How A 16-Year-Old Made His First Million – with Christian Owens

Christian Owens, Customer Acquisition, Marketing

I read a few articles about how Christian Owens became a millionaire by the time he was 16. So I invited him to Mixergy to talk about how he did it.

Short story: he created a quick and dirty web page to collect email addresses of people who wanted to hear about discounted Mac software. Then he sent email to software developers and found some who let him bundle their software and sell it at a discount. Then he sold thousands of dollars of software. He keeps repeating that process and plowing back a share of his profits into marketing to grow his customer base and sales.

Want to hear the step-by-step details of how he did it? Listen to the full program.

Christian Owens

Christian Owens founded The Dream Network, a network of businesses including Branchr Advertising, The Dream Apps, Hur.ly and Mac Bundle Box

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