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Is Your Economy Improving?

On 02.21.11, In Employment, Entrepreneur, by Gerard Spinks

So, 2010 is over and it was tough for many people. We are now heading into the end of Q1 2011 and it begs the question: Is YOUR economy improving? Not THE economy. YOUR economy. This is the true test of the United States Government.

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So, 2010 is over and it was tough for many people. We are now heading into the end of Q1 2011 and it begs the question: Is YOUR economy improving? Not THE economy. YOUR economy. This is the true test of the United States Government. Obviously, the collective economy must improve, however, the collective is comprised of the individual. If the individuals are not stronger and better, so goes the overall economy.

We will NOT be stronger as a nation, until the individuals are stronger. The weaker the individuals, the weaker the nation. This is why you need a personal attack plan to improve the individual you each day. Even when you get a job and things start to show small signs of improvement, do NOT simply rely on that one source to keep you moving and successful over the next 5 years.

Put on your hard hats because it’s going to be a rough and tumble ride over the next 5 solid years. It is NOT going to be easy by any stretch of the imagination. We must all stay focused on creating other sources of income and not simply relying on any one source of income no matter how much that income is. Get the one source of income solidly flowing as necessary. Once it is solidly flowing over 6 months or so, put the other source of income plan into action each day. In this economy, you will need to focus on two or more. Great luck!

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Gerard Spinks

Gerard Spinks is an author, writer, publisher, and CEO of Spinks Technologies, Gerard Spinks Publishing, and Spinks Industries based in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America.

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Want to write better sentences?

On 01.24.11, In black business, Employment, Entrepreneur, by Gerard Spinks

How can you secretly get better with writing especially if you have to generate any type of emails, blogs, Twitter or whatever to any type of person outside of your very tight inner circle?

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I know we’ve all been on Twitter and Facebook and have seen people write “your doing a great job” while not knowing that they’ve made a grammatical mistake. Many adults who are in positions where they must write proper sentences, do not know how to differentiate between your and you’re (you are). Many people struggle with this but do not know where to go get help. Constructing better sentences can actually lead to better pay at your job even though people do not like to be corrected on grammar and spelling on social networks.

How can you secretly get better with writing especially if you have to generate any type of emails, blogs, Twitter or whatever to any type of person outside of your very tight inner circle? Learn How to Write with this Informative Course! Order "Building Great Sentences", on DVD, CD, MP3! The bottom line is that you’re not going to get lucky enough to only send emails that require proper sentence structure to your mother or your wife. Improving your sentence structure will definitely lead to more visibility for you at your job because people respect and truly read people’s emails. People make opinions of you by what they read more than by what you say. You can take that to the bank.

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Gerard Spinks

Gerard Spinks is an author, writer, publisher, and CEO of Spinks Technologies, Gerard Spinks Publishing, and Spinks Industries based in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America.

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What kind of world do you want to live in?

On 01.17.11, In black business, Entrepreneur, by Gerard Spinks

An extreme myopic view is what is needed in order for you to really achieve your dreams. The more you are thinking totally about other people and other people’s business, the worse off you will become in 2015.

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Contrary to popular belief, I believe that you must take a myopic view of the world that you live in. What’s myopic? It has a couple of meanings; one being nearsighted or tunnel vision and the other being intellectual vision. In 2011, you must become myopically focused in order to build the world that you want to live in 2015-2020.

An extreme myopic view is what is needed in order for you to really achieve your dreams. The more you are thinking totally about other people and other people’s business, the worse off you will become in 2015. Mark my words. I had a very important meeting with my client today at the corporate office. Even right now, in this economy they don’t care how well people are doing on the project, they care about saving money on building their systems. To this end, they are continuing to move the software development effort over to India so that they can have people do this work for $10 per hour.

Again, I say to you: you better have a myopic view of the world in order to build the world in which you would like to live in. If you don’t, you will be outsourced and pissed as hell at the world because you sat there thinking these people would take care of you in a time of need.

Build YOUR world today! I don’t have the answer to what that is. YOU do. It lies within you, not me. You can do it!

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Gerard Spinks

Gerard Spinks is an author, writer, publisher, and CEO of Spinks Technologies, Gerard Spinks Publishing, and Spinks Industries based in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America.

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Words Have Power – Please Believe It

On 01.16.11, In Employment, Entrepreneur, by Gerard Spinks

Customers translate into sales. Sales translates into income. Income translates into a larger amount of money in your Wells Fargo account.

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I was sitting here this Sunday night, the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s day of celebration, tired with heavy eyes, staring at my iMac thinking of what to write. I decided upon something that Tureda Mikell in Oakland California said to me some time ago while doing a Tree of Life reading on me. Tureda said “Words Have Power so be careful what you say to yourself”. I thought about this when it comes to writing and building a business online. Believe me when I say that words have power to Google.

