Did anyone receive the Bulletin that I sent out through Youtube on Thursday talking about The African History Network Show on Thursday night? It would have shown up on your homepage of your Youtube Channel under the "Recent Activity" panel? I'm trying to see if the "Bulletin" feature on Youtube is working?
@mjrob1914, Ok I did some research and found out that the Bulletins are coming through. They show up on your Youtube HOMEPAGE and not your Channel Page. To see your HomePage you can click on The Youtube logo in the upper left hand corner of the page. You should see it in the "Recent Activity" section on your Homepage. Let me know if you see the one I sent yesterday. Thanks. I send out Bulletins weekly about our show. Please forward to your friends.
@yourmajezty, I know it's more than what I talked about. Keep in mind that this was a 4 minute clip of a 2.5 hour panel discussion. I only had a few minutes to respond to the question.
We as a people have to character issues to deal with first and foremost. We are a very negative, non-supportive, and non-progressive people overall. These are issues that we must address before thinking about coming together for economic progress
From my personal experience, some black businesses alienate their clientale. This is done in several different ways. I was a member of a black bank and the lack of customer service and professionalism caused me as well as others to switch to bank of america where they are more professional and their customer service is exceedingly good. This is also the case at other businesses in our community I frequent to support them. You can't be too familiar with your clientale its not professional
@FitnessMinded, We can make the excuse about customer service being poor at some of our businesses yet that doesn't stop us from going back to businesses that are owned by Koreans, Chinese, Arabs, Chaldeans, etc. who continuously give us poor customer service and not only don't they go out of business, we keep going back for more.
To come in their communities & flourish like we allow other races to do. why is this? because we do not have a cultural cohesiveness like the other minority communities have thanks to slavery our culture & language was destroyed,a language of your own is what chinese & other minorities possess! that was taken away from black people in this country along time ago....no we need to practice a form of economic segregation & stop being slaves to integration which is our mortal enemy.
Support also means paying the merchant the real value for the item you want. Example: if I am selling an African American customer an item for it's retail value, then that customer should pay me that value instead of asking for a reduction in price. If that same customer went to a Korean merchant, or Jewish one, and spent twice as much for the same merchandise then it would not bother them. In other words, stop taking advantage just because we are the same race.
@memyself2k, Other ethnic groups will give their own people discounts within the group just like our people ask us about. Korean owned beauty supply companies sell products to Korean owned retail beauty supply stores at a lower cost than they will sell the same products to African-American owned beauty supply stores. The problem is not that our people ask for a discount from us. The problem is they don't ask other businesses owned by other ethnic groups for the same discount.
I also think that we could have flourished as a ppl back when we had communities that understood the power of working with our ppl (Tulsa/Rosewood). Why do you think after those areas were destroyed we didn't follow that same blueprint?
80% of business fail in their first year across the USA. It is just that hard to make it as an entrepreneur out there. People do not realize how difficult it is for anybody to be successful as a business man in this world. Now, for our community, we have failed our children by emphasizing entertainment rather than entrepreneurship as a path to success. Parents, rather than give your kids a bball, give him capital and tell him to write your a business plan. You will change his life for ever!
@mjrob1914 According to a study by the U.S. Small Business Association, only 2/3 of all small business startups survive the first two years and less than half make it to four years. With numbers like that, it's no wonder so many would-be entrepreneurs think twice before taking the plunge.
Indeed, there is a lack of entrepreneurial education in our communities but at the meantime, entrepreneurship is not easy. A culture of business can help alleviate that!
This brother is telling the truth but failed to point out the #1 factor & that is a black business can not have support from the black community if the community is nonexistent! we haven't had a 100% all black community for 30yrs now since integration was made law it was the beginning of the end for the black community it is virtually impossible for any small black business to survive if you have a 100 other non black businesses that have invaded your community competing with you!
@azumanation, Our businesses can survive but it is our mentality that has to change. We have to reclaim our history and culture and utilize it to compete for scarce resources and wealth like other ethnic groups. The problem is not that they are in our community so much as the problem is we keep them in business and put our own businesses out of business. Nothing is really stopping us from supporting our own businesses except us.
@mjrob1914 That's very idea but it's not reality. we have plenty of black people in our community that are conscious but we are still having this problem! you see 40yrs ago this problem was none existent because segregation forced black people to live & do commerce with each other segregation was a blessing in a lot of ways, the other minorities practice segregation by buying up property in large quantities the chinese,koreans,italians etc etc. these people would not dare allow black businesses
@azumanation, being conscious and understanding business are 2 entirely different things. I've been studying Entrepreneurship since 1993 and teaching for 6 years. We had this same problem 40 years ago it just wasn't as acute because we owned more businesses per 1,000 African-Americans yet still controlled less than 2% of the wealth and made up about 11% - 12% of the population. Many of our communities benefited business wise from segregation but the cultural element was missing.
