????本文為與《創(chuàng)業(yè)者》雜志的合作內(nèi)容,。原文最初發(fā)表于Entrepreneur.com,。

????在米歇爾?潘大獲成功的YouTube頻道中，她展現(xiàn)了化妝的力量,，讓自己化身為白雪公主,、茉莉公主、花木蘭等形象,。不過(guò),，比起這位27歲的現(xiàn)實(shí)版灰姑娘的故事，這些造型上的改變就相形見(jiàn)絀了,。

????在設(shè)計(jì)學(xué)院上大一時(shí),，潘在當(dāng)?shù)匾粋€(gè)蘭蔻化妝品柜臺(tái)申請(qǐng)了一份臨時(shí)工作。作為一名很有天賦的說(shuō)明者,，潘以出色成績(jī)通過(guò)了化妝演示測(cè)試,，但最終由于沒(méi)有相關(guān)工作經(jīng)驗(yàn)而被認(rèn)為不適合這個(gè)崗位。

????她說(shuō)：“我相信那次被拒是個(gè)好事,，這種經(jīng)歷往往會(huì)讓你知道,，其他地方還有更好的機(jī)會(huì)。這個(gè)更好的機(jī)會(huì)就是我的筆記本電腦和照相機(jī),?！?/p>

????兩年后，當(dāng)潘的化妝教學(xué)視頻在YouTube上迅速瘋傳時(shí),，一名蘭蔻的高管偶然發(fā)現(xiàn)了她的教程,。為了讓這個(gè)受人尊敬的品牌緊跟數(shù)字前沿，這名高管聯(lián)系了潘,，并最終簽約讓她成為蘭蔻第一位官方的視頻化妝師,。

????潘笑著說(shuō)：“遲來(lái)的喜悅。就像上天在對(duì)你說(shuō)：‘看到了吧,，我告訴過(guò)你,?！?/p>

????如果說(shuō)YouTube排名迅速躥升，進(jìn)而成為該平臺(tái)最成功的頻道之一,，已經(jīng)是不太可能實(shí)現(xiàn)的創(chuàng)舉,，那么利用這股勢(shì)頭創(chuàng)立一家預(yù)估年收入1.2億美元的公司則是更為罕見(jiàn)的成就。但這正是潘利用Ipsy公司實(shí)現(xiàn)的壯舉,。這是一項(xiàng)美妝樣品訂購(gòu)服務(wù),，擁有100名員工，目前已成為她最賺錢的業(yè)務(wù),。

????該公司首席執(zhí)行官馬塞洛?坎貝羅斯表示,，Ipsy向用戶收取每月10美元的費(fèi)用，向他們提供“Glam Bag”美妝包,，內(nèi)含五種美妝樣品,，該服務(wù)的訂購(gòu)者已經(jīng)突破了100萬(wàn)人大關(guān)。馬塞洛曾是搞笑網(wǎng)站Funny or Die的高管,，在2011年與潘共同創(chuàng)立了這家公司,。

????與募資近7200萬(wàn)美元，采用傳統(tǒng)電視廣告宣傳和實(shí)體店銷售的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手Birchbox不同,，Ipsy表示自己的訂購(gòu)者主要來(lái)自潘廣泛的社交覆蓋面,。

????坎貝羅斯說(shuō)：“我們每個(gè)月都有超過(guò)10萬(wàn)名新的訂購(gòu)者，這一增長(zhǎng)完全是內(nèi)生的,，沒(méi)有任何營(yíng)銷和公關(guān)費(fèi)用,。”他說(shuō),，Ipsy會(huì)在今年成為樣品市場(chǎng)最大的一家公司,。

????Birchbox對(duì)此拒絕發(fā)表評(píng)論。不過(guò)在去年4月,，他們宣布訂購(gòu)者的數(shù)量達(dá)到80萬(wàn),。然而，與Ipsy不同,，Birchbox還在它的在線商店出售全尺寸的美顏產(chǎn)品,，這部分收入當(dāng)時(shí)占該公司1.25億美元總營(yíng)收的30%。

????盡管Birchbox早期的發(fā)展也來(lái)自社交媒體的造勢(shì),，比如2010年成立時(shí)在YouTube傳播的所謂“開(kāi)箱視頻”,，但I(xiàn)psy將網(wǎng)絡(luò)公眾人物置于其商業(yè)模式的核心部分。如今,，Ipsy與超過(guò)500名與美妝領(lǐng)域相關(guān)的YouTube和Instagram紅人展開(kāi)合作,，其中包括貝瑟尼?莫塔這樣的大牌。該公司還給其中一些人支付報(bào)酬，邀請(qǐng)他們?cè)谧约旱纳缃幻襟w頻道討論相關(guān)品牌,。

????潘表示：“這些視頻的拍攝顯得十分真實(shí),，感覺(jué)不像是商業(yè)廣告。他們當(dāng)中有許多都是精力旺盛的YouTube紅人,。這是一種很棒的品牌發(fā)展方式,。”

????與此同時(shí),，美妝品牌也很需要這種方式,。Ipsy公司總裁詹妮弗?戈德法布表示,，盡管Ipsy每個(gè)月都會(huì)收到70萬(wàn)種毛遂自薦的美妝產(chǎn)品,，但美妝品牌無(wú)法通過(guò)付費(fèi)方式獲得Glam Bag的推薦。當(dāng)然,，為了營(yíng)銷展示,，他們會(huì)提供存貨——只要造型師決定推薦。

????戈德法布解釋道：Ipsy的造型師也會(huì)受益于這一安排中得利,。由于公司投入巨資打造自己的創(chuàng)造者生態(tài)圈,，化妝師在加入后，會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己頻道的粉絲迅速增長(zhǎng),。

