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Lad makes nearly £55k in just six weeks from simple idea he had on night out

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Updated 11:25 17 Mar 2023 GMTPublished 21:46 15 Mar 2023 GMT

Lad makes nearly £55k in just six weeks from simple idea he had on night out

One lad made an absolute fortune after realising people on a night out could do with something really useful

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

Featured Image Credit: Zip Zap Chargers

Topics: Business, Money, Technology, Australia

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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A lad who had a brilliant business idea on a night out ended up making almost £55k within six weeks of getting set up.

Lots of us dream about that one money-spinning idea that would make us an absolute fortune, getting us out of the rat race and onto easy street for the rest of our lives.

Whenever there's some grand new invention that gets to be all the rage it can be frustrating to ponder why we didn't think of it first, but there's much more to it than that.

Still, there are some people who think of an idea so simple but effective that it makes them a fortune, and that's what happened with Queensland entrepreneur Bailey Page.

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The Aussie's brilliant idea struck him when he was on a night out and needed to call a cab back home, but his phone was dead - leaving him to walk home.

The idea that made Bailey Page almost £100k in six weeks came to him after his phone died on a night out.
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It makes sense, if you're up until late in the night and you've been using your phone, then there's a good chance that it's on its last legs by the time you need to call a cab, and poor Bailey had his die on him in the middle of calling a cab.

It's here that a very simple but brilliant idea came about - a portable, cable-less phone charger that people could take around with them which wouldn't clutter up their pockets too badly on a night out.

Bailey looked for one to buy but couldn't find one, and decided to plough all of his savings into developing one and all of this while he was in the middle of his final year at university.

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He said while speaking to the Courier Mail: "My third year essentially, I just had to focus on getting uni complete while I did my studies.

"It was just a lot of late nights and weekend work to really cover up on what I couldn't do through the week when I was at uni. I thought to myself, you know what, if I failed, I at least had a go."

"I always encourage young people just to have a go. You have to put a plan on paper. It's always good to get outside eyes looking in and giving you feedback. You can never fail with starting and the biggest hurdle is actually just starting."

Bailey Page ended up selling his entire stock in the first two weeks, and his annual target in six weeks.
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Obviously it worked out, because when we told you a lad made nearly £55K in six weeks, it was Bailey we were telling you about and in that time, he'd smashed his record of selling 2,000 chargers a year.

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His invention ended up becoming the product his company Zip Zap Chargers was built upon, and he's had to make plenty of them because his first batch sold out within the first two weeks.

So there you go, if you've got an idea for something you think loads of people would need, then it might just be the next big thing.

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