NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / July 15, 2020 / There is no question that with everything happening in the world right now, people are looking for ways to get inspired and realize that you can still be successful even during the current pandemic.
If you are looking to start a business during these uncertain times, here are some entrepreneurs who have successfully been able to grow their businesses, sustain and scale them, and are currently doing great things, even during this pandemic.
This year VIP MEDIA Group has put together a list of Top Entrepreneurs to follow.
Grant Cardone is the bestselling author of The 10X Rule and has been buying real estate for over 30 years. Over those three decades, he has bought over two billion dollars worth of real estate in eight states. Grant currently manages 7,068 units with his private equity firm Cardone Capital. He is such a good real estate investor because of his extreme discipline, specific formulas, and good instinct to know when to exit the property. Throughout his career, Grant has been giving small investors a chance to start small and go big.
Tai Lopez is an investor, partner, and advisor to almost two-dozen multi-million-dollar businesses. Through his popular book club and podcasts The Tai Lopez Show, Tai shares advice on how to achieve health, wealth, love, and happiness with over 1.4 million people in 40 countries. The Tai Lopez Show gets around 800,000 downloads per month. In addition, Tai also owns the largest book shipping club in the world, Mentor Box, and was voted the Number 1 Social Media Influencer by Entrepreneur Magazine.
Chris Bivins, is a successful entrepreneur, master brand consultant and entertainer. From an early age, Chris' parents stressed the importance of owning a business and finding a product or service that people need. In spring of 2020, Chris did just that. Chris developed Veri Viral, a website used to help social media influencers, and tastemakers enhance their brands. His website can assist individuals from all different industries, like helping musical artists get on Spotify playlists, and drawing attention to influencer's content. Only a few months in and Veri Viral is growing and is making its mark in the entrepreneurial space. Chris' goal for 2020, is to have his business making 6 figures, and to help 25 more people get verified on Instagram before 2021.
Gabriel Hamel is a successful real estate investor and founder of Hamel Investments. Hamel never desired the 9-5 life; he always saw himself pursuing a career where he could be his own boss. With no formal education or money, Hamel's passion for real estate, business, and financial freedom has helped him to amass a multi million dollar real estate portfolio consisting of single family homes, multi-family apartments, commercial real estate, and mobile home parks. Hamel Investments takes a nonconventional approach to financing their properties. Instead of bank mortgages, Hamel uses seller financing. This creates a win-win scenario for both the buyer and the seller since the loan, term length, and down payment can be negotiated by the two parties as opposed to having the bank determine these factors. This method of financing has aided in Hamel's success. Hamel currently owns 175 rental units valued at roughly $20 million dollars.
Angolina Amores, a former Miss Australia, has become a self-made serial entrepreneur owning 7 businesses from e-commerce, real estate, and coaching. This 26 year old always knew the 9-5 was not for her. She wanted to spend her previous time fulfilling her own dream as opposed to someone else's. Angolina, also known as ‘The Female Mogul', started the female empowerment company, The Alpha Femme, which she designed to help ambitious women build successful businesses. The brand's mission is to empower women to build their empires unapologetically. Angolina will be releasing her course Millionaire Brand Mastery in the following days, an 8-week course that teaches individuals how to build 6-7 figure brands, with a focus on generating passive income.
Jase Bennett, is a serial entrepreneur, and the owner of 5 successful businesses. Jase was recently named one of the Top "40 under 40" entrepreneurs in Hawaii. Jase went from selling pencils in the fourth grade to onboarding products into major retailers like Walmart, Costco, Target, etc. with his international trade and manufacturing company Prouduct. Prouduct has revenued over tens of millions of dollars in sales for their respective clients, helping them grow 5x in 2020 during arguably the worst economic downturns of the century. Now, Jase is using his knowledge and expertise to teach people how to build success. Jase created The Decode, a Podcast where Jase digs into the core elements of success to give his listeners all of the strategies to reach ultimate success.
Travis Chappell got his start as a door to door salesman, but he knew he wanted to do more. With the goal of financial, time, and location freedom in mind, Chappell began studying personal development and how to start a business. This led Chappell to start his podcast, Build Your Network, which was named by Forbes as one of the Top 10 Podcasts that will change your life, alongside other big name people like Joe Rogan, Gary Vaynerchuck, and more. Build Your Network helps entrepreneurs produce profitable podcasts, even having elite guests on his show like Grant Cardone, Tom Bilyeu, Molly Bloom, just to name a few. Chappell's goal for 2020 is to finish and launch a software that he and his team have been developing, which will assist the independent creator space. Follow Chappell to stay up to date on this launch.
