Black Women are Leaving Myspace and Joining Rich Black Girls

Posted Under: interviews, technology

Black Women are Leaving Myspace and Joining Rich Black Girls. Professional Black Women and College students prefer Rich Black Girls because the members aren’t just collecting social contacts without benefiting from it. “In no way, shape or form does the site attempt to duplicate Myspace. The design isn’t like myspace, the method of contact isn’t like myspace. We believe that the style of our site is even better than Myspace, truthfully,” Tina Crawford explains. “I hope that I don’t put any one off by this statement, but there is absolutely no comparison.” Rich Black Girls has members who are in some of the most powerful organizations in the nation, if not the world. Princess Dominique wanted to dish a little technology culture and caught up with a rep for a mini-interview.

1. Why RichBlackGirls.com when there are already sites like Myspace, Facebook and Hi5?

Facebook nor Myspace offer the resources that we offer to our demographic: Black Women. Facebook and Myspace are sites that are very valuable to musicians and college students who want to “shoot the breeze” and socialize. However, there was no place for a Black woman who would like to empower herself, her community and so forth. Let’s face it, we have 2 strikes against us in this society: Black and a Woman. We want to level out the playing field by creating a space where Black women can connect and share resources, networking tips, business ideas, and etc.

Myspace and Facebook and Hi5 are so random. You can stay on there for hours at a time, and really accomplish nothing but decorating a profile and adding friends, many of which you more than likely will never meet. Rich Black Girls does not try to be a duplicate or replica of these already established brands. Our database is a membership database, not a social networking site. It offers our members to view “virtual business cards”, business listings, deals, job postings and etc, and industry help for our demographic. It isn’t a site where you spend hours at a time getting sucked in, and not accomplishing anything. It has a direct purpose and goal. And that goal is to empower Black women, and to connect those who are already powerful with one another. Anyone can join Facebook, anyone can join Myspace, there are no criterias that would distinguish someone who was serious about business development, community development, personal advancement vs. someone who just wants to chit chat all day.

2. Why is there a fee to join and what are some of the benefits of paying to join a networking group like RichBlackGirls.com?

There is a fee because we offer services that no other community does:

-Classes/Seminars
-Industry Articles
-Scholarships/Grant Information
-Investment Info
-Deals
-Meet and Greet offline
-The ability to Bid on other member’s projects
-Consistent Empowerment
-Audio Magazine
-Members can list their businesses and projects in our classified section
-We offer promotion for the business owner, mentors for the college student, and connections for the Black elite socialites

Other sites that have fees are $19.99 for Meet up, $1,000 for Women Launch, we believe we are very competitive, especially with all the content we provide. We also realize that not everyone can afford to subscribe, and to us that is a good thing. We only want to appeal to a certain demographic: Black women who can and will invest in their own self improvement.

3. Where do you hope to see RichBlackGirls.com in the next few years?

We have plans on visiting college campuses to interact and create leadership workshops for Black women. We are launching a television platform in the near future. Overall, we really don’t want or need “all the big publicity”, we just want those Black women who would like to connect with other Black women in power to do so. We plan on having a National Conference in the next couple of years, and we are excited about that.

We would like to thank you, and your publication. We think that you have a fabulous site, and will be telling the members about your blog.

Bookmark Me: Social Bookmark Thisdel.icio.us Digg it ma.gnolia Maple.nu Netvouz Netscape RawSugar reddit Scuttle Shadows Simpy Spurl StumbleUpon Wink Yahoo MyWeb