A businesswoman is defined as “a woman who works in business or commerce, especially at an executive level” (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/businesswoman). Therefore, a woman who at sixteen started her own eBay store, a closet organizing company, co-owns a successful boutique located in three major cities, cofounded a successful online shoe store, created a hundred-million-dollar app, and is a household name is not only a businesswoman but a successful one. (https://shopdashonline.com/) That woman is Kim Kardashian West. Kim Kardashian is often thought of “talentless”,“self-obsessed”, and “famous-for-nothing”, but she has been striving for success since she was a teenager. In 2002, she began an eBay store where she would
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She is ranked 11th on the “FORBES’ Social 100” with 32 million Twitter followers; her followers have made her tweets so valuable that Kim gets paid around $25,00 with one single promotional tweet. In fact, she’s so popular that the starting price for her to make an appearance in the US is $100,000 and increases to a million dollars when asked to go internationally. Kim Kardashian has not only launched multiple successful businesses but has also made herself a brand in the process. Fans are willing to pay money for what she decides to promote and that gives her power. Her name is the household name, and she has spread that fame to her sisters as …show more content…
He even sent a film crew to record the family as a test, before the tape was leaked. In fact, Kim had already opened D-A-S-H with her sisters and was working her way up to business success. She had been living off her own money since 18 years old (it’s a family rule) and had been learning directly from her father what it takes to make a business successful. The tape gave her publicity, even though it was bad publicity. She used it. She sued the company, who paid one million dollars for the rights to said video, and got five million dollars from the settlement. She didn’t hide from the public eye and give up her dreams of being successful. She embraced it and owned up to the mistake. Being the intelligent business woman she was, she used it to grow her following and promote her companies and herself. She’s grown her empire so well that her whole family is thriving. Her determination to succeed through her mistake is what makes her so successful. Many people would have given up, but Kim knew wanted to succeed in the business world and stayed through all the insults thrown at her. It proves her strength and patience to be able to deal with the critics, who still hold the one mistake she made a decade ago over her, who will never acknowledge her accomplishments because is they did
She is ranked 11th on the “FORBES’ Social 100” with 32 million Twitter followers; her followers have made her tweets so valuable that Kim gets paid around $25,00 with one single promotional tweet. In fact, she’s so popular that the starting price for her to make an appearance in the US is $100,000 and increases to a million dollars when asked to go internationally. Kim Kardashian has not only launched multiple successful businesses but has also made herself a brand in the process. Fans are willing to pay money for what she decides to promote and that gives her power. Her name is the household name, and she has spread that fame to her sisters as …show more content…
He even sent a film crew to record the family as a test, before the tape was leaked. In fact, Kim had already opened D-A-S-H with her sisters and was working her way up to business success. She had been living off her own money since 18 years old (it’s a family rule) and had been learning directly from her father what it takes to make a business successful. The tape gave her publicity, even though it was bad publicity. She used it. She sued the company, who paid one million dollars for the rights to said video, and got five million dollars from the settlement. She didn’t hide from the public eye and give up her dreams of being successful. She embraced it and owned up to the mistake. Being the intelligent business woman she was, she used it to grow her following and promote her companies and herself. She’s grown her empire so well that her whole family is thriving. Her determination to succeed through her mistake is what makes her so successful. Many people would have given up, but Kim knew wanted to succeed in the business world and stayed through all the insults thrown at her. It proves her strength and patience to be able to deal with the critics, who still hold the one mistake she made a decade ago over her, who will never acknowledge her accomplishments because is they did