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Your First 90 days in Business

Posted by PB31 Woman on January 19, 2010 at 12:40am

.The process of starting a business involves key steps from choosing a business name to selecting a business structure. Once your doors are open, the first 90 days of being in business sets the foundation for successful survival. Learn what you need to know during the first 90 days of starting a business.Get the First Customer: You aren't in business until you have a customer. If you didn't have a customer at the beginning of startup, make this priority one. Reach out to your warm contacts. People who know you will want to see you succeed and will give you the necessary business or referrals.Master Selling: Selling is essential to business success. It's a business function often downplayed by new startups lacking sales experience. Set a regular time weekly to learn and apply new selling skills in your business. Forget the hype that marketing will do the selling. Marketing is a separate function from sales. Marketing will create the interest to contact your company. Once you have contact, use your selling skills to close the deal.Make a Profit: Sales revenue shows on the top line of financials. The profit is the bottom line. Without profits your business will fail. Understand the costs of your business and ensure you focus on making money. For certain businesses, profits will follow an investment in inventory or other start up costs. Run financials to determine when your company will be profitable.Evaluate Pricing: When starting a business it's common to make assumptions about what prices to charge customers and the profits made. During the first 90 days your assumptions will be challenged with the realities of the market place. Take a close look at your price strategy. Don't make the common error of trying to be the lowest price provider. Your competitors have established their businesses and can often undercut prices longer than you.Set Quarterly Goals: Running a new startup is time consuming and stressful. You have to learn multiple skills and have numerous systems to setup. It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day. Successful entrepreneurs know seeing the horizon and having a 90 day plan with objectives and milestones can mean the difference between failure and survival.Find Your Entrepreneurial Type: Your business personality type is the traits and characteristics of your personality that blend with the needs of the business. If you better understand your business personality, then you can give your company the best part of you.Reward Yourself: Starting a business is like launching a rocket into space. The amount of energy to leave the earth's gravity force is tremendous but once beyond the pull of the earth the energy needed is reduced. Recognize the energy you have expended to start your business and take the time out to reward yourself. The time off will recharge your motivation and ensure success for the next 90 days.

The Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs a solution for Business Empowerment - Connect Now!

Posted by Robin Tramble on January 18, 2010 at 11:18pm

Where can Christian Women Entrepreneurs go to receive support, training, education, engaging affiliation, empowerment and connection to a vast resource bank of expertise and networking opportunities with women of like mind? The ACWE.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE– Jan 18, 2010 – The Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs a solution for Christian women seeking personal, business and spiritual life empowerment, training, resources,networking and more from like-minded women!"Robin Tramble announces prelaunch of The Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs.There has been a great concern from Christian women to receive training, support and toglean from the expertise of Christian women who share the same principles and valuesas they do." Says Robin Tramble President of The ACWE.The Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs seeks to be the solution.Where can Christian Women Entrepreneurs go to receive support, training, education,engaging affiliation, empowerment and connection to a vast resource bank of expertiseand networking opportunities with women of like mind?ACWE is an organization created for the purpose of supporting, equipping, connecting,training and educatingChristian women entrepreneurs. Providing an affiliation with experts from various fields who share thesame principles and values.According to the Center for Women’s Business Research (CWBR) in the United States alone, “there are 6.2 millionwomen owned firms employing 9.2 million people, generating sales of $1.15 trillion” (WE, Inc.).It is obvious that women are making their mark in the business world and this is a growing trend.ACWE's mission is to provide a venue that provides a resource bank of tools, training, expertise, mentoring,networking, accountability and more within a body of women that share the same values and principles.The ACWE group serves as a gathering place for those interested in learning more about the ACWE to receive information, updates, tips and value added content via the discussions and wall posts.Membership can be requested here http://www.acwentrepreneurs.ning.com which is where the Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs is housed temporarily. The ACWE is also seeking expert contributors who have extensive experience and success in their area of expertise. There is also an opportunity for peer expert contributors. Candidates do need to have experience and some level of success in their area of expertise. To inquire candidates need to submit their information to rtintlinfo@gmail.comThere are plans for annual conferences and local chapters moving forward. The ACWE is the place to be for ChristianWomen Entrepreneurs.# # #About Robin G. TrambleRobin Tramble is founder and CEO of Robin Tramble International Life Empowerment. A company created to support savvy women and woman entrepreneurs across the world that want to attract prosperity "Spirit, Soul and Body" by presenting your gifts from an authentic self projection of empowerment, purpose and passion. "No hype... simply the real deal" This is accomplished via Teleseminars, live events, mentoring, coaching, her transformational programs, products and services.Robin is also known as The Dynamite "Authentic Life" Empowerment Mentor, Coach,Trainer and Public speaker.She passionately empowers savvy women and woman entrepreneurs to discover their authentic self, get unstuck and live their best empowered life." She also hasa background in Education, ministry,business and music. Robin is a great resource for empowerment as she has accomplished sustained success and empowerment including 29 years of marriage and raising four successful children.Find out more at: http://www.RobinTramble.com

