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Small Business Start up Guide
If you have published your first book, developed you first ezine, produced your first CD--you are now a business owner! Starting your own business can be a very confusing process. Follow this simple small business start up guide to stay on track. You have the perfect business idea; you have a market, a location, and a budget. It's time to start that business! Or is it? There are many details involved in setting up a small business. Before you sell that first product, or sign on that first client, read this guide and make sure you have covered all the details. Join our group to read this guide and to always be in the "Know".
How to Write a Business Plan
Have an idea but don't know where to start? Learn how to write an inspiring business plan. When writing a business plan, it's important to note that the better you articulate your idea, the more likely you are to receive funding for your company. Many small businesses never make it off the ground because their purpose and vision are not clearly stated. Therefore, use the following tips to make sure that you plan is careful, concise and inspiring. Read More >>>
Small Business Tips: Effective Marketing Plans
Information to help businesses to be more successful. How to put your market materials and other printed materials to work for you. When writing effective business correspondence, one must pay great attention to even the minutest of details. However, one must also capture the readers’ attention and that can usually be best accomplished by projecting a specific writing style. Your chosen writing style could fit one of the following descriptive groups: elegance, class, opulence; humor, sincerity, friendliness; humorous, down-to-earth, friendly; blunt, stark, aggressive; to-the-point, professional, no frills; non-traditional, funky, offbeat; pleading, submissive, “hope-you-pick-me” or you could invent one entirely unique. Read More >>>
Start Your Own Book Club
Learn how to start a book club of your very own. Before Oprah began her book club brigade, most Americans had never considered spending time sitting around discussing novels. Here's how to start a worthwhile book club of your very own. Read More >>>
How To Write Book Reviews
How to write a book review - A simple guide. Reviewing a book may not be an easy task for all of us, especially for those of us who do not read often. Sometimes, however, the task is inevitable, whether as a school or work assignment, and it is hard to think of what to say. There are a few things a book review should cover, which are sometimes missed as people fall into the trap of writing a summary instead, and if you keep these things in mind, an effective, coherent book review is no daunting task.
Guidelines for Appreciating and Understanding Poetry
For each poem you read, answer the following eleven sets of questions. Before analyzing a poem, read it straight through silently from beginning to end without stopping. Then read it again out loud, sounding each word clearly. For each poem you read, answer the following eleven sets of questions in your journals. Read More >>>
A Poet Is Made, Not Born by Tina Blue
Some poets carve, chisel, and polish their poems over long periods of time, whereas others produce their poems in an intense, fevered moment of inspiration. In fact, sometimes the same poet will use both methods. The poem produced in such an intense flurry of composition is not necessarily less well put together or polished than the one carefully constructed and revised over time. It all depends on the poet and the poem. Read More>>>
Poems By SLS Poet Laureates
What is a Poet Laureate? A poet who is unofficially regarded as holding an honorary position in a particular group or region. SLS seeks artists that produce poetry that is meant to enrich, enlighten, inspire and empower. SLS offers a forum to showcase the work of self-published authors, writers and spoken word artists from some of the world's newest and freshest voices. We seek original poems, short stories and essays in the following genres: inspirational, lyrics, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction titles.
Current Affairs & Entertainment Reviews
Isaiah Washington's Grey Area by Julius Kane
Some things just aren't black and white, they're grey. Although the former Grey's Anatomy star thinks his firing was a black thing; I don't. However, just like everybody else I wish Mr. Washington would quite crying about loosing his six-figure per episode salary. I hope he diversified his portfolio before getting the ax. He doesn't need or deserve our pity. I'll reserve my pity for the brother on the construction site with the wife and three kids who loses his job. So please tell Mr. Washington to quite whinning! Read the article>>>
The World Is A Ghetto:
Is Hot Ghetto Mess, Really Messin' It Up For Black Folks?
Meet Bob Roberts. He lives in a gated community with manicured lawns, talks "good" English and was the first "black" admitted to the Glen Haven Country Club. He thinks that he is a living example of the American Dream until a case of mistaken identity lands him in the same cell with Tyrone "T-Boogie" Johnson...
For those who aren't down with Black Entertainment Television, the network's latest attempt to provide wholesome family entertainment is a reality show called Hot Ghetto Mess, which (so far) is scheduled to debut on July 25th. The show is a spinoff of the website of the same name started by Jam Donaldson a few years back which bought attention to the "ghettorization" of Black culture by exposing the perpetrators to public ridicule. Read More political related articles by Min. Paul Scott >>>
A Black Woman's Worth
by Darrell A. Cador
In the midst of all that was, is, and is to be, the one consistency in the life of a Black Man is the presence of his cherished Black Woman. Whether he’s aware of this or not is a matter of perspective. Yet, her profound role in the evolution of this uncrowned king is truly unmatched.
‘Do Black Men Still Want Us?’ was the question that blazed the cover of a popular magazine. To all of my beautiful, intelligent, multi-talented, multi-dimensional, heart-warming, free-spirited, sumptuous, sensual, mind-blowing Black sisters who desire an answer to such an inquiry, you need look no further than the question itself. Black Men Still Do. And not only do we still want the most prized and treasured possession on earth...but we need you!
We yearn for you the way a flower yearns for the sun: For without you, existence is difficult if not impossible. We long for you the way fish long for the ocean: For life begins to end the moment we are separated from you. And we desire you the way a Black Man desires his Black Woman: For only Chocolate Stars can make little chocolate bars.
Too often a particular value is place on you, which, honestly, makes me laugh. The Hope Diamond, in all its marveled brilliancy, appears as nothing more than a dollar store paperweight compared to you. How foolish is it to put a price on something so priceless.
And by all means, my dark-skinned, light-skinned, fair-skinned sisters, if nothing else, always be mindful of the resilient gene pool from whence you came. A mere one out of five slaves survived the physical, mental, and spiritual horrors of the Middle Passage. And you, in all your strength, beauty and allure, are direct descendants of those determined few. A Black woman’s worth is worth more than the world will ever know. And as long as you know, trust, and believe this…then so shall we.
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Darrell A. Cador is an author and lover of quality fiction who actually stumbled into writing in 1999 when he came across several working computers headed for the scrap heap after they were determined by office managers to be non Y2K compliant. Inspired by the works of those who've come before him, Darrell strives to be a writer who'll one day inspire the next generation of writers destined to make their own mark in the literary world.
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