Brian Kelly is known as The Points Guy, and his website, which he created as a young entrepreneur, combines information on how to maximize credit card points with travel guides for areas all around the world. It shows people how easy it is to save money and travel affordably.

Kelly grew up with a consultant for a father, meaning that his father was constantly traveling for work. His father used the frequent flyer points he saved up to take his family on vacations, which fostered family bonding time and created an appreciation for credit card points in his son. Right out of college, Kelly landed a job at Morgan Stanley that had him traveling half the year, so he gained personal experience bringing in lots of hotel and airline points.

There came a point in Kelly’s life where his coworkers were constantly coming over to his cubicle to ask him for help booking their family vacations. He got advice from a friend to start up a blog using WordPress, and Kelly was off to the races with his dream of sharing his knowledge. He eventually gave in to a friend telling him to put ads on his blog website, and he began making a couple hundred dollars a month. The number of readers continued to rise to the point where Kelly was noticed by Chase Bank, who offered him an opportunity to make a $150 commission for each credit card that a reader signed up for via one of his links. He began making enough money from these commissions that he was able to quit his day job and he eventually was able to sell his company, although he maintains creative control of the site.

It is impressive to see how naturally it all came to Kelly. Of course, he was dramatically influenced by his parents. After that, everything seemed to just fall into place, like he wasn’t even trying. All he did was pursue his passion. It’s easy to be inspired by a guy who is out there doing what he loves and making money off of it. Hopefully, that can be a reality for the rest of us if we learn how to pursue our passions with all we’ve got.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/living/7-entrepreneurs-who-built-businesses-off-their-love-of/311713

Spencer is a 24-year-old who has been operating a lawn mowing business since he was 12. People know him as the guy who goes around looking for crazy overgrown lawns and mowing them for free. By doing so, he has discovered and taken advantage of a fantastic business model that brings a smile to peoples’ faces and results in lots of revenue for his company.

Spencer has done a great thing by capitalizing on the market of people eager to scroll through social media by providing them with heartwarming videos of incredibly satisfying lawn transformations and fantastic reactions from the people he is doing the work for. His videos make him so much revenue that the money he makes from them is more than enough to cover the work, so he is able to do the work (for his videos) entirely for free, which in turn brings in more revenue because people love to watch him do his work without expecting anything in return. Spencer says, “people just like seeing the kindness that I’m kind of bringing around my city”.

Spencer has accumulated such a large following (13 million followers) that he also has brands reach out and contact him, asking him if he’ll do sponsorship deals so that they can reach his followers.

Something unique and refreshing about Spencer is his kind and caring attitude. It’s something that people appreciate seeing when we live in such a broken world. He also clearly demonstrates his entrepreneurial characteristics by being willing to go around knocking on doors in a day and age where not too many people do that anymore. He also treats people with a lot of respect and clearly explains his desire to help them even when they don’t believe that he wants to do the work for free, managing to alleviate any concern that he’s some sort of scam artist. If everyone were as humble and kind as Spencer B., the world would be a brighter place.

https://www.klove.com/news/positive%20people/youtube-star-finds-craziest-overgrown-lawns-does-free-mowing-helps-people-smile-andpodcast-video-43672

Chase Gallagher is a 23-year-old entrepreneur who took the controversial route that more and more people are going for – not going to college. Instead, he decided to pour his heart and soul into a lawn mowing business he started when he was 12. Now he’s running a business that made a millionaire dollars in revenue this past year.

As a 12-year-old kid, Chase went around mowing the lawns in his neighborhood for $35 a pop. What started as a business with a mere two customers turned into a hustle with ten weekly clients (with a little help from his mother). He continued putting effort into the business and eventually went on to defy societal expectations by skipping out on college. He had already made $50,000 from his lawn mowing and decided to expand into general landscaping around the time he was 16 years old. He simply “didn’t see the ROI in going to university,” he told Fortune, even though he’d grown up with parents telling him that he was going to college.  Not going to school has allowed Gallagher to focus on his business full-time and continue to expand it. Now he does “everything from stormwater management and drainage work to pavers and lighting” with his 9-person crew and raked in over a million dollars in revenue last year.

