Top 5 Business Success Stories – April 2011

May 20th, 2011 § 1 comment § permalink

Good day everyone.

with a little delay we would like to represent you the Top 5 Business Success Stories for April. This monthly chart features once again not only proven entrepreneurs, such as Richard Branson, but also people like Naveen Selvadurai, who are currently at the dawn of their professional development as businessmen. An exciting fact is that three of the highlighted entrepreneurs, who took places on the top 5 for April, are clients of Steven Le Vine. Remember him? He is the Founder of the Los Angeles-based PR company, named Grapevine PR, and the man who made it to the #1 spot of our chart for March.

But before we start with the monthly top 5, let us give you one more time information about how our system works and who actually chooses the way our chart looks like. It’s all YOU! Every BoomPedia profile has a counter, which gives us 24/7 report on how many times the success story has been visited and how many social media users have shared it on their profiles. So if you have a favorite entrepreneur who you would want to win in the future, you could help him/her by recommending his/her BoomPedia page to your friends and followers on Facebook or Twitter by using the links at the bottom of the story.

Now…hold your breath and get ready for the monthly top 5.

5. Lizzie Vann 

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Believing that there is a strong link between nutrition and health, as a mother of  three  girls, Lizzie Vann started up Organix brands in 1992. From the whole beginning on, her top priority was improving the quality of the baby food, sold in the markets. Today the company generates an yearly revenue of over $36 million, although she sold it 3 years ago to one of her partners. Her personal inspiring philosophy is: “Live life in the present. And never forget that information is power. The power of information can change the world.”

4. Todd Warner 

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Todd is the founder of Tailwaggers, the leading natural and organic pet supply, food and grooming chain in Los Angeles. It frequently gets celebrity shoppers, such as Christina Ricci, Mandy Moore, Brad Pitt and Glee’s Dot Jones; and is the only store contracted to provide supplies to the LAPD’s Canine Unit. Todd emphasizes impeccable and warm customer service as the essential key to his chain’s success.

3. Richard Branson 

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Richard Branson is a world’s popular business magnate with British origin. He is most famous for being the Founder of Virgin Group of over 400 companies, which cover a multitude of a long range of businesses that are difficult to put under one class. His first successful business venture was a magazine called Student at age 16. Today he is the 5th richest person in the United Kingdom and 254th in the world according to Forbes’ 2011 list of billionaires,

2. Naveen Selvadurai

1302975904 Top 5 Business Success Stories – April 2011Naveen Selvadurai, the young entrepreneur, who made it to the #2 spot this month, is a perfect example for people, who are dealing with things that used to be their hobby and who are making money doing the things they love. As a Founder of Foursquare, a social network with more than 7 million users, he is considered to be a technology pioneer. Born in India, graduated from King`s College, London and then from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the USA, he is a role model, one of the best examples for self-made millionaires.

1. Rob Williams and Rodney Johnson 

1303752094 Top 5 Business Success Stories – April 2011In 2005, Rob Williams and Rodney Johnson decided to leave their jobs as publicist and insurance salesman, respectively, to form Guest House Films, an LA-based indie film production company. The company specializes in creating gay-themed movies, but felt that many of the current gay films were too depressing, so they wanted to tell stories that they themselves would want to see – with a happy note. They have since produced five films in just five years, an impressive feat. They can surely be announced an inspiring success story, so we strongly recommend to visit their BoomPedia profile.

This is which the April’s top 5 business success stories are. Hope you enjoyed our chart. Have a nice day and God bless you!

Top 5 Business Success Stories – March 2011

April 1st, 2011 § 1 comment § permalink

Good day everyone.

This post marks the beginning of a whole new initiative of our business success blog to highlight the most visited success stories on BoomPedia every single month. The chart is based on how many “facebook likes”, views and comments the article has. If you have a favorite entrepreneur who you would want to win in the future, you could help him/her by sharing his/her BoomPedia profile on Facebook or Twitter by using the links at the bottom of the story. Today we’re going to present you the top 5 success stories for March 2011, which include entrepreneurs from all ages, business lines and origins. I’m sure you’re impatiently waiting to read their names, so let’s begin with the monthly Top 5.

5. Debbi Fields

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Debbi Fields is one of the best examples of entrepreneurs, who has achieved great success, because of really hard work. As a 13-year-old she started earning some additional money by selling self-made cookies. Today she is the head of a million dollar business as a Founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies – one of the largest retailers of freshly baked cookies and brownies in the United States.

4. Bill Gates

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Everyone knows who Bill Gates is, but not everyone is familiarized with his success story as an investor and businessman. Today he is best known as the person, responsible for the biggest revolution in the computer technologies, and as an active philanthropist. If you would like to learn more about how Gates made it to the top and what his advices to all young entrepreneurs are, visit his profile on BoomPedia.

3. Walt Disney

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Surely a man, like Walt Disney, also deserves a place on our chart and this month his success story ranks on the appropriate #3. The imagination innovation and wizardry of the acknowledged father of animation are unmatched in the history of hollywood. You could surely pick up a lot from his business experience, so we strongly recommend that you look into his story.