Reflections from a Serial Bridesmaid!

Posted by Natjazzmine on January 18, 2010 at 7:36pm

So we've entered into the New Year hip hip hooray!I did not bother making any resolutions; I still have the last 10 to accomplish from 2009. So I guess my New Year’s resolution is accomplishing the ones I made last year.As I reflected on my goals I took a mental inventory of my life and I must say I had more than my fair share of blessings.One of my resolutions I tried to reinforce last year was to end my career as a bridesmaid until I walk down the aisle with my OWN bridal party honey! Well it seems the more I resist the role, the more brides to-be insist that I be a part of their bridal party. Please don’t get me wrong I am honoured but I am beginning to feel like a serial bridesmaid. I must start charging a fee.I have been doing some thinking again, especially on relationships. I'm thinking of widening my entry requirements of an M-A-N. Now being a woman of ethnicity it has taken me a decade to get to this point. Interracial dating as been something I've always admired from far but never considered. So I guess it’s Hot Chocolate vs Whipped Cream - I'll keep you up dated :-)www.got2gethitched.blogspot.com

Happy Birthday! Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Live Your Dream

Posted by TotallyLess.com on January 18, 2010 at 7:00pm

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Happy New Year!Everyone here at BBWO. I would llike to start by saying I commend all of you, For you ambitions and courage. To have operated or ran a business in the last two years. These have been trying times. In this very very tough economy.Easy... It has not been. But, we are still here, still standing, in spite of the circumstances. Pushing forward. It's been a journey for me. And, I would not change a thing given the opportunity. I've learned a lot in this spand of time. For instance, just because you tell people you have something to sell, doesn't necessarily mean that their going to buy. People have to have an interest in what you are selling. If, your product does not stir up their interest or curosity factor. You are not going to sell very much.Business is a fasinating instrument, isn't it. It allows you to enter into homes, lives, hearts if, your product happens to be something that captures the masses. I can not speak for all of you. But, let's pledge today, right now. That this year is going to be BIG for us and our businesses, like never before. Don't be discouraged, not now. If not this year, than next year. But don't give up, don't stop, and do not quit. I hope, that each and everyone of you hear what I'am saying today.Do not take this lightly. GOD, takes care of those who endure... If I have learned anything in this LIFE, since I decided to start my business. Is that, you only FAIL, when you give up. For all of you in business, QUITTING is not an option. Hold on, be strong minded, and follow that DREAM.. That dream that GOD gave you. You remember, when he gave it to you. You saw the preview. That's why you took the chance, the risk to start a buisness of your own. Dont stop now, because it looks unattainable. Martin Luther King say it best. "How Long, Not Long." So, what you didnt sell anything all year. Or, Chirstmas sales were a BUST. Here's 2010, you get to do it, all again.Are you aware that the stores we shop at today. All started out, as small as a mustard seed.. Now their mega businesses. Suppose, they bailed when things got tough. We would not be shopping in stores such as Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue, Sears, Nordstroms, Walmart. Kmart, to name just a few. In closing, I want to encourage everyone to have a Martin Luther King Sale, this year prepare for it, and make it spectacular. Get Banners and ads all that good advertising stuff. Shout it out. Because, if it weren't for HIS DREAM. We may not have had these opportunites today.P.s. I want you to check your local newspapers. On that wonderful day. Count how many stores title their sales that week with MLK name. Then let's meet back here and discuss it. We as a people owe him this much. Say it LOUD..I believe if we say it and show it. The other's will follow. It'll catch on. I dare you, to try it.TotallyLess:)