Google doesn’t just care about keywords, they care about words. The more words you have on your website, the better off you are and the more traffic you will build which translates into customers for your business. Customers translate into sales. Sales translates into income. Income translates into a larger amount of money in your Wells Fargo account. Words have power! Start writing and keep writing and never stop writing.

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Gerard Spinks

Gerard Spinks is an author, writer, publisher, and CEO of Spinks Technologies, Gerard Spinks Publishing, and Spinks Industries based in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America.

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Should you get your Executive MBA?

On 01.13.11, In black business, black colleges, Entrepreneur, by Gerard Spinks

When I was in California, in the mid 1990′s, I was smitten by pursuing my doctorate and becoming Dr. Spinks. I had this in my mind primarily because of the teaching of Marcus Garvey and seeing him in his robe all the time.

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This is a tough question and a personal question for black america. On one hand, I’m all for an Executive MBA program especially at a University like Georgia Tech, Stanford, Cal, Rutgers, etc. Getting your MBA positions you for upper management at large global corporations such as Apple, The Home Depot, Ford, and other large United States global conglomerates. Unlike our white counterparts who decide to pursue the MBA or a PhD, is that for black men and women, the decision is to pursue being lonely and one of a handful if any at the corporate level of black people.

When I was in California, in the mid 1990′s, I was smitten by pursuing my doctorate and becoming Dr. Spinks. I had this in my mind primarily because of the teaching of Marcus Garvey and seeing him in his robe all the time. So, I got ready. I went to the College of Alameda where the math program is top notch and rivals that of the University of California Berkeley in an attempt to get me ready for going to Cal and getting accepted into the program there. I held many meetings with Ms. Antoinette Torres at Cal who was the Minority Engineering Student Association counselor who helped guide me down this path.

The road is long and narrow and extremely lonely. I ended up not pursuing it fully because Ms. Torres asked me two pertinent questions that I couldn’t answer as an entrepreneur: 1). Do I see myself at a company like Hewlett Packard doing research and being the only black person around in the research division of HP and 2). Do I want to become tenured and a teacher at Cal or make a bunch of money in the technology sector in the Silicon Valley? As an entrepreneur, it was tough to answer those but I had to make a choice. If I was going to sit alone in a corporation I wanted to make a suitcase full of money from technology and not be a long term teacher. I loved the idea of having my MBA and PhD but I wanted to make money and have a company more than I wanted that.

That’s why I say it is VERY personal and it is up to you to decide should you pursue the MBA. If anything, it puts you into a great circle of people that you can leverage from in the future as you grow.

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Gerard Spinks is an author, writer, publisher, and CEO of Spinks Technologies, Gerard Spinks Publishing, and Spinks Industries based in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America.

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Profit and Loss Responsibility Leads to More Income

On 01.09.11, In black business, Entrepreneur, by Gerard Spinks

It’s what the people on Donald Trump’s show are sitting around the round table discussing in most cases. Who either lost the money or made the money? Whoever lost the money, is gone. Most people like to play it safe and not be in that situation. If you want more money, get on the hot seat in some way for your boss, your company, your own company or whomever.

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I was thinking about how and why some people are able to make more money than others and it hit me the other day while talking to a director at my client, The Home Depot. On my project, I am directly responsible for profit and loss. Although this is the hot seat from hell, it’s the seat that you need to be on if you hope to ever increase your chances of making more money.

If you never ever are responsible to anyone for how well a project does and makes money, you will never make the big money. Profit and Loss is a key indicator of any type of project success. The more you take this type of responsibility, the bigger the reward. Why? There’s HUGE GINORMOUS risk when it comes to profit and loss.

It’s what the people on Donald Trump’s show are sitting around the round table discussing in most cases. Who either lost the money or made the money? Whoever lost the money, is gone. Most people like to play it safe and not be in that situation. If you want more money, get on the hot seat in some way for your boss, your company, your own company or whomever.

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Gerard Spinks is an author, writer, publisher, and CEO of Spinks Technologies, Gerard Spinks Publishing, and Spinks Industries based in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America.

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Lessons Learned From A Stanford PhD & Yahoo Founder

On 01.09.11, In black business, Entrepreneur, by Gerard Spinks

When I was in the Bay Area during the dot com era, I was blessed to pitch my company to Dr. Don Basile, a Stanford alum, Stanford PhD, and classmate of the founder of Yahoo – Jerry Yang. My company provided software development services to a company that Dr. Basile was the CFO for – Netfish Technologies.

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When I was in the Bay Area during the dot com era, I was blessed to pitch my company to Dr. Don Basile, a Stanford alum, Stanford PhD, and classmate of the founder of Yahoo – Jerry Yang. My company provided software development services to a company that Dr. Basile was the CFO for – Netfish Technologies. They hired my company, Spinks Technologies, due to my intimate understanding of how to develop B2B technologies and supply chain software.