2. Catherine Cook

1283695374 Top 5 Business Success Stories   March 2011Catherine Cook is one of the youngest entrepreneurs, highlighted on the pages of BoomPedia, but as it seems age is not an obstacle for the young New Jersey-born to make it to the #2 spot this month. To summarize her success story, she is the Co-Founder of the world famous website myYearbook , which offers you the opportunity to make new friends and meet great people from all over the globe. The website offers interesting features, such as blind dates, games and battles between the users. Give it a try, it’s fun!

1. Steven Le Vine

1300459245 Top 5 Business Success Stories   March 2011Steven Le Vine, the indisputable PR talent, is the undoubted leader of the chart for March 2011. He is ranked higher than top entrepreneurs, such as Bill Gates, Matt Mickiewicz and Richard Branson, who has been, by the way, one of Steven’s greatest inspirations from the whole beginning of his career. Today Le Vine is only 29 years old, but is already running his own prospering business as a President and Founder of grapevine pr.

New feature on BoomPedia’s blog: Email Subscriptions

March 30th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink

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subscribet New feature on BoomPedias blog: Email Subscriptionswe’re glad to inform you that we just launched a new feature on our business success blog – email subscriptions.

If you want to be notified of our latest articles, news and interviews subscribe to our newsfeed on this page:  http://blog.boompedia.com/subscribe/

An amazing fact is that for the last 24 hours we have received 34 subscription requests. Thanks to all of you, we really got inspired to work harder and harder, and to publish more and more interesting and useful articles.

We would be happy to hear what kind of articles you want to read on BoomPedia’s pages? Please be free to share your personal opinion and advice on the comment section icon smile New feature on BoomPedias blog: Email Subscriptions

Oreo’s Facebook success story or how to get millions of fans for your pages?

March 26th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink

31189markzuckerbergandf Oreo’s Facebook success story or how to get millions of fans for your pages?In the course of the last 5 or 6 years Facebook has become a new niche, a preferable place, where more and more marketing experts prefer to run up their campaigns. Surely the question “why?” pops up in your mind. It’s a widely known fact, that the social networks’ users are people from all ages, with all kinds of hobbies and origins (even my grandmother has a profile). That’s why it’s easy to efficiently target the audience you want to advertise your products. For instance, we all remember the Obama’s Facebook campaign, which brought him the enormous success on the elections 2 years ago. It was all because of Facebook.

But today we’re going to relate about one of the most effective free ways for promoting your products – the so called pages. Facebook has given everyone the opportunity to create their own page with a specific name. There you have the opportunity to post photos, updates, polls and others, which immediately appear on the walls of the people, who have become fans of the page. If you are interested, here is a list of the today’s top Facebook pages:

1.       Facebook – 36,716,937 fans

2.       Youtube – 29,826,228 fans

3.       Coca Cola – 23,858,833 fans

4.       Starbucks – 20,328,777 fans

5.       Oreo – 17,473,249 fans

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So how could a product, such as those “sandwich cookies”, gather millions of fans worldwide and rank among world companies, such as Coca Cola and Starbucks? Is the secret hidden behind their unique flavour or is it just a successful marketing strategy? Well, to be perfectly honest…nobody knows, but here are some great tips about how to increase the fans on your page:

1. Create a community – discuss and talk about everything with your fans

2. Facebook Fan Box – a great application, which could be placed on your website

3. Encourage Comments – post questions and polls and post timely information to encourage current fans to comment, share, and “like” your posts

4. Be unique – make your fans want to come back and invite their friends

5. Regularly update with new content – add new posts, comments, photos, polls – they all contribute to the successful development of your page.

Good luck!

“White Castle” – the first fast food restaurant

March 21st, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink

whitecastlelogo White Castle   the first fast food restaurantNowadays the fast food restaurants are part of people’s everyday life, especially in the American Society. It is a common phenomenon that whole families are having supper there, because of the really cheap food, good taste and fast service. Children all around the world wake up with the though of a Macdonald’s Happy Meal, people are looking forward to the end of their working day to get one of those awesome KFC sandwiches. They are all obsessed with this innovative way of eating and for many of them it has become an indivisible part of their lives. Today the fast food industry is generating billions of income every single day. The industry itself is a great success story worthy enough to be a main theme of a couple of articles on BoomPedia, but today we are going to answer you these questions: “When did it all start?”, “Where is this business success actually rooted?”. Just keep reading and you’ll find out.

The first fast food restaurant is neither MacDonald’s, nor Burger King. Almost 20 years earlier  emerged a fledgling Enterprise, called White Castle.

The year is 1921. “White Castle” opens its doors in Wichita, Kansas. In the beginning it was famous for its low prices, but the hamburgers it offered were considered poor quality and even insanitary. Even though the term “fast food” was not used at the time the restaurant opened, Billy Ingram and J. Walter Anderson, the founders of White Castle, founded many of the concepts and conventions still used in the fast food industry today.