How to Make 2010 the Year You Actually Achieve Your Goals

Posted by Evelyn on January 18, 2010 at 6:05pm

Many of us go through an annual ritual of setting personal goals, or setting business goals at the beginning of the year. We call then New Year's resolutions and we have every intention of realizing these goals, but somehow they end up falling off the radar screen and before you know it you're back to your old, familiar habits.This is nothing new, but as we begin this New Year and new decade maybe you want to try something new. Maybe this year you would actually like to achieve your goals.The great painter, Pablo Picasso once said, "Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, andupon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."With that being said, let’s look at some tips and strategies for taking those goals off of the paper and into your life where you can vigorously act upon them.You can find goal setting workshops in most personal development programs; you can find free goal setting software and websites online. It does not really matter what kind of goal setting strategy you use. Once you have compiled a list of personal, spiritual and financial goals, your next step is going to be writing out why it is crucial that you achieve those goals within the specified time frame.If you don't convince yourself of why you must achieve those goals you will not have enough of an emotional investment in accomplishing them. Simply making a list on paper is easy to do and also easy to discard when things get challenging.Now we are going to bring those goals into your daily life by breaking them up into small chunks and adding them to your daily to-do list or task list.Take one of your goals that you would like to accomplish within the next six months. Let's say you'd like to lose that last ten pounds. You will now backwards engineer your goal and break it up into tasks that you can add to your daily calendar. Here are some of the things that you might want to do in order to lose weight:• Clear the junk foods out of your house• Choose a weight loss program that fits your lifestyle• Hire a weight loss coach or counselor• Buy a weight loss journal• Re-new your gym membershipYou would make a list such as this for each of your goals and then take the time to add them to your calendar. If you've got an iphone or another smart phone you can download apps that will support your setting and achieving your goals. At the end of each day you will be able to tick off the things you completed and move forward those things that you were unable to complete. Keep track of your victories and celebrate when you achieve them. This will cause you to want to continue to strive towards your goals even more.• Keep your goals where you can see them every day.• Create a vision board• Create a slideshow video using images that represent the achievement of your goals• Build in rewards for when you achieve minor and major milestones.• Be accountable to someone for your goals.• Listen to motivational and educational programs that will encourage you to achieve your goals.• Believe in yourself and your ability to get from where you are to where you'd like to be.• Encourage someone else who is struggling.So, now you have some ideas for taking your goals and putting legs on them. Pick one of these ideas and implement it right now. Interact with your goals every day until you achieve them. Focus your laser-targeted attention on your goals and they will become a reality.

Happy New Year to BBWO

Posted by Dawn W. on January 18, 2010 at 5:53pm

I hope everyone had a great year in 2009, and I wish all you ladies the BEST in 2010!!!! I have been mia on the net for the past 7months. I have been Blessd to continue my education so that has been my main focus. I know there are some of us who juggle everything that's going on in their lives on one plate, but I had to find out that my health is important too. So I have decided to put my social marketing online on the back burner so to speak. My education is very important to me. Im so proud to be 40 (mistaken for 30 lol), and back to getting the education I've always wanted (God is so good!!! ). I also have been getting closer to God and learning that I don't have to do things to please others to make myself feel good. If ppl don't like me for who I am then they are not the people for me. I will find a real true husband not in my time but in Gods time. I can see that 2010 is going to be a great year for me, even though in 2009 some doors closed right in my face, so many windows opened up for me too. I am a Black Woman who loves life, and I love sharing my experiences with people just to let them know that everything is going to be alright if they just trust and have faith. Life for me is not all about how much money/friends I have. For me life is alll about how happy I am.Im going to hit the books after posting this blog, and just continue to Be Blessed. Oh and just because Im getting closer to God and Im all about pleasing the Lord this does not make me a "RELIGIOUS" chick so please don't get it twisted. I don't need people sending me all kinds of scriptures or telling me how much God loves me I already know these things. God and I have our relationship just like you may have your relationship with the Lord it may not be the same. But I don't want to get into that because that would take up too much time. I just ask that you respect me. Thanks in advance. Much Success to you all in 2010!!!!!Everyone Stay Blessed :)DawnW

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The Dream Realized!

