3 Inspiring entrepreneurial stories to help you to grow your own business

Chloë Thomas

Chloe Thomas has been doing marketing strategies for e-commerce businesses since 2003. She’s the author of four successful e-commerce books and the host and founder of the eCommerce Master Plan Podcast, where she discusses e-commerce successes and strategies.

When Chloe was still working for another company, she was selling one-size-fits-all solutions to common e-commerce problems. While she was great at her job, she understood that this approach didn’t account for specific brand needs or utilize their strengths.

So she decided to start her first business. With years of e-commerce experience, she knew she had everything she needed to succeed.

Her first big challenge was showcasing her abilities. To Chloe, the only way to be true to your service is if you can prove it with a case study. Her first was her own business.

By creating e-commerce content through her books, club, and podcast, she built a dedicated audience. She was able to further grow her experience and draw in people that would need her services.

She continued to invest her time and newfound knowledge into her business venture and used this as evidence of the effectiveness of her methods.

To Chloe, customers are what matters.

“While in reality all we see in numbers and pixels, the important piece is the people.”

Turning entrepreneurial ideas into reality means caring about customers and providing products and services they can trust. This means developing a product or service you know will change their lives.

Igor Kustov

Igor Kustov founded SalesHub, a massive trading community on Amazon, which has gained worldwide recognition for its impressive reach. He’s also penned training courses on business development, started selling physical products on Amazon, and created an Agency that helps Ukrainian manufacturers.

But Igor, like all aspiring entrepreneurs, had to overcome many entrepreneurial challenges.

Originally a normal businessman, Igor couldn’t ignore the issues within his home country, Ukraine. The economy was struggling and people didn’t have strategies for entrepreneurial success.

Igor took it upon himself to instill an entrepreneurial mindset in his clients and help them thrive while also building his own empire.

Igor studied the US and other international markets, changed them to fit the Ukrainian and Russian markets, and combined this with his own innovative business mindset.

“I tried to make the same quality or better quality.”

By learning from other Amazon seller communities and using his own business experience, he was able to fill a local niche with high-quality support, education, and services.

Leif Brian Margallo

Leif Brian Margallo started Virtual Workforce Professionals, which has grown into an international community with 15 centers around the Philippines. The company provides telemarketing services, customer services, chat support, and other virtual services.

After graduating with a Bachelors in Information Technology, Leif found work to be discouraging. He knew the only way forward was to get away from traditional money-making mindsets.

This new entrepreneurial mindset pushed him to try online freelancing.

While freelancing, Leif noticed a lack in the call center industry. There was high demand and hard-working callers, but services were outdated and the employees weren’t engaged.

Leif leveraged the high demand for call center work, the abundance of freelancers, his experience, and social platforms like Facebook to start his business.

“What sets us apart is the way we are running the team, and how we manage both our clients and our people.”

Leif continues to grow Virtual Workforce Professionals by offering updated services and top-tier customer care. His employees are also dedicated to the business’s success because they genuinely care about the work Leif and the company does.

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