shama kabani

shama kabani

Shama Kabani has been named finalist in Business Week’s “Americas Best Young Entrepreneurs 2009″ . Shama Kabani is only 24 and says she is on her way to $280,000 in revenues for her company this year. Her company is based out of Dallas. But when she pitched her ideas McKinsey and Bain & Co, they passed.

Undeterred, Kabani, whose parents are both entrepreneurs, founded her own full-service online marketing firm in March 2008, to build Web sites, handle SEO, and create and manage social media campaigns. The six-employee business now takes on about 25 one-off projects a month and also acts as an online marketing department for six regular clients on a retainer basis. Fees range from a few hundred dollars for a newsletter design to $2,500 for a Web site project; monthly retainer fees start around $2,500. Kabani says Click To Client had about $120,000 in revenue in 2008, expects $280,000 for 2009, and is shooting for $1 million in 2010. Her first book, The Zen of Social Media Marketing, is due out in April.