Thembisa S. Mshaka is the truth and my friend. She goes in on her entertainment guide “Put Your Dreams First” which she wrote and has on blast right now. I bought the book when it dropped as I had to be the FIRST person to put my dreams first and get this number one entertainment industry book. I use it as a reference every day and it sits on my desk right now. Go get it, today!
On 01.21.10, In Current Events, by admin
Thembisa S. Mshaka is the truth and my friend. She goes in on her entertainment guide “Put Your Dreams First” which she wrote and has on blast right now. I bought the book when it dropped as I had to be the FIRST person to put my dreams first and get this number [...]
On 10.27.09, In 1, by admin
Kate Gosselin was at the Women’s Conference in Long Beach signing copies of her new book “Eight Little Faces“.
Gerard Spinks is the CEO of Spinks Industries; a web content developer and online marketing agency based in Atlanta, GA USA. You can get started with a comprehensive marketing plan at http://www.spinksindustries.com.
Kate Gosselin was at the Women’s Conference in Long Beach signing copies of her new book “Eight Little Faces“.
Gerard Spinks is the CEO of Spinks Industries; a web content developer and online marketing agency based in Atlanta, GA USA. You can get started with a comprehensive marketing plan at http://www.spinksindustries.com.
On 10.19.09, In 1, by admin
World renowned fiction writer, Teri Woods, has slapped popular New York City Night club Greenhouse with a $1 Billion class action discrimination lawsuit reports the New York Daily News. Teri Woods is the author of the hit book series “True To The Game” and has ascended to popularity with her books. Her new [...]
World renowned fiction writer, Teri Woods, has slapped popular New York City Night club Greenhouse with a $1 Billion class action discrimination lawsuit reports the New York Daily News. Teri Woods is the author of the hit book series “True To The Game” and has ascended to popularity with her books. Her new book, “Alibi” was just released and she was set to host a star studded event at the New York City night club.
The author’s friends were denied entry into Greenhouse on the night of the event due to race, sexism, and even weight discrimination. Read the entire story from the New York Daily News.
Teri Woods' New Book Alibi
On 09.26.09, In Entrepreneur, black business, black colleges, black famous people, college football, hbcu, small business enterprise, by admin
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.
On 09.25.09, In Entrepreneur, black business, black colleges, hbcu, small business enterprise, by admin
They sent her a due diligence sheet that outlined what she needed in order for them to invest. She also received an official term sheet from Barclay’s Bank in London with their seal on it saying that she was approved for $950,000.
In this day and age, anyone can hide behind a computer and pretend to be the Executive of the Year dishing out Executive Orders like they are President Obama. I recently interviewed a woman from Boston, Massachusetts who lost her entire life savings to an Internet Crime Syndicate from Nigeria. Before you cast stones and say how careless this poor lady was, listen to her story and how she got sucked into one of the greatest Internet crime stories in history.
Beware Internet Crimes and Scandals promising Riches and Wealth
Maude and her husband James had worked all their lives. They were savers and regularly saved 20% of their income since they were in their 20’s. After 40 years of work, they had a nice little nest egg saved up for retirement and planned on moving to Florida to retire and leave the cold Boston winters behind. They deserved it. They lived a simple life. Had two kids who are grown now and saved over $250,000 in cash.
They knew they wanted their money to grow and while James was still working for the final year and a half at his job, Maude decided to attempt to try to grow their nest egg into something more sizable that they could live off off for at least 20 more years, God willing. Maude decided to use a venture capital networking site via the Internet that she figured she trusted due to their reputation or what she thought was a good reputation.
She put out her executive summary and was surprised when an investor reached out to her saying he was with a UK investment firm and loved her business plan. He said he wanted to invest. She was excited and really wanted to put her money into good use and start making passive income and building more wealth with her hard earned savings.
The UK firm sent her a term sheet within a week after they reviewed her business plan and did their due diligence. They sent her a due diligence sheet that outlined what she needed in order for them to invest. She also received an official term sheet from Barclay’s Bank in London with their seal on it saying that she was approved for $950,000. The UK Investment firm made arrangement to fly to Boston, Massachusetts to meet up with her and close the deal.
She told her husband James and he was excited too. She wanted to surprise him and hold off on telling him until all documents were proven official. She sent the term sheet, offer letter, and due diligence sheets to her lawyer of 30 years and he blessed the documents coming from Barclay’s Bank as legitimate and official. The UK firm scheduled the day they were supposed to meet in Boston.
