{"id":179,"date":"2011-11-10T00:48:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T07:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/priscillaw\/?p=179"},"modified":"2011-11-20T22:56:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T05:56:10","slug":"179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/priscillaw\/2011\/11\/10\/179\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearly Contacts: An Entrepreneur&#8217;s Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A decade ago, Clearly Contacts was just a small online business selling vision care goods. Not long after, the entrepreneurial company boomed with success and is now \u201cthe world\u2019s largest online retailer of contact lenses and eye-glasses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roger Hardy, a Canadian entrepreneur, started the company to fulfill the demand for inexpensive eye-care products. Clearly Contacts offers designer eye-glasses for half the price of other retailers, as well as styles ranging from \u201cgeek chic to business casual.\u201d These factors contribute to attracting many target markets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clearlycontacts.ca\/imageresources\/Promos\/hotspots\/couponeligible\/couponeligibleg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clearlycontacts.ca\/imageresources\/Promos\/hotspots\/couponeligible\/couponeligibleg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a>What makes Clearly Contacts an entrepreneurial company? Clearly it&#8217;s the successful earnings gained from the start, as it generated a $1-million revenue within its first year. However, that\u2019s not the only reason. The company is constantly bringing new brands and styles of products to customers, is always thinking of ways to be innovative, and continuously faces risks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When these factors are combined, they result in what entrepreneurs aim to do: satisfy customers as well as increase the company&#8217;s wealth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">________________________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clearlycontacts.ca\/\">Clearly Contacts<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/investors.coastalcontacts.com\/\"><br \/>\nCoastal Contacts<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickmba.com\/entre\/definition\/\"><br \/>\nA Definition of Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneur<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, Clearly Contacts was just a small online business selling vision care goods. Not long after, the entrepreneurial company boomed with success and is now \u201cthe world\u2019s largest online retailer of contact lenses and eye-glasses.\u201d Roger Hardy, a Canadian entrepreneur, started the company to fulfill the demand for inexpensive eye-care products. Clearly Contacts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/priscillaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/priscillaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/priscillaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/priscillaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/priscillaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/priscillaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/priscillaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/priscillaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/priscillaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/priscillaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}