Cameron Johnson has consistently showed great entrepreneurial potential from a very early age. He first started exemplifying his entrepreneurial instincts when he was five years old as he began selling vegetables to his neighbors. When Cameron was nine in 1994, he launched his first business from his house: Cheers and Tears. This company is dedicated to creating thoughtful and meaningful greeting cards. At just twelve years old, young Cameron was making more than $50,000.00 a year!
Cameron then invested in the purchase of 30 Ty Beanie Babies, a line of stuffed toys first founded in 1986. He then sold the Beanie Babies online for ten times the purchase amount on eBay. Cameron saw this investment opportunity and turned it into an official business idea by purchasing dolls at wholesale from Ty and reselling them on eBay as well has his greeting card website.
With the money Cameron had earned thus far, he has since used it as seed money to kick start his next entrepreneurial venture called My EZ Mail, a confidential email forwarding service. Within just a few months, Johnson was earning $3,000.00 in advertising revenue.
Cameron’s next project was called Surfingprizes.com, an advertisement service that put scrolling advertising on top of web browsers. Two features made this service unique. The first is that Surfingprizes users received twenty cents per hour to have the advertisement displayed on the screen. The second feature is that referral marketing is used to increase word of mouth conversions. This was accomplished through offering Surfingprizes users 10.00% of the revenue generated by each customer that was referred to the service. Fifteen-year-old Cameron was making as much as $400,000.00 a month, making him worth more than $1,000,000.00 before he graduated high school. In college, Cameron started CertificateSwap, an online software system, that he recently sold for a six-figure amount. To date, Cameron is twenty-eight years old and is worth a couple million dollars.
It is truly amazing to see kids at a young age be so inventive and creative. Cameron was ahead of his time and took action when he was young which most people do not do. Just starting your first small business can make invest your time into creating other businesses. It is crazy how much success that Cameron had before he even graduated high school.
Wow is all I can say about how Cameron has taken action to start his own business. Having a business that makes you worth over a million dollars before you even graduate high school is very impressive. His grit and drive will take him very far. I wish him the best of luck.
Aside from everything else he did, I think the greeting cards idea is brilliant. I think it is truly a lost art that so many people love and cherish. I love that entrepreneurship was not something he learned, rather something he was.
This is so impressive. Cameron’s entrepreneurial efforts from such a young age show creativity and ambition. Amazing to see the growth in his continued efforts.
It’s amazing to see that entrepreneurs can start so young and end up where Cameron is today. There is never an age too young to start at. The progress he has made in incredible, this shows that you need to act on your entrepreneurial hunches and work hard. Cameron is truly one of the great success stories, as his story is somewhat unique.
I’m impressed with how Cameron just kept going and went from one thing to the next. By using funds from previous ventures, he was able to go bigger and bigger with each idea. This just shows that age is no reason why you can’t do something and make good money.