can you sell on Amazon as a teenager or more specifically as a minor right under
the age of majority now I get a lot of messages on Instagram on Facebook from
teenagers in high school maybe were 16 years seventeen and you're looking at
your life you're thinking shit what's the future hold for me right maybe you
just want a side hustle or maybe you want to build something so when you get
to college you have some kind of income passively right and I could totally
relate to that because when I was 16 I was in high school and I was looking at
my life like wow this is not going to work right the conventional path isn't
gonna work for me I can't do this so I jump at a high school to start a
business and when I realized really quickly was that the business world is
tough it's cutthroat and if you're young is a lot of extra obstacles that you
need to overcome but there's also a lot of benefit to starting at a young age so
what I'm gonna do for you today I'm gonna lay out kind of the benefits the
obstacles that there are to starting a business and then what I think the ideal
plan would be for you as a teenager so you can start making money on Amazon
while you are young
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let's get right into kind of what I think the benefits and advantages are
for starting young because that's exactly what I did and if you're
watching video right now I know that's what you want to do - okay so the number
one advantage I think young entrepreneurs have is time right time to
really learn to educate yourself on the processes of this business model and
time to experiment with different things and learn the game without having
pressures right like once you're older and you have more pressures to maintain
a lifestyle to pay bills to survive and do all these other things that again I
don't know a situation maybe that is your situation as a teenager and I don't
know that but just generally as someone in high school you have more time to go
through this and less pressures to succeed right so I know at some times it
gets frustrating and you look at people instagramming sees people on YouTube
that are maybe the same age as you right maybe they're 18 or whether 17 whatever
they have a Lamborghini and they have all these crazy things they'll have a
crazy lifestyle but truthfully it's not a very relevant thing to compare
yourself to right you have all the time in the world
it's not a racial excess amount of raising as anyone else it's a game for
yourself so don't get pressured by all the social media crazy stuff you see out
there alright so just know you have time and be willing to use that for the right
things the next thing kind of goes off of that I get more freedom to make
mistakes right now again I don't know situation but if you are still lucky
enough to be living at home and you don't have many bills you don't have you
know many commitments out there you have more time to mess up it's not do-or-die
right now I know it feels like sometimes if you're gonna invest money especially
if it's a large amount of money you know four thousand dollars maybe you haven't
me spent that money on anything your life before and you're gonna put out you
know two three grand on an Amazon product it feels like whoa I'm risking
everything I have but really if you do not do or die for you if you are still
you know all your bills are paid you can you're living at home it's really not
that big of a risk and I know it may seem like it's easy for me to say that
but really if you want entrepreneur and you you have what it takes to make it
you will bounce back even if it doesn't go your way now again if you follow you
know the system that I teach me I'm gonna be a throw
channel throughout my programs then it shouldn't be a concern right you the
most part you will at least make your money back but again you can't be afraid
to risk it in the first place because that is the only way that you're gonna
see a return and that brings me to the last thing that I think young
entrepreneurs have as an advantage and that's the Gir it's right at least for
me when I was starting I kind of had a chip on my shoulder I had something to
prove to people because people don't believe you a good old thing like hey
I'm gonna start selling things on Amazon like okay good luck with that have fun
right they don't have to think that it's something that it can be done and that
doesn't be successful with so I always have that kind of grit in like hey watch
me write watch me do this don't believe me just watch and also I had that
resilience but I had that I had a higher risk tolerance because I've never really
lost before all I could see was the win and again I wasn't that much of a risk
because you know I knew that I would have a support system if I did fail so I
went after it and that grit is what really put me forward so that's kind of
like what I see as the main benefits of starting young the upper hand the
advantage that you know young marketers have and now we're gonna get into kind
of the obstacles okay so the obstacles for starting an Amazon FBA business as a
minor so the first obstacle let see me the hardest one to overcome is that it's
not really within the rules you start and Amazon business now I'm gonna cover
that what I mean by that is that when you come to the ambulance services
business solutions agreement okay number one enrollment to begin the enrollment
process you must complete the registration process for one or more of
the services use of the services is limited to parties that can lawfully
enter into and form contracts under applicable law for example the elected
