Black Genius Network

If you are an entrepreneur one of the most effective ways to establish yourself as an expert in your market is to write a book, The only problem is “What do you do with the Book after it has been written”?

Tynisha Thompson know exactly what to do.

Tynisha Thompson helps entrepreneurial authors, experts, speakers, coaches and consultants build profitable publishing empires. As an online book marketing and publicity coach and consultant, Tynisha has worked with a variety of authors, writers and professionals on how to get their message out there. Her passion for figuring out new and creative ways for authors to reach their target markets while helping them create multiple streams of revenue from their books is well known. Her authors have appeared in The New York Times, Essence Magazine, and Entrepreneur.com

Tynisha reveals the challenges she’s faced becoming an entreprenur and how she has handled and overcome these challenges. She is an inspiration to other entrepreneurs, like the other women we’ve interviewed. It is with great pride I intorduce Tynisha Thompsonto the Black genius Network audience. [display_podcast]

Checkout BookSavvyMedia.com and follow Tynisha on Twitter

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During February the Black Genius Network is featuring black women entrepreneurs and we are honored that Delores Pressley agreed to do the first interview on the month.

DeLores Pressley, Motivational Speaker and Personal Power Expert, is one of the most respected and sought-after experts on success, motivation, confidence and personal power. She is an international keynote speaker, author, life coach and the Founder of the Born Successful Institute and DeLores Pressley Worldwide. Her story has been touted in Glamour, Washington Post, Black Enterprise, First for Women, Essence, New York Daily News, Ebony and Marie Claire. She is a frequent media guest and has been interviewed on every major network: (ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX) including America’s top rated shows; OPRAH and Entertainment Tonight

DeLores’ client list range from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies, including Procter and Gamble, Roche Pharmaceutical, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Caribbean Association of Administrative Professionals (CAAP) and the FirstEnergy Corporation. She has authored Clean Out the Closet of Your Life, Believe in the Power of You and Renovate Yourself. She has received many awards and recognitions for her work. Her newest project is producing,Speak for Hire, an educational and promotional program for speakers around the world.

During our conversation Delores tells us her story, how she created success in her life, how she started her business and what she had to do to get on the Phrah Winfrey Show. Enjoy our interview with Delores Pressley, Success Coach and Personal Power Expert.

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This is a personal story about a friend of mine. I have known Jonathan Lewis since high school. We where friends and hang buddies, chasing girls and  trying to be cool. We went to parties, high school basketball and football games and all types of social events. It was a special time, we where young and having fun.

During high school, my friend Jonathan (Foots) decided to start using drugs and those drugs ripped his life apart. For more that 20 years Foots battled drug demons, jail and during the process I lost my friend, I thought forever.

But slowly Foots overcame, he learned how to stay clean from drugs and alcohol. He found his faith, he found a beautiful wife (Penny), he is a father, grand pop and mentor and he became an un-qualified success. He has become a role model to many other people that are caught in addiction and incarceration.

Frankly, during our friendship I believed Foots would never get straight but I was wrong. Jonathan is living proof that any obstacle can be overcome, his list of formers (felon, drug addict etc) is formidable but if Foots can overcome all of this surely you can raise above all of your obstacles.

It gives me great pleasure in having a true Black Genius, that has overcome all odds.

The Story of Jonathan (Foots) Lewis, my friend.

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I met Veronica Conway on Twitter, her ecommerce diva, Regina Baker added me to Veronica’s Twitter and we started following each other. Veronica and I scheduled an interview and she sent me some background information. One of the things she sent me was called The Black Paper and the other The Black Mastery Program. I read the Black Paper (amazing) and on Christmas Day I bought the Black Mastery Program. The program is a continuing blessing in my life.

Veronica is a strong black woman, fierce, smart, and determined to help black people defeat blame and victalk talk.

Veronica is also a successful entrepreneur, visionary and founder of three coaching companies, including the Black Professional Coaches Alliance, the only coaching organization dedicated to the transformation of people of African descent. She is the co-founder of Phenom Consulting International, a company that provides life and media strategy for the entertainment and athletic industries. She has coached everyone from truck drivers to CEO’s athletes, artists and celebrities. Veronica has more than 3000 hours of personal, business and financial coaching experience. Veronica is a certified coach, as well as a certified hypno-therapist and master certified NLP practitioner. She is a Master Business and Financial coach, a seasoned facilitator and a certified mediator.

