Marketing

Have you ever tried to sell online? It’s not always easy. When you try to sell and advertise, you need to get known.  You need to make your advertisement attractive and be persuasive. You need to offer something that no one else has to offer. Maybe you need something new and different to sell. Everybody is trying to sell something, and you might run into competition.


If you have an online store or work with a marketing place, it might be a good idea to order some of your coffee mugs and shirts and sell them at a flea market. You can try selling online and off line. Find people that would be interested in what you are selling. You need a group of people that you can reach and a group large enough to make you some money. You might find some people that might become regular customers, and it would be great to get some new customers.  The right group of people can make you lots of money. That would be people that love to spend money and is always constantly buying. You need people that love what you are selling. This is what I have found out from my experience.  If you try to sell something, it might also help to try to find what people are after and what it is that people are always buying.

Remembering Amos ‘n’ Andy

By Gail Nobles

9/19/2006


Amos ‘n’ Andy was a radio comedy. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correl were the two white actors that created and started the radio version. Then it was brought to television in the 1950’s. The television series was an all black cast.



My Favorite Clip


I remember seeing clips of Amos and Andy in the 1980’s on television. I had never seen Amos ‘n’ Andy before. The comedy was made before I was ever born. They showed several clips from the series.


In one clip that I saw, there was a funny character named King Fish. He decided to sell Andy a house with land. He drove Andy by the house and land so he could get a look at it. Well, Andy liked what he saw. King Fish quickly sold Andy the lot. King Fish was a dirty and sneaky rascal. Everything was happening all too fast.



Andy got his friend Lightnin’ to help him move into the house. They walked into the front door right into a yard. They both carried chairs into the front door to sit down. When they sat down, they started stretching. Andy said, “Good ole fresh air!” Then they both heard birds singing. Andy realized that they were outside. “Holy smoke, Lightin’! We done walked right through the house into the yard.”





















Andy walked back through the door to step outside with Lightin. Lightin went back into what he thought was a house while Andy stayed outside. Lightin’ said to Andy, “Missed it again!”

Soon Andy and Lightin’ had both discovered that they were really outdoors. The house was nothing but a door and yard. Andy asked Lightin’, “What do you think, Lightin’?”


Lightin’ said, “This sho is the same house.”




















Andy went back to King Fish to threaten him. Andy grabbed King Fish by the collar and said, “If you don’t give me my money back, I’m going to punch you in each eye! I’m going to open everything that’s closed and close everything that’s open!” Andy was going to sue King Fish.


As the comedy went on, King Fish rigged up a hole in the ground on the lot to make it look like there was oil there. That made Andy keep the lot. Then King Fish wanted to buy the lot back because the Suburban Development Company wanted to buy the lot from him. They offered him more money. Andy had doubled crossed King Fish that time because he sent the company.


Conclusion


That particular clip of Amos ‘n’ Andy was my favorite clip. I never laughed at a comedy so hard in my life. I laughed until my side was hurting. I believe that it is the funniest comedy of all times. Some African Americans didn’t like Amos ‘n’ Andy because they thought it made Negroes look like clowns and crooks. I am African American. But I am from a different generation. To me, the comedy is no worse than the crazy stuff that I see on television today. Sometimes what I see on television today is just plain stupid and not funny. Amos and Andy really made me laugh. They had real humor.

I Miss Microsoft's Ms. Dewey

By Gail Nobles
1/8/2007


Updated



  I have seen a special and new search engine. It was not like a regular search engine at all. A character named Ms. Dewey appeared. She was a real person that had been video taped. When you entered into the site, Ms. Dewey appeared to be playing chess or writing something down. She stood behind a desk. Behind Ms. Dewey was a picture of a city. She appeared on the left while the search results appeared on the right. Then Ms. Dewey talked to you and told you to type something into the search bar. Ms. Dewey had a comment about your search before your search was shown. When you clicked on what you were looking for, she took you to another page. Ms. Dewey was still on the other page and waited for you to type more into the search bar. If you take too long, she would aggravate you until you did. Here is a warning. If you ask her a question, sometimes she would give you a smart answer or she would tell you that she didn't know what you were talking about. To me, she was more than a search engine. Don’t start a conversation with her or give her back talk. Ms. Dewey really got smart, and she could curse too. I told her to shut up. Ms. Dewey understood me very well then. Sometimes she would make me laugh, and I typed words into the search bar just for the fun of it. Ms. Dewey had funny expressions and actions. I really enjoy her as a search engine. The search engine was really unique and different than any other search engine. Ms. Dewey was made by Microsoft, but Ms. Dewey does not exist anymore. I miss Microsoft's Ms. Dewey.

Moms Mabley

Picture from Google images.


