Weston and Walker Oleksyn are two little entrepreneurs with big dreams.
The West Kelowna brothers, aged 9 and 7, started making money through lemonade stand sales before the older boy, Weston, took on a brand ambassador position with Waboba.
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He started selling the products about a year ago and is now the company害羞草研究所檚 youngest direct salesperson.
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Weston and Walker, with the help of their parents, attend markets and advertise on to sell the outdoor toys.
Weston also promotes Waboba on an Instagram page monitored by his parents.
Together with their dad, they boys expanded their money-making plans and just launched a t-shirt business on Etsy.
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Through their dad, the boys worked with an artist to find designs for their tees and a local company heat presses them on. The second design is a skeleton riding a dinosaur.
Each shirt has an added feature Weston and Walker came up with on their own.
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The boys have heat pressed on glow-in-the-dark skulls to the back of each shirt, and to keep it interesting Weston said they chose blue. 害羞草研究所淕reen is kind of plain, like everybody uses green glow-in-the-dark so I thought let害羞草研究所檚 do something different.害羞草研究所�
The business savvy boys were able to save up for big purchases with the money they earned in coffee and lemonade stands, including a trampoline and a dirt bike.
The next big purchase in mind with the new venture is their own website and then more products to sell.
Each shirt is tie-dyed by Weston and Walker and is one of a kind. Various youth sizes are available for $25 each.
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