Allison and Jeremy Schubert founded Lunabean.com in 1999. What began as a “community of gamers” soon grew into a highly esteemed video game strategy guide publishing company. Because Team Lunabean focused early on building their community with the social media tools of the time (message boards, chat, webcams, blogs, etc.), their small business now competes with companies like Gamespot and IGN, which are owned by CBS and Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp, respectively.
In addition to their social media expertise, they have extensive knowledge of the wine industry and building small businesses, as the family of LB Media co-founder, Allison Kaplan Schubert, owned and operated Panther Creek Cellars in McMinnville, OR from 1993 to 2005. While running Panther Creek’s web site (which included, in 2001, the installation of the first Crush Cam in the Willamette Valley), Team Lunabean also launched, managed, and marketed the winery’s tasting room for a number of years.
While Team Lunabean continues to love gaming, wine, restaurants, and cats (just accept it), it has been the social media aspect of growing these businesses that has truly fascinated them. This is why, in 2009, Jeremy and Allison established Lunabean Media, a web consulting firm in Portland, Oregon. With Lunabean Media, Allison and Jeremy want to share their social media and web expertise with your business, and get your business the attention it deserves.
