Vote For The Elevation of Black Women in New Media

I was on twitter today and happened to see this tweet: @ClutchMagazine founder @dedej has a panel pitch for @SXSW called "The Elevation of Blk Women in New Media-Vote Now! http://bit.ly/abeE5L

I was introduced to SXSW this year. It is this MAJOR Music, film, and interactive conference and festival that all the techies go to for networking, scoping out the new new, etc. Well this year they had the 1st Black Blogging Rockstars Panel (watch video) with some of the top black bloggers and tech heads. Deanna, founder of ClutchMagazine and also listed on the BBWO50 Top Women Entrepreneurs on the Network, was a speaker on the Black Bloggers panel and for SXSW 2011 she is pitching a new panel discussion: The Elevation of Black Women in New Media, to focus on issues related to black women entrepreneurs and black women bloggers online.

I immediately clicked to read all about her idea and of course vote for this panel. I then sent Deanna a quick tweet showing my support and to my surprise she told me that she'd like to have me on the panel! Seeing it happen would be awesome, possible being a speaker, would be even better! But we'll see how things go if I officially get on the panel, for now I would just like you to find out more about her idea and vote for this discussion. Do that here: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/5379.

The black blogging community has been talking about our issues not just as bloggers, but as entrepreneurs pushing to work amongst ourselves and gain credibility among mainstream advertisers and I think its high time we take this conversation to another level. On Black Web2.0 there as the post about African American mom bloggers finally getting their just due, myself and some wonderful mommy bloggers took part in the Magical Mocha Moms Mixer sponsored by Disney for Mommy Bloggers of Color, there was an article on BlogHer about African American Women Online seeking online networks and recently the Grio sparked discussion on the state of black women in the blogosphere.

Clearly folks are talking, its time for more of us to join the conversation. I hope you'll take a few minutes to vote for Deana's idea and if it all works out, perhaps more of us will be attending SXSW2011 and showcasing our contributions as the Black Social Media Community of today.


Go Vote and Read those other articles too! -LaShanda H.

Working on DailyClick: Spotlighting Black Websites by Black Business Owners

url: http://www.cocoababies.com

I've been quite busy this week, working on Banner Designs for new customers, launching my new blog iWatchBlackMovies.com and updating Black Business Women Online. BBWO is almost 10,000 members, so you know me .... I always have to make the network better. While alot of our members choose to pay for advertising on the network, I know that some folks are on a tight budget plus there are quite a few sites that I just like and want to share SO I came up with the BBWO DAILYCLICK. Every day, my hubby and I will showcase two websites by Black Business Women.

CococaBabies.com is one of my favorite sista sites and I just bought one of their Tees, 'Strong Black Man in the Making' for my son SO it's one of the first websites to be featured.

The DailyClick will be featured exclusively on Black Business Women Online, but today I decided to also share it on this blog as well. Today's DailyClick is brought to you by the Black Girl Click Ad Network and the Search Urban Directory. Would you like to be featured in the Daily Click? Click Here to submit your website for review.

Social Media Marketing Essential for Entrepreneurs: You have to have an offer!

This is a video blog post. If you can not view the video click here. This video is apart of my Technology, Tools, and Talk video series; 90 videos on my blog in which I share some of my best small business, internet marketing, and social media marketing tips with you. To watch all the videos, just subscribe to sistasense.com. If you want to watch the previous videos click here.

Can I Borrow $5? ... Black Business Today

I'm curious to read your response to this post Can I Borrow $5? I also want to hear what you have to say about:

• Tell Me What I am Doing Wrong?
• Generating More Traffic and Expanding Business
  
• What is your business and what are you doing today?
• Making Google Adsense Revenue
• Fun and Clever Social Media Marketing Strategies for Black Business Owners 
• The Best Kept Secret is Using Your Vehicle to Advertise
  
• Are you Starting Up or Starting Over?
  
