17 year old to make $1 million selling candles

Business
Published on Jan 17, 2020
Original airdate: 4/9/2019 | A local teenager had trouble finding a job, so he took matters into his own hands. Now he's running a half-a-million dollar business at the age of just 17.

Brandon Bechtel was just a 13-year-old looking for a job.

He thought about the standards. Lawn Mowing. Landscaping. A google search then gave him an idea. Candles.

"So I purchased some supplies, some materials, some labels and just try to put it all together," Bechtel: said.

And thus began Brandon's Candles.

"It was a real rough product. Labeling was not good. The candle quality wasn't great but people still took interest, still bought my product," Bechtel said.

Four years later, not so rough. The business made $500,000 in sales last year alone.

"I had switched from Etsy to Amazon Handmade and saw a large increase in sales," Bechtel said.

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