Scott Aaron, is a serial entrepreneur who got his start at 18 years old owning multiple health clubs. After discovering the power of social media, more specifically LinkedIn, Scott has mastered the site and has become the go-to specialist on the platform. He is using his expertise and experience to help entrepreneurs fully utilize LinkedIn to build their businesses. Some of his greatest accomplishments in the entrepreneur world are becoming a 2x best selling author, international keynote speaker and a top podcaster. In 2020, Scott plans to release a 4th book which he hopes to be his 3rd bestseller, and to reach different industries through his speaking to teach others how to harness, leverage and monetize the platform of LinkedIn using his methods.
Boniface Ogunti, also known as the King of Advertising went from nothing to over $5 million dollars in just a few years. From an early age, Boniface knew that the only way he would be able to create the life he wanted to live was to start a business. When he turned 19, he started his first business venture through e-commerce. After his success, people started to ask him how he did it. This led him to develop his e-learning company called Current9, which is designed to help people escape the 9-5 and start their own online e-commerce business. In 2020, Boniface plans to keep growing Current9, especially to the international market.
Erick Goni is a successful network marketer who, for the last 6 years, has spent time learning and growing in the marketing industry. Erick started network marketing as early as 17. He later moved onto dropshipping, but he realized that was not for him and used the funds he made to invest. A few years later he started his own company, Ergo Forex. His company Ergo Forex does a combination of network marketing and trading in forex, stocks, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. Ergo Forex is now a 6 figure company, making Erick one step closer on his road to financial freedom. In 2020, Erick's goal is to hit the 7 figure mark in residual income and to create a portfolio of assets and investments of over $10,000,000.
Amanda Martrice is the Vice President of one of the largest women empowerment brands in the world. Amanda was tired of the 9-5 life and wanted to have the freedom to make her own schedule and earn money on her own terms. Just 6 years later, she has become one of the top income earners in her company, earning multiple streams of income, and 6 figures. She has been able to help grow and build her company with thousands of customers from all over the world, providing them with private coaching programs, websites, and even being featured on podcasts. Amanda's goal for 2020, is to expand her business and engage with as many people as possible to help transform their lives and help them reach success, just like she did!
Timo Wilson is a successful salesman, financial guru, and credit repair master, which he became after realizing that working for someone else would never get him to his dreams of becoming the first multi millionaire in his family. With only $1,500 to his name, Timo quit his corporate job to live out his dream. In 2019, he started his business Asap Credit Solutions, a credit repair company. Now, one year later, Asap Credit Solutions is revenuing 6 figures monthly, has employed 17 people, and is helping 500-700 on a month basis repair their credit. In 2020, Timo plans to help 5,000 people become approval ready and help change the lives of as many people as he can through his business.
Richard Telf is a first generation Cuban immigrant who has been doing e-commerce for about five years now. When he began, he had an interest in business and finding ways to earn money beyond a regular job. He knew about dropshipping, but was uncertain about whether it worked or not. After doing some intense research on coaches, he went half and half on a course with his current business partner Laz Chavez. It was seven hard months confused, frustrated and profitless. Richard and Laz were trying to build an Ecommerce business alongside going to school, working jobs and maintaining their social lives, so the workload was monstrous, but they kept at it. At one point, they finally figured it out. They were too invested in the products they picked before actually testing them. After they let go of this attachment, they tested, evaluated and experimented relentlessly. That's when everything changed for them. Suddenly, they were making hundreds of sales daily and decided to keep expanding their testing mindset. Two years later, they did their first 7 figure month, had finished college, and quit their day jobs to focus all of their efforts into business. Richard realized the true blessing that came from e-commerce. He is able to spend time doing what he finds fulfilling and creating amazing memories with family and friends without having to worry about where the money will come from. That's when Richard realized this blessing is something that CAN and SHOULD be shared with anyone willing to listen and give it a shot. Richard and Laz decided to share this freedom with strangers over the internet and started "The Ecom Profit Masterclass" in the hopes that they would experience similar joy. To date, they have over 1,000 students and they couldn't be happier. Don't let any other person be the gauge of your success, your "limitations" only affect you as long as you believe in them.
