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The Black Mans Emergency Survival Kit

On 07.12.10, In Entrepreneur, Family, black business, by admin

As steel sharpens steel, men sharpen men

I used to attend Muslim meetings at Your Black Muslim Bakery on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland, CA with Adisa Banjoko and Dr. Bey used to always say “As steel sharpens steel, men sharpen men and vice versa for women.” I agree.

As the world has been literally shocked with the violent death related news of several black men, I thought it prudent to come out and help tell our black men how to stay out of morgues, jails, and prisons.

Black Men Beware of beautiful prisons designed just for US.

Black Men Beware of beautiful prisons designed just for US.

First of all, when an encounter or beef starts to escalate, we men handle it differently than women. Black women can get in each others face and not let it escalate. We do NOT handle in your face tactics. If someone gets in your face and challenges you, walk away. Do not retaliate. Do not buck up. Do not start screaming and yelling. This helps you stay alive to live another day.

Learn to know when to buck up and when to walk. Most encounters happen because of our male ego and especially as black men. We typically don’t want anyone seeming superior to us so we will act a fool when someone decides to get loud or challenge our manhood. Again, know when to walk away. Not every situation requires you to prove you’re the man. Sometimes being the man is swallowing your pride and walking away. Learn to control your anger or it will completely DOMINATE YOU.

If it appears as though someone is ready to take out a knife and start a battle with you, even if you have a gun, walk away. You don’t need to kill them and take their life. You are setting in motion something that you know nothing about. Walk away even if you feel confident with your .44 Magnum locked and loaded. This does not make you a man and determine your power. You will be headed for a 25 years to life bid in the big house.

Know that violence is not always the answer to every black mans problem. Just because you may be having a hard time and some one crosses you, you do not need to resort to violence. Solve this by learning to come to peace with who you are as a man. Run into the church and get your spirit washed and cleansed. Get healed of anything that makes you feel inferior or like you can’t achieve your dreams.

Find another black man and talk to him about how you feel. Find him at bible study or find him at the church, mosque, masjid, temple, or somewhere in a spiritual or educational environment. He is out there waiting to help.

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Minority Business Success Starts with a plan

On 07.05.10, In Entrepreneur, by admin

How does the small nimble minority business succeed in such a large space? Well, the first thing to know is that the Federal and State government has set aside programs for minority business.

Creating true wealth in the United States for minorities and specifically for black owned businesses start with creating a sick tight plan of attack and a strategy on how to make money. Obviously, in these harsh economic times this is a seemingly tall order but it can be done. Business is tough to come by for everybody but one place that people sometimes overlook is the government market.

There are many tall tales about the government spending billions of dollars on contracts but what people do not tell you is that most of these contracts are with large prime goverment contractors such as Lockheed Martin and others.

Gerard Spinks' business guide

Gerard Spinks' business guide

This doesn’t mean that you will easily sign your business up with the small business association and start making tons of money. Been there done that.

I set up my minority business as a government contractor in 1998 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Went to all the meetings with the SBA in downtown San Francisco. Got registered as a MBE Minority Business Enterprise, a small disadvantaged business, and a 8A contractor. I thought the money would start pouring in to my account as I would easily win government contracts. Not so and far from the truth of even what the SBA tells you.

My company, Spinks Industries, took years of hustlin’ to come up on the government market and learned one major thing after working with a partner firm to grow their business to $35 million in contracts; you must create a business plan and provide it to the SBA to become an 8A contractor and you must learn to write business proposals and respond to requests for proposals from agencies. No easy task because the proposal writing process itself is tedious and requires expertise across a number of disciplines.

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A Black Kids’ Guide to Business Success

On 07.04.10, In 1, by admin

I would succeed if it killed me. I would make a million dollars. I would claim it and I would actualize it at all costs in the San Francisco Bay Area. I would be successful with out you, my pops.

Gerard Spinks’ Open Letter to a black father who I’ve seen once in my life:

A Black Kids Guide to business success

A Black Kids Guide to business success

Dear Dad Pops,

I’m sure you are a good dude. If you’ve ever seen a black man become successful in life and the Internet, you’re looking at him right here. I was surprised when my moms showed me pictures of me that I had signed when I was my daughters age around 7 or 8. Yes, I was the one looking real geeky studly and interesting at St. Philomena’s elementary school in Peoria, Illinois. I don’t know how my moms got me to sign those pictures because I never saw you.

