Hear My Interview with George Kilpatrick Sunday June 3rd

We are growing and I’ve done my first BGN interview with George Kilpatrick. George is the host of “New Inspiration for the Nation” a one-hour radio program that speaks to the children of the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Creator and host George Kilpatrick celebrates stories of success and achievement by sharing how people are living their dreams and what they’ve overcome to achieve them.

George and I talked about the importance of creating a wealth ethic instead of a work ethic and how to create a wealth infrastructure (I’ll be talking more about that soon)
The interview will be on WPHR FM, POWER 106.9FM in Syracuse NY so you can listen on the web at www.Power1069.com. Listen to the show Sunday mornings at 9:00AMEST.

I hope you can listen and I’m looking forward to your feedback

Be well

Also, in a few days we will be posting a portion of some interviews I’ve done with other African American entrepreneurs. The interviews are in preparation for the release of the BGN Newsletter. Each month I will interview a successful African American Entrepreneur, you will get a copy of the recording on CD as well as a printed newsletter with valuable information about starting a business, finding customers, reducing startup costs, creating wealth, creating a wealth ethic and more. So look out for the interviews and the soon to be released BLACK GENIUS NETWORK NEWSLETTER

Who is Dwight Miller and Why does He Give A Damn (pt Forgot Part #)

Ok, so Geeks on Call failed for me and I sold it and in the interim I had been reading a bok by Robert Kiyosaki called “Cash Flow Quadrant” and this book changed my thinking completely. Actually, this book was the reason I bought the franchise (thats what I have to call it to keep from crying :)) because my goal was to work on my business but not in it. Geeks on Call was a self employed business and thats not what I wanted. So I started to learn real estate investing.

I also agreed to help a friend sell his business. I found that I am good at designing and managing systems  and frankly finding the money in a business, so my friend owned a computer networking company that was losing money and he wanted to sell it. Frankly the business was losing about $100,000 per year when I started. I immediately needed to stop the bleeding and did that in four months. I then went able building value and the business sold in September 06 for $400,000 and I made a decent profit.

Now, I spend some time as a real estate investor and some time helping others create financial freedom thru real estate and buying and building business.

My passion for business has been with me all of my life. I ‘ve not had a job in more than twenty years and I’ve earned millions of dollars. In my concert business, I also traveled to Europe, the Caribbean and Africa.

During my travels, I learned that security is only created by my own efforts. I’ve learned that I create my future and that I create that future by deciding what I want and moving step by step towards it. There is an old African proverb “For you to eat, you MUST move your feet”. I believe this is true, I believe that you attract what you move towards and you move towards it by moving your feet.

In other words, you create  a plan for what you want, you create a set of things to do to get what you want and you move towards what you want day by day.

The last few posts have been about me and who I am, but the mission of the Black Genius Network is to help African Americans create businesses that create financial independence. I believe these businesses at minimum need to provide income to the entrepreneur that started the business. I believe that ANYONE can create a business that provides positive cash-flow of a minimum of $5,000 per month or more and that is our focus.

Our focus is to help create businesses that provide cash-flow of $5,000 per month minimum and have an unlimited profit potential.

The newsletter will focus on every aspect of business building including, finding a niche, finding clients, finding startup capital, creating marketing materials, and creating accounting systems. This all sounds like alot but we will make each step simple.

Next post, I will describe more benefits of joining us on the journey of creating financial freedom.

Be well

Dwight

Who is Dwight Miller and Why Does He Give a Damn

Last post, I admitted that I had a business failure and someone emailed me asking why I would reveal a failure. There aren’t always success, sometimes that is failure because in order for there to be success, there must be failure. Just like in order for there to be good, there has to be bad. So there are failures in business.

But while the failure hurts mentally and financially, I had to experience it, live thru it and grow from it. I had to survive the failure in order to grow. So failure is in fact necessary and the key to failure is keep moving toward what you want.

My goal, when I bought the franchise was to create a “B” based business. I had just finished reading a book called “Cashflow Quadrant” by Robert Kiyosaki and my idea was to build a business that would provide me money without me having to work every day in the business.

But since I didn’t understand all the principles, I bought a business that didn’t allow me to reach my goal and it failed. Notice, I said the business failed not me, I didn’t take the failure personally. Now don’t get me wrong, that failure hurt, hurt badly, and there where times when I wanted to crawl under the covers and cry but I surviced and in fact thrived.