Posted by Richetta on January 18, 2010 at 2:02pm

This morning as I get ready to take the kids to the parade I read this speech and it made me realize how powerful and prophetic these words were! I am in tears thinking about the greatness of the Lord and how he has brought us from a mighty long way to think that I can have a site with all types of Women together hand and hand helping each other! I love it! May we never forget the words of those before us!

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

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Walk confidently, talk confidently, smile confidently, act confidently and soon you will be confident.

Posted by Lori on January 18, 2010 at 3:28am

Walk confidently, talk confidently, smile confidently, act confidently and soon you will be confident.

Jockey Shorts & Jail Cells

Posted by Michelle Diane on January 17, 2010 at 10:56pm

Pull up your da** pants! Parents, teachers, pastors and community leaders across the country are screaming at the top of their lungs. Municipalities that are firing teachers because they can’t afford to pay them are spending thousands to erect billboards to shout the message. I s it only me or does it strike anybody else as ludicrous that our communities, our leaders, have chosen our children’s underwear as a point of galvanization?Okay, so there is no confusion, I don’t like the sagging pants style, but that’s what it is ya’ll, a style, and as such, it constitutes a pi** poor basis on which to judge our kids.Several communities have taken their displeasure with underwear to the point of fratricide. No, I haven’t heard of a murder in the name of underwear outrage, yet, but there are cities large and small, from Florida to California that have made the style illegal. You heard me African American adults across the country have voted to incarcerate their sons for sagging pants. So you tell me, are our children really of so littlevalue to us we are ready to willingly sacrifice them to a system we know wants them dead over their underwear?Okay, again, I know how it looks and I know where the style originates but WTF? Is our love and respect for our children really predicated on their drawers? And before you come with the buts and the finger pointing, let me remind you four of those fingers are pointing back at you, at us. A child’s failure to know is firmly rooted in a parent’s failure to teach.Most of our kids can’t identify Paul Robeson or Phyllis Wheatley, don’t know George Jackson or the Afrika family. Our babies ain’t never heard of Fannie Lou or Edmund Pettus. We’re mad because they seem to be running every which way, but it was us who failed to give them any direction. Today there are 3 times as many African American sons, brothers, fathers between the ages of 18 – 25 enslaved by the penal system as there are enrolled in college. And we’re trippin over our babies’ underwear?I say not just no, but ah he** no! This must stop now! Our children, our sons, are so much more than their underwear. It’s time to proclaim our children’s value from the rooftops. It’s time to encourage and support our kids in shouting their own value from the stars. It’s time to launch a counter offensive in the Underwear Wars and show the world, most particularly our children, just how precious and promising our babies, sagging pants and all, really are to us.If you agree our children’s value far exceeds how they wear their pants… If you agree a belt is the least of what many of them lack and if you are dedicated to communicating to our youth and through our youth to the larger community that our kids value far exceeds their drawers, then join NUMN and Pillars of the Bridge tonight as we plan the counter offensive in the Underwear Wars.7:30 PM EST Call in (712) 432-0600 Access Code: 990850#

