Follow the Paper Trail: Choose Your Experts Wisely
In this week’s installment of “The Gatekeepers Are Gone,” Lamar Tyler discusses the experts you might encounter during a conference or panel. The ones that dole out all the advice on generating revenue. While they might talk about creating revenue streams via product placements, marketing through sites like Amazon and Lulu, and creating brand partnerships, [...]
Read MoreAcquisitions, Entertainment and Social Media: The Life and Times of Karen Civil
Urban music blogger Karen Civil is no stranger to the world of entertainment. When she isn’t interviewing high-profile hip-hop artists on her blog KarenCivil.com, she is reviewing music and providing her perspective on the gossip of the day. We recently caught up with Karen to talk about her career as a music blogger, how she [...]
Read MoreThe Ten Facebook Fan Page Commandments
Lamar Tyler is back with another edition of his motivating web series, “The Gatekeepers Are Gone.” In this installment, Tyler doles out advice in the form of “The Ten Facebook Fan Page Commandments.” Focusing on building, retaining, and engaging users on your Facebook fan page, the commandments lay a road map to running a successful [...]
Read MoreKeeping Up With Kid Fury
It is no secret that black gossip blogging is becoming an increasingly saturated market. An area that only had a scarce number of bloggers only five years ago now has literally thousands of hopefuls clamoring for attention. And the biggest question from new bloggers is a tough one: what can we do to stand out from the [...]
Read MoreSnoop Dogg Creates Tech Buzz with Use of Instagram
It’s hard to be a mobile web startup in 2011. In a world where new apps and services are released almost every day, it’s hard to differentiate your product to users, let alone get a big enough user base to make a splash in the app store. So what’s a growing (but still somewhat unknown) [...]
Read MoreElon James White is “Blacking It Up”
Elon James White took a New York-based career in comedy and transformed himself into a nationally-known political commentator who has appeared on national television channels like VH1 and MSNBC. How did he do it? White created a flexible new media strategy powered by his background in information technology. I had the chance to interview White [...]
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