I vaguely remember seeing you once when I was getting ready to go off to college to St. Ambrose College University in Davenport, Iowa. Moms never had any money so she sent me off to St. Ambrose with $20, a skillet, and a bag of clothes. Yes, she expected me to do well but she had nothing else to offer. Wish you were there. Actually, at St. Phil’s, being around all these white kids, everyone had a dad. It used to make me feel real crazy that you weren’t there but their dads were at the basketball games and taking them to play JFL (Junior Football League) that some call Pop Warner Football.

I always longed for a dad especially as I started playing sports and doing well average in high school. Some of the white kids really hated on me and even the coaches didn’t want to see me succeed because I was black. If I could only tell them that my dad was there and supported me, it probably wouldn’t have been so tough and hard on your son. At any rate, I had to fight through this nonsense, the hatred, the dissing, and somehow make a success of myself. Moms told me to just keep playing and stop listening to everyone.

How to do this I have no idea. Really could have used your help and guidance. Moms didn’t did know exactly how but she did. She already had two boys, I was her youngest so she did have some experience. Anyway, I learned how to be successful without you. It was hard. A lot of blood, sweat, and tears. While at Texas, I really needed help and called mom for some money. She couldn’t help. She had none. She never had money She had God and that was all we needed. Even though some of the kids in high school thought we were doing well because I had success in football, we were broke we had cash flow issues, always. Forever on food stamps Forever relying on God’s grace and power. It was our secret though.

When I called out for help to moms and wishing you could help, I realized in that moment that no one could help me God was guiding me and taking over. I realized that I was raised in a situation where I could count on no one other than myself for success God. I realized as a very young kid that it was up to me and only me God to succeed. Yes, pops, this kind of sucked because other people around me had help. They could go home and get help. I couldn’t. I vowed at this moment to turn my life around and be the success that I envisioned and that I saw all these white kids have. Their parents literally sent them to the University of Notre Dame. They made sure they went to great colleges and universities in the midwest. My moms made sure I knew how to apply for food stamps be successful by listening and relying on God. I would do it. I would succeed if it killed me. I would make a million dollars. I would claim it and I would actualize it at all costs in the San Francisco Bay Area. I would be successful with out you, my pops by putting God first and having faith and belief in what God had created, ME.

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Get more web visitors with no money

On 03.31.10, In 1, by admin

You can increase web traffic on a shoestring budget

One little known secret of increasing viewers to your website lies in putting anchor text on your webpage. When you have anchor text to quality websites like Wikipedia, or other reputable company’s or websites, it increases your page rank and the Google robot sees your website during indexing each night. The anchors on this website is the text embedded in here that you can click on. The plain text that I’m writing with means nothing to the Google robot when it sees your webpage. And, if you NEVER update your website, the Google robot operates on a out of site, out of mind mentality. It overlooks you completely if you never update your website or blog.

The other way to be seen on the Internet is by writing articles on your specific niche. I suggest everyone who abandoned their blogs years ago, start blogging about your niche and adding anchor text to your blog of keywords that you want people to see in order to increase web traffic. Even though you may not be a writer, to win traffic on the Internet today is all about writing articles to have the Google bot see your site. No writing, no traffic, and no money. If you don’t know how to write, email us to get started on having my team write articles for you for a fee. We will write articles for you for $50-$200 depending upon what you need Spinks to do and how comprehensive it is. Some writings require a ton of research and this takes time.

You will also need to add Google analytics to your webpages so that you can start to measure the success rate of each individual webpage. If you need us to become your webmaster and get this going for you, please feel free to contact us for individualized pricing on your needs at gds (at) spinksindustries (dot) com. So, step 1 is to start to add anchor text to your website and step 2 is to start dusting your blog or website off and add new content. Your goal should be to add new content to your blog at least once per day or three times per week. Good luck on increasing traffic today.

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Climbing Mountains in Todays Recession

On 01.16.10, In Current Events, Entrepreneur, black business, black famous people, by Gerard Spinks

This morning I went to Mt. Diablo in Northern California for a mountain hike. This is very important in understanding and dealing with this recession. In the mountains you realize that we are not in control of nature and circumstances. You quickly see that you need to be mentally, physically, and emotionally strong to deal [...]

This morning I went to Mt. Diablo in Northern California for a mountain hike. This is very important in understanding and dealing with this recession. In the mountains you realize that we are not in control of nature and circumstances.

