For many teenagers, making a living on the side of their school work is top of mind. But few do it as successfully as Harry Edwards. The 20-year-old from Melbourne started a side hustle in his teens that is now turning over more than a million dollars.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Harry’s company creates TikTok and Facebook video ads on the freelance marketplace Fiverr for leading e-commerce brands. Harry says his entrepreneurial spirit started from a very young age, and it all started with a passion for filmmaking. He wanted to buy a computer powerful enough to edit his videos and it was about this time that he made a graduation film for his primary school.
Selling CDs of the film for $10 each, Harry says this was the “first time I heard the word entrepreneur”. At age 13, Harry had the desire to “earn enough money to buy a top PC”. This led to him searching “how to make money online”.
“My curiosity led me to try Amazon FBA, but it required $1000+ to buy inventory, which I naturally didn’t have,” he tells 7Life. “So instead, I moved to e-commerce and dropshipping, which I could start with a simple $30 per month Shopify subscription. And I could support the rest myself with organic marketing.
” When he first started his side hustle, Harry had a limited budget and chose to do e-commerce/dropshipping using $300 he had saved from birthday and Christmas gifts. “This limited budget meant that I would follow every organic marketing method.