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Wig shop owners are taking steps to strengthen their ties with their traditional African American customer base    ...

Imagine a world where you could sell your products and services for top dollar, and have your customers be thrilled to pay whatever you’re charging.It may sound too good to be true, but it is entirely possible if you’re using the right methods – that is, competing based on every aspect of your company except for price.Business owners can actually...

Approximately 9,800 beauty supply businesses exist nationwide; but only a little more than 300 are black-owned, Naturallymoi reports.In an article published on Cascade Patch, Devin Robinson, owner of Atlanta’s Beauty Supply Institute, attributes the lack of African-American business owners in the industry to cost mark-ups by Koreans.According to...

Supermarket and bodega owners, alongside small business advocates assembled at City Hall to protest the decision by both New York City and the State of New York to provide the online grocer and delivery service, FreshDirect, with $127 million dollars worth of tax payer subsidies.Joined by South Bronx Unite, Willets Point United, and other business...

You never want to badmouth your rivals. But there are other ways to highlight your strengths.We live in a competitive world, and that means that you'll frequently be drawn into situations where you need to sell "against" a competitor, rather than simply selling what you've got.There's an art to doing this effectively, according to Linda Richardson,...