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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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Marketing Tricks For Your Busines

Marketing Tricks. What are they? Marketing tricks are what some business owners use to gain customers fast. These tricks are often used when revenue is needed with the quickness, when the economy is in a recession, when the business is going out of business, when bills need to be paid, etc.

 

You may have even used a few Marketing Tricks in your business. Some my have worked and you got a temporary flood of customers knocking at your door waiting to purchase your product or service. Did any of those temporary customers become long-term customers? Did you build any customer relationships? Probably not.

 

I’ll tell you why. That’s because Marketing Tricks don’t work for gaining long-term customers. If your goal is to get quick revenue, then yes a trick might work. But if your goal is to gain valued customers who will purchase your product or service on a continued basis, then you had best leave the tricks for kids and uninformed business owners.

 

Consumers are far too savvy to fall for that kind of madness anyway. We all know what happens when you make a purchase via some Marketing Trick, it turns out not to be what you wanted after all, and you usually can’t return it. 

 

Studies have shown believe it or not, that the average consumer responds to traditional marketing strategies. There really is nothing new about marketing no matter what you have heard. It’s all been done before. All marketing consultants use the same old tried and true marketing strategies with their own spice added to the mix. Your job as a business owner when seeking a marketing consultant, is to find the spice you like the most.