Laz Chavez is a Cuban-born immigrant living in Miami who has been involved with e-commerce for the past 5 years. He was studying at Cornell to become a Mechanical Engineer, but was looking for ways to make some extra money. Then one day he and his business partner, Richard, got involved in dropshipping. It took 7 months of testing and failing until they saw their first profitable day. Those first 7 months were the hardest because they weren't sure if they were doing something wrong or if it was the system. Those 7 months really helped them to discern which of those variables were in their control and let them focus their efforts into those variables. Once they figured that out, they started making regular sales and kept scaling from there. At one point, they were making so many sales that it was impossible for them to handle everything, so they began to outsource various tasks and really started to automate their business. After 3 years in the game, some 7-figure months, and a ton of trial and error, they decided to share their knowledge about E-com with the public and started "The Ecom Profit Masterclass." Their students started seeing success, they kept growing and created a community of like minded entrepreneurs on a similar path to financial freedom. Nowadays, some of these students are more profitable than Laz and Richard are. They provided the fundamentals, but all of that growth was due to the students' own experimentation and efforts.
Philip Michael is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, and bestselling author. Since 2017, he's built a $57 million portfolio of tech-powered real estate in NYC and Philadelphia. As CEO of wealthlab.co and fintech app NYCE, Michael's created a wealth universe dedicated to wiping out racial and economic inequality. "My mission is to create 100,000+ millionaires of color," says Michael, who posts money advice daily on Instagram. "The best way to overcome economic disparity is to sustain the wealth." Powered by a $50 million IPO filed in April, the NYCE wealth universe is on track to hit $1 billion in assets by 2024, according to Forbes estimates. He has one of the fastest-growing real estate/money channels on Instagram, growing from friends and family to over 35.2K followers since April. The NYCE app, which goes live on Google Play and the Apple Store in August, will feature the first stock trading platform for real estate. Since May, the NYCE team's closed over $400,000 in micro-investments from first-time investors for their Robinhood-inspired real estate investment app.
Sebastian Swick and Eric Caste are the co-owners of AmazonLit, a successful wholesale business on Amazon being named a Top 50 Amazon 3rd party seller. What started off with only $4,000 in capital, is now becoming one of the largest 3rd party sellers in the county producing over $150 million in sales. This team saw a need in the industry to provide authentic information about the world of FBA Wholesale, something they wish they would have had starting out. With nearly 7 years of experience, they developed EsellersRI, a program designed to teach others how to start, grow and scale their Amazon business using the same tactics they used for their 8 figure company. Their goal for 2020 is to help 2000 people reach financial freedom through selling on Amazon, like they did.
Shabaz Ahmed, is a highly successful forex trader. At just 24 years old, Shabaz who was once on government assistance, is now living a life of financial freedom. After dedicating 5 years to master the craft of forex trading, Shabaz started to share with others how he reached his success. After hearing the positive impact he had on the people he shared his knowledge with, this inspired Shabaz. Now he is seen traveling across the world on prestigious stages speaking in front of 10,000+ empowering individuals to reach their own financial goals just like he did. In 2020, Shabaz wants to focus on helping his 5,000+ members level up financially, spiritually and mentally.
Chris Diaz got his bachelor's degree in 2016 and then got experience working sales for the most luxurious car dealership in Miami, FL and in a banking position at J.P Morgan Chase. He then saw the opportunity in the digital marketing space, so he decided to invest into courses, mentors, books, and materials that would teach him how to grow his social presence. Chris then started his own agency, pursued his passion, and is now fulfilling his life's purpose. Chris is a consultant, marketing expert, and CEO of Chris Diaz Agency. He is well known for his innate ability to revolutionize the way a brand is seen. He provides digital consulting for 6-7 figure entrepreneurs and elite businesses looking to grow their social presence and scale beyond their current standing. He also runs a 100M+ digital network filled with artists, entrepreneurs, athletes, influencers, and more which he leverages to drive more traffic to his clients businesses.
Maria Brown, is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and business consultant. She is the definition of hard work and determination. CEO of Brown Consulting, Maria Brown has used her life's biggest challenges and struggles as a force to inspire others to accomplish their dreams. An avid traveler and lover of life, Maria looks forward to continuing to run her multiple successful businesses and inspire others to do the same in 2020 and beyond.