Their methods changed the public opinion about hamburgers by letting customers watch the burgers being made. They came up with innovative concepts, which  ensured a thorough cooking of the meat that improved the flavor. The attention to hygene did help convince the customers to try the burgers.

The idea of Ingram and Anderson was “White Castle” to become a dine restaurant, popular amongst most families, so they put coupons in local newspapers to attract them, and it worked. And that’s how it all started almost 90 years ago. A great success. uh?

“White Castle” is the starting point of a new era in modern eating, an era, that changed the daily lifestyle of millions of people all around the globe .

Interview with Rob Rammuny, Founder of “The Entrepreneurs Project”

March 21st, 2011 § 3 comments § permalink

imagereasonablysmall Interview with Rob Rammuny, Founder of The Entrepreneurs Project Angel: To start with, could you give us some background information – Where do you come from? How old are you? Where do you find your dose of inspiration? What motivates you?

Rob: I’m Rob Rammuny, 16 year old blogger and Internet marketer. I am known for living the Internet Lifestyle, and now I’m becoming widely known for the founder behind The Entrepreneurs Project.

Thousands of things motivates me, I can probably find a way to use every aspect of my life to motivate me. But, here are a couple things: I never want to go back to a J.O.B lifestyle and I want to always be financially stable. Those two alone, motivate me to work harder than I have before.

Angel: When and why did you come to the idea of starting your own blog?

Rob: Robswebtips was founded in February 2009 after I decided I wanted to teach others how the right way to make money. At the start of Robswebtips, I wasn’t actually making money, but I wanted to provide my journey and watch my readers grow as I do. Few months down the line, I started generating an income online and finally a full-time income online.

Angel: What makes your blog better than others?

Rob: I’d say because my blog and community is genuine. I always keep it 100% honest with my readers and they do the same with me. I go out my way to deliver the best content I can and serve them the best information as possible.

Another thing that sets my blog aside is, I engage with my community and they engage with others. I try and reply to all comments on my newest posts, and I am good at responding to every email I get personally. Also, I’m happy to say my blog is an actual community where other readers comment on eachother’s comments and get engaged. It’s a wonderful thing that I don’t see many blogs have.


Angel: Has age in any way helped/prevented you from achieving your goals? 

Rob: Age has it’s pro’s and cons. I’m 16, I don’t have much to lose if I make a mistake on my business (financial wise). $500/month keeps me living and I’m fine. Because of that, I’m less harder on myself sometimes to getting things done perfectly because of my age.

Age has also helped me because I know if I can get noticed at a young age for doing wonderful things, that’s more attention and reputation built my way – So, I’m motivated to work harder.

Angel: Aside from the satisfaction you receive from writing and helping other people, do you gain anything else from your blog, what are the profit margins a beginner may expect if he is good enough?

Rob: I get the satisfaction of knowing I have a community who I can call my family. I get the satisfaction that I can say I’m living the lifestyle’s many dream of, and yet I’m only 16.

Unlike the traditional jobs where you can put profit margin on things, this is not true with blogging. Your income is unlimited and you control how much you want to make depending on the amount of work and effort you put in.

A “full-time income” online is considered to be $3,000/month, so if we put that into perspective, I would have to guess the average blogger would make $36,000/year online. To me, that’s a very low amount and I’d reckon if you could make $36,000 in a year you can make a $70-80,000 per year just as easy. Because, as you grow so will your income.

Angel: What are your future plans for developing?

Rob: Continue to do what I’m doing now. Hustle everyday, engage with my community and strive to provide better content on each and every article I publish.

Angel: And last but not least,  what is your definition of success?

Rob: Probably the ability to say you accomplished something you didn’t think you could accomplish.

For example: Success is not walking up a flight of stairs and you knew you could do it with no effort anyways.
Success is achieving something you feared would not be possible, but you did it anyways.

Angel: Thank you, Rob. We really appreciate your contribution to BoomPedia.

The official BoomPedia blog “opened its gates”

March 21st, 2011 § 3 comments § permalink

Dear Visitor,

welcome to our business blog.

It has been almost half a year since the first business success story hit the pages of BoomPedia – a website, dedicated to how to be successful in business. Till today we have related about more than 50 entrepreneurs. Only here you could find out what their inspiration on the road to success was, which their principles were and how did some of them reach their first million.

The success stories are divided into 17 categories, including the food, internet and furniture business branches. We have already told the stories of top entrepreneurs, such as Matt Mullenweg, the Developer and Founder of WordPress, and of young entrepreneurs, which are currently at the dawn of their successful development as businessmen. Our ambitious team has also made a couple of interviews with people from different business lines, including the Founder of SitePoint – Matt Mickiewicz.

but what is actually this blog about?

Our aim is to create an online business community, where people could share their achievements with other entrepreneurs and could get their daily dose of inspiration. On BoomPedia Blog we are going to publish interviews, business articles, success stories and common news, related to the website.

Our team will appreciate your feedbacks and ideas about the future development of BoomPedia.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Angel Dimitrov

BoomPedia Administrator