Marc Boulos and Chris Guzman: Bootstrapping a Social Media Agency

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Chris Guzman and Marc Boulos co-founded a social media agency called Rightsyde Media. Rightsyde is a social media focused agency that helps different businesses tell their stories and drive their business results through social media. The Rightsyde team works with startups, small businesses, franchise corp teams, and national brands. These founders also started a Startup Competition in Miami called the Start-up Series and have worked with Gerard Adams (Elite Daily), Al Nelson (EZ VIP - Shark Tank), and Walker Williams (Teespring.com) to name a few.

In this Fireside Chat we'll dive deep into what it took to get Rightsyde Media from concept to product, pivot and integrated, all right here in South Florida.

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Chris & Marc

Rightsyde Media

Chris Guzman Bio:
Worked in the direct sales industry for a consumer product company and got a first taste of building a business and earning straight commission compensation. From 2012-2015, Chris built a personal sales business and led the revenue growth of his organization from zero to over $1 million per month in product sales.
In June …

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Chris & Marc

Rightsyde Media

Chris Guzman Bio:

Worked in the direct sales industry for a consumer product company and got a first taste of building a business and earning straight commission compensation. From 2012-2015, Chris built a personal sales business and led the revenue growth of his organization from zero to over $1 million per month in product sales.

In June 2015, Chris launched the digital channel www.beyouinsider.com. BeYou is a digital channel where visitors and subscribers can hear real stories and best practices from successful entrepreneurs, athletes, and artists. BeYou relayed positive messages through interviews, podcasts, blogs, articles, and videos on the website. He was able to interview entrepreneurs such as Gerard Adams (Elite Daily), Al Nelson (EZ VIP - Shark Tank), and Walker Williams (Teespring.com) to name a few.

In November 2015, Chris co-founded a social media agency called Rightsyde Media with Marc Boulos. Rightsyde is a social media focused agency that helps different businesses tell their stories and drive their business results through social media. Chris and his team work with startups, small businesses, franchise corp teams, and national brands. He has also started a Startup Competition Series in Miami called the Start-up Series. He and his team were able to donate $10,000 in prizes to the winner last summer.

Marc Boulos Bio:

In June 2014, Marc owned an online company where he designed and marketed clothing using Teespring.com's platform. He developed extensive knowledge and application of Facebook's advertising platform and used it to gather a combined clientele of 200,000+ active Facebook users. Marc designed and sold over 14,300 units of clothing and sold over $185,000 in one year. Marc has been featured on Teespring's blog, Business Insider, and The New York Post as an outstanding success story.

In 2015, Marc partnered with Chris on www.beyouinsider.com and become the CMO of the digital channel. In the process of expanding the website, he helped Al Nelson (a miami-based entrepreneur) sell out an entrepreneurship seminar, that highlighted Daymond John as a keynote speaker, strictly using Facebook’s advertising platform.