2008 founder warren royal headquarters atlanta products bobbleheads brands royal bobbles website official website bobbleheads.com is an atlanta based purveyor of bobbleheads under the brand name royal bobbles the eponymous brand of bobbleheads.com founder warren royal . 1 contents 1 history 2 bobbleheads 3 references 4 external links history edit bobbleheads.com was founded in 2008 by warren royal who began selling bobbleheads after purchasing the domain names bobbleheads.com and bobblehead.com for 65 000 . sales for the company increased to the point he could no longer handle the business on his own that christmas season following the us federal election of 2008 . 2 3 4 5 initially the business was run out of royal s basement before moving to its own warehouse . the company sold bobble heads produced by other companies at first before developing its own line . the first three original royal bobbles bobbleheads were those of sarah palin michelle obama and ted kennedy . 6 bobbleheads edit as of 2010 the site had become the largest source of bobble heads in the world and that year the company received an equity investment from digimedia . the company sells its bobbleheads in retail establishments in addition to their online shop such as those in museums like the smithsonian arlington national cemetery ford theater gettysburg and library of congress . they are also sold at gift shops such as the white house gift shop in washington dc . 3 7 6 the specialty line of royal bobbles now includes historical figures modern politicians 7 and other public interest figures 8 with about sixty different designs as of 2012 . 6 the company also has official licenses to sell the bobbleheads of figures including john wayne albert einstein alfred hitchcock and elvis presley . the bobbleheads.com website sells bobbleheads but also publishes material on the history of bobbleheads themselves . 9 10 as of 2013 sales for the company reached about one hundred thousand units annually . the company also produces custom made bobbleheads for individual customers including life sized bobbleheads . 11 12 the majority of the company s business comes from custom bobbleheads requested by customers as gifts or wedding cake toppers among others . 6 references edit sarah e. needleman and daniel barbarisi september 25 2013 . baseball s doll bobbles leave fans heads spinning popularity of spring loaded giveaways pushes teams into errors ; bronx cheer for yankees . wall street journal . retrieved march 3 2015 . ron jackson december 2008 . the royal treatment how acquiring and developing high quality domain names gave warren royal control over his own destiny . dn journal . retrieved march 3 2015 . a b warren royal s booming bobbleheads.com banks equity investment from scott day s digimedia . me s nata a djukanovi is featured in the financial times . dn journal . november 16 2010 . retrieved march 3 2015 . http www.dnjournal.com archive domainsales 2008 domainsales03 25 08.htm http www.dnjournal.com archive domainsales 2008 domainsales04 29 08.htm a b c d janean chun june 12 2012 . warren royal bobbleheads.com everyone likes bobbleheads . huffington post . retrieved march 3 2015 . a b terry lewis june 20 2010 . entrepreneur finds niche with bobblehead magnate . cherokee tribune . retrieved march 3 2015 . diane tennant november 4 2011 . steadfast seal team 6 gets a wobbly tribute . the virginian pilot . retrieved march 3 2015 . chris erskine may 11 2012 . any knucklewhead can wind up on a bobblehead . los angeles times . retrieved march 3 2015 . frances horodelski november 13 2013 . is a watershed event in the offing . bnn . retrieved march 3 2015 . elliot silver september 26 2013 . warren royal in wall st. journal 2 million in annual bobblehead sales . domain investing . retrieved march 3 2015 . carla caldwell september 26 2013 . snapshot bobblehead frenzy black friday going away . atlanta business chronicle . retrieved march 3 2015 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bobbleheads.com & oldid 743264553 categories 2008 establishments in georgia u.s. state toy companies of the united statessports memorabiliamanufacturing companies based in atlantainternet properties established in 2008cultural depictions of elvis presleyalfred hitchcockalbert einstein navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 21 42 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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