country may not allow minors to use the services so that means that basically
whatever you the age of majority is in your country you might not be allowed to
actually start selling on Amazon and another thing to know is that when you
need to when you're making an out on seller account you're going to need an
actual credit card and you're going to need a bank account under your name and
probably a business bank account if you're gonna be starting it as a you
know an LLC and you're not gonna be able to be create an LLC if you are a minor
either ok so what this means is you're gonna need help from from an adult so
parent guardian or relative whatever it is you need someone that's going to open
this town for you and then you're basically they're going
to be going to be their accounts rights gonna be basically their account and
then you're gonna be running it okay so that's kind of how you have to form
that so if you can't get past that if that's just like for whatever reason you
can do it no one's willing to do it there's not a possibility I know that's
gonna suck and it's kind of frustrating and this probably not what not what you
want to hear but what I suggest you do if that's a case and just take that time
until you're old enough to learn the process right again come back to time
being your biggest advantage there's no rush to do this and if you take a year
two years whatever it is to learn the game rights are networking start
building connections you will be able to kill it absolutely once you're right to
go you're getting 100% hit the ground running because you're gonna have the
information right and this would be a great time to use whatever and capital
you have to invest in a program right you have capital but you can't actually
spend it on any products use that to get the best possible learning that you can
get a mentor to actually help you and get you through the rope so that once
you're ready to go you're absolutely ready to go right if you actually wanna
get started learning for free what you can do go ahead click this right over
here that's my free masterclass that's gonna show the three main factors that
allowed me to build a six-figure Amazon business in six months as a high school
dropout so it's totally right for your situation to learn those three things
right up there and kind of get started moving in the process all right so the
next obstacle saying you got path obstacle one right Congrats you got a
seller account you got someone to help you or however you got to set up awesome
okay the next obstacle is going to be money right so of course this is where
you're gonna need money to just run the business you're gonna need to get some
software you're gonna need to invest in your products and if you want to know
how much does it take you to invest I got a video right over there how much is
that gonna take to start this business but it's gonna be around thirty five
three thousand like twenty-five hundred to 330 five hundred dollars okay so
first thing I want to if you don't have that is I would ask friends and family
whoever maybe set up your account if you have any friends that want to you know
you can take them all in kind of as partners or actually you have if you
have a friend that the same age as you you kind of kind of go in as partners
for reals and that would be the first thing I would do and if you can't make
it happen no one's willing to give you any money then the next thing I do is
just save right I don't do anything crazy don't go out and try to get a bank
loan or whatever I would actually just get a part-time job work whatever a
minimum wage and just save up because I'm not actually taking that long okay
that's what I did for not in this amylum business but for my first business I
worked at a movie theater right and every month I would make like 700 bucks
a month working 10-12 hours a week whatever it was and
if you just save up 700 again not many expenses I think I paid for my phone
bill which are like 50 bucks a month if you just save all your money don't you
know don't party or don't do anything stupid with it then within like five
months you'll have enough money to actually go out and launch a product so
that's what I would do if you don't have the money ask first no one's going to
give it to you go ahead save it up because what you can do now in those
five months is you can you learn the process again right learn the process
because you've got yourself I can't set up you don't have to wait a few years
but you're saving up money learn the game really dive in learn take out all
the free resources that you can go through my entire channel for free if
you want to and just learn everything okay
learn everything that once again once you have that money saved up you're
ready to go okay and the final obstacle is not unique to young entrepreneurs
it's actually the obstacle that stops everybody right this is all tool that
stops everybody from starting and this is fear now I touch on this earlier when
I talked about grit and I talked about you know the risk tolerance to lose me
you know you saved up five months you stayed up six months and this is all the
money in the world that you have and you're gonna go put out into a product
and it's super scary because it feels like what if you lose it right so first
of all if you lose it you're still living at home you're just working in
for five months right that's the resilience I was talking about you just
save it up again another five months you try again and what's kind of the benefit
of that is that you lost the money on the first round but at least you learned
and you were if you actually end up losing money I was on product you're
