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5 Ways to Maximize Your Time

Shifting to purpose management can help you focus on your true goals

These days, it’s not uncommon to hear stressed-out professionals bemoaning the fact that there simply…

By Alan Hughes

Posted: May 9, 2011 Tags: 86400: Manage Your Purpose to Make Every Second of Each Day Count, book, Book Review, Lavaille Lavette, time management

4 Branding Tips to Help Students Get Accepted to College

Follow these expert tips on personal branding to score that coveted acceptance letter from the school of choice

BlackEnterprise.com spoke to Marlon D. Cousin, managing partner of The Marquin Group, about establishing your…

By Janel Martinez

Posted: April 26, 2011 Tags: admissions, branding, How To, personal branding

5 Financial Pitfalls to Avoid When You Come into New Money

Music producer Chuck Harmony shares advice on how to handle success the fiscally smart way

Over the years, producer Chuck Harmony has worked with everyone from Celine Dion (“I Got…

By Anslem Samuel

Posted: February 22, 2011 Tags: Celine Dion, Chuck Harmony, Fantasia, How To, Janet Jackson, Keri Hilson, Mary J. Blige, Ne-Yo, producer, saving, Taxes

Is O, the Oprah magazine, in financial trouble? (Image: File)

What You Can Learn from…Iyanla Vanzant’s Flubbed Exit Strategy from Oprah

A few key tips to help you gracefully bow out, while keeping your career on-track

Oprah's response to Iyanla's apology–gracious or passive? (Image: Getty Images)
I watched the Oprah Winfrey Show…

By Sonia Alleyne

Posted: February 18, 2011 Tags: Barbara Walters, Career Advancement, career sabotaging, exit strategy, How To, Iyanla Vanzant, mentorship, Oprah Winfrey Show, what you can learn from

I started my first company, Buzz Marketing Group, when I was just 16. So I definitely have some experience being a teenpreneur. I was so lucky and fortunate to start my business at that age, and to continue to have it grow and be successful all these years later. Even though it was tough, there were so many more benefits to launching a business. So if you’re a teenpreneur or know of a teenpreneur, here are some of my tips to get you started.--Tina Wells (Follow me on Twitter at @tinacwells)

6 Tips for a Stress-Free You

Be Nexter Tina Wells provides her tips on staying calm, cool and collected on the job or in your business

Tina Wells, CEO of Buzz Marketing Group and author of Chasing Youth Culture and Getting…

By Janel Martinez

Posted: February 16, 2011 Tags: 2011 Women of Power Summit, American Psychological Association, BE Next, Buzz Marketing Group, Entrepreneurship, marketing, Small Business, stress, stress relief, Tina Wells, Women of Power, work stress

Obesity Can Mean Plus-Sized Scrutiny at Work

How to handle bias based on weight and protect your rights

How to handle bias based on weight

By Janell Hazelwood

Posted: February 16, 2011 Tags: bias, diet, discrimination, Eral Burks, health, Minority Executive Search, obesity, Tamica McKinney, weight, weight discrimination, workplace bias, workplace discrimination

4 Ways Your Small Business Can Topple the Industry Giant

Successful entrepreneurs who have beaten their Goliaths

Get ready to go up against the big guys (Image: Thinkstock)
Every small business has to…

By Alan Hughes

Posted: February 15, 2011 Tags: branding, Entrepreneurship, How To, marketing

Mooz-Lum director Qasim Basir steps from behind the camera and into the spotlight (Press) A lot goes into making an independent movie. Beyond securing budgets (or the lack thereof), talent and equipment, it takes a lot of patience and perseverance to actually see a screenplay go from just words on a page to a finished reel. Still, the best most indie filmmakers can hope for are a few screenings on the film fest circuit and critical acclaim, but that wasn’t enough for writer/director Qasim “Q” Basir. Not only did Basir get to complete his first feature film, Mooz-Lum, but the 30-year-old Michigan native secured an all-star cast—including Nia Long, Danny Glover, Evan Ross, Roger Guenveur Smith and Dorian Missick—and a direct distribution deal with AMC Theatres for his independent picture. Promoted primarily through social media and word of mouth, Mooz-Lum, which took home Best Narrative Feature honors at last year’s Urbanworld Film Festival, garnered so much public support that Eventful reached out to Basir about distributing the film along with AMC, which is virtually unheard of for a non-mainstream project and a first-time feature director. “Eventful has worked with films that have been part of a studio and AMC has too,” Basir explains. “But there hasn’t been an independent film that’s had Eventful.com as a primary marketing partner and literally we open in the top 10 cities that demand the film.” Thanks to this groundbreaking distribution deal, Mooz-Lum, which tells the coming of age story of a young Muslim American man trying to find a balance between his faith and the secular world, opens today (February 11) in limited release. In the midst of drumming up moviegoer turnout for opening weekend, Basir sat down with BLACKENTERPRISE.COM to share tips for aspiring filmmakers looking to get their film on the silver screen. —Anslem Samuel

5 Keys to Success for Independent Filmmakers

Writer/director behind the critically acclaimed film Mooz-Lum tells you how to make movies by any means necessary

Mooz-Lum director Qasim Basir steps from behind the camera and into the spotlight (Press) <ul>…

By Anslem Samuel

Posted: February 11, 2011 Tags: 9/11, AMC Theatres, Dana Offenbach, Danny Glover, Dorian Missick, Evan Ross, Eventful, Facebook, haters, Mooz-lum, Muslim, Nia Long, Qasim “Q” Basir, Roger Guenveur Smith, Samad Davis, Social media, Urbanworld Film Festival

Shaunie O’Neal’s 3 Pointers to Scoring a Reality TV Deal

The executive producer for Basketball Wives provides winning tips for making your reality show dreams...reality

The Los Angeles native spoke to BlackEnterprise.com about shopping around her five season reality TV…

By Janel Martinez

Posted: February 10, 2011 Tags: Amirah, Basketball Wives, Darrell D. Miller, Football Wives, reality TV, Shaunie O'Neal, Shed Media, VH1

How to Make the Most of a Career (and a Life) Abroad

Mike Davie moved to Germany to design a Disney cruise ship for kids and adults

By Marcia Wade Talbert

Posted: February 3, 2011 Tags: AquaDuck, cruise liner, Disney, Disney Dream, Disney Fantasy, global business opportunities, global job opportunities, How To, international business opportunities, international job opportunities, Jennifer Hudson, Michael Davie, working abroad