Are You Being A Role Model In Business?

BBIB in Role Model

As African-American entrepreneurs, I feel we are role models in our community. With the everso glamourous lifestyle of celebrities and entertainers, our influential youth are sucking up every bit of what traditional media and social media is telling … [Read more...]

Do Clients Consider Your Services A Real Bill?

pastdue

One of my colleagues and I recently had a conversation about slow paying clients and the attempts on collecting from those who have no motivation to pay you after a service is completed. It happened after a client of mine whom after "window … [Read more...]

Don’t Do My Job For Me

Job Security - BBIB

When you're an entrepreneur, you are bound to run into a client sooner or later that will attempt to "do your job for you". By this I mean strictly someone who will offer to do a portion of the work at a reduction of your costs of course. And I guess … [Read more...]

Sacrificing For Self-Worth

Making Sacrifices

Some of you may have read the entry a few weeks back about me redoing my studio. What I left out of that story was my "quest for the perfect desk". I had been searching around for a desk that would hold my audio and video equipment in the … [Read more...]

The Problem With Showing Mercy

Problem With Showing Mercy

As a small business owner, I tend to do a lot of business with other small business owners. From time to time I'll inadvertently find myself letting other business owners know of certain situations I've dealt with, that may or may not be beneficial … [Read more...]