{"id":12363,"date":"2024-06-06T17:32:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=12363"},"modified":"2024-06-06T17:32:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:32:52","slug":"the-black-wall-street-community-development-coaching-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/the-black-wall-street-community-development-coaching-session\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Wall Street Community Development Coaching Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12364\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12364\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Toni-Battle-Gaines-The-Juice-107.3-FM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toni Battle-Gaines, The Juice 107.3 FM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>By Dawn Scotland<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>The Truth Reporter<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Black Wall Street Community Development held its fifth coaching session \u201cSelling the Sizzle\u201d at TTEC (5212 Hill Ave.) Wednesday, May 29. This was the final session in the five-part series leading up to BWSCD\u2019s Juneteenth Speed Funding event June 13. The session featured local Black media experts and was aimed at helping entrepreneurs hone their marketing strategies to better their business.<\/p>\n<p>The event featured presentations from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Toni Battle-Gaines (Juice 107.3 WJUC)<\/li>\n<li>Fletcher Word (The Sojourner&#8217;s Truth Newspaper)<\/li>\n<li>Kristie Knighten (KPK Unlimited)<\/li>\n<li>Tesha Ballard and Brittany Johnson (WTVG\u00a013 ABC)<\/li>\n<li>Stayce Fowler (Stalwart Magazine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe key to all advertising is <em>consistency<\/em>,\u201d stated Toni Battle- Gaines, long time marking representative for WJUC 107.3 The Juice, \u201cIf you just throw it out there and they never see you again and you don\u2019t remind them that you\u2019re out there and you don\u2019t consistently keep your company\u2019s name in front of them &#8211;\u00a0 it\u2019s not going to work for you. It\u2019s not going to work long term.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12365\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12365\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Kristie-Knighten-KPK-Unlimited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristie Knighten (KPK Unlimited)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Black media experts offered tips and advice as well as special promotions in advertising for attendees.\u00a0 The event offered presentations across multimedia platforms including radio, newspaper, apparel, video and magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to do your research,\u201d emphasized Fletcher Word, editor and publisher of The Sojourner\u2019s Truth Newspaper. \u201cYou have to determine what you want, where you want to go and who you want to reach. And then you have to do your research on the various outlets that are available.\u201d Each representative offered exclusive advice on how to better market in today\u2019s world and provided knowledge on questions asked from the group in the hour-long session.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Wall Street Community Development is an organization established by local Black-owned media \u2013 The Juice 107.3 radio station, The Sojourner\u2019s Truth newspaper and Stalwart magazine. Started in 2023, the group has hosted a wealth of events and sessions to help empower the Black business community in NW Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Wall Street Community Development\u2019s mission statement \u201cis to empower a community of business owners through activities such as mentorship, networking, leadership coaching and financial literacy initiatives for advocacy, support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During April and May, the group hosted a five-part series of events for Black entrepreneurs on topics pertinent to success and viability in today\u2019s market. The sessions included such topics as \u201cScaling Your Biz,\u201d \u201cBrand Strategy\u201d and \u201cFinancial Snapshot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On June 13, the BWSCD will be hosting an epic speed funding event held at TTEC for Juneteenth at 6 p.m., in partnership with Toledo JuneteenthNY, to help entrepreneurs catapult themselves into the next level of their business.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about BWSDC visit Facebook @ Black Wall Street Community Development. To learn more about Assets Toledo visit assetstoledo.com or their Facebook page.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12363 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/the-black-wall-street-community-development-coaching-session\/olympus-digital-camera-101\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Tesha-Ballard-and-Brittany-Johnson-WTVG-13-ABC.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12367\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12367'>\n\t\t\t\tTesha Ballard and Brittany Johnson (WTVG\u00a013 ABC)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/the-black-wall-street-community-development-coaching-session\/olympus-digital-camera-100\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Stayce-Fowler-Stalwart-Magazine-.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-12366\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-12366'>\n\t\t\t\tStayce Fowler (Stalwart Magazine)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dawn Scotland The Truth Reporter The Black Wall Street Community Development held its fifth coaching session \u201cSelling the Sizzle\u201d at TTEC (5212 Hill Ave.) Wednesday, May 29. This was the final session in the five-part series leading up to BWSCD\u2019s Juneteenth Speed Funding event June 13. The session featured local Black media experts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-12363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12368,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions\/12368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12363"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=12363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}