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	<title>BLACK ENTERPRISE &#187; Stacy Gilliam</title>
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		<title>In Case Of Emergency: Strategize</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Black Broker's Bribe" was the newspaper headline that shocked Bernard Beal. In the mid-1990s, the chairman and CEO of M.R. Beal &#38; Co. (No. 6 on the be investment banks list with $40.9 billion in total managed issues) found out his firm, along with several other minority investment companies, was accused of bribing public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back In Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ "I woke up every day feeling pointless," remembers Percy Marchand. "I thought I’d reached a pinnacle in my career, and Katrina wiped it all out. I took it as a sign."
The 26-year-old entrepreneur’s New Orleans-based, full-service printing company, Marchand Ink, was a dream finally fulfilled, so seeing his business and his hometown in ruins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Else You Got?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Georgia Cross, 56, can attest that the Chicago-based cosmetic and plastic surgery practice of Dr. Tinsley &#38; Associates provides more than just traditional services. Cross left Dr. Tinsley's three offices with more than a tummy tuck, breast reduction, and liposuction. The practice offers a one-of-a-kind scarless mole removal (SMR) procedure, which the Chicago native [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Fulfillment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It was nothing but a shell when Douglas and Keena Kelly laid eyes on it--just walls and gravel. But the Illinois-based owners of Ouvxz (pronounced OO-vix) imagined that with their personal touch, the vacant structure could be the perfect spot for a distribution warehouse to house their health products.
Ouvxz launched in 2003 on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biblical Superheroes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Count on two things that will make Michael Davis smile: Christmas and comic books. The holiday season only comes once a year, but as the creative chief of The Guardian Line, a faith-based comic book series, Davis is grinning every day because he's fulfilling a long-held dream.
"I always wanted to create a black Disney," [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build Your Own Franchise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ With a growing number of health-conscious diners looking for nutritional dishes on fast-food restaurant menus, Chris Spears and Gary Williams are making sure these selective eaters have somewhere to go. In 2004, the business partners opened the first of many planned Nemos Seafood restaurants, a take-out chain that offers fresh, home-style seafood entrées -- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Write Way to Grow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ During the high-tech industry’s glorious ride down easy street in the 1990s, Aundrea Lacy’s online brownie business coasted right along with it. A former marketing executive who worked for Hewlett-Packard, among others, she found her most loyal customers in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Almost immediately after Lacy launched Luv’s Brownies in 1996, her signature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Delivery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mary Jo Slater once lived in walking distance from her favorite dessert shop in New York City -- Little Pie Co. Now that she has moved to the other side of the country, a few clicks on the computer bring slices of heaven delivered to her front door.
"I order early in the morning, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Nimbo, Be Quick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Rob Lee Johnson has plans to help sharpen today's athletes into first-class sports figures. But he's no fitness trainer or coach; he's an inventor whose love of athletics inspired a big idea: The Flex Nimbo.
A full-body workout device, the Flex Nimbo (www.flexnimbo .com) is low-load, high-speed training. It uses a harness laced with rubber [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concierge Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When the rich and famous need access to the most exclusive nightclubs in New York City, they call someone who has the right connections. When they absolutely must have tickets to the hottest show on Broadway, they contact someone who can make it happen. Ike Iregbulem is that someone.
"We're the luxury Yellow Pages," says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fulfilling Audiovisual Dreams</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/magazine/2006/02/01/fulfilling-audiovisual-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ As Suzette Kelly spouts off the latest must-haves in audiovisual equipment, it's clear she's a fan of the industry. But even more, Kelly, president of Divine Visual and System Corp. (www.divine visual.com), has dug her heels into a hot, male-dominated trade and staked her ground firmly. "Many people were expecting me to fail," says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Appetite</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/magazine/2005/12/01/urban-appetite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Gilliam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ They seemed an odd couple at first -- one a conservative and established institution, the other a group of energetic disciples of hip-hop culture. But when the U.S. Postal Service joined the 135th Street Agency to throw a media reception in New York, it was a match made in heaven. The two businesses came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GROW BY REFERRAL</title>
		<link>http://www.blackenterprise.com/magazine/2005/09/01/grow-by-referral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  You could break your small business bank account on flashy advertisements. Or, you can follow the lead of successful entrepreneurs who know one sure-fire marketing tool: there's no shame in simply asking a friend to tell a friend.
Word-of-mouth campaigning is a cost-effective way to keep clients ringing your phone, and it forces you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Competition Or Customers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Marcella Ellis, a 15-year hairstylist, doesn't mind divulging her salon secrets. In fact, she makes it her business. Entrepreneurial suicide, you think? To Ellis, owner of Marcella Ellis Signature Hair Replacement Center, it's clever business marketing.
In 2004, Ellis, who owns salons in Dallas and Laurel, Maryland, added educating and supplying to her hair-weaving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power Up Your Proposal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2005 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ You've got a top-notch product, superior manpower, and enough business acumen to rival your toughest competitors. Still, the best and biggest contracts continue to elude you.
Chances are, your business is popping, but your business proposals aren't. You may need to check your writing skills. It all boils down to how well you can communicate [...]]]></description>
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