Tell us why you got started with Dropbox

I have utilized Dropbox for over seven (7) years beginning as an individual user housing both personal and business documents. I am the founder & CEO of two companies growing both steadily since 1999 for one and the second since 2017.

The first business I launched in 1999, starting out small simply dabbling on eBay and slowing over to Amazon also. Later growing the inventory and in 2012 converting both to a Store/Professional Seller. Now, on Amazon we are worldwide selling in 13 countries & ship worldwide from the United States. Many folks were not aware that Amazon itself was an auction back in the latter 1990’s as well. The store on eBay is closed temporarily as I work to build my website for business. We have recently become Federally Trademarked for the store name. My second business was launched in 2017 and has seen significant growth. The second business focuses on providing event management & entertainment for music festivals, fairs, and vendors shows. We are expecting to launch into large music festivals in 2025 with one currently having approx., today 20 entertainers/recording artists booked. Dropbox assists us in being able to store all of these files, including our Master Artist/Entertainment contact database, Vendor Database, Sponsorship Database, and more. Myself and staff have been able to organically grow our vendor contact database to reach well over 10k now and the Sponsorship database is at least well over 5k.

I am currently a pro developer and provide our vendors, attendees, sponsors, partners, etc. brand expansion, advertising and marketing consulting, content creation, graphic design, etc. with return participation in our events year over year along with an interactive link that connects those attendees and website visitors directly to those vendors in turn we provide real analytics and data for growth in addition to the marketing consulting/brand expansion strategy. 2024-2025 motto, unleash the power, execute success.

We plan to build use of Drobox Dash into the future business model for my staff as I can only see it increasing productivity even more as we continue striving for less touchpoints from manual posting of each annual event on social media page (up to 250+ per event manually posted) in addition to more than 75 digital publications and more. Dropbox over the years has tremendously assisted me maintain and sustain through at times what I like to call “the fast & the furious” growth tsunami to a calmer organized, well oil machine that is accessible anywhere at any time. I conduct just as much of my business on my mobile devices as I do sit in or at my office desk. Knowing I offer a more pliable office environment that is moveable, not fixed, and more flexible for my staff, I believe offers them more sustainability and quality of life for those sporadic occurrences that life throws.

I truly appreciate the security measures as well as the reporting available to me as well. It allows me as a business owner to have more reliable data for those who may not necessarily be on the up and up when working from home unfortunately. As I continue to work through growth opportunities and expansion plans, I look forward to the many enhancements and tools that I have yet to tap into with Dropbox and other affiliate software my company uses such as Adobe, ect. whereas it is my desire to cease all paper documents and embed our contracts strictly into our website for vendors, food vendors, and all artists and entertainers.  Once it is completed online, and signed the signer clicks “submit” and it will then route into the appropriate Dropbox folder for that specific year’s event. During the 2024-2025 fiscal years and beyond, our company will continue to utilize various Dropbox features that will prove beneficial to our mission of streamlining the overall event management process per event from end to end while also implementing integrated business solutions that will increase productivity as bottlenecks are identified. Through those endeavors each individual process will be reviewed for potential automation thus reducing touchpoints, again utilizing any features available in Dropbox.

My next largest course of business is cleaning up duplicate business files within Dropbox from employee attrition. I would welcome any tips.