4 Tips For Positioning Yourself As An Expert In Your Niche When trying to build up your brand, the way you “sell” yourself will go a long way in helping you sell your products or services. When you can position yourself as an expert in your particular niche, you gain greater trust for your brand. Continued efforts at establishing your…
How To Deal With The Post-Grad Job Search So graduation has come and gone. Not having a job waiting for you when you graduate can be frustrating, but by no means does it make you a failure. There are several steps you can take that will get you on your way to starting your first job and living your best…
I’m a Black Entrepreneur, Mom, and Wife. This is My Reality. Nyakio Grieco is the founder of nyakio Beauty (pronounced Neh-Kay-Oh), an award-winning skin-care brand that has been leading the clean beauty movement since 2002. This past month, Grieco fulfilled her lifelong dream of launching online at Target, only to face a profoundly challenging three months. This story was edited for length and clarity. Friday…
‘15 Percent Pledge’ Calls On Major Retailers To Support Black-Owned Businesses In recent months, as COVID-19 swept across the United States and disproportionately affected people of color, and in the last week, following the death of George Floyd and a wave of protests calling for an end to police brutality and racial injustice, many people have wondered how they can…
How This Entrepreneur Makes Six Figures As A Freelancer Here’s the real American dream: you can work from anywhere in the world (this laptop has lived a good, adventurous life), you get to make your own schedule, you’re always working with new clients, you’re your own boss, oh, yeah – and you aren’t strapped for cash, either! Isn’t that what…
How to Have Friends Over Post-COVID Even as states open up and, in some places, restaurants start to serve sit-down meals again, having friends in the house even for a short while remains a bad idea, experts say. Getting together outside — on blankets spaced apart in a park or on the deck or front porch or lawn at your…
20 Amazing Women Who Are Changing the World Even though International Women’s Day is March 8, these 20 women are proving that it doesn’t matter what day it is — it’s always a good time to celebrate the advances made by women in the past few years. From the first openly transgender state representative to the first black female artist to paint an official…
Fashion Editor Esther Lee Leach: Community And Content Are King Building a brand online is no easy feat. While ease of accessibility to all the elements of starting a business, such as building a website, product availability, payment gateways, etc. make it seem simple, the truth of the matter is that it’s a very crowded space, making it quite difficult…
5 Unsaid Rules for Following Up on Your Internship Applications So, you’ve applied to every internship you can think of and are now checking your phone and email obsessively waiting to hear back. It’s worse than the three-day waiting period after a great first date—it’s been almost a week now and you’re dying to find out what that company thinks of…
Six Leadership Lessons from COVID-19 By Kanni Wignaraja, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific I had just taken on my new job, as Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific at UNDP early in the year, when we heard rumblings about a new coronavirus wreaking havoc in Wuhan, China. We didn’t know then that…
