Who better than Jay-Z and Pharrell with their combined experience in fashion marketing and swaggerdom to take the Billionaire Boys Club clothing level to the next level? These two music moguls have joined forces to enhance the solid market presence of the Pharrell-created line which can only mean great things for those of us fortunate [...]
Erica Nichole, Founder of YFS Magazine (Young, Fabulous and Self-employed), provides a great argument for the many reasons that small businesses need to take advantage of Twitter as a tool to interact with customers and prospects. Her insights in the article will help you to make dollars and sense out of Twitter while seizing market [...]
A recent study by the Pew Research Center is shedding light on the demographics behind Twitter. The findings have interesting results, particularly if your business markets specifically to minorities and city dwellers. According to the survey, 8% of online adults use Twitter. Seventy-four percent of American adults are internet users, which means that 6% of [...]
Kimora: Lessons Learned | BrandMakerNews. Kimora Lee is no longer at the helm of Baby Phat and BrandMakerNews has lessons for any entrepreneur considering how to best prepare an exit strategy. It’s better to be prepared to leave with a proper plan than having an unceremonious or embarrassing exit from the enterprise that you founded [...]
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 [...]
According to a recent article by The Network Journal, U.S. law enforcement agents are using popular social-networking services according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a perspective of future issues related to law and rights. The document, obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, makes clear that U.S. agents are exchanging messages [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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