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Kristen V. Carter The Drawing Board (Guest Blog Post)

On 01.26.10, In black business, black colleges, black famous people, Current Events, Entrepreneur, hbcu, small business enterprise, television, by Gerard Spinks

had a little bit of outside foolishness struggling through my doorways but I was so pre-occupied with more important things that the door was forced shut. Thank the Lord I really didn’t have a moment to even allow my emotions to get the best of me. I am so excited to be back into the swing of productivity of writing/producing a series (BET’s The Deal which airs at daily at 3am) while diligently working my personal plan; I feel alot more alive when I’m running around with no time.

BET Producer Kristen V. Carter

This guest blog post is from a dear friend of mine and BET The Deal producer, Kristen V. Carter. She is a great script/screenplay writer and has an upcoming film that she is producing. Stay tuned for Kristen V. Carter and all she has to offer the entertainment world.

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend. It’s been way too long since I’ve sat down to the computer, although I have been writing to you all in my head for weeks on end! 2010 hit the ground running – I had a little bit of outside foolishness struggling through my doorways but I was so pre-occupied with more important things that the door was forced shut. Thank the Lord I really didn’t have a moment to even allow my emotions to get the best of me. I am so excited to be back into the swing of productivity of writing/producing a series (BET’s The Deal which airs at daily at 3am) while diligently working my personal plan; I feel alot more alive when I’m running around with no time. I have always accomplished more with less time. Funny how it works that way…

Last weekend I treated myself to a stroll around the neighborhood. Although I walk to various locations in downtown Newark all the time, I rarely take the opportunity to just sight see or walk around aimlessly. I didn’t have a goal in mind; I just wanted to walk and breathe. One particular block caught my attention and I continued to turn the same corners 7 times while engaging in a rivoting phone conversation about relationships with my writing partner. Although I was running my mouth, I was very aware of my surroundings and taking mental notes. Interestingly, I noticed something new about the block every single time I circled around.

Once I got off the phone, I went into the Art Kitchen, the Coffee Cave, and two art galleries. All of these landmarks were foreign and completely new to me. I had a great time sitting or perusing through each one. I was in no particular rush so I spent the entire day just relaxing as I arrived at each destination.

I found extreme excitement and joy in spotting something new every time I turned the corner of Halsey Street. I feel that way about every experience; nine times out of ten, we do not receive the entire lesson when we experience something the first time around so sometimes we have to keep going back to that familiar place in order to obtain something else. We may not even realize there’s more to experience but we find outselves at similar junctures time and again until finally, we see and experience all that’s there for us.

Creating Always,
Kristen Victoria

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Gerard Spinks is the CEO of Spinks Industries; an online marketing and web content producer based in Atlanta, GA United States of America. The company develops comprehensive online marketing programs for businesses who wish to reach customers and build their brand on the Internet. We build SEO enabled blog thematic websites designed to increase traffic which then increases potential sales through of your product/service brand.

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Atlanta Gets Black College Football Hall of Fame

On 10.10.09, In black colleges, black famous people, college football, hbcu, by Gerard Spinks

Black College Football Hall of Fame comes to Atlanta, GA

Former Washington Redskins Super Bowl winner and black quarterback Doug Williams announces that Atlanta will be the home of the Black College Football Hall of Fame. For those too young to know, Doug Williams is a quarterback who graduated from Grambling State University and played quarterback in the National Football League and won a Super Bowl with the Washington Redskins.

Doug Williams and James Harris Announce Black College Football HOF

Doug Williams is now the head coach at Grambling State and obviously has a real passion for HBCU’s (Historically Black Colleges and Universities). The first enshrinement of the inductees will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel on February 20, 2010 to coincide with Black History Month.

Every football player who played at a black college and university will be a future candidate for the Hall of Fame. Obviously, like any Hall of Fame, the athlete will have had to put up huge numbers and be an outstanding football player or coach.

Gerard Spinks is the CEO of Spinks Industries; a web content producer and online marketing agency based in Atlanta, GA USA.

