasn’t been raiding his parents’ shed for old junk to sell, not this sharp young entrepreneur. He has been selling hard-to-find computers on behalf of a supplier who didn’t know how to find the hard-to-find enthusiasts of that particular computer brand.
I interviewed Logan for our Young Entrepreneurs gallery on www.cash-smart-kids.com, and I’m looking forward to doing a phone interview with his parents next week, so they can share their secrets with other parents who want to raise their kids to be equally bright young entrepreneurs.
Oh, and the thing that really impressed me was that Logan paid his own airfares from Melbourne to the Gold Coast to attend the eBay seminar - a big chunk of his business earnings, reinvested in his further education.
That kind of long-term thinking at such an early age is a sign of great things to come, I’m sure!