????比如說(shuō),，Ipsy沒(méi)有涉足實(shí)體銷售，也沒(méi)有在營(yíng)銷上投入大量財(cái)力,，而是去年在洛杉磯建立了2500平方英尺的基地,，作為視頻拍攝和剪輯中心。

????此外,，該公司每年會(huì)在洛杉磯舉辦“一代佳人”大會(huì)（Generation Beauty）,。每年都有大批參會(huì)者涌向自己最喜歡的網(wǎng)絡(luò)名人那里，與美妝和數(shù)字媒體行業(yè)的重量級(jí)人物親密接觸,。這項(xiàng)盛會(huì)計(jì)劃在今年晚些時(shí)候首次移至紐約,。

????盡管Ipsy是潘目前最大的搖錢樹(shù)，但她還打算進(jìn)軍更廣闊的天地,。今年夏天,，潘將發(fā)布一款帶有照片和視頻編輯軟件的移動(dòng)應(yīng)用——這將幫助她實(shí)現(xiàn)自己的另一項(xiàng)大抱負(fù)：讓年輕的追隨者掌握熟練的技術(shù)和其他具備市場(chǎng)價(jià)值的技能。

????她表示：“有許多關(guān)注我的人剛剛畢業(yè),，找不到工作,，他們負(fù)債了幾十萬(wàn)美元，不知道如何是好,。我的夢(mèng)想是看到新一代企業(yè)家不斷涌現(xiàn),，創(chuàng)造并擁有更多有意義的工作，而不是從事日復(fù)一日的苦差事,?！?/p>

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????This post is in partnership with Entrepreneur. The article below was originally published at entrepreneur.com.

????On her wildly successful YouTube channel, Michelle Phan has harnessed the power of makeup to transform herself into Snow White, Princess Jasmine, Mulan and more. But these conversions pale in comparison to the 27-year-old’s real-life Cinderella story.

????Once upon a time, during her freshman year of design college, Phan applied for a gig at a local Lanc?me counter. A gifted illustrator, Phan passed the makeup demo test with flying colors, but was ultimately deemed unfit for the position due to a lack of previous experience.

????“I believe that rejection is a blessing because it’s the universe’s way of telling you that there’s something better out there,” she says. “And that something better was my laptop and my camera.”

????Two years later, as Phan’s videos began to spread across YouTube like wildfire, a Lanc?me executive stumbled upon one of her tutorials. In a bid to imbue the venerable brand with a digital edge, she reached out to Phan and ultimately signed her as Lanc?me’s first official video makeup artist.

????“Delayed gratification,” Phan says with a laugh. “That was the universe saying, ‘See, I told you so.’”

????If rising through YouTube’s ranks to create one of the platform’s most successful channels is an unlikely feat, spinning that momentum into a company with a $120 million annual sales run-rate is a rarer accomplishment still. But that is precisely what Phan has done with Ipsy, a beauty sampling service that counts 100 employees and marks her most lucrative venture yet.

????Ipsy, which charges users $10 per month for a ‘Glam Bag’ full of five sample-sized beauty products, just crossed the 1 million subscriber milestone, says CEO Marcelo Camberos — a former Funny or Die exec who co-founded the company with Phan in 2011.

????And unlike rival Birchbox, which has raised almost $72 million in funding, and which has forayed into traditionalTV advertising as well as brick-and-mortar retail, Ipsy says that its subscribers are predominantly a product of Phan’s massive social reach.

????“We have over 100,000 new Glam Bag subscribers joining every month,” Camberos said, “and this growth has been completely organic with no marketing or PR spend.” This year, Ipsy will become the biggest company in the sampling space, he says.

????Birchbox declined to comment for this story. But last April, the company pegged its subscriber count at 800,000. Unlike Ipsy, however, Birchbox also vends full-sized products on its online shop, which at the time accounted for 30 percent of annual revenues of $125 million.

????While much of Birchbox’s early growth came care of social media buzz, including a proliferation of so-called ‘unboxing videos’ on YouTube amid its founding in 2010, Ipsy has made online influencers the centerpiece of its business model. Today, the company works with over 500 YouTubers and Instagrammers in the beauty realm — including bold-faced names like Bethany Mota — some of whom are paid to discuss participating brands on their social media channels.

????“The videos are done in a very authentic way, where it doesn’t feel like a commercial,” says Phan. “A lot of these people are up ‘n’ coming YouTubers. It’s a great way to incubate your brand.”

????And brands are clamoring for a piece of the action. While 700,000 beauty products are submitted to Ipsy for consideration each month, brands cannot pay to appear in boxes, explains Ipsy president Jennifer Goldfarb. Rather, they furnish inventory in exchange for the marketing exposure — only if the stylists choose to recommend them.

????Ipsy’s stylists stand to gain from this arrangement as well, Goldfarb explains. Because the company invests so heavily in its own creator ecosphere, stylists tend to see their followings skyrocket after coming onboard.

????For instance, as opposed to foraying into physical retail or spending costly marketing dollars, Ipsy unveiled last year a 2,500-square-foot production facility in Los Angeles, which serves as a filming and editing hub.

????Additionally, the company hosts an annual convention called Generation Beauty in Los Angeles, where attendees flock to meet their favorite digital celebrities and rub elbows with major players from the beauty and digital media industries. The event is slated to debut in New York later this year.

????While Ipsy is Phan’s biggest money-maker to date, future endeavors are also sweeping in scope. This summer, Phan will launch a mobile app packed with photo and video editing software — dovetailing with another one of her larger aspirations: to equip young followers with tech proficiencies and other marketable skills.

????“So many of my followers who just graduated can’t get jobs, they’re hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and they don’t know what to do,” she says. “My dream is to see a new generation of entrepreneurs who are creating and having more meaningful jobs than the day-to-day grind.”