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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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Sit Down With Obsessed Film Producer Will Packer

On 10.03.09, In black business, black famous people, Entrepreneur, hbcu, small business enterprise, by Gerard Spinks

Armed with a laptop, passion, courage, wisdom, and prayer, Will Packer made it from ZERO to 100 Million! You can too!

For all intents and purposes, Will Packer is a star. His films have grossed over $100 Million in box office receipts in one year alone. But the greatest lesson lies in understanding what Mr. Packer did to excel to these levels.

In my radio interview with him on Beyond The Bling Radio, I go one on one with Will Packer.

Rainforest Films' Obsessed by Will Packer

This talented director, filmmaker, and CEO of Rainforest Films, has produced and directed Obsessed starring Beyonce Knowles and Idris Elba, Stomp The Yard, Stomp The Yard 2, and is presently putting the finishing touches on another blockbuster hit called Takers where he is working with Hollywood’s elite actors once again. You can download and listen to the complete motivating interview online here at Beyond The Bling Radio.

Get ready to get moving! This guy motivates everyone to action. Starting where we all start, with nothing but a dream and a prayer, Will Packer and Rob Hardy did what all true entrepreneurs do when challenged, they got busy. He removed all excuses for why he couldn’t succeed and started putting a plan together to realize his dreams. Armed with a laptop, passion, courage, wisdom, and prayer, this man made it from ZERO to 100 Million! You can too!

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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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The Black Music Guide To Marketing

On 10.02.09, In black business, black colleges, black famous people, Entrepreneur, hbcu, small business enterprise, by Gerard Spinks

I had a discussion with a prominent Atlanta music artist and songwriter this morning that prompted me to discuss the marketing and sales of music. Urban music is responsible for the bulk of sales online but there are only a handful of artists who make it to the top level of even getting there. Marketing [...]

I had a discussion with a prominent Atlanta music artist and songwriter this morning that prompted me to discuss the marketing and sales of music. Urban music is responsible for the bulk of sales online but there are only a handful of artists who make it to the top level of even getting there. Marketing your music has two distinct components to it: 1. Consumer Marketing and 2. Retailer Marketing.

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Obviously, you must build brand awareness of the artist to the consumer because this drives sales at retail. When marketing to the consumer you must use programs such as PR web or other free PR services to build and tell stories about the artist to make the consumer familiar with the artist. This must be done way more than once and in fact should have stories done at least once per week or more. When the consumer is browsing the music section at Best Buy or Walmart and see the CD in the store, they will subconsciously remember that artist and their story. This influences buying. It does NOT guarantee a purchase it simply influences the buyer.

Retailer marketing is tough with tons of retailers closing lately but it is a separate function that involves reaching out to individual store level buyers and building a relationship with them. Marketing collateral should be sent to the store level buyer once per week to stay in front of the retailer. In other words, you should find out all the buyers at the stores in your region and create post card flyers and send to the buyer each week. By store level, I mean find out the buyers at the Walmart in Atlanta, Lithonia, Conyers, Douglasville, Birmingham, Mobile, Memphis, and Nashville for example. Work these stores if this is the area that the artist is from and can get to for in store signings.

The buyer should get to the point where they consistently see the artist name and by the time you send them an order form to buy your title, they already have familiarity with the artist. This should be done for at least 6-12 weeks.

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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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Black College Students Required to Study Technology

On 10.01.09, In black colleges, college football, Entrepreneur, hbcu, by Gerard Spinks

We already have enough artists. My twitter is filled with every young black man and woman headed to the studio and it seems like this is all young black people strive for. We need to get out of the studio and study hardcore math, technology, life sciences, and medical. If we don’t, we are headed for disaster.

To fight through this recession and compete with immigrants for jobs, black students should be required to take mandatory technology courses in college. I would like to petition all Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s) to make this mandatory in order to rebuild the black middle class. The technology can be any type of technology that should include software engineering classes, hardware engineering classes, bio-technology, and even pharmaceutical technology.

Black Students are the Future of the Middle Class

We already have enough artists. My twitter is filled with every young black man and woman headed to the studio and it seems like this is all young black people strive for. We need to get out of the studio and study hardcore math, technology, life sciences, and medical. If we don’t, we are headed for disaster.

