Skip to main content
state library of queensland
Blog
Business and entrepreneurs

Nick Bell was a uni dropout with a failed skincare business before he built a $45 million internet marketing empire

By Administrator | 4 October 2015

"As the saying goes, in order to succeed you first need to fail. That was certainly the case for Nick Bell, who spent three years on a skincare business that never quite took off before launching a web marketing company that now turns over $45 million a year.

Bell, who had dropped out of uni after six weeks, started the skincare business at 24. The idea for the switch came when he was looking for an agency to do SEO work for his website in 2008. When he couldn’t afford the quoted prices, Bell realised that his business wasn’t doing all that well. So he decided to start his own internet marketing company, Web Marketing Experts. He had an order for $10,000 of work within his first week." Read more

Gina Baldassarre Startup Daily 24 Sep 2015

Comments

Your email address will not be published.

We welcome relevant, respectful comments.

Please read our Comment Policy before commenting.
We also welcome direct feedback via Contact Us.
You may also want to ask our librarians.