2 days ago, I read about the success story of a 14 year old year by the name of Leanna Archer. A huge part of her income generates from her online business, where she operates from a home based environment. When she was just eight years old, Leanna hit upon the idea of commercializing a hair product used in her family for two generations.
Today, the 14-year-old high school student from Long Island, New York, grosses about $500,000 a year selling her all-natural hair products, from shampoos to hair mists, on the Internet and at health food and beauty stores in the United States.
Ever since she was a young girl, she received compliment regularly from people on her healthy, thick, shiny hair and ask her what products she used. "I could not give them an answer, because I used a pomade made from natural ingredients concocted by my great-grandmother from Haiti," says Leanna." At that time I didn't even know how it was made and what went into it."
Though she was young, the idea of setting up a home based business to offer the promade to her friends to generate extra income struck her. Her computer engineer father and social worker mom thought it was a great idea when she shared with them, but suggested she complete college first. Unwilling to wait that long, her burning desire caused her to take things onto her own hands.
Each time her grandmother made a batch, she would fill up a few baby food jars with the pomade and pass them to her friends to try. It turned out that they loved the product and kept asking for more. Her parents did not know of this until people started calling the home with orders.
They finally realized that her daughter may indeed have a workable idea, so they registered a company and set up a website to sell her products, their first foray into a home based business to making money online. Leanna started with just the pomade, but has now developed 14 products, using natural products, using natural products such as hibiscus, avocado and almond oils.
Leanna has found and lived her American dream, how about you?
Many like her have embarked on a home based business with the hope to generate some passive income, which turned out to be a fulfilling full time commitment and rewarding business.
The key is to take action right now, and do something every day towards your goal.
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