Why Small Businesses Shouldn’t Take Social Media for Granted. There is a way to do social media right if you’re a small business owner. Most people spend a lot of time on Twitter, Facebook, and other sites keeping up with friends and sharing links and pictures from everyday things that happen in the course of [...]
TheCASHFLOW – Three Days to Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference. Things are coming together as Atlanta prepares for the BE Entrepreneur’s Conference next week. The CASHFLOW is running a content where you can win tickets to the event by tweeting about their tix giveaway and including the best business advice you ever received. I won’t be [...]
If constantly checking your account for due dates is draining your energy for managing finances, check out this idea on budgeting from Sierra Black at the Get Rich Slowly Blog. Sierra’s formula is pretty simple. She sat down with her husband to determine a monthly dollar amount for their fixed expenses, such as car payments, [...]
Most Innovative Companies | The Fast Company Blog | Fast Company. As you build your business and benchmark your brand, products, and processes against the best of the best, consider a recent article by Fast Company on the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Some of the usual suspects are present–Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google–but there are some [...]
Black is the New Green: Marketing to Afluent African Americans is a new book providing perspective on the Black community’s growing market share. Authored by Andrea Hoffman and Len Burnett, the release date is scheduled for March 16. According to the authors, the total number of affluent ethnic households in the United States in now estimated at over [...]
The Seattle Medium reports on the Economic Stimulus Town Hall Meeting held recently to bolster collaboration between African American-owned businesses, and to garner more political support for the community. Event speakers touched on several key subjects, including the need to advocate for African Americans and their businesses, stimulate economic growth, and tap into federal stimulus dollars [...]
New technology trends continue to evolve the way we do business in the information age. Does your corporation frown on the use of IM, or encourage Tweets to monitor productivity and group collaboration? Is it good etiquette to conduct business over Facebook instead of via email? (Does anyone remember BlackPlanet?) Today’s entrepreneur must often spend [...]
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 [...]
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Behind the Click: Wayne Sutton (from The Atlanta Post)
Agents in the Matrix? Social Networking & the FBI
Black Business Women Online: A Social Networking Resource
Google Buzz: Love It or Leave It?
1stFriday.com Inc. Provides New Networking Site for African Americans