You quickly see that you need to be mentally, physically, and emotionally strong to deal with big hills and inclines as well as long periods of not seeing anyone on your path. It teaches and reinforces humility and courage to stick it out until you finish.

I encourage you to stay strong in this most difficult of times but know that these hills can be climbed successfully.

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Gerard Spinks

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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What Do Black People Really Think of Rush Limbaugh?

On 12.31.09, In Current Events, by admin

This poll is to find out how black America really thinks of Rush Limbaugh and his health issue in Hawaii.

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Daredevil Robbie Knieval To Defy Death And Do Evel Knievals Failed Jump

On 12.15.09, In Current Events, by admin

LONDON, ENGLAND – DECEMBER 15: Daredevil motorcyclist Robbie Knievel attends a photocall at The Hospital Club on December 15, 2009 in London, England. Son of Evel Knievel, Robbie Knievel, announced plans to make a record attempt to beat his father’s failed attempt in 1975, and jump across 16 double-decker buses in London on May 22, [...]

LONDON, ENGLAND – DECEMBER 15: Daredevil motorcyclist Robbie Knievel attends a photocall at The Hospital Club on December 15, 2009 in London, England. Son of Evel Knievel, Robbie Knievel, announced plans to make a record attempt to beat his father’s failed attempt in 1975, and jump across 16 double-decker buses in London on May 22, 2010. I have to give it to this guy Robbie Knieval and his pops Evel Knieval. These dudes GO HARD and are not afraid to at least attempt the impossible.

Robbie Knieval Announces Plans For His Biggest Ever Stunt

Here’s video of his father, Evel Knieval’s, original stunt from 1975.

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BART Ridership To Increase November 2 2009

On 11.02.09, In Current Events, by admin

The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) trains will increase the amount of trains and the frequency of trains running to and from San Francisco, CA on Monday November 2, 2009 due to the closure of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. This will help the problem a little bit and ease some of the traffic problems [...]

The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) trains will increase the amount of trains and the frequency of trains running to and from San Francisco, CA on Monday November 2, 2009 due to the closure of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. This will help the problem a little bit and ease some of the traffic problems that will snarl the Bay Area commute.

Without the trains, the commute would become a complete nightmare. BART is poised to help ease this tension.

Bay Area Commuters Hampered By Second Day Of Bay Bridge Closure

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Black Girls Rock New York City

On 10.27.09, In Entrepreneur, by admin

Black Girls Rock is a program in New York City that is a mentoring outreach program targeting at risk teenage youth and women of color. The charity was established to promote the arts and encourage dialogue about the images of women of color in hip hop music and culture. Black Girls Rock seeks to raise [...]

Black Girls Rock is a program in New York City that is a mentoring outreach program targeting at risk teenage youth and women of color. The charity was established to promote the arts and encourage dialogue about the images of women of color in hip hop music and culture.

Black Girls Rock seeks to raise the self-esteem and self worth of these young ladies thereby changing their outlook on life, broadening their horizons and helping them to empower themselves.

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

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How To Avoid Being Outsourced Out Of A Job

On 10.27.09, In Entrepreneur, by admin

With the economy the way that it is, there is no avoiding getting outsourced. All companies are trying to reduce overhead and save money. The first way to do this is to cut salaries, cut positions, and get rid of jobs or have the jobs sent to a country where labor is cheap. The only [...]

With the economy the way that it is, there is no avoiding getting outsourced. All companies are trying to reduce overhead and save money. The first way to do this is to cut salaries, cut positions, and get rid of jobs or have the jobs sent to a country where labor is cheap.

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The only real way of countering this outsourcing problem is to make sure that you have skills or work in an industry or position where you cannot do the work in another location or country. If you’re thinking your job might be outsourced you need to keep all of your options open. If the company looks like they’re moving jobs away, they are. The first step is to NOT be in denial of this process.

When a corporation tells you they are moving to another country and downsizing, don’t believe that you are so special that they are going to keep you there. One day, they are simply going to come in and give you a 5 day notice. Corporations do this so that they keep you loyal and keep you in the job until they can gracefully move the job.

You must look for another job asap and don’t rest on your laurels. Too many Americans rest thinking that this will never happen to them. Many people on Wall Street felt this same way and my friends who work on Wall Street have been without a job or income for a year at times. You can’t rest. They will end the job. Be prepared by looking now or launching a business and really going hard on your business.

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

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