Black In Business

I recently wrote about managing my first team and how I build community. A key to our success was building a community of people who wanted to win but also cared about each other. This team was over 20 years ago and just this morning, I spoke to a team member in Germany. Last week I got a call from a lady on that team that was on vacation in Marco Island. My sponsor for this blog is a company owned by a member of this team. My secretary from that team is in touch with me. In the past 20 years, she started and finished her college education, got a masters degree and is the Director of The University of Buffalo School Entrepreneurship Althea did all this as an adult with 2 kids. We buried one of our teammates, Bill McCarthy, I big Irish guy that was so loved the church was full like he was a world leader. He was an Account Manager, and still a group as us executives flew the company Gulf Stream in to Olean, New York for the funeral. His young son is now at St Bonaventure as a student. I am sorry, I was thinking about these guys and had to brag on a couple of them. As you see, I lucked out because they were truly great people.

Why would I open with a paragraph filled with nostalgia, isn’t time to move on? Yes and no. Yes because time dose not stand still and no because there are lessons learned that we can apply better today given the technology. Just think how much easier is would be to build community and a team sprit with blogs.

I was based in Buffalo, had 4 sales reps in “The Buff.” 1 in Syracuse, 2 in Rochester, 1 in Olean and 3 in Albany. Today we all could have blogs to communicate with each other. We could provide advice on competitors; understand pricing trends in the market. We could introduce our families, celebrate closes and build community. Sales reps like to communicate and the great ones are thinking business all the time.

I will share with you some of my favorite blogs . You will see there are different ways of blogging. All businesses should blog to build community with customers but internal blogging can work well for team building. I will on purpose introduce a diverse group of bloggers. That’s right, men, women, different races. Judge for your self but I love blogging and I know it can build community.

You have to visit my man Douglass Karr. He is a talented marketer and has an excellent blog. Have him show you his son blog as well.

Paula Neal Mooney is a gifted blogger and blogs on a variety of topic. She has great visuals and a keen insight.

If you want to blog to fame, visit Divya Uttam, she is blowing up right with an exciting contest to make it possible to line your pockets. She’s only 22!

You will love Jim Legington’s blog. His ministry is strong and filled with love.

On occasion I will hip you to some of my favorites. My hope is that we can learn from each other and lead business to make blogging a way of life.

Lastly, I need votes for best business blog .I am up to 13, please click in the upper right corner on the stamp and vote for me. Thanks!