gonna learn a hell of a lot we're gonna learn a hell of a lot about the process
you know everything you did wrong you're gonna want to do it right the first time
but again if you went ahead and you join my Amazon a cat Vampire Academy you're
probably not gonna lose money on the first go but it's still scary right it's
still there's still that nagging fear that holy smokes I might lose it all
but what adds to this as a young entrepreneur as a teenager they trying
to start this is that not only do you have your own fear but there's a lot of
fear around you right now I felt that myself when I was starting
out you got your parents you got your friends you got your your you know your
family members that are telling you like maybe you know are you sure you're ready
to do it are you sure you know you're doing maybe you're too young to do this
all these different things and it's adding and stacking and stacking so as
someone who is a young as a teenager you need to be able to break through not
just your fear but the concern of others around you and that's where you build
that chip on your shoulder and actually becomes your propulsion that becomes
your Vantage right so don't worry about the
fear don't worry about the pains because if you're watching this video right now
and you actually got to the point of the video and you know that Amazon is what
you want to do and you know that a side hustle or an online business is what you
want to do then just fuck the opinions because you know it and that's all that
matters right if you can think you can do it and you believe you can do it it's
really you can do it it's not that hard it's not it's really not that hard not
as hard as grade 12 algebra that I can never took because I dropped out because
I couldn't do that but Amazon is a very simple it's step by step the number that
you need to know are very very elementary it's just this plus that
minus this equals that which is money or just profit right if you know the
numbers you know and look for stuff it's really not that hard the hardest part is
actually getting started in the hardest part is being able to push through all
the BS so is it possible to sell Amazon as a teenager absolutely I have students
in their economy that that I've done it that are killing it right now that are
17 years old that are 18 years old that are making money on Amazon as we speak
now first step start knocking on those obstacles okay so step one try to get a
seller account and then after they don't step to you and you need to make some
money what do you need to do go ahead and get a part-time job and what do you
do during that main time I'm gonna give you the game plan right so the first
thing you want to do I have three different things three different videos
laid out for you that will actually get you started right now okay so the first
video is my video called Amazon a tizzy step by step for beginners okay I put it
right over here I'll put the thumbnail right here so you know exactly which
video it is and this is gonna give you the entire blueprint literally from
beginning you have no product I have no idea to the end of you haven't probably
launched you have a you know you turn on your PPC your ads and you're making
money so this is the entire overview of the process it's basically a course for
free it's an hour long video but you sit through it you'll know the entire you
know the eagle eye bird's eye view all of Amazon FBA okay the next thing that
you're gonna watch is my Amazon 3-month game plan okay
link over there picture over here so three month game plan is my step-by-step
guide of how you can actually start from you know 0 using the techniques of the
first video and then it's actually a timeline of steps that you need to take
within which we can you to take it to actually start profiting within 90 days
so you have the understanding of the process and then now you have the
blueprint with a timeline guide of how which step to take and when to take it
and then the gonna do once you've done that if you
haven't already if you haven't ordinance first is go and join that master class I
don't know if there anymore but like in the description as well than the free
training that I talked about where I'm gonna cover the three main things that I
had to overcome the three problems that I had to break through to actually start
making money on Amazon that allowed me to make money I make six figures within
six months as again as a high school dropout with no experience no money no
background in this business so definitely check that out next if once
you've watch those first two videos alright so hopefully answers your
questions concerns if your parent watching this absolutely your child can
do this okay if you're a teenager yourself watching this absolutely you
can do it and if you want more help from me go ahead message me on Instagram
I'm always willing to help younger entrepreneurs because I have a place in
my heart because I was there I lived that life and I'm willing to always you
know give you some guidance and help you out if I can right that's what I'm doing
that that's why I'm uploading videos that's why I have this whole channel is
to help people that wanna get started and are in the same shoes that I was in
not too long ago alright so go ahead feel free to reach out now again for the
last time masterclass is gonna be right over here
click that one for the master class or click that one to get started with that
first week I talked about Amazon a-to-z alright I'm Casey Franco you are an
empire building that is going to kill it this year all you'll remember is that
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