Interview Questions for Business Owners

EDC Creations is now accepting interviews for the Black Pearls Magazine. If you would like to be interviewed for the magazine, answer the questions below.

After answering the questions, edit and spell check your work, then email the questions AND the answers to Ella Curry in the body of an email. In the subject line of the email put: Black Pearl Interview Request. Or you may post it here, after editing.

Questions for Business Owners
Please answer at least 4 of these questions in detail. Send Ella your biography for the introduction.

Submit a short paragraph describing the company and what you offer the consumer. Tell us about your services, events, accomplishments and the owners.

Finish this sentence: I am Powerful because.....

Discuss the following theory on business:
Did your company change the way consumers were previously taught to think?
"It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one." - Nicolo Machiavelli


Discussion Questions:
1. What got you started in this business/industry? Did you have any formal business training?
2. What separates you and your firm from the competition?
3. How would you describe your experience as a Black Entrepreneur?
4. Looking back on your business, is there anything that you would have done differently?
5. What is your biggest challenge in business? How did you overcome it?
6. What advice would you give someone just starting out in your industry?
7. What do you enjoy most about your profession?
8. What are 3 things all leaders possess?
9. How do you work keep your business growing?
10. What's new in your company for 2009?

Add all of your contact information and website addresses at the end. Attach your logo or company photos to the email. Once again, submit your interview in the body of an email, spell checked without any formatting. Do not send the interview as a Word doc or as a .pdf file. We will have it published in 48 hours.

Thank you in advance for considering a spotlight in the all new EDC Creations Black Pearls Online Magazine.

Ella Curry, president of EDC Creations
www.edc-creations.com