About Chris Shihadeh
Chris Shihadeh is a successful businessman that operates out of Scottsdale, Arizona. Among the many successful businesses he’s started are a marketing agency, a sales contact center, and an e-commerce website. Mr. Shihadeh leads the digital marketing and lead-generating company Skylab DIgital as its president. His business generates thousands of daily calls for its consumers using internal adverts on major sites like Facebook, YouTube, Google, TikTok, and others.
What I Do Now and What I Am Responsible For
Mr. Shihadeh is the CEO and creator of Skylab Digital. The nine-person team at Skylab works to increase traffic to its clients’ websites in the hopes of receiving a phone call or other customer inquiry. They operate in several industries, such as medical, automotive, and Medicare insurance. The daily number of calls from major media platforms like Facebook and Google from their websites is well over eight thousand. At present, Skylab Digital has insurance licenses in six states, and this number is expected to grow.
The market for direct-response advertising is constantly evolving. The Skylab Digital team has substantially invested in technology to ensure they can adapt to the ever-shifting tastes of their clientele. They employ state-of-the-art monitoring technology to put callers in touch with the patrons most likely to help them. Software that uses AI to interact with consumers is also crucial, as are top-tier analytics platforms that set standards that are consistently followed by the business and its clients.
Practicing One’s Profession
Chris has always thought of himself as an entrepreneur. Even before he hit adolescence, he felt like an entrepreneur, thanks to his experiences with everything from lemonade stands to a local car wash. Twenty years later, many firms owe their success to this doggedness. As an undergraduate, he helped establish Consumer Tax Relief, a tax debt relief service. ZipTax, LLC, which Chris co-founded with Jim Dougal in 2012, was built on the foundation of CTR. Using the power of mass media, particularly television and radio, they rapidly became a household name across the country. Regarding tax debt, ZipTax’s team of tax attorneys and enrollment professionals would settle over $50 million with the IRS on behalf of its customers.
Towards the end of 2015, Chris decided to stop working as a tax accountant and instead devote his time to starting a marketing agency. Digital marketing is a need for modern organizations, and Marketing War was created to help with that. After a slow start (months), he pivoted to performance marketing focusing on the banking sector. Within weeks, Marketing War was generating over 2500 daily calls for student loans.
To strengthen its foothold in the mortgage industry during the height of the refinancing boom, Marketing War began doing business as a subsidiary of Lender Daily, delivering mortgage leads to many of the country’s largest lenders. Over many years, lender Daily sold over $500,000,000 in funded loans, or 1,500 mortgage leads every day. Chris Shihadeh saw the need for company diversification and expanded into the auto and health insurance industries.
Education and Lifelong Learning: A Chronology
Mr. Shihadeh attended Santiago Canyon College before transferring to California State University, Fullerton, in 2008. To explore a business idea, he dropped out of university and founded ZipTax. He is dedicated to lifelong learning and has taken several courses and seminars to hone his leadership skills and propel his business forward.
Competencies and Work History in the Field
Mr. Shihadeh engages in self-improvement and often attends events held by the world’s best experts, such as Tony Robbins, Chris Voss, Ed Mylett, and others, to generate fresh growth strategies and breathe new life into his businesses and investments.
He furthers his education by immersing himself in literature and audio recordings focusing on development and leadership.
Chris is active in one of the most well-known peer networks for established, mid- to large-sized firms in the world, Entrepreneur Organization.
It’s crucial to have expertise in digital marketing.
Making a business viable, developing it, and eventually expanding it.
• Defeating adversity and picking up the pieces after a setback
The Giving Back Movement and Other Forms of Philanthropy
Both Mr. Shihadeh and his wife are generous benefactors. He volunteered with Fed-Up, a Southern California organization that provides basic needs like food and clothing, for a long time.
Mr. Shihadeh sponsors two students, one from Vietnam and one from Bolivia, through Save the Children’s sponsorship program, and he also donates to the school’s sports activities.
In addition, he’s planning for the future with the greater good in mind. In his wife’s home country of Vietnam, he hopes to build and establish a school for disadvantaged kids within the next five years.
Resulting Successes and Accomplishments
In 2022, Skylab Digital was included for the first time in Inc. 5000.
For Mr. Shihadeh and the rest of Skylab Digital to be recognized at this stage in the company’s growth and success is a tremendous honor.
Passions & Interests
Recently wed, Chris plans to start a family before the year’s end. His interests include sushi, golf, reading, sports, SCUBA diving, and exploring new places.
Chris Shihadeh plans to start an investing and mentoring program for prospective entrepreneurs soon. The program will help entrepreneurs create successful launch strategies, grow their networks, and structure their investments for long-term success.
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