(ThyBlackMan.com) The biggest flaw of a hardly wealthy person is that they take their earnings at face value. If someone has a salary of $60,000, that doesn’t equate to a person having $60,000 of income. Yet, a hardly wealthy person would think just that. If this was your salary, what ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It all looked so good in the beginning. There has been a change, but not what we expected. Unemployment is higher than ever for African-Americans. While there are many reasons, there is one direct correlation. The amount of contracting by Black-owned firms at the federal government level has drastically been ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Terrell Owens has quite the financial burden on his shoulders at the moment. At the height of his career, he was earning millions of dollars and thriving in the NFL. To complement all of his success, he spent money like it was going out of style. Fast forward fifteen ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Customer relationship management is essential to maintaining and growing a great business. You and your customer form a relationship, which is based upon a set of expectations and an exchange of brand loyalty, and payment (customer), in exchange for a satisfying product, customer service and consistency (business). Netflix violated ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Talking Dollars and Making Sense is exactly what Brooke Stephens does in her book of the same name in which she shows us how to make more, save more, invest more and build wealth for ourselves, our children and our children’s children. One-by-one she lists, and then shatters, the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Travel through any metropolitan city like DC or Atlanta, and you are likely to see an assortment of luxury vehicles from Mercedes and BMWs to Bentleys and Maseratis most driven by African Americans. Even in some of the most distressed urban neighborhoods it is not uncommon to see high ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many Blacks saw the news concerning The American Jobs Act, not passing the United States Senate, as a major setback. It does not have to be. Without the distraction of The American Jobs Act, we can turn our attention to our real problem. Our problem, as a race of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I believe in the power of capitalism to harness the human instinct of greed. I believe that profit is a great motive for business transactions and facilitates economic activity and efficiencies. I also believe in fairness. The Herndon Theory of Perfectly Symmetric Individual Income states that the flow of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m both ghetto and bourgeois. Before I go any further, allow me to first explain to my bourgeois friends what “ballin-outta-control” means. Ballin-outta-control is urban vernacular slang. It means to do well, succeed, or ascend to the top of your profession. While at church this past Sunday, the pastor ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Being an entrepreneur can be extremely rewarding for both financial and personal reasons. Imagine the day when you can tell that crazy boss to kick rocks! Or how about having that extra income from a part time business so you can pay for you kids school clothes, and maybe ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are in the midst of an economic crisis that trickle-down economics can’t fix. We had what is known as a both a recession and a financial crisis, which take much longer to overcome when combined than individually. This has caused dramatic unemployment, underemployment, loss of homes, and financial ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Who gets ahead more in the workplace? Is it the in-your-face self-promoter, or the modest hard worker who sometimes lets her accomplishments go under the radar? More importantly, what’s your style? And how can you adjust it to get noticed and land that next promotion? Coach yourself with these ...