Black Entrepreneurial Business of America

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Black Entrepreneurial Business of America (BEBA) is a business-focused social network dedicated to developing a robust ecosystem supporting entrepreneurs through out the 50 states.

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Each step of your business ownership cycle is important. However, the balance that comes from the un-compromised coordination of all four steps brings MORE success. Your ultimate entrepreneurial goal is financial independence when you Exit your business in a victorious retirement. This is what Primary Business Consultants do best as they make each step contribute appropriately to the sum of this long-term Exit strategy!

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What is Black Entrepreneurial Business of America (BEBA)

Black Entrepreneurial Business of America (BEBA) features profiles of black business leaders, entrepreneurs, and people from all walks of life, who are looking to bringing about a change in their lives. We are building the most comprehensive database of successful black entrepreneurs, black CEO's, black executives and black business leaders from around the world. Our focus is on success and inspiring success. Our wish it that, this database will serve as an inspiration to you in your daily life. Your only limit in achieving success is the limits you place on yourself. So be inspired by the achievers on Black Entrepreneurial Business of America (BEBA).

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OASIS COSMETICS AND NATURAL SKIN HEALING

Who are you honoring today for Womens' History Month? We're celebrating The Clark Sisters!! 1 Reply

Started by OASIS COSMETICS AND NATURAL SKIN HEALING in network marketing. Last reply by OASIS COSMETICS AND NATURAL SKIN HEALING Mar. 23, 2009.

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BRUCE GEORGE

Submission Guidelines for Street Smarts: An Anthology of Urban Survival Strategies

There’s a New Anthology in the works…
Call for Manuscripts: Street Smarts… The deadline for submissions has been extended to January 30th, 2010.

Louis Reyes Rivera and Bruce George, co-editors of the critically acclaimed The Bandana Republic, are now accepting submissions for their latest effort, "Street Smarts: An Anthology of Urban Survival Strategies." With a “Foreword” by Dr. Julianne Malveaux.

Street Smarts is another literary first, this one focusing on the urban working class and the ab… Continue

Posted by BRUCE GEORGE on March 31, 2009 at 7:00am

Onyx Six

EIGHT THINGS YOU CAN DO TO CREATE A VISIONARY ENTERPRISE

- EIGHT THINGS YOU CAN DO TO CREATE A VISIONARY ENTERPRISE -
Written by Jamie S. Walters

From a business perspective, most people would agree that the past several years have been real doozies in a lot of ways. As we look ahead into the coming year, and assess the path we traversed in the past 12 to 24 months, we'll find things that remain outside of our control, things for which we might plan and things that we can do right now to start the year with a sense of forward-momentum (and positive m… Continue

Posted by Onyx Six on March 9, 2009 at 4:11pm

OASIS COSMETICS AND NATURAL SKIN HEALING

It's Black History Month! - Here's video tribute #5 - IMAN!



Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, Iman is the daughter of Marian and Mohamed Abdulmajid, a former Somali ambassador to Saudi Arabia. She is Muslim and has two brothers, Elyas and Feisal, and a sister, Nadia. Iman attended high school in Egypt and later lived in Kenya. Fluent in five languages… Continue

Posted by OASIS COSMETICS AND NATURAL SKIN HEALING on February 25, 2009 at 9:00am

OASIS COSMETICS AND NATURAL SKIN HEALING

It's Black History Month! - Here's video tribute #4 - Marvin Gaye

FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH!

Featuring - Marvin Gaye



Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and instrumentalist, with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a… Continue

Posted by OASIS COSMETICS AND NATURAL SKIN HEALING on February 23, 2009 at 6:15pm

OASIS COSMETICS AND NATURAL SKIN HEALING

It's Black History Month! - Here's video tribute #3 - Donny Hathaway

Featuring - Donny Hathaway






Donny Edward Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979) was an Grammy Award-winning American soul musician. He signed with Atlantic Records in 1969, and with his first single "The Ghetto, Part I" (1970), Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a m… Continue

Posted by OASIS COSMETICS AND NATURAL SKIN HEALING on February 21, 2009 at 8:58am

Early Black Entrepreneurs


During Slavery

Paul Cuffe (1759-1817), a free black man, operated his own successful shipbuilding company in Connecticut in the late 1700's and early 1800's. He used the wealth he accumulated to help other blacks.
William Johnson, freed in 1820, earned a modest fortune operating barbershops in Natchez, Mississippi in the 1830's and 1840's. He kept detailed records of his business and personal life.
James Forten (1766-1842) sail maker, abolitionist and inventor made a fortune in the maritime industry, in which blacks were represented at every level.
Cee McCarty ran an import and dry goods business in New Orleans which operated throughout Louisiana. She owned thirty-two slaves and accumulated a fortune of $155,000 (about $2 million in today's dollars.)
According to local tax records, before 1855 there were twenty-one black businessmen in New York City who made more than $100,000 per year.

Late 1800's Early 1900's

Arthur George Gaston formed the Booker T. Washington Burial Society in 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama. Operating on a subscription basis it offered a decent burial at a reasonable cost. In 1939 he founded the Booker T. Washington Business College, offering courses in bookkeeping, shorthand, and typing for blacks who could not attend white business schools. Also started the Gaston Motel, and Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Association in 1957. In the 1960's he founded the A.G. Gaston Boy's Club.
Maggie Lena Walker (1867-1934) the daughter of a poor washer woman, started the black-owned and operated Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia in 1903, becoming the first American woman to found a bank.
Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker (1867-1919) known as Madame C.J. Walker, invented a treatment for straightening hair and began a million-dollar business promoting and selling her hair care products.

The Four Laws of Lead Generation

~Build a Database
~Feed it every day
~Communicate with it in a systematic way
~Service all the leads & referrals that come your way

Allied Resource Referral Generating Program

The 3 Principles of Referrals

~Educate
~Ask for Help
~Reward

Repeat these three simple steps over and over.

Treat the referral source better than the referral. Always show appreciation at every point – when you take the referral call, when you meet with the referral, when you do business with the referral and when the transaction is complete.

The Five Systems of Referrals

*Establish a Database of your Allied Resources (Make a List)
[Types: Public, Partners & Vendors, Realtor Peers].

*Make Systematic Personal Contact (Stay Close with 33 ‘Touches’ a year)
[Actions: Direct Mail, Dial, Drop By, Do Lunch, Throw a Party]

*Systematic Follow-up with Special Communications (Cultivate the Relationship) [Options: Handwritten Notes, Items of Value, Endorsement Letters]

*Provide Exceptional Customer Service (Develop their Loyalty)
[Plan: Caring attitude, Communicate, Consistency through Systems]

*Implement a Client Appreciation Program (Go the extra mile every month)
[Surprise & Delight: Do something special systematically]
 
 

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