We were lucky to catch up with Alen Kevorkian recently and have shared our conversation below.
Alen, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Alright, so we’d love to hear about how you got your first client or customer. What’s the story?
When i started back in 1900’s that is 1998 advertising was door to door – and magazines, i reached out to friends and family initially to let them know that this new era was to have a website. A few had heard about it, some even suggested what was the point of it, if they already has a business card, I mentioned this was the future. And slowly one friend turned into a client and so on and so on. Scaling with referrals is by far the best way with little to no money spent on ads.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
Starting out at as a Project manager at Parsons a construction Engineering office. Our department head had asked if i could partake on developing an intranet for our department, knowing nothing about it, and had to learn as i went along, i found it to be most fun and enjoyed my time, i then decided i want to pursue this as my next venture. Here i am 28 years later still doing it.
Have you ever had to pivot?
In any job, you pivot, what you started out as is not where you end up, you have to listen to yourself, as well as the needs of the customer, another example of pivoting, is i used have my own servers, It’s what we can in the industry as dedicated meaning its yours, the issue with this as i learned the hard way, when you have a dedicated server and all of your clients as on a single server, and that server goes down, guess what so does every single client, and all of a sudden your getting a bunch of phone calls that the site is down. So you learn from that experience, you make sure to stagger server, you make sure you have a team of IT engineers who can fix the servers on the spot.
Can you talk to us about how you funded your business?
I funded the business myself. I did not want to have a loan to a bank and put the pressure of a new business on me – the business is new your already learning as you go, the money your making is all over the place from $200 one day to $5000 the next back to $100 so it fluctuated too much and i had to learn to fix this and make it a reliable source of income and not just a hobby.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Www.livewebmedia.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livewebmedia
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/livewebmedia
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/314519/admin/dashboard/
- Twitter: https://x.com/livewebmedia
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/livewebmedia-woodland-hills-4
