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Take a moment to view last week's episode of NextOppSocial whereas Rachele Wilson & JuJuan Buford interviewed Tina Williams, CEO of QT Business Solutions, who shared invaluable tips regarding how to acquire, properly use, and build business credit. This was episode you don't want to miss!
WHAT DID WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE?
1. What is the difference between business and personal credit?
2. What can having business credit allow you to have access to?
3. How important is it that a business owner secure a Dun & Bradstreet?
4. Is it difficult, expensive, or time consuming to establish business credit?
5. Can a business owner benefit from good business credit, while having bad personal credit?
6. And so much more.......!
WATCH this episode here >
Remember to calendar and catch NextOppSocial Wednesdays @ 10:00am EST.
NextOppSocial is a weekly show that highlights the achievements of entrepreneurs and small business owners throughout the Detroit Metropolitan; providing an avenue for entrepreneurs to promote their businesses, and providing viewers with an opportunity to learn and draw wisdom from others who are achieving in entrepreneurship. A variety of topics are discussed on a weekly basis for the purposes of providing insights and actionable content to help entrepreneurs and small business owners level up in their respective endeavors.
JuJuan Buford is a Detroit native, entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of JSB Business Solutions Group, business development professional, and writer dedicated to helping families, entrepreneurs, and business owners establish thriving enterprises, achieve financial independence, and build lives of satisfaction.
What is it like to live with something you absolutely despise?
When you’ve been exposed to the inevitable-ness of something. When you understand a thing. Become so familiar with it, that you know it’s ugly contours like the back of your hand. You reach a point when you experience and observe it’s dehumanizing and guttural impacts as if in third person. At some point even the macro begins to resonate micro….even taking on an air of anonymity, like being forced to inhale carbon dioxide emissions. It’s very presence, by definition antithetical to the expression of your humanity, but you learn to co-exist. Or do you?
Perhaps, a select few do. But most simply learn to become highly effective at pushing it down.
You can walk into a boardroom full of its sympathizers and progenitors, and narrate a meticulously planned strategy that gains you temporary victory. You sit across the table and communicate an immaculately curated value proposition, knowing you may be staring into the eyes of one of it’s minions. You push it down deep into the recesses of your gut.
You push down the knowledge of knowing that though you may have won the day, the economics aren’t on your side. The economics of attention. The economics of financial interests. The economics of eating, raising children, sleeping in a warm bed. The economics of self interests and avarice. The economics of hate. Of obliviousness. Of indifference.
You push it down.
You avoid watching the grotesque displays of the economics splashed across the television set, of ebony and brown people being accosted…..their gyrations ugly, violent, infected by the economics, gallivanting as late night news.
Because you still have to win. You push it down. Collect your victories how and when you can. Carve out some semblance of sanity and safety. Find a space of self-definition. It’s all fiction anyway.
You push it down.
The anger, the rage, the disappointment. To tally the losses on a daily basis would surely lead to insanity. The lives being lost.
Trayvon Martin, you push it down.
Amadou Diallo, you push it down.
George Floyd, you push it down.
Philando Castile, you push it down.
Ahmaud Arbery, you push it down.
Breonna Taylor, you push it down.
Michael Brown, you push it down.
Eric Garner, you push it down.
Atatiana Jefferson, you push it down.
They tried to kill Assata Shakur, you push it down.
Fred Hampton, you push it down.
Emmitt Till, you push it down.
The Tulsa massacre of Black Wallstreet.
I’m no longer shook or surprised to have a gun pointed at me. What does that mean?
I’m not an anomaly.
They know. Women. White, black, yellow, purple, blue. Men. White, black, yellow purple, blue. They know what they’re doing. Amy is nothing new.
You push it down.
When you call a business owner or prospective client and they answer the phone with excitement, and you forget to lower the bass in your voice temporarily. You listen intently (cursing your sloppiness) as they’ve heard your complexion and their mood changes.
Down.
You have to perfect your craft. Be obsessed with your craft. Your value prop is your freedom. Your waking moments pregnant with knowing there is a highly effective agenda being executed to exile you to the fringes of society. Can you imagine all the latent talent being denied expression because of it. The inventions not created. The solutions buried in graves. All the energy and potential extinguished. The value of their labors.
Then again, there is the prison industrial complex. You push it down.
You still have to compete. Eat, live, laugh, screw, drink. Take vacations. Enjoy holidays with family. Travel. Enjoy comedy shows and read great novels. Dream.
So you push it down.
A church gets bombed. Ebony bodies discriminately shot up. Children die. You watch.