Something that we can learn from Gallagher is to not be afraid of going against the grain. Studies show that more and more people are actually skipping out on college to enter into the trades, and that people going into the trades can actually start with a better paying job than someone just graduating college. He’s driven by the money, as are many of us, because he can save quite a bit by not going to college, as well as make a lot from his business. Gallagher is a helpful reminder to me that successful businesses aren’t super successful right off the bat. You have to start small. It can take a while – years, even – for a business to become profitable and successful enough to live off of. Why not start your dream job today with finding yourself just one customer?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/genz-entrepreneur-started-mowing-lawns-090000600.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABW6agj1roh8fzvKFARJTB1fHWujUFm69C5McqGuY1krwDR6rKX_hBqvFBmNTkyVJjqFBr8YiziOB7iUzxJVhCcDGXPehM2sJVUiOyaaPwG7kAs_CZ12s7cMvsbTYOMfy2DFefpW0A-Wfa91RysvpRM0Z6W7pP_vkSu517xybuaJ

For 17-year-old Alexander Lamb, skating had always been a passion of his. He grew up on a skateboard for 12 years straight, and today he claims that skateboarding was such an important part of his childhood that it changed the way he thinks and he has no idea where he would be without it.

Alexander grew up in an entrepreneurial family, so entrepreneurship is another thing that defines him. He was able to combine these two passions of his to create Avenue, his very own skating company, when he was just 17! Balancing college and running his own company was a huge hassle for Alexander but his determination made it a possibility. He spent hours in the art room during his free time, drawing up designs for his boards. He is a firm believer that “if where there’s a will, there’s a way and it is crucial to understand that if you truly want something, you have to work for it.” Alex put in the effort to make this dream of a skate company a reality and started small, gradually gaining sales and exposure. He used Facebook and Instagram for marketing purposes, and even though social media certainly was not what it is today, he still gained traction quickly. He has gone on to develop his company further and released a plethora of different board series.

Alexander came from an entrepreneurial family, so luckily those who were close to him were able to show him the ropes of building his own business. He was driven by his creative passion for designing boards and the draw of camaraderie that comes with skateboarding. He smartly capitalized on the skating community, engaged in marketing, and put in the time and effort to make it all a reality. His story is inspiring because he was able to take three of his passions – entrepreneurship, skating, and design – and combine them all into this fantastic business that customers flocked to. I think it’s important to remember that you ideally would like to end up in a job that you’re passionate about, and he was able to secure that future by creating that job himself, which is very admirable.

For young Mikaila, what started as a lemonade stand in her front yard when she was 4 has since blossomed into an incredible business that helps save the bees.

After being stung by a bee twice in one week at just 4 years old, Mikaila developed a fear of bees. However, after doing some research on them, she learned a lot about the benefits of bees and how necessary they are for our ecosystem.  Around that same time, her parents were encouraging her to come up with a business idea for the Acton Children’s Business Fair. As she was brainstorming ideas, she found a flaxseed lemonade recipe in her great-grandmother’s cookbook and decided to make some of that, but add honey instead of just sugar in an attempt to draw awareness to the declining honeybee populations. Thus, Be Sweet Lemonade was born! After some copyright issues, the name of the business ended up being Me & the Bees Lemonade. Today, Mikaila is the CEO and has multiple family members working with her on her mission to help save the bees!

Something unique about Mikaila is her parents urging her into entrepreneurial events and competitions from such a young age. Having entrepreneurial parents was a huge help in helping her get this business off the ground and growing into what it is today. Another incredible aspect of her journey is that she wrote a book about it all: Bee Fearless, Dream Like a Kid. Being an entrepreneur and an author at this young age is quite an accomplishment, and her hard work and dedication have paid off as even today, she still travels around the nation to share her stories of being involved in social entrepreneurship. A large portion of her success can be attributed to the purpose that she’s had from the beginning – saving the bees. It’s inspiring that she found a niche inside a cause she was passionate about and used it to successfully sell something as simple as bottles of lemonade inside such a crowded market while raising awareness for an important cause.

“Bee” sure to check out her website here: www.meandthebees.com