The day of their meet up, the UK Investment firm called and said they could not make it and that she needed to wire $5,000 to London so that they could finish the financing. At this point, she was so excited about the money that she wired it to them without hesitation as they gave her an escrow company to wire it to. (to be continued)
On 09.24.09, In Entrepreneur, black business, black colleges, black famous people, college football, hbcu, small business enterprise, by admin
There are no Internet super anti-Google secrets. There is no secret to Google’s algorithm that will always place you in the top Google search results for any keyword you feel like marketing and advertising with.
I see tons of people trending on the Internet claiming they have found the secret ingredient to Internet millions. One dude claimed that he found the secret that Google will never tell you and that he will give it to you for a mere $47 despite the fact that he charged over $3,000 for an event that he had somewhere in Connecticut. Yeah right.
He says he is offering his secret to the first 100 people who will sign up or something silly like that. Yeah right. He knows if he can sell his secret to 100,000 people online and get them convinced that he has inside game he makes $4,700,000 this month alone.
Internet Secrets revealed
There are no Internet super anti-Google secrets. There is no secret to Google’s algorithm that will always place you in the top Google search results for any keyword you feel like marketing and advertising with. That dude is always at the top because he is clocking enough money to outbid everyone else for most popular keywords and stay at the top. He is paying, point blank. Here’s the real secret to Internet success:
Wake up every day and write an article. Do not make it a sales pitch. No one likes sales pitches at all anymore. If you write sales pitch text on the Internet, you will have people stay on your ad or on your article for a maximum of 3 seconds! No joke. I said 3 SECONDS! You have to work extremely hard at building your brand. No one will buy from you until they see you out there swimming in the Internet channel for awhile. This while could be anywhere from 4 months to 2 years. Hate to burst your bubble. There’s no such thing as a quick fix. If you need a check and need money by next week, I would not look at the Internet as a viable source of income.
Internet success like anything worth doing, takes a very long time to master. It takes constant effort and constant tweaking. It takes you to get used to writing and it takes you to break out your Thesaurus and your Dictionary to come up with new words. You must not have sales speak and sell someone the latest greatest wiz bang toy or opportunity. You will not get rich quickly and pay your mortgage by next week. This takes time just like any other true passive income form. If you want to get better, practice, practice, practice. There’s no other way and no other quick path to wealth. Just because there are 200,000 users creating Twitter and Facebook accounts each day does not mean that you have a sure path of buyers and consumers.
You must build a reputation and trust on the Internet more than ever. There are so many scams on the Internet it’s not even funny. So, you must fight through the scams by building a solid reputation before anyone buys from you.
On 09.23.09, In Entrepreneur, black business, black colleges, black famous people, hbcu, small business enterprise, by admin
do the only thing any red blooded American youngster following in the footsteps of Miley Cyrus would do, launch her own business
18 year old Deer Valley high school graduate Ronnisha Jordan was tired of looking for a job while going to school and decided to do the only thing any red blooded American youngster following in the footsteps of Miley Cyrus would do, launch her own business. This young enterprising entrepreneur was ready for a challenge after graduating from high school in the San Francisco Bay Area and thought she could do it on her own.
After watching her mother run her successful real estate business and encouraged by that success, she decided to launch a business painting children’s faces for their birthday parties.
18 year entrepreneur Ronnisha Jordan
But this young successful entrepreneur didn’t just stop there. She conceived of the idea all on her own and went as far as posting a service ad on popular social website Craigslist.org and within a day she received a dozen emails in response to the advertisement. Ms. Jordan was so excited and couldn’t wait to tell her mother, Tish Johnson, who is a hard worker and entrepreneur herself. Ronnisha Jordan told her mother the idea, told her that people had contacted her, and her mother was elated. Her mother said “I always knew Ronnisha would be successful because she’s highly driven to succeed. I just want her to be careful with the Internet and posting services on there but other than that, I’m very happy that she knows how to be entrepreneurial herself and not wait around for people.”
Ronnisha Jordan is also taking acting classes, has done hair modeling for well known hair product companies and is auditioning for a play and beauty pageant in San Francisco, California in October. This girl has it going on and will reach the stars!
On 09.22.09, In Entrepreneur, black business, black colleges, black famous people, hbcu, small business enterprise, by admin
Why are the NYPD cops who shot Sean Bell living a free life and they murdered someone in cold blood. Now Plax is in jail because he shot himself!
I cannot stand the fact that they have Plaxico Burress going to jail. This in and of itself is a hate crime. Click here to see the interview NOW!
Why are the NYPD cops who shot Sean Bell living a free life and they murdered someone in cold blood. Now Plax is in jail because he shot himself! Let me go run and not think about this. The witchhunt continues on the young black famous male. I said it before and I’ll say it again publicly: Black Men Protect Ya Neck and Lay Low!