I wrote an article on H1B Visa’s taking over and the Indian dude that commented wanted to insinuate that I didn’t know anything. Little did he know I’m a highly skilled software engineer and his people usually work for me. However, that’s me and I’m somewhat rare. We need to impart this into our youth and get out of the studio and into the math and computer science lab. We need more candidates considered for jobs at Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Genentech, Cisco Systems, etc.

HBCU’s need to make at least HTML and XML coding classes mandatory or at least an Oracle or Microsoft class and not let our kids skate through.

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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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Black Enterprise Spinks Industries Partners with Americas Top Brands

On 10.01.09, In black business, black colleges, black famous people, Entrepreneur, hbcu, small business enterprise, by Gerard Spinks

We are now representing some of America’s top brands in a deal with The Google Affiliate Network.

We are now representing some of America’s top brands in a deal with The Google Affiliate Network. Gerard Spinks, CEO, says that the deal will further Spinks Industries’ mission to continue to build passive income and multiple streams of income while representing America’s top consumer brands.

Spinks Industries CEO Gerard Spinks

Mr. Spinks has selected brands to represent that personally meant something to him and his firm and/or products that we have actually used and know their quality. Out of many brands, Spinks Industries, decided on a handful that include Converse, iRobot, Barnes and Nobles, Dickies, PUMA, The Finish Line, Blockbuster, KMART, SONY Playstation, Skechers, and Hooked on Phonics.

Mr. Spinks believes these brands have name awareness and are of the highest quality standards. He selected the brands due to his affiliation with numerous groups. Mr. Spinks has also had long time personal use with many of the brands and knows their quality. It was easy to pick, support, and promote these brands.

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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 Become The Best

On 09.29.09, In black business, black colleges, black famous people, Entrepreneur, hbcu, small business enterprise, by Gerard Spinks

My friend Mike Pechina, an Olympic Judo Champion from San Bruno, California, always says “Repetition is the Mother of All Greatness”. Become the best is not an overnight thing. Becoming the best whatever you choose in your life has everything to do with constant action and effort.

My friend Mike Pechina, an Olympic Judo Champion from San Bruno, California, always says “Repetition is the Mother of All Greatness”. Become the best is not an overnight thing. Becoming the best whatever you choose in your life has everything to do with constant action and effort. No one person has a lock on being the best. Mary J. Blige may be the best R&B singer. P. Diddy may be the best urban clothing designer. Why? How? Why is Lil Wayne the best rapper alive? How did they do it? How did they get there?

Judo Champion Mike Pechina

There is no secret to being the best. There is no magic wand. I knew Puffy when he had a black and white business card with a little baby boy on it. I met him at the Gavin Convention and he was just starting out. He just kept going at it. This is your key to becoming the best you. Find out your passion and then just stay at it until it starts to pay. The key is doing it until you start to see financial results. Unless you’re not in it for money. But, if you’re in it to make money, keep after it every single day.

Do not wait until some magical condition or some magical moment to start being the best you. I heard someone say that they were waiting until all things were perfect and until things started popping off to get going. This is ignorant. There is no thing to wait for. Websites are free now on WordPress. You don’t need a ton of money to get cracking. You need passion, energy, commitment, and work effort to become the best.

Aim high and shoot straight and keep doing your thing every single day. Even do it 7 times per day if you can. The key in being the best lies within you. Only you will determine how high and how far you can go. And remember, you can be down and behind in the count and still hit the ball out of the park.

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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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How To Bounce Back When You're Flat Broke

On 09.28.09, In black colleges, Entrepreneur, hbcu, by Gerard Spinks

being broke is a mind set. Instead of believing that you’re broke, you should instead believe that you have a cash flow situation. Cash flow situations can be improved.

My friend Dan and I used to always say that being broke is a mind set. Instead of believing that you’re broke, you should instead believe that you have a cash flow situation. Cash flow situations can be improved. Being broke cannot be improved because it’s a mental condition. So, how do you go from having a cash flow situation to improving it?

Being Broke is No Joke

There is no real easy answer for this especially in this economy. I believe it’s a combination of things that help you to bounce back in poor cash flow situations. The first thing that you must do is believe that you can rebuild or build to improve your cash flow. The second thing that you can do is acquire new skills that help you improve cash flow but keeps money in your pocket. In other words, don’t believe the commercials that come on TV saying that you can make tons of money medical coding.

