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🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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In 1954 Johnson Publishing Company, publishers of Ebony and Jet magazines produced a short film to encourage advertisers to sell their products or services to the growing African American market that controlled over 15 billion dollars a year.
On today’s Black Entrepreneur Blueprint podcast episode # 473, Jay decodes and discusses the contrast and similarities between the past economic climate and the current economic climate as it pertains to Black consumerism.
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0:59.9 | Welcome to the black entrepreneur blueprint, episode number 473. I'm your host Jay Jones and today |
1:09.8 | we have another outstanding and informative show installed for you. |
1:13.8 | Today's show topic is The Secret to Selling the Negro Decoded. |
1:19.6 | The Secret to Selling the Negro Decoded. |
1:23.7 | In 1954, Johnson Publishing, who's the publisher of Ebony and Jet Magazine, they produced a short |
1:30.7 | film to encourage advertisers to sell their products and services to the growing black market |
1:36.5 | at the time. |
1:37.5 | Obviously, this is before civil rights, and we were trying to be inclusive or be included |
1:43.4 | in the economy. |
1:45.3 | At that time, the black annual buying power was $15 billion. |
1:50.1 | Remember, this is 1954. |
1:52.7 | Today or 2024, it's estimated to be at $1.8 trillion. |
1:58.9 | So what I'm going to do today is I'm going to take some excerpts from that original video, |
2:03.7 | The Secret to Selling the Negro, and I'm going to actually do a contrast and comparison about |
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