• Do you know of any black people or businesses who make their own products?
  
• What do you think of MyBBWO.com?
• Seeking Hair Stylists, Manicurists, Spa Owners and Makeup Artists
• 10,000 Black Business Women on Twitter ... are you in?
• Successful Sista Profiles
• She’s Cute for a Dark Skinned Girl
  
• Networking

Featured Videos on MyBBWO.com

• Black Hair Care Tips from Michelle Obama's hair stylist Johnny Wright
• The Anderson Experiment - Supporting Black Businesses
  
• African American Consumers Ignored by Ipad?
• Women History Month - Tribute to Black Women
  
• Michelle Obama - First Lady Urges States to Address Child Obesity
  
• Diddy on CNBC's The Big Idea
• Black Enterprise 5th Annual Women of Power Summit
  
• The New Leader of the NAACP
  
• Trip Contest from BabeDaddies.com
• You Saved Me: Powerful New Movie About Black Marriages Today
  

Last question, did you miss out this weekend?
Many of you received that great discount this past weekend to grab all my 15+ ebooks and videos and coaching for 29$ and I received a few emails from those that missed out. Sorry, that promo went fast and has now expired. But there are still a few more discounts available for this package at 47$, discount code BBSK47. These remaining coupons will probably be gone by today.


More to Come! LaShanda Henry | @sistasense

Searching for Black Business Owners: Free Marketing on Social Network ... Almost 10,000 members

As of March 2010, Black Business Women Online, the social network for women entrepreneurs of color has 7,649 business-minded members. It is my mission to continue to make this space better, so I am currently searching for black business owners interested in promoting their businesses online.

Beyond being a free network, one of the perks of being a BBWO member is that you have your own business blog where you can post your website information, sales, business updates, marketing tips, recommended resources and small business news relevant to the Black Business Women Online Community.

For the past few weeks, there has been an increased effort to daily search BBWO Blogs and highlight the best posts relevant to the Black Business Community Online. Regularly blogging on BBWO is a great way to share your business with our growing pool of members and potential customers. In addition to exposure within the BBWO Community these posts and/or small business articles get additional free promotion on the following spaces:

1. Featured posts are tweeted on @blackbizwomen and @sistasense
   Combined over 2,450 followers and growing
2. Featured posts are added to the BBWO Facebook Fanpage
   2,9001 fans and growing
3. The BEST Featured posts are added to the BBWO Black News page
   These posts are displayed at the top of the most popular pages on BBWO
   

Since its creation in 2007, BBWO has helped thousands of black business owners increase their visibility, build their buzz online, form partnerships, find resources and support other black business owners. I am hoping with this new push to promote businesses via the BBWO blog we are moving one step closer in the right direction.

LaShanda Henry | BBWO Founder
I am a black entrepreneur and I support Black Businesses Online.
http://sistapreneurs.ning.com

25 Influential Black Women In Business

THE NETWORK JOURNAL ANNOUNCES ITS 12th ANNUAL "25 INFLUENTIAL BLACK WOMEN IN BUSINESS"
 

-- Brenda Blackmon, Co-anchor My9 WWOR-TV, is Mistress of Ceremonies at the March 11 Celebratory Awards Luncheon in New York City. --


New York, NY (BlackNews.com) -- The Network Journal, an award-winning business magazine providing news and commentaries on issues that affect the growth of businesses and the advancement of professionals in the workplace for an audience of predominantly African-American professionals, corporate executives and small-business owners, announces its 2010 list of "25 Influential Black Women in Business."


The select group will be profiled in the special March issue of the magazine and will be formally honored during Women's History Month at the "Twelfth Annual 25 Influential Black Women in Business Awards" luncheon on Thursday, March 11, 2010. The event will be held at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel, located at 1535 Broadway (between 45th & 46th streets) in New York City, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.