Learn more about Veronica’s fascinating life and and how The Black Mastery Progam  can help change your life. Get more info at The Black Paper

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David Bullock has done it all and continues to do it all. He started as an engineer, became a salesman where he grew his territory to  $120 million dollars in sales. Now David is a successful profit engineer.

David Bullock is multi-channel business development specialist with a concentration in internet marketing. He formerly worked in industrial robotics sales with customers including Nissan, Honda, Mercedes and BMW. His experience of building a “brick and mortar” $150,000,000 sales territory is augmented with a complete understanding of online lead generation, ecommerce and local lead generation. This practical understanding is especially timely considering our current business climate where our businesses must utilize all resources to compete and prosper.

David has been featured in Direct Marketing News (2006) and Black Enterprise Magazine (March 2007) and most recently in November 2008 for tracking the successful implementation of social media by the President Elect Barack Obama. The Barack20.com documents, in real time, the strategies and tactics employed by the campaign and then moves to make those technology applicable to the small to mid sized business. The site blueprints the successful use of social media to engage, captivate and motivate customers using readily available tools and platforms.

David is a certified Business Professional, Search Engine Optimization Specialist, Ecommerce and Adwords Pay Per Click Instructor (Technical Editor - Adwords for Dummies - Sept 2007). Further, he a faculty writer for the The Net Effect a publication that is focused on practical strategies for business utilizing the internet to create revenue. And, was voted one of the Top 50 influential Men In Social Media. He has been a featured speaker at BlogWorldExpo, BlackEnterprise Entrepreneur Conference. Currently David has a book in the works that will chronicle the successful execution of social media to grow businesses.

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www.DavidBullock.com

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Black Genius Network - Coming up on Monday… Black Genius Network with David Bullock http://aweber.com/b/100jp

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On Monday 1/12, BGN is proud to post an interview I did on January 1 ( a great way to start a new year) with David Bullock.

David is the creator (along with Brent Leary) of the most dynamic projects in the online space. An analysis of how Barack Obama leveraged social media to win the Presidency of The United States.

Look for the interview on Monday, hear the fascinating story of David Bullock and how he grew to become a Black Genius.

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I was recently reading David Bullock’s blog and he posted this video which absolutely drives home the benefits of the Black Genius Network in my opinion.

The video describes how quickly information is changing the world and how overwhelming all the change can be. David titled his post  “Lead Or Get Out Of The Way” but I see it differently. I say “Learn quickly or get out of the way”.

This video drives home the need to learn quickly and the best way to learn quickly is from each other. If your goal is to have a successful life, you can’t use the old ways of learning. You have to learn success strategies and tactics quickly from people that are using those tactics successfully today. That’s what learning quickly means to me. Learn from each other, don’t assume that the success skills you have or had will still work. Join the Black Genius Network snd discover new success strategies, tactics and skill quickly.

Check out the video and tell me what you think and discover the secrets to success from entrepreneur John Lawson

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Then tell us your story

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What does success mean? Does success mean having more money, control over your life, being able to stop working or something else. One of the first steps to any process is understanding the meaning of what you want. For example, when I sold my business, I was able to take a year off, you know Valhalla, no work, do whatever I want, you’d think this was my dream. WRONG. Month 1, is was great, I loved it. I could bike when I wanted, workout when I wanted but after the third month it was the pits.

I hated not having anything to do, no where to go, no purpose or motive, so I went back to work. So lets define what success means. Tell us what it means to you bu taking this poll.

Then tell us your story

Success Strategies

I learn so much from these interviews and when we get near the end my standard questions is “What are the 3 Most Important Factors in Your Success. My goal in asking that question is to draw out the strategies that successful black business people use.

John’s 3 Keys to Success where; (here my interview with Black Genius John Lawson)

1. You must have Integrity.
2. You have to take action
3. You have to believe.

Success leaves clues and John gave us specific instructions for being successful. When John talks about having integrity he means that successful people have a value system, that they are consistent and can be trusted, their word has meaning (as best as possible). John is also absoultely right when he says you have to take action. There is an old African proverb “If you want to eat, you must move your feet”, moving your feet is taking action. All results start with some action.

Lastly John says “You gotta believe”. When you get on a plane, can the pilot see the destination? No, he has a detailed plan, he takes action (flying the plane) and he believes (yes knows( that if he follows the plan he will arrive at his destination just like thousand of other planes and pilots. Success is the same, you may not see the destination but if you follow the plan, they keys to success outlined by John, than success is inevitable.

Dedicated to your success

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