Cameron Moar is a picture of prosperity and success. He lives in a nice apartment, drives an expensive car, and his full-time job doesn’t require him to actually work full time. He’s living a dream that people at the heights of their careers aren’t often able to afford. And the kicker — he’s only 22, and he’s just getting started. This is something Cameron always wanted to achieve but, at first, he wasn’t sure how he’d get there. Before his dropshipping days, his life was going in a completely different direction.
Before he went all in with dropshipping, Cameron was working 60-hour weeks as an apprentice cabinet maker. The job didn’t pay well, and his days would start at 5:30 AM, which didn’t sit well with his night-owl circadian rhythm. Years after dropping out of high school and starting his apprenticeship, he was as far as he’s ever been from financial stability and a happy life.
Cameron’s advice for any new person starting out is:
Learn from someone who has achieved what you want to achieve
Cameron came across eCommerce from one of his childhood friends Reza Qorbanie. He was running his own online business and getting amazing results, that’s when he realized he could do this also. Reza began to teach Cameron to find winning products from suppliers, how to make a website and run social media ads. Within a few weeks, Cameron was hooked and putting his entire attention into it. Cameron’s first month of launching his website, he made $19,000 in sales.
Just get started, you can figure out the rest later
Cameron Moar decided to dive head first into dropshipping. After some initial trial and error with some products and learning a couple of valuable lessons about product and market research, he started picking winners and his career took off. Looking back at where he started and where he is now, the word that would best describe what he truly gained would be freedom. And it starts with being financially free.
When dropshipping came into his life, impromptu lunches with friends and family became a possibility, and even the small things like going to the gym in the middle of the day felt liberating.
“One of the biggest perks of this business is the ability to travel whenever, which is something that a full-time employee in Australia with four weeks of vacation time can’t do,” says Cameron. “If you’re working online, however, you can just travel and work wherever you want.”
Believe in yourself because at the start, no one else will
Apart from financial freedom and more flexibility to travel, having a say over how Cameron spends his time is the third type of freedom dropshipping afforded him. “I remember just walking around in the middle of the week in the middle of the day at a time I would have otherwise been working,” he says. “So I’m walking around with a friend, we go for lunch, and it dawns on me how I’ve never been able to do this for the past four years because of my job.”
“In the beginning I didn’t have very many people believe in me, but I believed in myself,” says Cameron. “When I was starting drop-shipping, I had to make a lot of sacrifices. “Before I quit the apprenticeship, I sacrificed all my spare time, even some friendships, to make it happen. But I knew what I wanted, I knew what it was going to take, and I was willing to put the work in. And now I know what true freedom feels like.”
The rewards, however, are also theirs to keep, and that can be a life-changer. For Cameron, the first real taste of success was when he was able to afford a nice apartment and a good car. The two were much more than symbols of affluence to him. They told him that he’s free from being under anyone’s thumb, in control of his future, and is free to choose what he wants to do next.
According to Cameron Moar when asked what the biggest payoff was when taking the risk to running his own business, “Freedom. The question I like to ask people, the same one I asked myself countless times, is, Would you rather work for yourself and make yourself rich, or work for someone else and make them rich? That’s what the nine-to-five is: making someone else rich. Granted, people who work for themselves also have to take some risks; but the risks are worth the payoff and I finally feel free.”