"The women we are honoring in the twelfth year of these awards are, as usual, in the forefront of American leadership and symbolize the diversity and advancement that have occurred across industry lines," TNJ Publisher and CEO Aziz Gueye Adetimirin said. "We salute them for achieving significant levels of success in their businesses and professional careers and for their myriad contributions to their community."


This year's extraordinary honorees are:

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  Kenetta Bailey, Senior Vice President, Marketing, WE TV and Wedding Central
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  Vanessa Best, President and CEO, Precision HealthCare Consultants
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  Jackie Carter, Vice President & Publisher, Non-Fiction Books Scholastic Inc.
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  Candi Castleberry-Singleton, Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UMPC)
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  Susan E. Chapman, Global Head of Operations, Citi Realty Service, Citi Inc.
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  Denise Coley, Director, Global Supplier Diversity Business Development, Cisco Systems, Inc.
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  Michelle Drayton, President & Publisher, Today's Child Communications
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  Nichelle Gainey, Founder & President, SilverStone International, LLC
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  Angela E. Guy, Senior Vice President, General Manager, SoftSheen-Carson
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  Gale Stevens Haynes, Esq., Provost, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
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  Vy Higginsen, Founder & CEO, Mama Foundation for the Arts
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  Hilda Hutcherson, M.D., Associate Dean, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology Columbia Uni. College of Physicians & Surgeons
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  Arlene Isaacs-Lowe, Senior Vice President, Moody's Investors Service
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  Gail L. Moaney, Executive Vice President, Director Ruder Finn
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  Elizabeth D. Moore, General Counsel, Consolidated Edison Company of NY, Inc.
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  Lesia Bates Moss, President, Seedco Financial Services
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  Meme Omogbai, Chief Operating Officer & Deputy Director, Newark Museum
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  Diane Bemus Patrick, Esq., Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP
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  Theresa H. Peterson, Manager External Affairs & Technology Programs; Director of Government Relations, GE Global Research
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  Alana Ward Robinson, Owner & Managing Principal, Robinson Group Consulting, Inc.
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  Tina A. Robinson, Senior Vice President, Regional Manager, Union Bank, N.A.
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  Delena Sunday, Executive Vice President, Human Resources & Diversity Affairs, Nordstrom
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  Mavis T. Thompson, Esq., President, National Bar Association
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  Teresa Taylor Williams, Ph.D., CEO & Founder, TTW Associates, Inc. / New York Trend Newspaper
• 
  Donna Sims Wilson, President, M.R. Beal and Company

The program includes a cocktail networking reception, lunch and awards presentation with Mistress of Ceremonies Brenda Blackmon, Fox/My9 News. As a signature TNJ event which attracts a "Who's Who" of business executives and decision makers from various industries, the luncheon sells out each year.


Tickets are $250.00 if purchased before March 5th and $300.00 thereafter. Save even more with our on-line special - $225.00. Sponsors this year are: AXA, Entergy, L'Oreal USA, Upscale Magazine, WNYC, and WBLS-FM.



About The Network Journal

Founded in 1993, The Network Journal is an award-winning magazine published each month, except for combined issues in July/August and December/January. It provides news and commentaries on issues that affect the growth of business and the advancement of professionals in the workplace for an audience of predominantly African-American professionals, corporate executives and small-business owners. Engaging more than 86,000 readers, The Network Journal is distributed nationwide, with a focus on the northeast region. For more information, call 212-962-3791, or visit the TNJ Web site at www.tnj.com.

Would you like $3,000 a month?

@sistasense: Your 1st $1000 Online, MLM Money, Coaching Sells - 3 eBooks on How to Make Money Online for $10. Promo Code: MAKEIT10 http://short.to/17olz

If your online business was making you $3,000 a month in sales would that change your world? I know we all would love a fat $50,000 check at the end of the month, but seriously (no hype or crazy get rich nonsense) wouldn’t it be great to make a real and steady income online?

