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<description><![CDATA[Gerard Spinks is the Underground Millionaire and CEO of Spinks Industries.  He is a published author, writer, and radio host of Beyond the Bling Radio.  His company provides marketing, business management, and consultation services to businesses in various industries.]]></description>
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<title>How to Increase Music Sales in Hip Hop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I hear tons of people saying that the artists are responsible for their record sales and the fact that these sales have stalled. I disagree. After working with artists for years, I believe it is a combination of market conditions and slow retail sales of CD's.]]></description>
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<title>Using Twitter to Motivate and Succeed</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:30:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter can be used as a motivational tool and success oriented tool if used properly.  There are many Tweeters out there and there are some positive and negative.  Harnessing twitter to uplift can be a personal mission statement.]]></description>
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<title>Google Top Rank Search Keyword Strategy</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:28:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Getting to the top of Google search for a small business is nearly impossible with so much competition.  Here's how.]]></description>
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<title>Make Money Turn Into Passive Income and Work For You</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:50:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Once you create a successful business enterprise and it is making money, you will have to decide what you want to do with the profits that you have earned.  Many businesses do not get to this point to even have the discussion but there are those of you who will get there.]]></description>
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<title>Business is a Pure Numbers Game</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:48:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Doing the math in business is critical to ones success. Business is about mathematics. You have to become a numbers person in order to become successful in business. Traditional people will disagree because many classically trained MBA types are trained to think that becoming the best at something makes you do well.]]></description>
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<title>The Black Business Guide to Business Planning</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:43:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Traditional wisdom and Harvard MBA's will tell you that you have to create a huge business plan full of market analysis, sales strategy, funding plan, and everything else.  I have personally witnessed businesses in the Silicon Valley secure $30 million in in funding with a one paged document.]]></description>
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<title>Passive Income is the Key to Wealth</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:40:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To truly harness wealth, you need income from various sources and not one main source.  Even if you have 3 houses, this is not passive income unless it generates enough profit to pay your monthly expenses.]]></description>
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<title>Employee Vs Business Owner Mentality</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:51:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Building wealth is purely a function of business ownership.  It is very difficult to create wealth by working at a job and earning income.  Most wealth builders build what is known as passive income.]]></description>
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<title>How to Plan For Success and Wealth</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:47:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Planning for success and wealth starts with creating a one-page document that details how you will get to the goal and achieve the goal that you have. Generating any type of wealth is about planning and executing, rinse and repeat.]]></description>
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<title>The Truth Behind Building Web Traffic</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:28:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Building a great website is great until you realize that you're only getting 2-5 visits per day from Yahoo and Google search engines. You must learn to harness organic search to improve your website traffic. Over the last several years, I have been focusing on building web traffic. I have read over a dozen web sites and reviewed web packages that promise instant results and will push web traffic to my website while I sit back and simply go to the bank and see that I've made thousands of dollars per month.]]></description>
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<title>Job Search Alternatives</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:21:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Searching for a job is boring. I read about a lady who submitted 20 resumes per week for a solid year and only found a job after 13 months. This is old news and he/she who sits waiting, looking, and hoping for a job is going to be in for a rude awakening and a realization that this is not changing soon. Grow or perish.]]></description>
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<title>New York Yankee Manager Joe Girardi and Life Lessons</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:22:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Growing up in Peoria, Illinois, I played quarterback in high school behind New York Yankee skipper Joe Girardi and learned some of life's greatest business lessons as a kid.  I don't know if it was fate or not but even our names were similar.]]></description>
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<title>Business Entrepreneur Ludacris Continues to Grow His Corporate Empire</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:04:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While Chris Bridges' aka Ludacris is doing an incredible job for the Atlanta community at large, as a leader he is smart enough to know to build a strong backbone of true business leaders around him to continue to grow his enterprises. Albert G. Sye IV, a Morehouse graduate, is the business behind Ludacris' health drink, Ludajuice.  Mr. Sye also works with the Ludacris Foundation that just gave away 20 cars to Atlanta area residents this Labor Day weekend.]]></description>
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<title>Brand Building to Achieve Business Success</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:59:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Building your brand on the Internet should be your number one goal.  I do not mean Twitter.  Analyzing Twitter for traffic this week alone for my site shows and proves that Twitter generates only one link per day of traffic to my website.]]></description>
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<title>How Grammy Member Tiffany Cheri Price Survived Foster Care</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:56:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Don't ever say you can't do it.  Tiffany Cheri Price survived the children foster care system after her parents' home burned to the ground in Newark, NJ as a child.  With her mother a victim of domestic violence and losing her children, Tiffany Cheri Price and her siblings were displaced, taken away and placed in foster care.]]></description>
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<title>How Lil Wayne Grossed $42 Million on Tour in 2009</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Per Billboard Magazine, the final numbers for Lil Wayne's tour are in.  His North American tour is the highest grossing hip hop tour of the year.  The tour grossed $42 Million and was seen by 804,000 fans.]]></description>
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<title>Using Twitter to Make a Profit</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:24:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[People somehow think that Twitter can be used for more than a social network and be used for business. The truth is that 99% of people that use twitter have about 100 followers out of which only about 5-10 of those people engage in active conversations. ]]></description>
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<title>The Cure For Man Breasts - Get Strong Today</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:24:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I've been seeing a lot of women complain about men and being out of shape. For all men, this is completely unacceptable. First of all, no woman should ever be the one telling a dude about himself. I know this is somewhat sexist and women respond because dudes always have something to say about a females shape, however, MAN UP! In a world that's full of chaos, struggle, lack of jobs and income and everything else, it's time to get a reprieve from all the madness and workout.]]></description>
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<title>Do it Yourself Hip Hop Music Business</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:50:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At one point in the hip hop music industry, artists really needed to rely on getting a recording contract or having a top management firm such as Violator Management to work their contracts and make a deal happen for the artist.  Not any longer. ]]></description>
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<title>Surviving the Uber Recession</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:48:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most people that talk about surviving the recession always talk as if you have $100,000 in your Charles Schwab Brokerage account and can sell off countless stocks to save yourself.  In reality, most people that I know are astute homeowners that may or may not have two incomes and are trying to simply make ends meet.]]></description>
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