Paul Lepa
| Paul Lepa | |
|---|---|
| File:Paul Lepa.jpg | |
| Born | Canada |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | CEO of PearlsOnly.com |
| 🌐 Website | pearlsonly |
Paul Lepa is a Canadian entrepreneur based in Beijing and Victoria, BC who is known for his ecommerce business that sells pearls.[1][2][3] Ken McElroy, in his book The Sleeping Giant: The Awakening of the Self-Employed Entrepreneur, dedicated the chapter Big Margins Can Mean Big Business to Lepa's story of starting up an internet based pearl business.[2][4]
Career[edit]
Lepa held various positions as a part of his professional career including senior account executive at Telvant in Calgary where he worked on projects in collaboration with Fortune 500 companies, Manager, SCADA and Automation at Koch Industries where his work spanned from feasibility to implementation of projects. He later served as the Director of Global Pipeline Solution Unit at ABB in Mannheim, Germany to work through the Chinese automation market before he moved to China in 2003 to start his career with a multinational corporation.[2][5][4]
Lepa learned that pearls from China sold much more expensive in the US when he sent a few strands back home and took the opportunity to venture into an eCommerce business of pearls with internet based sales internationally using Google AdWords and PayPal. Due to the workload from the venture, Lepa decided to quit his day job. By 2004, he had converted the website, pearlsonly.com, that he started for his business to a company with eight employees and $1.2 million in sales.[2][6][7]
Lepa's solo venture has resulted in about 100,000 customers and $10 million in sales by 2011[2] and 500,000 customers and $75 million CAD in sales by 2022. PearlsOnly has grown internationally and now sells in UK, Canada, Australia in German through country level domain names.[8][9]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Running an eCommerce Store in China: Discussing the Pros and Cons of Running an eCommerce Business in China with Paul Lepa of PearlsOnly.com". The eCommerceFuel. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 McElroy, Ken (2011-01-25). The Sleeping Giant: The Awakening of the Self-Employed Entrepreneur. Twenty Inspiring Stories from Global Entrepreneurs. RDA Press, LLC. ISBN 9780982910801. Search this book on
- ↑ "5 Marketing Tips to Help You Boost Your Conversion Rate". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Saif Akram Rathore (5 December 2015). Pearl eCommerce flourishes as internet gateways make it easier to sell online. The Saturday Paper. Search this book on
- ↑ Carl M. (5 August 2007). Pearls and perils. Springer Science & Business Media. Search this book on
- ↑ S. R. McMahon (8 September 2014). The Pearls Business. Interpellator. Search this book on
- ↑ Ronald K. (19 March 2014). Pearls from the East. The Monthly. Search this book on
- ↑ "About Pearls Only".
- ↑ Martin Bartlett (1 October 2015). eCommerce and supply chain. Daily Sun. Search this book on
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