If you want to start making those dollars you have to first make sense of your money goals and stick to internet marketing strategies that actually work. I meet so many people who want to make money, but don't do one very simple thing: set a monthly money marker. How much money do you want to make next month? Then create a marketing plan: How do you plan on marketing your business to reach your profit goals?

I like to go around telling folks I’m a work at home mom so they know (and you know) it is possible to work at home, on your computer, for yourself. When I made my first $500 online (selling my stuff) I was untouchable because at that point I knew I could make more. Then I set my goal to make double what I made working a 9 to 5 job and I reached that goal (thank God!). My next goal was to reach the $3,000 mark and believe it or not, when I got to that point I didn’t even realize it (lol).

Now I’m working towards $10,000 a month just in online sales. I can’t wait to reach my goal, are you ready to set yours? I’m sure you are, but I understand if you are confused about how all this stuff works. There are way too many people trying to pass off their hyped up crap (excuse my potty mouth) as valuable information about how to make money online.

Here are 3 eBooks that I’ve written explaining how to get started, what sells well online, and how you get people to notice your business. If you want them, you can have them. Here is a discount code to get these 3 eBooks for $10 | code: MAKEIT10 | this code will work for the first 50 people who use it | http://short.to/17olz

How to Make Money eBooks Series
1. The Easiest Way to Make Your First $1000
2. How to Really Make Money Coaching Online
3. How to Really Make Money Selling MLM and Network Marketing Products Online (this one is especially great if you are into selling products like Avon, Mary Kay, Ardyss, etc.)

Click here to download these eBooks | Discount Code: MAKEIT10

Good luck with your business. Let me know what you are doing right now to reach your goals (post a comment). To your first $3000 and beyond! | LaShanda Henry | @sistasense

Related sistasense.com posts and resources:
Learn How to Set Money Markers (video)
How to Sell Online + How to Sell Your Services Online (video)
Target Marketing Secrets Revealed (video)

Can Love Buy Money + New Video every Black Woman should watch

Love is in the air, so I thought I'd share a little small business love...

Did you know...
As of today there are 7,537 people on Black Business Women Online? Every day, women entrepreneurs of color are joining this network, my network making new business connections and building our own community of Black Business owners sharing, supporting, and working among one another. This is our space and I love it! URL: http://sistapreneurs.ning.com

Quick Reminder:
This week I posted the ‘How to Sell Online’ starter kit for beginners. It includes my 7 Day eCourse, ‘How to Find Customers Online’ + 5 Internet Marketing eBooks for Beginners. I put about $79 worth of my Newbie Marketing Guides together for this kit, which I’m actually offering for $19, BUT I’m practically giving this eBundle away today … I created a special promo code: ‘VALENTINE09’. The first 50 people who use it will get everything for $15. I’d tell you to keep this one a secret, but share the love if you want to (smile). URL: http://www.sistasense.com/how-to-sell/

Quick Question:
Money can’t buy love, but can love buy money? If nothing else, go
read this post. Beyond shedding light on what it takes to market your business online, I talk specifically about marketing Black Businesses online and the backlash I receive because I choose to work mainly with Black Business Women. URL: http://is.gd/8jGYD

Great Video:
Media mogul Lauren DeLisa Coleman posted a great video on BBWO that every black women who uses a mobile device SHOULD watch. URL: http://sistapreneurs.ning.com/video/undercover-investigative


Must-Read List:
Small business expert A.Michelle Blakeley recently added 9 Powerful Social Networking Websites for Women Entrepreneurs to Get Your Business Straight, an eBook featuring Black Business advice from Black Business Women. Click here to download the updated sneak peak and/or submit your own article for inclusion. This ebook is freely distributed to all BBWO members.

More to  come!
LaShanda Henry | BBWO Founder | @sistasense

p.s. If you are an expert in your field, share the small business love! Add your best article to our soon-to-be released eBook: Get Your Business Straight. Submission Deadline Extended to March, 2010.