Before you run to enroll in specialty trade schools, use the job boards like Monster and Career Builder to determine if those types of jobs exist in your city and see how many years experience they require you to have. If the medical coding school is saying that there’s tons of jobs in the city you live in but you go to Monster and see ZERO medical coding jobs, you should not go to the trade school for this. You might be wasting your time.

I do recommend learning technical things like html coding, advanced html and XML coding, and tools like Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server. I don’t think everyone should become a programmer and all of that stuff but all the people that I know that make a ton of money in software taught themselves. They did NOT go get a certification. Neither did I. I learned Oracle and SQL Server by downloading the software on my computer and using the online lessons to set up scenarios to teach myself. This keeps me with job skills even in a down economy.

You have to look at this cash flow situation from a macro level and not a micro level. In other words, this is a broad brush and is happening all over so your plan needs to be strategic and not based upon you having to turn around money tomorrow. Yes, you probably need cash tomorrow, but look at the long term and make your decisions based upon that. The biggest key to changing your cash flow situation truly lies in what you know. Most jobs will be some sort of technical job in the next 10-20 years. You must be online, understand basic html, and hopefully start to understand XML in some capacity.

If that’s too much, learn Microsoft Excel and become a master at Excel. I know corporations who use Excel to build full fledge applications. Again, you don’t have to become an engineer, just have to know something technical on the computer. Hit me if you need ideas.

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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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My Brother, My Keeper

On 09.26.09, In black business, black colleges, black famous people, college football, Entrepreneur, hbcu, small business enterprise, by Gerard Spinks

Jeronimo Spinx was my defacto leader and I learned everything from him. He taught me frisbee, electric football, and how to play football.

Reflections on my birthday. I was born some time ago, today, September 26. I didn’t have the greatest of personal upbringings due to being in a single parent household but today I give glory for that household and the people who raised me. The bible begs the question “Am I my brothers keeper?” The answer to this question is very personal for people and one that dives deep into religion and philosophy.

Hollywood Actor Jeronimo Spinx to appear on CBS' Criminal Minds

I was the youngest boy growing up in my household. I have two brothers and one sister. My oldest brother James Lee Spinks was much older than my other two siblings as my mother had him 16 years before her next child, Jeronimo Spinx. My brother Jeronimo and I did everything together. He was a few years older than me but really served as my leader, my big bro, and in a role as my father even though he wasn’t too much older than me.

My mother put him in this role to lead our family due to personal reasons that I am writing in a movie script and book deal. Jeronimo was it. He had to do the grocery shopping, sign the checks because my mother couldn’t read and write, he had to speak to the teachers regarding me sometimes, and overall keep me in check at school and protect me in my neighborhood in Peoria, Illinois.

Jeronimo Spinx was my defacto leader and I learned everything from him. He taught me frisbee, electric football, and how to play football. He was a power lifter in high school and won trophies that inspired me to then follow him into powerlifting meets. He was friends with two kid leaders that would also become my inspiration and lift me up: Brad Blakey and Mike McLaughlin. Because my brother knew them, the seniors in high school didn’t haze me as bad when I was a sophomore.

My brother Jeronimo has gone on to have an illustrious career as an actor in Hollywood California and starred on the FOX hit series 24 and is starring this October 2009 on CBS’s Criminal Minds. But more than that for me, this cat was my leader and my hero. Without him, I would not have made it to where I am today. He did not have to be my keeper yet he did despite feeling crazy himself in a whirlwind household steeped in depression, loneliness, and erratic mood swinging behavior from our moms.

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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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Kristen V. Carter The Drawing Board (Guest Blog Post)

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Atlanta Gets Black College Football Hall of Fame

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Sit Down With Obsessed Film Producer Will Packer

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The Black Music Guide To Marketing

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Black College Students Required to Study Technology

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Black Enterprise Spinks Industries Partners with Americas Top Brands

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How To Become The Best

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How To Bounce Back When You're Flat Broke

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My Brother, My Keeper

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