Article By Gail Nobles


Jackie “Moms Mabley was an African American comedian. Her birth name was Loretta Mary Aiken. She took her stage name Jackie Mabley from her boyfriend. Later she became known as “Moms”.  She was born in Brevard, North Carolina. Mabley was a very successful entertainer and earned $10,000 a week at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. Mabley could sing and told very funny jokes. She wore a house dress and a funny hat. Mabley performed with no teeth in her mouth. To me, her appearance went along well with her performance. Here are some of the funny things she would say………………


Moms Mabley: Let me tell you what happened to me in the good ole days. You couldn’t do nothing that you wanted to do. And you better not open your mouth. If you did, they would nock your brains out……………..If daddy said so, that was it. See, I wasn’t nothing’ but a child. Nothin’ but a child 14 going on 15 years old. And just as cute as I want to be. Hair hanging down my back. See, I’m half Indian, and the other half the beauty parlor takes care of that. And this ooooooooolllllllllllldddddddddd  dead, puny, molded man. I mean an old man. Santa Clause look like his son. He was older than his mother………………My daddy liked him. I had to marry that old man. My daddy should have married him. He the one liked him.

Remembering The Sad News of Wrestler Chris Benoit

By Gail Nobles
6/25/2007


It was June 25, 2007 when my father called me from his job around 7:54 pm. He asked me to record the wrestling for him. I really didn’t feel like it because I don’t watch it anymore. Wrestling is not as good as it was to me back in the days of “The American Dream Dusty Rhodes“. I was trying to find a full tape so that I could record the commercials. Just before the tape stopped rewinding, I saw a still picture of wrestler Chris Benoit. The show was in memory of him, and it was WWE that aired a three hour tribute to him.


When WWE first came on, I saw Vince McMahon in the ring holding a microphone, and there was no audience. He told the news on television that there were some dead bodies found. It was the wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and his son Daniel. I thought, “The show is no fake tonight.” This was very sad news to me, and I did not know the man and his family. Chris Benoit and his family were found dead in their home. Police are investigating. You can find out more at www.wwe.com.


Still in shock, I called my father to give him the sad news. He was very disappointed. I called my brother because he likes wrestling too. He thought it might be fake. I told him that I didn’t think that they would fake about a wrestler dying on television like that. I read the Google news to him on the internet, and we both knew then for sure that the wrestling was no show that time. It was and is still a very terrible tragedy.

Sky.fm Internet Radio

Sky.fm is a great quality Internet radio. There you can hear the best oldies. You can hear songs from the all hit 70’s by Earth Wind and Fire, Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, and more. You can hear the best of the 80’s, oldies, classical, country, and more. At the site, you will see a “listen now menu“, and you will see all of the channels. You will also see the recent play list history. Sky.fm is an excellent sounding Internet Radio.

American Gangster: A Sad Movie

The Movie


To me, not only was Frank Lucas an American gangster, but a mobster too. Why did they decide to make a movie about Frank Lucas? The movie has been bragged about by some. To me, it was not a good movie for the fact that it’s giving Frank Lucas more fame and publicity about the dirt he has done. The movie has planted a seed into my brain. A seed of questions. I have heard from another movie (black film) that the white man started the drugs. The way it looks to me, no race is innocent when it comes to drugs no matter who started it. All people doing crime need to clean up their lives.

Lucas Family


“American Gangster” is a sad movie to me. It was pitiful. Frank Lucas played by Denzel Washington had no heart. He sold drugs and a lot of people died because of his drug trade empire. I could not stand to watch the drug needles being injected into flesh on the screen.
Denzel acting made you see a good side of Lucas because of what he did for his family. You forget the terrible things he was doing in the drug business just for a few seconds. Frank Lucas (Denzel) bought Mama Lucas (Ruby Dee) a big nice home. Watching her be happy made you forget just a little bit. Then Frank Lucas just got worse and kept right on with the drug business. He turned around and got his brothers involved in his drug trade.

Things looked worse as the film rolled. Lucas shot a man in the head right down in the streets according to the movie. Lucas did not care, and he walked back into the restaurant from which he came as if nothing happened. There seemed to be no police around, but troubled seemed to be catching up with Lucas. It was a blessing that his wife did not get hurt, and he did not give his mother a heart attack. Frank Lucas was angry when somebody tried to kill his wife. He was bringing troubles and burdens on himself and his family.


Convicted


It looked as if nobody could catch or touch Lucas for a long time in the movie. He was finally convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to 70 years. Thirty members of Frank’s family were convicted of drug trafficking and sent to prison. Frank’s mother moved back to NC, and Frank’s wife returned to Puerto Rico. Richie (Russell Crowe) who was a detective that caught Frank quit the prosecutor’s office to become a defense attorney. His first client was Frank. Frank’s prison sentence was reduced to fifteen years, and he was released in 1991.

Denzel Washington played a sad story, but he acted the part of Frank Lucas out very well.
The movie is based on a true story. Whether everything in the movie was really true, I don’t know, but the main idea of the story is sad to me.