They want us in jail and they want us in jail right now! Plax said his bail went from $10,000 to $250,000 in 3 minutes and they had already made a deal with the prosecutor to get out of the situation until a wealthy, rich, white boy Bloomberg got in the game and announced it on TV.
On 09.22.09, In 1, by admin
God speed to the Marc Ecko brand but it begs the question: Should hip hop save Marc Ecko? How?
The Ecko brand has been apart of the urban lifestyle for a hot minute. I wake up today at my usual 5:00 a.m. time, go make the hazelnut coffee with hazelnut creamer, and sit down at my iMac, ready for business and reading The Harvard Business Review. This is a daily ritual. I stumble upon an article by The New York Post detailing how Marc Ecko might lose majority ownership of his company and brand.
Hip Hop Clothing and Lifestyle Kingpin Marc Ecko
I’ve always liked Marc Ecko and everything his company stood for. It was inspired by graffiti and some of my greatest friends are the dopest graf artists there are such as LiquidScape who took art crimes and turned them into a positive force in the Bay Area graffiti and political scene in San Jose, California.
I’ve purchased several Marc Ecko pieces of hip hop clothing including 3 watches, jeans, baseball caps, hoodies, and T-shirts. Ecko is a prominent lifestyle brand for me along with my other hip hop lifestyle clothing options in my closet. Ecko is one of my top selections when I dip into my closet and head out into the urban scene in Atlanta.
I was shocked at seeing such a talented brand rainmaker in a situation to have to sell off a majority stake in his company to Iconix. Apparently, Marc Ecko and his CEO are not speaking to one another and I know the behind the scenes reason why. Marc and his CEO know they are having financial issues trying to pay a multi-million line of credit to a manufacturer who makes their clothes in Southeast Asia. Sales have dipped making it tough to make the LOC payment. Pressed to do his job and find a viable solution, the CEO MUST go find money and find it now before Ecko falls victim of bankrupty.
As all good CEO’s do, he starts to sell off licenses of certain parts of the hip hop clothing and lifestyle brand rainmaker to investors to raise capital. But, this time, he finds the investor Iconix and they pitch a deal to take over majority ownership of the Manhattan Midtown firm. What do you do? You have a looming $70 Million line of credit and you must make a payment. If Iconix takes 51% ownership, they control the direction of Marc Ecko and he becomes an employee of his own brand name.
This is a tough situation to be in and I’ve been there before. It’s a personal decision that only Mr. Ecko can answer. God speed to the Marc Ecko brand but it begs the question: Should hip hop save Marc Ecko?
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On 09.20.09, In Entrepreneur, black business, black colleges, black famous people, hbcu, small business enterprise, by admin
Without these analytical tools, I would be literally shooting in the wind and having a website without knowing how well it’s doing and performing. As a coach of elite high school quarterbacks with the Nike Elite 11 training camps, this would be like teaching a kid how to quarterback but not knowing how to measure his results.
To truly put a pulse on how your website and marketing plans are working, it is a must to apply Google analytics immediately to your website. I wake up every morning at 5 am. I go to the refrigerator, make some hazelnut coffee with a shot of fat free hazelnut creamer. While the coffee is brewing and I’m getting my millionaire mindset together, I go to Google and log in to check my statistics for the previous day.
Spinks uses Hazelnut creamer to power his google analytics each A.M.
I have roughly 25 pages on my website and I have Google analytics embedded on every single last page on my website. I know exactly which pages are my top pages. I know where the web user came from to get to my web page. I know what browser they are using. I know what Google Adword Keywords were used to crawl and get to my web site. I know what country the user came from. I know what city in the country they came from and can visually see what city they are sitting in. I know if they browsed my site using Google Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, or Firefox. I can even tell what language they use on their computer to see my web site.
If you work from home, which most people do nowadays with the economy in a lurch, you need to know these statistics to know how to drive traffic to your website. You cannot know how to drive traffic to your website if you do not know where that traffic is coming from. Google analytics is the measurement that I use to know how to tweak my website and I tweak it every single morning while sipping on some hazelnut coffee that I’m drinking right now as I type this. It allows me to prepare and go for my morning ritual workout in the mountains of California comfortably because I know how to improve my website results each day.
Without these analytical tools, I would be literally shooting in the wind and having a website without knowing how well it’s doing and performing. As a coach of elite high school quarterbacks with the Nike Elite 11 training camps, this would be like teaching a kid how to quarterback but not knowing how to measure his results. It would be likened to telling him to throw the ball without knowing how to effectively read coverages and decipher defensive packages. You cannot win what you cannot measure. If you want to learn how to be successful and earn money online, Google analytics is the first line of free capabilities that you must deploy right now.
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