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Stop asking Black Business Owners to give things away for free – it harms the community

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Dr Boyce Watkins explains why it’s unfair to ask black business owners to give everything away for free. He says that black entrepreneurs need support from the black community and buy black campaigns for their businesses to be able to grow.

You can follow Dr Watkins at the links below:

Instagram: @TheRealBoyceWatkins
Twitter: @DrBoyceWatkins1
Via Text: Text the word Boyce to 31996
Youtube: Youtube.com/DrBoyceWatkins
To learn how to start your own business: TheBlackBusinessSchool.com
Personal website: BoyceWatkins.com
The Dr Boyce Watkins Wealth-building program for children: BlackMillionairesOfTomorrow.com
To take my online course: TheBlackStockMarketProgram.com
The Dr Boyce Watkins podcast on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/boyce-watkins
To buy Dr Boyce books: DrBoyceBooks.com

Comments

Thomas Nichols says:

This happean here in Spain just as well. Black here are always ask to give them my training for free.. I NEVER have I heard White business to give something free.. That from Africans , Spaniard's, Romanian's ..

Steeve Cantave says:

There is a fine line between building a customer base and being asked to give things away for free. Also, don’t compare major businesses to local businesses. Of course I won’t negotiate with KFC like I would a business next door, but it isn’t race related.

Health, Weight & Real Talk says:

That give me free stuff is a poverty mindset and it destroys the black community.

lakerry harper says:

Thanks Boyce it was refreshing to here you Speak

Homeboy Tactical says:

Amen Bruh! 100% FACTS

GOOD NEWS PUBLISHING says:

Read the book: YOUR INFINITE POWER TO BE RICH. Black business needs a PUBLIC AFFAIRS Department. Reach BLACK consumers on how businesses operates so staying in business isn't some magical state achieved.

Lizbeth Brady says:

Dr. Boyce, it can be done very strategically. You can give away for free in the beginning, but build in the price into the product sale. I gave away Jerk Chicken to a new client today. Costs $30.00 …return 10 times in getting a Caterting job. But I agree overall. You must be smart and strategic. And charge the right price as well. Blacks need to learn how to build business and charge right.

EMMANUEL Thomas says:

I want to write articles. I heard boyce Watkins has a website where black ppl can write articles. Does anyone know the name?

Yes or No lal says:

Stop trying to sell products and goods to black people

KurtLeeLove says:

My dream is write a book about African Deep Thought.

jaja smile says:

black folks don't have value anything thanks to the Democratic party . I don't serve bp at all . BP sent 1.2 tillion dollars last year all wait to wm , Chinese , Muslim , Koreans .

Brother Man says:

The best business to have been a black business owner is a cultural neutral business

ayuda man says:

Sometimes Dr. Boyce makes phantom arguments just so he can come up with a solution, sort of like the arsonist who wants to be the hero by putting out the fire. Maybe it is just I, but I do not know Black people who expect Black businesses to give their product away free.

PROJECT DX says:

This is EXACTLY the problem with black people. They cant WAIT to hand their money over to everyone esle EXCEPT THEMSELVES. Thats the problem right there.

ADTX Channel says:

For those of you who are anti-black businesses, the next Trayvon martin Sandra Bland happens, the time a philandro Castile is shot, the next time a cop pulls a black person over for no reason, if you or your family member is a victim of WS, the next time you see a predominately black school suffers from lack of funding, the next time black unemployment is twice the National average, the next time trump insults blacks as a whole, the next time a white man assaults any black persons please do NOT complain. ALL of those are manifestations of the WS ideology in this country. Just like your automatic panning of black businesses is.

phyllis dawkins says:

Hey Boyce there is going to be the first black owned grocery store can you support by spreading the word http://www.soulfoodmarkets.com they recently achieved there goal of securing the funds to get the building

Paul Charles says:

Conditioned behaviour

Erick Onassis says:

Did Charles Wu give you a discount boyce…

Anthony Greene says:

I see a lot of black business in that don't understand the numbers Game.

Michael R says:

Dr. Watson please cut your losses and rebrand blaggenuf with a new shorter easier to spell name like clapback.com or something catchy like that

Gina Smith says:

BOYCE YOU AND YOUR WHITE/HALF BREED WIFE AINT SHIT !!!!!! YOU SHADY ASS LIAR!

Perry L Duff says:

This is exactly why I think that the Buy Black Movement is such a terrible idea. This is also why I think that calling yourself a "Black Owned" business is also a terrible idea. Calling yourself a "Black Owned" business is really nothing more than giving black people in the community an entitlement card to come and use against you.

The first thing that black people looking to run a business need to understand is that black people WILL NOT support you! They will make every excuse imaginable just like the one in this video (gimme your goods and services for free, do me favors, give it to me wholesale instead of retail, etc) to stop your business from moving forward on their dime.

Too many black people hate this. They become extremely jealous of any black person succeeding at anything in spite of them. And it drives them nuts to see you succeed from THEIR hard earned dollars. Even if they made a legitimate purchase from your company. To them, Its the dagger in the heart of their misery.

Your success is the equivalent of them "eating their heart" out. This is why I will NEVER position myself as a "Black Owned" business. Instead, I will position myself as a good quality business period. Being black is already a strike against me when it comes to being a business owner.

Therefore it stands to reason that we need an effective counter strategy for nurturing and growing a business as a black man. And telling people that your business is "Black Owned" will not help with that strategy. It will only hinder it. I'm just saying… #perrylduff

kimm crumley says:

Black business rob themselves by allways over pricing

The FAT GUY Channel says:

"If your woke and your broke, people look at you like a joke.- Dr Boyce Watkins

Blair Anthony Jennings says:

The fact that we even need to have this conversation…

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