Dr. Randal Pinkett has established himself as an entrepreneur, speaker,
author and scholar, and as a leading voice for his generation in
business and technology. He is the author of several books. Here, he
talks about his latest book, Black Faces in White Places: 10
Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness.
They say any press is good press. Well, when it comes to public
relations for your company, you should be in control of your media
image. One way to do so is to hire a media relations firm to handle all
your press needs. If you decide to create a press department for your company, you have a
choice of hiring an in-house person or an independent firm to handle
your PR needs. There are advantages to both.
The business you have built is at a stalemate. You have been pondering the possibility of selling. But when is a good time to sell off a
company? According to business consultant Dr. Anita Davis-DeFoe, when it comes to
putting a company on the market, it should be all about business,
nothing personal.
The 85-degree weather wasn’t the only thing heating up the July 4th
holiday weekend that marked the 2011 International African Arts Festival
(IAAF) at Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn. Vendors of the African
Diaspora - from the U.S. and abroad - were in town selling their unique
brand of home décor, artwork, linens, batik clothing, beaded
Masai-inspired jewelry, and handcrafts and furniture made of ebony,
mahogany, and other materials indigenous to the African continent.
