Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label business in America

Sherlene Stevens: Some Businesses Simply Can't Be Separated Racially

In this new America, I believe that there are some businesses that simply can't be soley for one-racial identity (customers). Does your list look like mine? My List Health care venues; Government staff venues; Places of worship or denominations when such organization is "the only" like-organization in a local community; Evening programs of places of worship; Political parties;  Funeral homes; Sport teams; Airports; Gas suppliers of gas stations; Car dealerships; Cable services; Utility services; Banks; Credit card services; Hotels, motels, Inns, etc.; and,  Internet services. What I learned from making this list is that all lives and occupations really do matter.

Sherlene Stevens: Where's the American Business Style of Incoming Foreign Businesses

Should all new businesses have the same traditional, American design layout? When it's important: Communities that are in need of community development efforts should strive to have an overall (community-based) business theme which expresses a productive, community and business partnership vision. Communities that are experiencing new-mjority citizen-neighbor shifts: race or income-household levels. Business zoning policies may often require specifics of placing business signs, size/color/style of the business sign, etc. Each local community has its own commercial zoning laws and policies. New foreign company owners--in America--may want to consider blending into the current social format of local businesses. This may mean eliminating your ethnic-identity symbols and posters. If a community is exhibiting phobias of a new business based on the owner's particular race, creed, religion, or product/service offered. It is important to blend in socially, sometimes, to be...