Jumpstarting Your Personal Brand After Mommy-hood

I just found this great article on Black Enterprise by Written by Karen Taylor Bass

Mommy-hood is no easy feat; regardless of age your mind, body, spirit and career will never be the same. The moment you meet your healthy and beautiful bundle of joy, your priorities will shift and you will change. But after the maternity leave has ended, how do you re-invent your personal brand to incorporate your new status when its time to go back to work?

At 43, with two kids (including a toddler), and in the midst of a re-invention, I have recently upgraded from sweatpants to fitted jeans, and the process to become the “brand” new mommy has not been easy. I had a thought: do all mommies—including celebrities—struggle to re-define their personal brand? The answer is a resounding yes. [continue reading]

Woman Act Now

From time to time I spotlight the books of Black Authors featured on Black Writers Connect. Today’s spotlight book is ‘Woman Act Now‘ by Anna Mccoy.

Dream Big! Believe you can do it! Execute on your ideas and succeed! Woman Act Now teaches you how to manage your confidence, develop personal branding, and increase your effectiveness in achieving your goals. Learn how to be a woman of execution, accountability, and purpose. Overcome procrastination, self-doubt and self-credibility as you launch your ideas and live your dreams in the now. You can get your own copy of Woman Act Now on Amazon.com.

If you are a black author and would like your book featured on my social networks review the featured books by Black Authors website. URL: http://mybbwo.com/page/featured-books

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

We Inspire … do you?

I did it. With a few quick key strokes, I joined the growing number of wonderful women posting their inspirational stories on Pepsi We Inspire, a community blog for African American Women. Pepsi’s new community is quickly building a buzz. It includes icons Queen Latifah, Raven-Symoné, Thandie Newton, Keyshia Cole, Dr. Robin L. Smith and Taraji Henson. It also includes a social component, that always each and everyone of us to become storytellers, sharing stories of inspiration on the topics of beauty, laughter, joy, hope, wisdom, and love. I recently added my first two posts. One on love and another on wisdom.

Quiet as its kept, I’ve been building social networks for African American Women and Mothers for years now, so I clearly see the value of the Pepsi We Inspire community. I am slowly, but surely noticing a growing push within large companies to invest more time in marketing to the  African American community online and offline and I like that. Our spending power is great and clearly should not be ignored.

Related: AT&T 28 Days website Features an A-List of Black Entrepreneurs and Inspirational African Americans