Quarantine and social distancing measures in light of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought traditional businesses to a grinding halt. For some, the transformation of once lively streets into vacant strips of pavement has necessitated the shuttering of their physical stores. For others, drastic changes in consumer demand have resulted in plummeting sales and a large surplus of decaying stock. Regardless of reason, dramatic changes in consumer behavior and the world economy have seen many profits turn to loss as businesses struggle to adapt.
However, the situation has also given rise to opportunities for resourceful entrepreneurs. While physical businesses grow barren, online businesses have begun to thrive as consumers move online to fulfill their needs and desires. Both consumers and retailers have also begun to grow more open-minded as the uncertainties of the pandemic rock the global psyche. Completely online-based businesses, video conferencing as the primary medium of communication, and transactions that are completely devoid of physical interaction are some of the innovations that have begun to be accepted into the mainstream as part of the pandemic paradigm shift.
In business, however, the old patterns remain true. The entrepreneur who is able to identify and satisfy the fickle demands of their consumers, adapt to constantly changing market conditions, and remain consistent in their passion in providing quality service in spite of the challenges has the potential to distinguish themselves and earn high profits despite the ailing state of the global economy.
Lukas Tsimopoulos is an example of one such entrepreneur flourishing in the post-COVID-19 market. Lukas found his start in on-off encounters with online selling through eBay when he was just 14 years old. As he progressed in his entrepreneurial journey, Lukas decided to look for a business model that would be able to fulfill his dream of being able to live an untethered life with the freedom to work from anywhere he wants.
This was how Lukas first encountered drop-shipping, a business model wherein an entrepreneur sells products he does not physically hold an inventory of by connecting potential buyers to trustworthy suppliers. Through this model, Lukas quickly achieved his success, eventually coming to build multiple online businesses and earning multiple six figures in profit in just a few months. At just twenty years old, Lukas now holds big dreams of earning $1,000,000 in profits from one of his online brands by next year.
At such a young age, Lukas’s story so far is a concise tale of effective entrepreneurship. Lukas’s life has its fair share of successes and failures in his relatively short time as an entrepreneur. However, he says that what matters for an entrepreneur is being able to take your failures, roll with the punches, and get back up stronger using what you have learned from your mistakes. He admits that personally, it also took him a couple of years before he was able to get the confident mindset that his business is the one that could truly help him achieve his dreams.
Lukas’s dreams, however, do not end simply with his financial goals. Being more aware than anyone regarding the difficulties of starting a business, he also aims to inspire and guide others in replicating his success. To this end, one of his plans for the future is to further build up his already sizable social media presence, documenting his entrepreneurial journey so that he may help those who are only getting started. Lukas endeavors to respond to all the aspiring entrepreneurs that reach out to him in social media, adamant in helping others grow as businessmen as well as in all aspects of their day-to-day lives.
The desire to help others succeed is rooted in Lukas’s early experiences as an entrepreneur. In starting out, Lukas recalls, many of the people he reached out to ignored his questions as a budding entrepreneur. Dismayed but also inspired by this experience, Lukas wants to be the opposite, helping as many as he can to improve. In this manner, Lukas’s dreams are not only made up of big profits amounting to millions of dollars. Rather, Lukas also dreams of inspiring millions of like-minded, business-oriented individuals to follow their own dreams and achieve success.
Lukas Tsimopoulos’s story can be followed through his Instagram @ITSLUKASTS. Aspiring entrepreneurs hoping to be successful in their own ventures may also reach Lukas through his website at The Visionary Blueprint.