Basically, the reason that business failed is I didn’t understand how to create a “B” based business. I didn’t have a good enough financial education. So the business failed and I had to learn how to create the business I wanted.

See you tomorrow

Be well

Dwight

Who is Dwight Miller and Why does He Give A Damn (pt 2)

Ok, I got on a rant on the last post but there are some lessons that can be found in that post. Here are some examples

1. If you partner, define how the partnership, responsibilities and duties up front.
2. Define how you get out while your still friends
3. Define a plan and agree on it
4. Be a responsible money manager
5. Be careful hiring family and friends

There are plenty more but thats enough. Anyway, I also was able to take CRT’s biggest client the US Postal Service and for the next 6 years we provided consulting help to them and I hired about 5 people to work at the post office. I had a great partner that ran that business (shout to Tony Carter) and we did well, that company was sold in 2001.

I went off and help create a business that produced music festivals around the world with a good friend. During that time we created the St Lucia Jazz Festival, The Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues festival and many more. We also partnered with many companies creating jazz content for the newly created jazz channel and DVD’s for sale in retail store. In 2003, that company was sold, I took a year off and eventually bought a Geeks on call franchise. That was a total disaster, for me owning a franchise was like having a menial job. Basically, owning a franchise is like having a job and while I’m not knocking franchises it didn’t work for me. I immediately battled with the franchisee over everything, systems, hiring, and especially marketing.

I had started to learn more about marketing and while the franchisor was interested in selling franchises and building a brand I was more interested in finding customers and growing my business. I sold the franchise in May 2006 at a loss and walked away.

Who is Dwight Miller and Why does He Give A Damn

Any good business person needs to qualify himself to his prospects and I am no exception. I have been an entrepreneur all of my life, even when I had a job, but I started working for myself in January 1987, thats when a small computer consulting business that I worked for laid me off. I must admit, that was scary but unlike most I had started to think about life without a job. CRT, the company I worked for, was a mess. At that time the computer training and consulting business was booming. Microsoft had started to roll out Windows 3.0, and their server products, Visual Basic had come of age, companies where buying PC’s like crazy and the entire industry was flush with money.

So, while the market was good and customers aplenty, CRT was a mess, there where 3 partners that couldn’t agree on how to even tie shoes, there was rampant nepotism and poor financial management. Since the partners could never agree, there was never a committed strategy for growth and despite an great market and great clients eventually CRT folded under the weight of incompetence.

Fortunately, I was laided off before the collapse and since I was a certified Microsoft trainer, I could sell my skill and command a good price. Living without a job was great and the money continued to flow. What a great time.

BTW, the saga continues tomorrow.

Coming Soon - The First Printed Issue of the Black Genius Network Newsletter

What is this the Black Genius Newsletter - the newsletter is meant to help overcome what I have discovered as a very serious problem in our community, the problem is that we are dependent on others to provide our basic economic needs and while I partner and encourage partnerships with many different people, in my opinion the most important job that African Americans have in the future is creating our own businesses and our own jobs and not depending on others to take care of us.

This newsletter is meant to be a strategic and tactical guide to creating businesses easily. Businesses that are profitable and provide a financial foundation for the owners.

Quite frankly, in the near future many government benefits are going to be dramatically reduced if not eliminated and that fact is going to have a very bad effect on our community.
So, this newsletter is meant to be a guide to helping educate African Americans about how to create businesses, how to find customers, how to find money, how to track that money and how to enjoy that money in a very practical sense.

Every month, each issue will include a CD interview with an entreprenuer that has been successful. The interview will reveal success secrets, how to get started tips, how to find products or created services. The interview will be in depth and comprehensive. Also in each issue will be a printed newsletter that will include regular features about how to start a business, what systems are needed, features of other entrepreneurs, getting started resources and much more.

I am very passionate about the need for this newsletter and excited by the idea of helping create new businesses and economic futures. My vision is to soon have many businesses that provide income and wealth creation in our community.

To that end, I need your help, your suggestions, questions, comments and ideas are all welcome and if you share the vision of creating your own economic future free from dependency than please join us.

Continued success

Dwight Miller