A Biographical Sketch ...
Thank you for taking the time to visit my site. I am glad that you're here. Hopefully, as a result you will learn a little more about me and what I do. I have been in...
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A Biographical Sketch ...
Thank you for taking the time to visit my site. I am glad that you're here. Hopefully, as a result you will learn a little more about me and what I do. I have been in business for myself for over 30 years.
In 1979, I started the Capitol Planning Corporation. We were pioneers in what has now become the "Financial Services Industry". Back then we specialized in mutual funds, insurance, real estate, mortgages, oil and gas tax shelters, diamonds, rare coins and private placements.
In 1983, I published the first "how-to" money magazine in the country targeted to a Black audience. The publication, Financial Independence Money Management Magazine. Our aim was to break, usually complicated financial jargon, down into manageable concepts for every day working people to understand. We were a "Black" Money magazine. This was before other Black magazines focused any attention on personal finance or investing.
We also wanted to disprove the views of corporate America and the advertising agency community at the time, that Black folk 1. Didn't read. and 2. Were not interested in their finances. Today, of course, this sounds strange, but it was true then. Now we are a major market for corporate offerings in the financial services category.
At our height, the publication was distributed nationally on major downtown office newsstands in 44 states and in 5 foreign countries. A 100,000 total circulation and distributed by the Hearst Corporation.
In 1990, I started the D.E.A.L. Organization, (Determination, Effort, Attitude and Love), one of the first Black network marketing companies. (If I remember, only (Gregory's Bahamian Diet started ahead of us). Our product line consisted of items from Black manufacturers, including: hair care, skin care, specialty foods, toys, games, clothing, household cleaning, auto care, health products, etc.
Our catalog contained over 200 items from 30 or more Black manufacturers. We were way ahead of our time and this was long before the advent of affiliate marketing on the Internet. At our height, we had over 35,000 distributors who worked both full-time and part-time from home.
As Chairman of the National Black Business Trade Association (NBBTA) and one of the coordinators for Black Expo USA events for ten years, I have traveled quite a bit and have had the opportunity to speak in front of thousands of Black entrepreneurs around the country. I have been interviewed by the Washington Post, New York Daily News, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times.
My companies have also been mentioned in both Black Enterprise and Essence magazines. I have been on several local, national tv and international radio talk shows including BBC, Voice of America, and Cathy Hughes (Radio One) and on tv on Tony Brown's Journal and BET. I have also maintained an Internet website and presence for over 13 years.
Internationally, I help establish the first International Black Business Summit 2000 in Nova Scotia, Canada with participants coming from Africa, Europe, the US and Canada. For years, I have conducted entrepreneurial workshops to groups near and far, sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
As a result of these efforts, I have learned quite a bit about marketing, startup companies, the internet, publishing, financing, sponsorships, public speaking, making money, making mistakes, having faith, networking, and people. I have had the opportunity and good fortune to network with some of America's and the world's leading business owners, entrepreneurs and scientific minds, like Phillip Emeagwali, a father of the Internet.
I am currently working to build an organization of small office/home-office (SOHO), small office/digital office (SODO) and home-based entrepreneurs who will take full advantage of building their business opportunities using the latest technology and techniques available on the Internet. The Internet has changed the business world forever. NBBTA is seeking to make Black businesses "Internet-Ready". I am a Black business advocate.
If any of this is of interest to you let me know. I am willing to share what I know to help you to reach your goals. I invite you to join our team.<Become an NBBTA member today
Network with me at http://www.blackbusinesss pace.com
"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon will inevitably come to pass".