Good video..I agree with your rules of the game comment. I would go as far as to say black people and AAs in particular are apolitical, not caring about politics of convenience, public perception, spin and marketing.
He told the SAFE TRUTH! Everything he said was true BUT WHAT he left out was that we have to utilize our FIGHTERS. We cannot let COMPETITORS Villify OUR HEROS !
When ever someone comes to teach MASSES of black people THE RULES TO THE GAME That person is attacked and VILLIFIED by the groups that we CURRENTLY SPEND WITH. (which only makes sense) But Black people HAVE to be educated to the fact that THERE IS NO REVERSE RACISM & its ok to use the race card IF it gives you an advantage.
@supermike2164, I didn't tell the "Safe Truth". I only had a few minutes because it was a panel discussion and others had to comment as well. This was towards the end of the seminar.
Not trying to disrespect you but I just think the truth you said there most BLACK conscious business people knew that.
I would like to hear strategies the BLACK COMMUNITY can use to DEFEND against our COMPETION'S EFFORTS!! WE know that the communities that CURRENTLY recieve our money pay CLOSE attention and have various strategies to combat BLACK organizing efforts WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT they do and how to fight it.
Low price and quality service trumps everything, add to it intelligent marketing!
If you can seller at a lower price while maintaining quality, people will come to your join. If someone is black and he sells expensive stuffs I can get to the chinese at half price, where do you think I will go. The art of competitive pricing, nothing can trump that. Look at the chinese restaurants? $ 7 for a buffet!! That's a no brainer right there brothers!
@AFRIKTODAY, a cheap price doesn't mean instant success. If that were the case the Yugo car would have been the best selling car in America and it wasn't. It's not sold in America anymore. It's a combination.
@mjrob1914 I am glad that u responded 2 the phrase "safe truth." All that u said is correct & on point.
I am middle-aged. 4 the first time n my life I am studying "business." I am studying economics & how money REALLY works. NO ONE EVER TAUGHT ME! I was never exposed to this in my home, formal education, & higher education. Now I have a mentor, a very wealthy person. He teaches
the exact same thing that u did!
supermike...has a point as well. His word choice cud have been better.
@mjrob1914 ... thanks for all of your posts.. it's great to put a face the person who has such a wonderful educational channel... I thought you would have been some gray haired 60+ y/o with all this knowledge you provide us. I hope your business is successful and multiply. God Bless.
btw do you have any other info or videos on networking or starting your own business.
so true about culture and intergration. I think that is the single most detrimental thing that happened to our success over our history in this country.
@mjrob1914 I have a business in Atlant called A Accerated Community (AAC) I want to find ideas on how to organize investors I'm looking for answers to these questions:
How can I accept investment capitol at the same time allow investors to monitor their capital investment in our business?
What are some things I need to know when looking for a black attorney?
Where can I get some free or LOW COST training or answers?
@supermike2164, You can start getting training by taking an Entrepreneurship class at your local community college. I'm going to do a show soon on The African History Network Show dealing with Entrepreneurship for African-Americans.
Well like out here in West Des Moines Iowa, I haven't seen or run across any black businesses, and the only black business entrepreneur I know sells clocks out of a store and they are way out of my price range. I have been on the lookout though.
Did anyone receive the Bulletin that I sent out through Youtube on Thursday talking about The African History Network Show on Thursday night? It would have shown up on your homepage of your Youtube Channel under the "Recent Activity" panel? I'm trying to see if the "Bulletin" feature on Youtube is working?
mjrob1914 1 year ago
@mjrob1914, Ok I did some research and found out that the Bulletins are coming through. They show up on your Youtube HOMEPAGE and not your Channel Page. To see your HomePage you can click on The Youtube logo in the upper left hand corner of the page. You should see it in the "Recent Activity" section on your Homepage. Let me know if you see the one I sent yesterday. Thanks. I send out Bulletins weekly about our show. Please forward to your friends.
mjrob1914 1 year ago
its more than just this though. i personally think the reason is education.
yourmajezty 1 year ago
@yourmajezty, I know it's more than what I talked about. Keep in mind that this was a 4 minute clip of a 2.5 hour panel discussion. I only had a few minutes to respond to the question.