You watch people being reduced to a biscuit in an oven. The psychological beat down. The literal knee being applied to the neck. The blatant, unapologetic terrorism and it begins to bubble up. He was out taking a jog. The anger and the rage. You fight not to see them all the same. Like agents in the Matrix, you know they could be anyone or everyone. Smiling in your face, but secretly placing a knee on your success.
The Washington Red Skins, you push it down.
The theft of land from Palestinians, you push it down.
Europeans first, now China exploiting Africa, you push it down.
People lock their cars when you walk by, you push it down.
Anita Hill, you push it down.
Grab them by the pussy, you push it down.
People clutching their purses on the elevator.
Seeing babies. Young brown babies on the border being treated like animals.
Seeing people being shot in cold blood because of who they desire to love and sleep with.
Watching ethnic cleansing in China, you push it down.
The funding of drug cartels that slaughter people, followed by the transfer of the proceeds to a militarized police force that slaughters people…… further down.
The continuation of slavery via the prison industrial complex. Down.
The systemic mis-education of ebony and brown people, and mutilation of their identities in so called schools of higher education. Down further.
They came to this land under the auspices of God. Claimed to arrive first. Afflicted people with all manner of disease, pestilence, and violence. Systematically removed them from their land and homes.
And then mock them by literally attempting to take ownership of their names and heritage, and display them like emblems or tributes to a blood thirsty, murderous, and inhumane conquest.
It simmers, slow, and violently underneath.
Waiting, seething. Collecting energy.
You want to go out and break some shit. You want to kill it.
This is the double consciousness. Two identities. Two realities. Warring against each other. Threatening to tear the other apart. To be African American and aware. To have read enough history to know.
Some inebriate themselves constantly.
Some deny its existence.
Some betray to gain favor, in hopes of gaining some breathing room.
And some try to pray it away.
You want to be around your people who haven’t been infected with it.
Be free from the eye of Sauron’s gaze.
You want to seek out environs where your greatest desires and passions can freely find expression.
JuJuan Buford is a Detroit native, entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of JSB Business Solutions Group, business development professional, and writer dedicated to helping families, entrepreneurs, and business owners establish thriving enterprises, achieve financial independence, and build lives of satisfaction.
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JuJuan Buford is a Detroit native, entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of JSB Business Solutions Group, business development professional, and writer dedicated to helping families, entrepreneurs, and business owners establish thriving enterprises, achieve financial independence, and build lives of satisfaction.
JuJuan Buford is a Detroit native, entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of JSB Business Solutions Group, business development professional, and writer dedicated to helping families, entrepreneurs, and business owners establish thriving enterprises, achieve financial independence, and build lives of satisfaction.
Q: When is the new deadline for PPP loan applications?
On Saturday July 4, 2020, the President signed the “PPP Extension Act” into law. On Monday, July 6, the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program resumed accepting loan applications.
As the program’s initial deadline of June 30 approached, many small business owners wondered if there would be another chance to access the remaining funding put in place for the Paycheck Protection Program by the CARES Act. The approval and enactment of the “PPP Extension Act” has provided small business owners with this opportunity.
The new deadline for PPP loan applications is August 8, 2020.
You can view The White House’s and the SBA’s announcements by following the hyperlinks provided below.
Business owners who are still in search of a SBA approved lender can utilize the SBA’s Lender Match Tool, which guarantees contact from a qualified lender within two business days of submitting information on the platform.
Business owners who are interested in applying for, have applied for, or have obtained a PPP loan should familiarize themselves with the latest guidance released by the SBA and the U.S. Department of the Treasury based on the enactment of the “PPP Flex Act” on June 5, 2020.
In a previous blog post we discussed the important changes implemented by the “PPP Flex Act” and provided resources to assist business owners in familiarizing themselves with the SBA’s most recent guidance.
To visit our previous blog post regarding the “PPP Flex Act,” please follow the hyperlink below.
JuJuan Buford is a Detroit native, entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of JSB Business Solutions Group, business development professional, and writer dedicated to helping families, entrepreneurs, and business owners establish thriving enterprises, achieve financial independence, and build lives of satisfaction.
Just like in sports, the most talented entrepreneurs or organizations don't always win. And if you are micro-business owner knowing this is absolutely vital when you begin onboarding employees. Given the aforementioned, what attributes should you be looking for when evaluating candidates? Here's a couple to consider.
1. Burning desire to achieve, prove themselves, and build something.
2. Are they a good coaching fit? Are they willing to take to take instruction and learn from you, and be accountable?
3. Are they proactive? Inquisitive? Willing to learn more than what is required.
And as business owner are you able to check your ego at the door, and/or level up as a leader, when this person shows up at the door?
JuJuan Buford. Entrepreneur, Business Development. Writer