But what I learned from Dr. Basile was extremely valuable more than making a bunch of money from the deal. I learned how to pitch my company to hard core venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, California, I learned how to prepare my company to become a target for VC’s, I learned how to talk to high end CEO’s such as the leaders at Raza Foundries, and I learned how to go to the extreme to grow my company and do whatever it takes to grow.

Most of this you simply cannot learn in a class and I’m so thankful for the opportunity to have had this experience. The San Francisco Bay Area grounded me while also teaching me how to fly from a corporate sense. It taught me extreme discipline. Dr. Basile taught me that true bosses are discreet and that no one would ever know the person who has and who is worth millions of dollars.

I have sat in meetings with people who own companies that are worth $500 million. I have sat in meetings without knowing who that person is. I have seen the CEO of Netfish Technologies, Ravi Iyer, show me a financial commitment letter from Oracle Corporation giving him $30,000,000 in investment capital to grow the company. None of these people rolled out in Bentley’s or Aston Martin’s. I learned to grow the business first and foremost and find the niche. The niche will then turn into the money if you work hard enough to grow the niche and understand the niche.

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My First Foray Into Entrepreneurship

On 01.09.11, In black business, Employment, Entrepreneur, by Gerard Spinks

I first got bit by the entrepreneur bug in the Bay Area while I was working as a C++ software developer at a company called Safier Programming Systems in San Mateo, California.

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I first got bit by the entrepreneur bug in the Bay Area while I was working as a C++ software developer at a company called Safier Programming Systems in San Mateo, California. The company was very small, in fact, it was me and the owner, a Jewish man who was a mathematician (literally) and an expert software developer who sold a product that generated and transmitted insurance claims electronically to major health insurance companies such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Medicare, Medi-Cal, Champus, and others in California.

Mr. Safier was hardcore. He rode me hard all the time and always expected perfection in coding from me. He expected me to learn on my own, study constantly, and write the best software out there. He was all about super quality standards of software development and was unrelenting. When I struggled, he didn’t care. He only cared about me being at the very top of my game if he was paying for me to come to work each and every day.

This forced me to study and get better everyday. It was the best learning and growing experience of my life although it was the most difficult job I have ever had in my life. From this job, I went on to open my own software company that provided the same software that Safier developed to medical billing offices throughout the State of California. Mr. Orin Safier helped me to do this and really believed in my ability although he acted like he didn’t care at all.

The company launched and with Mr. Safier’s help, I started to recruit software dealers who I would train and teach them to use the software effectively to support the billing of medical insurance claims to physician offices. The business took off pretty well before tons of competitors came into the marketplace once it got popular to sell medical claims billing software.

I learned a lot from launching that first business. I learned to not be afraid to run my own company. I learned discipline from Orin Safier. I learned quality standards from him and how to write good, clean, documented C code from him as well that I was able to take with me to other companies that I started including Spinks Technologies.

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Gerard Spinks is an author, writer, publisher, and CEO of Spinks Technologies, Gerard Spinks Publishing, and Spinks Industries based in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America.

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Gerard Spinks Leadership Academy: Many People Will Quit

On 01.06.11, In black colleges, Entrepreneur, by Gerard Spinks

Trust when I say that slow and steady wins the race. Because the road is paved with rough spots, you must go slow.

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This really almost goes without saying but I’m going to say it anyway. Take whatever you’re doing. If it is a tough road, the chances are 8 out of 10 people will stop driving on that road. Literally, visualize a bumpy and rocky road full of hairpin turns, potholes, and crevices. Most success literally is paved like this. If you’re driving on this crazy ass road, nearly everyone will make a turn to get off of it and try the easy route.

It’s human nature. When it gets tough, rocky, slippery, wet, cold, bumpy, cloudy, and not perfect conditions, people want no part of it. If it takes a long time to complete, most people will quit. Most people consider one or two years too long to do something. Where does this leave you if you are in the 1 or 2 people who will stay on the road? It leaves you in an awesome position to capitalize on success. If you simply go slower on the bumpy road, you will survive it and make it. You just have to slow down and no one wants to do that.

Trust when I say that slow and steady wins the race. Because the road is paved with rough spots, you must go slow. When you finish, expect that you will be the only one but do not let this make you over confident or under confident and angry and mad that no one else is there to share it. Your mission is yours. Go do it.

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Gerard Spinks is an author, writer, publisher, and CEO of Spinks Technologies, Gerard Spinks Publishing, and Spinks Industries based in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America.

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How To Help You Help You: Debt Counseling & Debt Solutions

On 01.06.11, In Entrepreneur, by Gerard Spinks

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