Avijit Arya

AVIJIT ARYA BIOGRAPHY

Avijit Arya was a streetcar racer turned hotelier, now a social media marketer and the founder of the Internet Moguls. Internet Moguls is an International Digital Marketing Service Agency for hotels, restaurants, travel companies, airlines etc. and offers end-to-end digital marketing solutions. Avijit Arya is named amongst the top 25 influencers by Influencive, ranked as one of the top 100 digital icons of the region by Impact Magazine and credited with creating 100 million dollar revenues for his clients.

Avi Arya was born and brought up in New Delhi, India, and when he was 18 years old, all he wanted to do was to race street cars. His father used to go to bed, and from under his pillow, he used to take his car keys and race with people. He made some money on the side, and as an 18-year-old, he declared himself a business person!

Avijit Arya wanted to go to the UK to pursue his streetcar racing passion professionally. But, one day everything changed when he got a call from his father saying that Avijit Arya lost a lot of money in his hotel business and so they had to sell the house and cars, and there was no way his father could send him overseas. His father asked him to join his family business the next day or find his own way. So, without any other option, Avi decided to join his father’s hotel business and started learning everything he needed.

One day, an international tourist came and paid the double amount of Indian rupees. Avijit Arya thought to himself, what if he was able to have the 27 rooms of the hotel to accommodate international tourists? He would double his income and become a star in his dad’s eyes.

When Avi Arya discovered how productive the internet could be for our business, it changed everything and then there was no looking back. Avijit Arya got his very first client on 15th December 2003. Many customers came to their hotel for the next two years to stay. They were the first ever non-branded hotel in India to go live on the internet. His Dad took 40 years to build his first hotel, but after Avi Arya discovered the internet, Avijit Arya built 4 more hotels within 4 years.

Finally, Avijit Arya founded his own very first company called the Internet Moguls in 2009, with a team of 4. Now they have 225+ people working with 700 clients in 10+ countries. Avijit Arya now shares his knowledge about Social Media, Digital Marketing and Revenue Generation.

From streetcar racing to driving digital revenues for the top 600 hospitality companies across 10 countries, Avi Arya – as he is endearingly known in the circle – has helped build and grow many businesses through a journey of almost two decades. Avijit Arya is one of the first few entrepreneurs who adopted the digital medium during its early days.

In an era when not many people were aware of the scope of the internet,  Avi Arya was already sending out short video replies to his clients overseas, despite feeble internet speed. They were a total hit and led to a massive query conversion at a rate of almost 90%. This is when he began to realize and actualize the importance of Digital Media.

Avi Arya is also the creator of a YouTube show and a podcast called the ‘AskAviArya’, where He talks to and interviews people from different industries about growing businesses using digital platforms.

His ultimate mission in starting this show was to talk and give away the secrets and strategies for attaining success through digital marketing. Avijit Arya believes in sharing his knowledge and experience by creating simple micro-videos on how one can leverage the internet to make one’s first or next 10 million.

Avijit Arya has been invited to share his story and expertise with thousands worldwide – London, Dubai, the USA, Canada, and India.

The notable events where Avijit Arya delivered keynote speeches and been part of panels are Social Media Camp in Canada, Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, National Summit on Small Business Digital Marketing in San Diego, and Social Media Mastery Conference in Vancouver where he also won the best speaker award, Hotel and Restaurant Association Conference in Pune, India, Convergence India – International Exhibition and Conference, The Review of Tourism Laws in India, TEDx SGGSCC.

His extensive travels have allowed him to meet, interview and learn from top influencers worldwide. Some of the notable influencers he had the privilege to interview are, Albert Preciado, Billy Gene, Brad Lea, Chris Preston, Dan Lok, Dennis Yu, Gary Vaynerchuk, Grant Cardone, Mark Lack, Pat Flynn, Patrick Bet-David, Rand Fishkin, Ritesh Agarwal, Tim Han and the list goes on…

Avijit Arya has finished a mission with his two daughters – Raya and Avianna; it was a Daddy-Daughter venture where they published a book called the ‘Internet Moguls of the World’, the first-ever coffee table internet experts’ book with a physical and an e-book version. This will be followed by a mega online summit inviting over 15000 people, featuring top internet influencers, then a podcast and finally a school for children & adults of all ages to learn internet marketing and work together.

His daughters created personalized micro-videos to invite top experts of the world to be a part of this Book, and guess what? By just creating micro-videos through a Smartphone, they managed to get top experts like Pat Flynn, Patrick Bet-David, Steve J Larsen, Miss Malini, Rand Fishkin, Brad Lea, Amy Porterfield, Billy Gene, John Lee Dumas, Stu McLaren and 40 more of them inside and on the cover of ‘Internet Moguls of the World’.

Avijit Arya is a father of two beautiful girls, and 6 dogs, husband of a superwoman, lives primarily in Vancouver, Canada, in the unceded territories of Coast Salish Peoples, and travels extensively to meet his global clients and manage his businesses in India.