mjrob1914 1 year ago
We as a people have to character issues to deal with first and foremost. We are a very negative, non-supportive, and non-progressive people overall. These are issues that we must address before thinking about coming together for economic progress
FitnessMinded 1 year ago
From my personal experience, some black businesses alienate their clientale. This is done in several different ways. I was a member of a black bank and the lack of customer service and professionalism caused me as well as others to switch to bank of america where they are more professional and their customer service is exceedingly good. This is also the case at other businesses in our community I frequent to support them. You can't be too familiar with your clientale its not professional
FitnessMinded 1 year ago
@FitnessMinded, We can make the excuse about customer service being poor at some of our businesses yet that doesn't stop us from going back to businesses that are owned by Koreans, Chinese, Arabs, Chaldeans, etc. who continuously give us poor customer service and not only don't they go out of business, we keep going back for more.
mjrob1914 1 year ago
To come in their communities & flourish like we allow other races to do. why is this? because we do not have a cultural cohesiveness like the other minority communities have thanks to slavery our culture & language was destroyed,a language of your own is what chinese & other minorities possess! that was taken away from black people in this country along time ago....no we need to practice a form of economic segregation & stop being slaves to integration which is our mortal enemy.
azumanation 1 year ago
Excellent post... thank you!!!
Gingerd2008 1 year ago
Support also means paying the merchant the real value for the item you want. Example: if I am selling an African American customer an item for it's retail value, then that customer should pay me that value instead of asking for a reduction in price. If that same customer went to a Korean merchant, or Jewish one, and spent twice as much for the same merchandise then it would not bother them. In other words, stop taking advantage just because we are the same race.
memyself2k 1 year ago
@memyself2k, Other ethnic groups will give their own people discounts within the group just like our people ask us about. Korean owned beauty supply companies sell products to Korean owned retail beauty supply stores at a lower cost than they will sell the same products to African-American owned beauty supply stores. The problem is not that our people ask for a discount from us. The problem is they don't ask other businesses owned by other ethnic groups for the same discount.
mjrob1914 1 year ago
Good vid. I'm a young cat and I see how the the game goes and I've been saying this for awhile now.
Teriyaki32186 1 year ago
I also think that we could have flourished as a ppl back when we had communities that understood the power of working with our ppl (Tulsa/Rosewood). Why do you think after those areas were destroyed we didn't follow that same blueprint?
ReneeArnold 1 year ago
TEACH!
targus112 1 year ago
80% of business fail in their first year across the USA. It is just that hard to make it as an entrepreneur out there. People do not realize how difficult it is for anybody to be successful as a business man in this world. Now, for our community, we have failed our children by emphasizing entertainment rather than entrepreneurship as a path to success. Parents, rather than give your kids a bball, give him capital and tell him to write your a business plan. You will change his life for ever!
AFRIKTODAY 1 year ago
@AFRIKTODAY, Which source are you citing stating that 80% of all new businesses fail in the first year? It may have changed in the last 1 - 2 years.
mjrob1914 1 year ago
@mjrob1914 According to a study by the U.S. Small Business Association, only 2/3 of all small business startups survive the first two years and less than half make it to four years. With numbers like that, it's no wonder so many would-be entrepreneurs think twice before taking the plunge.
Indeed, there is a lack of entrepreneurial education in our communities but at the meantime, entrepreneurship is not easy. A culture of business can help alleviate that!
AFRIKTODAY 1 year ago
@1:40-Culture and Identity? Nationalizing by getting back your true birthright as Moors is a step to reclamation and truly repairing our people here.
neteraset9 1 year ago
@neteraset9, Ashe'.
mjrob1914 1 year ago
This brother is telling the truth but failed to point out the #1 factor & that is a black business can not have support from the black community if the community is nonexistent! we haven't had a 100% all black community for 30yrs now since integration was made law it was the beginning of the end for the black community it is virtually impossible for any small black business to survive if you have a 100 other non black businesses that have invaded your community competing with you!
azumanation 1 year ago
@azumanation, Our businesses can survive but it is our mentality that has to change. We have to reclaim our history and culture and utilize it to compete for scarce resources and wealth like other ethnic groups. The problem is not that they are in our community so much as the problem is we keep them in business and put our own businesses out of business. Nothing is really stopping us from supporting our own businesses except us.
mjrob1914 1 year ago
@mjrob1914 That's very idea but it's not reality. we have plenty of black people in our community that are conscious but we are still having this problem! you see 40yrs ago this problem was none existent because segregation forced black people to live & do commerce with each other segregation was a blessing in a lot of ways, the other minorities practice segregation by buying up property in large quantities the chinese,koreans,italians etc etc. these people would not dare allow black businesses
azumanation 1 year ago
@azumanation, being conscious and understanding business are 2 entirely different things. I've been studying Entrepreneurship since 1993 and teaching for 6 years. We had this same problem 40 years ago it just wasn't as acute because we owned more businesses per 1,000 African-Americans yet still controlled less than 2% of the wealth and made up about 11% - 12% of the population. Many of our communities benefited business wise from segregation but the cultural element was missing.
mjrob1914 1 year ago
@mjrob1914
What makes an ethnic group wealthy?
