Blacks are no longer depressed, incapable and low race. The black entrepreneurs are continuously emerging in the equally competitive field of business with positivism, courage and enthusiasm in their hearts. Moreover, the African American community has redefined the oppression of the traditional outlook and has infused a newer approach of growth, greater confidence and a brighter future to look ahead.

The smart black entrepreneurs also leverage their strength and knowledge towards the improvement of values as well. This vibrant team of smart entrepreneurs has all the potentials of creating the success of the black history as they continue to create works from their innovative ideas and result-oriented skills. As they prove their worth, these black businessmen have transformed themselves into a true landmark in the developing and improving world of the African American community with a glimpse of hope, goal and a competitive edge for fighting back.

The African American community felt the pain the last few decades. They were oppressed and criticized for having a different race but they worked hard and now, they are gaining the fruit of their labor. Indeed, the black entrepreneurs have gained the victory against depression, criticism and most of all ignorance.

In the mysterious world of Internet, potential clients or customers usually find it hard to determine and identify who exactly they are dealing with. This is true for the African American community. Most members of this community have the desire to help the other members of their community move toward success but how are they going to do this when they do not exactly know whether they are dealing with Whites and those from other communities. In this case, finding businesses in black business directory is the best step you can make.

Black business directory is an online compilation of several minority-owned businesses separated in different fields. However, black business directory is often overseen by organizations and enterprises that help owners of business thrive and succeed. By looking at the black business directory, the efforts exerted allow potential customers to select those who they should do business with.

By helping the Black community identify which companies they should deal with, cooperation between the client and business owners is driven towards success for both of them. With over one million businesses owned by members of the African American community in US alone, this part of entrepreneurial market is now regarded as one of the fastest growing segment on internet marketing.

If you have a business online SEO should be very important to you. In a nutshell SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a method where you optimize your website so it is search engine friendly so that if you have a business that sells dog food, whenever someone goes to Google or Yahoo or whatever search engine and searches on the keyword “dog food” your website will show up in the search results hopefully on the first page! SEO can be very complex and depending on your website/blog it takes some research and testing to get the results you want.

I recently listened to a terrific audio taped teleconference with host Lee Milteer and her special guest Keith Cameron-Smith a successful Author and Entrepreneur. Lee has an awesome program called the Millionaire Mindset where she taps the brains of many successful Entrepreneurs in efforts to find out what makes them tick, how they achieved what they have and how they continue to improve and create successful businesses as Entrepreneurs. The course is called Millionaire Mindset because she extracts from her guests the attitude, mindset and basically the way that many successful Entrepreneurs think.

My Brief Notes: (based on Keith Cameron-Smith’s book)

Top 10 distinctions between how millionaires think and how middle class and lower class think!

10. Millionaires think long term, middle class and poor think short term

• The very poor tend to think day to day
• The poor tend to think week to week
• The middle class tend to think month to month
• The rich tend to think year to year
• The very rich tend to think decade to decade (10-20 year strategic plans)

• The primary goal for the very poor and poor is SURVIVAL
• The primary goal for the middle class is COMFORT
• The primary goal for the rich and very rich is FREEDOM (and they will do whatever it takes to experience an abundance of freedom)

****Seek and you shall find mindset****
If you seek to survive you will
If you seek to be comfortable you will be
If you seek freedom you will find it

“One of the reasons you must learn to think long term is because it takes longer to become free than it does to acquire survival, it takes longer to become free than it does to become comfortable.”

“You have to have business plans that go at least 1 year into the future, a lot of multimillionaires have business plans that go at least 10 years into the future. This allows the rich and wealthy to have a very clear vision into the future of where they want to be and how they want to achieve.”

“Where do you want to be 5 years from now? Where do you want to be 10 years from now? If you don’t ask yourself those questions you should be asking yourself these questions on a daily basis or at least on a weekly basis.”

“The rich and wealthy have developed the discipline of delayed gratification which has helped them to achieve their wealth. Giving up something today for something that you want more of tomorrow. Give up a little bit of your comfort today so that you can be free tomorrow”

“Also if you think longterm in all of your relationships your going to think more and more from a win-win perspective. As entrepreneurs it is the relationships that we cultivate that really makes us rich. Success in life is all about successful relationships.”

Thinking long term works in every area of your life, from thinking long term about your health, that means eating right, exercising, etc.

9.

• Millionaires talk about IDEAS and make things happen
• The Middle class talk about other people and other things and watch things happen
• The Very poor will talk about other people and end up saying what happened

Power Tips for thinking like a millionaire

• Spend more time talking about ideas instead of “things”
• Millionaires come up with ideas that the middle class spend their money on
• Build the right relationships with the right people at the right time
• Look for relationships that you can build long term (no one night stands!)

8.

• Millionaires embrace change and the middle class and poor are threatened by change
• Middle class people assume when change is presented to them that it is going to be negative, painful or bad one way or another.
• Millionaires think that when change is presented to them that if its good then hey that’s great but if its bad or seems to be negative that’s okay because now they have an opportunity to learn and grow. They believe that change is going to benefit them either way positive or negative. Either by learning from what change brings or by accepting the benefits from change if it is good.

7.

Millionaires take calculated risk, the middle class are afraid to take risk.

A calculated risk is when you increase your knowledge first on whatever endeavor you want to partake that may be risky (another way you could put it is doing your due diligence) and then consider the consequences of failing BEFORE you take action.

Ask yourself these 3 questions:

• What’s the best that could happen
• What’s the worst that could happen
• What’s the most likely that could happen

Here is the insight…
If the most likely thing that could happen brings you closer to your goals and if the worst thing that could happen DOES happen and you are willing to live with that, then you go for it.
On the flipside…

If the most likely thing that could happen does happen and it doesn’t bring you closer to your goals, and if the worst that could happen does happen and you aren’t willing to live with that and go through that, then don’t do it.
There is a lot more that I could include but I just wanted to show you some of the fabulous material that was presented in this segment of Lee Milteer’s Millionaire Mindset. I encourage you to check out her program and sign up. Also pickup a copy of Keith Cameron-Smith’s book which you should be able to find on amazon.com or at his website (just do a search in Google)

This video shares some of the basics involved in setting up your own business. Even if you have already started your business this can serve as a good review to help ensure you covered all your bases and to help make all your business endeavors successful.

When Bob Johnson speaks you listen…any tidbit of information from this guy is valuable in your efforts to building your wealth!