Le Fash’Ink ™ - Fashion, Beauty & Body Art Extravaganza Fashion Show

Posted by Teresa Janes on January 17, 2010 at 8:08am

Le Fash’Ink ™ Fashion, Beauty & Body Art Extravaganza & Industry ForumsMemphis, TNThursday, May 20, 2010Officially Sanctioned “Peace Week” Event presented by ABetterMemphis.comWhat is Le Fash’Ink?Le Fash’Ink is a Fashion, Beauty and Body Art Runway Show that will highlight the latest trends in fashion, beauty and body art. Models will exhibit the newest in fashion as well as body art before an audience of customers, aficionados and industry insiders. In addition, the event will educate aspiring models and potential professionals through several forums that are moderated by industry professionals in various aspects of the fashion and beauty industry. This event is chic, exotic and free to the public. Le Fash’Ink is not just a fashion show…it is an experience.PurposeIn the spirit of “Memphis Peace Week”, ABetterMemphis.com, Inc.’s Le Fash’Ink seeks to educate, create awareness, and increase demand throughout the Memphis and surrounding communities for occupations that directly correlate to fashion, art, culture, beauty and design. ABetterMemphis.com will establish a scholarship fund that will assist single parents and low income students in attending a Historically Black College or University and/or trade school for a profession or peripheral profession in the above stated industries.Get InvolvedLe Fash’Ink is a great place for visibility for your business, product or information. This event plays host to a diverse demographic group. The energy and excitement surrounding this event is unmatched to that of traditional fashion events.We are looking for volunteers, vendors, and sponsors. For sponsorship and/or vendor opportunities, email LeFashInk@memphispeaceweek.com for a package.Thanks,Teresa JanesEvent Manager/Organizer

The best way to fullfill your 5 - A - DAY fruit and vegetables ORAC requirements everyday - actions against Free Radical Damage Heart Health and Anti Aging

Posted by Luxur Brown Naturals on January 17, 2010 at 4:26am

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The nutrients in these foods is critical you maintain your health and offsetting serious ailments as indicated by the Clinical Studies on the ingredients found in AntiOxidant supreme.Who Would Benefit?Basically, everyonewould potentially benefit from taking even 1 capsule of Anti-oxidant Supreme per day.The health benefits associated with consuming a variety of fruits and vegetables every day are well known & documented worldwide.AntiOxidant Supreme enables individuals not only to achieve the recommended 5-A-Day intake but to actually ingest a surplus of health boosting nutrients which have been clinically proven to contain Anti-Aging and Cardiovascular health benefits.As we all know, 'Prevention is better than cure'. 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Picking up where my people left off

Posted by Paris E. Tompkins on January 17, 2010 at 1:59am

Recently my partner and I were discussing possible stereotypical backlash now that our first “Oodleville” children’s book, The First Trip, has been published, and Bubba Oodle, our first character doll, is available. For me, the Oodles’ black color has been the subject of conjecture since I began working to manifest my dream.In our conversation, therefore, we talked about ways to address the dolls’ color. We discussed comparing the Oodles to gollywogs who were and still are depictions of black-faced minstrels who were entertainers during the days of slavery. In 1965, however, all caricature depictions of blacks, like gollywogs, were deemed politically incorrect. This action also caused many creative works by blacks to also be exiled to local or near-underground marketing.Although gollywogs have been removed from public display, they have been sold for over a hundred years in England, and can still be purchased online and through gollywog clubs in the U.S. The Oodles, however, are not gollywogs, nor do they represent any aspect of minstrels or slavery…other than the fact that I am black and a descendant of slaves.My grandmother, Mary Pigues, was born in 1865, the year that slavery was legally abolished. My grandfather, Ben Pigues, who was much older than Grandma was obviously a slave. On my father’s side, the similar situations probably existed. Prior to slavery, I imagine my ancestors being free, happy and enjoying life in Africa.“Oodleville” is a similar world, and the Oodles are characters conceived in my heart and mind and created from my imagination. Rather than human, they are human-ess; meaning they possess the best of human values like honesty, caring, compassion, empathy, forgiveness, and commitment.They represent my freedom of expression, and are simply playthings for all children, and their color should not determine whether or not they have merit. My mission for Oodleville and the Oodles is to bring fun, friendship, a new perspective, and a unique product by a black person back to the mainstream…to pick up where my people left off.www.thefirsttrip.com

AAC breaks the "Code" to the Financial Failures In the African American Community.

