From the Indianapolis Recorder: State to Help Minority and Women-owned Businesses at 2010 MWBEResource Fair & Workshop Series. INDIANAPOLIS (January 22, 2009) – To promote minority business enterprises (MBE) and women’s business enterprises (WBE), the Indiana Department of Administration’s Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises Division will host its 2010 MWBE Resource Fair & Workshop Series [...]
FUBU has been around for over 25 years and is still going strong under the leadership and direction of its Founder and CEO, Daymond John. John has gone on to add additional brands to the portfolio to include Heatherette and Coogi while also appearing on the ABC television series The Shark Tank.
Trying to build your online brand and not sure where to start? Check out the BrandMakers and their new site–BrandMaker News. Tia Jackson and David Harley are co-Founders of this excellent venture that provides entrepreneurs with the tools and resources to brand your way to success. The site is nothing less than amazing and the [...]
Image of Black Twitterati Black Twitterati posted this entry on their blog about Social Media @ Work: Crisis in Haiti. Donations via text messages, twitter updates and pictures and websites are reaching out and providing assistance where the damaged infrastructure is simply unavailable. Facebook and YouTube are becoming media outlets that family and friends both [...]
Aiming to develop economic and community strength through patronizing black businesses exclusively, John and Maggie Anderson founded the Empowerment Experiment as a means of increasing black business revenues from $88 billion to something more representative of the $1 trillion dollars spent by black consumers annually. Read more at Frost Illustrated, an online version of a [...]
It was always a long term goal of mine to publish a book of poems and short stories by age 37… 5 years post goal age here we are. Once the decision was made to proceed with the project I had to decide which poems to include in the book that would showcase my writing [...]
Karen Hannon, inventor and owner of Lounge N Lax functional children’s wear, was inspired to create a line of children’s clothing after becoming frustrated with keeping her son’s head dry in the winter given the perspiration he was experiencing with existing hat options. As a result, she invented a functional hat and a matching set [...]
With January 26th getting even closer now that we’ve entered the New Year, Apple fans are going crazy with rumors about the Apple Tablet that many say will be released later this month. Will it be a Kindle Killer or a large iPhone-MacBook hybrid multimedia machine? Perhaps it will be all of what the legendary [...]
Bags, Bling & Beauty provides unique accessories for women and men. The business began five years ago as an upscale resale shop on eBay. Founder, Audra Hiller Johnson is working to develop the online arm of the business which is now hosted on its own domain name into a multi-state network of independent sales consultants [...]