JusBeCuzz 4 months ago
Good video..I agree with your rules of the game comment. I would go as far as to say black people and AAs in particular are apolitical, not caring about politics of convenience, public perception, spin and marketing.
army2k08 1 year ago
good stuff
Jahbril30 1 year ago
hello Mr. Rob you should team up with hip hops 1st president. i think you guys would make a very big impact.
Google Hip Hops 1st President or email hip hops 1st president
blackLaidback 1 year ago
Wake us up black man!
xxKingShakazuluJRxx 1 year ago
...because our people need to get rid of the Willie Lynch chip.
Modacolorist 1 year ago
He told the SAFE TRUTH! Everything he said was true BUT WHAT he left out was that we have to utilize our FIGHTERS. We cannot let COMPETITORS Villify OUR HEROS !
When ever someone comes to teach MASSES of black people THE RULES TO THE GAME That person is attacked and VILLIFIED by the groups that we CURRENTLY SPEND WITH. (which only makes sense) But Black people HAVE to be educated to the fact that THERE IS NO REVERSE RACISM & its ok to use the race card IF it gives you an advantage.
supermike2164 1 year ago
@supermike2164, I didn't tell the "Safe Truth". I only had a few minutes because it was a panel discussion and others had to comment as well. This was towards the end of the seminar.
mjrob1914 1 year ago
@mjrob1914 are you all having one in ATLANTA?
Not trying to disrespect you but I just think the truth you said there most BLACK conscious business people knew that.
I would like to hear strategies the BLACK COMMUNITY can use to DEFEND against our COMPETION'S EFFORTS!! WE know that the communities that CURRENTLY recieve our money pay CLOSE attention and have various strategies to combat BLACK organizing efforts WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT they do and how to fight it.
supermike2164 1 year ago
@supermike2164
Low price and quality service trumps everything, add to it intelligent marketing!
If you can seller at a lower price while maintaining quality, people will come to your join. If someone is black and he sells expensive stuffs I can get to the chinese at half price, where do you think I will go. The art of competitive pricing, nothing can trump that. Look at the chinese restaurants? $ 7 for a buffet!! That's a no brainer right there brothers!
Price and quality beat prejudices!
AFRIKTODAY 1 year ago
@AFRIKTODAY, a cheap price doesn't mean instant success. If that were the case the Yugo car would have been the best selling car in America and it wasn't. It's not sold in America anymore. It's a combination.
mjrob1914 1 year ago
@mjrob1914 Low price is not cheap price. Quality can be lowly priced, competitively priced. Cheap is " crap", crinkets.
AFRIKTODAY 1 year ago
@mjrob1914 I am glad that u responded 2 the phrase "safe truth." All that u said is correct & on point.
I am middle-aged. 4 the first time n my life I am studying "business." I am studying economics & how money REALLY works. NO ONE EVER TAUGHT ME! I was never exposed to this in my home, formal education, & higher education. Now I have a mentor, a very wealthy person. He teaches
the exact same thing that u did!
supermike...has a point as well. His word choice cud have been better.
hausofjo315 1 year ago
@mjrob1914 ... thanks for all of your posts.. it's great to put a face the person who has such a wonderful educational channel... I thought you would have been some gray haired 60+ y/o with all this knowledge you provide us. I hope your business is successful and multiply. God Bless.
btw do you have any other info or videos on networking or starting your own business.
ReneeArnold 1 year ago
Excellent Video Brother!
BIGBKELtheGOD 1 year ago
so true about culture and intergration. I think that is the single most detrimental thing that happened to our success over our history in this country.
mr41ststreet 1 year ago
great video. I'm looking to start my own business here shortly.
mr41ststreet 1 year ago
@mr41ststreet, What type of business do you want to start?
mjrob1914 1 year ago
@mjrob1914 I have a business in Atlant called A Accerated Community (AAC) I want to find ideas on how to organize investors I'm looking for answers to these questions:
How can I accept investment capitol at the same time allow investors to monitor their capital investment in our business?
What are some things I need to know when looking for a black attorney?
Where can I get some free or LOW COST training or answers?
supermike2164 1 year ago
@supermike2164, You can start getting training by taking an Entrepreneurship class at your local community college. I'm going to do a show soon on The African History Network Show dealing with Entrepreneurship for African-Americans.
mjrob1914 1 year ago
@mjrob1914 restaurant
mr41ststreet 1 year ago
Well like out here in West Des Moines Iowa, I haven't seen or run across any black businesses, and the only black business entrepreneur I know sells clocks out of a store and they are way out of my price range. I have been on the lookout though.
kahea2018 1 year ago