Posted by Rickey on January 16, 2010 at 8:26pm

JUNIQUES MULTICULTURAL CONNECTIONS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONNECTION E COMMERCE. HERE IS LETTER FROM THE CEO OF E BUSINESS SOLUTIONS"Epiphanysoul"Black Visionary and Activist; Charles Bowlds breaks the "Code" to the Financial Failures In the African American Community".Introducing the AAC's EBusiness Solution's CEO; Carolyn Simmonshttp://www.jusmcc.org click here to check out AACBorn in Beaufort, SC to a single mother who was the first black school bus driver in the county and a woman who always put education first, I was anointed and blessed to have such a strong-willed,powerful and loving women who gave me everything.My mother left Beaufort at an early age to better herself and to pursue her education. She moved to Portland, MA and she sent for me four years later. My mother was determined to show me that independence would carry me many days in my life. I can say that I truly had the best and went to the best public schools.My mother involved me in music at an early age as well as many other activities. Although we lived in the north, economic slavery and discrimination were still very real for most Blacks. Even though my mother faced a lot of racism, she never brought her sorrows and frustrations home to me. She was and still is today the strongest women I know even with her disability. As a small child I never knew what discrimination was even though there were days when incidents would occur. It wasn't until moving back home to Beaufort in the seventies did I begin to realize what the great migration to the north was about.We Blacks have always been last in having the freedoms, rights, justice, and the so called "American Dream". So my life trials and pains of watching and understanding what my family and others have went through for so many years, molded me and gave me determination to a lifelong dream of empowering my people. I have always had a love for and always sought to find the vehicle that would help us break the generational curse of poverty, hopelessness and financial death. After going through and being in many different companies, groups, organizations that I thought would break the "Code", of financial disparity in the black community and watching the collapse of Wall Street, I had received a call from Charles about the company I watched him grow five years ago.That vehicle is the African American Connection. http://www.jusmcc.org click here to check out AACWe often complain about and debate about the forty acres and a mule and why blacks our always last to succeed but no one really broke the "Code". One thing we as blacks must realize is that for to long we have looked to others to in some way confirm who we are as a people. We've measured ourselves not by the characteristics of who we are and what God has blessed us with but we believe we are not worthy unless other cultures validate us. Not only am I humbled and grateful but I'm truly excited about the capability and the sureness of this company to be one of the pillars that will help us through the toughest of times.Charles has showed that in the AAC we don't have to be politically correct and we should be proud of our Afro Centric Views and Values. The African American Connection in my opinion demands and requests the true spirit and values of the Black community. It stirs in us a sense of pride, strength and worthiness’, as well as empowers the entrepreneurial spirit that is a part of our DNA. It allows us (without penalty), to learn the value of having our own business.It is the vehicle to which the prerequisite is to be accountable for your culture, your children and your legacy. It is one of the most powerful visions that has been brought to life by a man not just seeking a monetary fix but a long-lasting legacy that will reshape our destiny as African Americans.Understand this, the energy that will fuel this vehicle is the solidarity of the Black community and the responsibility we have to lift up all black businesses and admonish our owners who choose to with (courage and a strong sense of urgency), take their place in history.I encourage you all to partake of this wonderful opportunity to embrace our economic power, build our financial freedom and secure entrepreneurship for the future. Know that it is then and only then that we will assure the survivability of our children for generations.Welcome all to the African American Connection's E-Business SolutionsSincerely,Carolyn Simmons CEOE-Business Solutionshttp://www.jusmcc.org click here to check out AAC

Do You Still Do Online Marriage Conference

Posted by Cheryl on January 16, 2010 at 5:51pm

Does any of this sound familiar unresolved conflicts, lack of intimacy, excessive fighting, ineffective or not enough communication, not enough quality time for busy schedules, a suffocating partner, children issues?Award Winning Author Cheryl Lacey Donovan is back. And this time she's brought her husband along for the ride.With another masterfully presented piece designed to create dialogue about relationships and the pathway to marriages of purpose Do You Still Do What Happens Happily Ever After will challenge couples to look at themselves and their marriage in a whole new light.Join Cheryl, Jewell R. Powell, Author of Marriage 101, and Angela Caligone, Certified Christian Counselor, along with their husbands Keith, Lewis, and Al as they discuss with transparency the issues surrounding many marriages today. The Do You Still Do Online Marriage Conference February 13, 2010 9:00-2:00pm CST

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Posted by Shoshi on January 16, 2010 at 12:30pm

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Looking for ways to make money online? Here's 20 ways assembled by experts to make $100 daily

Posted by Robin Tramble on January 16, 2010 at 8:13am

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The Dynamite "Authentic Life" Empowerment Coach,Mentor... Robin Tramble launches FREE Breakthrough 2010 Teleseminar series

Posted by Robin Tramble on January 16, 2010 at 6:37am

What's holding you back from realizing your best empowered life ever!Do you feel like life is passing you by? Got dreams but don't know how to get started? Maybe you feel stuck,overwhelmed, are fighting fear. This event is a must attend. Discover how one event can manifest keys to Dynamite Breakthrough to new horizons in your personal,spiritual and business empowerment!FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 12, 2009– Don't lose another day of your life to fear, overwhelm, procrastination, lack of confidence, lack of clarity on your goals, vision, purpose, disorganization and more!Robin Tramble The Dynamite "Authentic Life" EmpowermentMentor,Trainer,Coach and public speaker is hosting a FREE preview Teleseminar series for savvy women and woman entrepreneurs that want to attract prosperity "Spirit, Soul and Body"by presenting your gifts from an authentic self projection of empowerment, purpose and passion. "No hype... simply the real deal""You don't have to be a victim of the current economic down-turn. Through learnedlife skills,strategies and assessments you can chart your course, get unstuck and thrive instead of simply surviving.Women need to connect with an accountability measure whether it's systems or individuals to realize their dreams and desires and I'm here as one of the definitive resources for empowerment to help them on this journey." Says Robin TrambleRobin's Free Teleseminar series is a preview to her 12 week mentoring and coaching program "Breakthrough 2010!"Women will receive the best of both worlds. You don't have to do it alone. No more reinventing the wheel, overwhelm, fear of the unknown, not knowing where to begin. You will have Robin's support as a mentor and a coach. Robin states " I will take you by the hand and step by step help you realize the dynamite breakthrough you've so desired. How long has it been? Too long."A thought like an action, is energy in motion. Emotional thoughts carry even more energy. When you create a thought, especially one you feel emotional about (such as your dream of success),you have created energy that goes out to the universe and allows you to explore,create and grow the thought. The process takes care of itself. Women will discover how to unleash their mind-Power, make the shift in their mindset,leverage their time keys to live their best empowered life, get unstuck, become empowered to breakthrough to new horizons in their personal, spiritual and business life and more.Registrations for this series are being taken at:http://budurl.com/m8bvWhen: January 15, 21 and 28 and February 3 at 11:00 AM PSTA free recorded call replay will be made available to all registrants plus Robin will be doing give-aways during the calls.Robin goes on to say "Another definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again expecting different results. Let's stop that now. I'm giving you a chance to put some fuel under the fire and finally get unstuck and realize exponential growth in your personal,spiritual and business life."# # #About Robin Tramble The Dynamite "Authentic Life" Empowerment Mentor, Coach, Trainer and Public SpeakerRobin Tramble aka The Empowerment Diva is a definitive resource of empowerment for savvy entrepreneurial women,wahm and those who aspire to be. The Empowerment Diva passionately empowers women to live their best empowered life via a vast array of empowering resources for the express purpose of assisting them as they strive to realize their dreams and desires.Robin Tramble is qualified to mentor women in their life empowerment journey through her experience in business, ministry, education,formal training, working at home and personal experiences. Robin Tramble is also an author and recoding artist ,Wife of 29 years, Mother and recording artist and plans to creatively combine her music into another empowering resource for women.

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Posted by Dominique on January 16, 2010 at 3:13am

From A Writer's POV is looking for our next featured article! The February Edition spot is open and we are now taking submissions.If you are write articles that give advice on a literary bases we would love to spotlight your article. Check out the details here on how to have your article featured on our magazine:http://fromawriterspovmagazine.com/issue/january-2010/article/guest-article-submissionWe look forward to hearing from you!

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