Rick Saldan's Motivational Magic - Motivational Speaker & Master Magician

Rick Saldan is an excellent inspirational speaker who tailored the seminar to the needs of the individual students being instructed. This office thanks the Mayors Office of Information Services for having such a vendor.

Timothy K. Lynch

Office of Fleet Management

City of Philadelphia

Rick has a magical approach that provides a clear and concise message specifically designed to the needs of his audience. Rick will provide all the motivational magic you will ever need, propelling your organization to the next level of greater success.

Thomas Mulhern

Frontier Communications

Rick Saldan is a compelling and absorbing motivational speaker and magician. I have been to five of his Motivational Magic presentations and it is amazing how he keeps our college audiences on the edge of their seats. A highly entertaining performer with great comedy flair. Rich content to increase students' productivity, peak performance and motivation. If you need an outstanding motivational speaker for colleges, Rick is definitely one of the world's greatest speakers and magicians!

Dr. Rob Gilbert, Sport Psychologist,

Montclair State University

Rick Saldan has the wit, wisdom and sorcery of a wizard. He has a dynamic personality, and all will enjoy his captivating stories, comedy and magic!

Dennis Slaughter
Credit Suisse First Boston

Rick Saldan delivers a first-class show! A pro in every sense of the word. Funny, unique, entertaining and polished.

Brian Letscher, Actor

Hawaii Five-O, NCIS, Cold Case, Law & Order and The Mentalist.

Rick Saldan is a wonderful combination of master magician, comic improviser and first class speaker. The audience loved his program, which was music to our ears. If you love celebrity motivational speakers such as Tom Hopkins, Dale Carnegie and Zig Ziglar, then you'll love Rick!

Dottie Burman, President
Burtley Productions, Inc.

Rick Saldan is an incredibly talented performer and motivational speaker with great insight. He shares many powerful motivational messages that will enhance your life for the better!

Jack Murray, President
Dream Illusions

Rick is one of the best inspirational speakers on the scene today. Funny, fun loving and highly energetic. If you want to make your next event into an extraordinary one, then invite professional speaker Rick Saldan and his amazing Motivational Magic.

Andres Lara, President

Inspiration Times Magazine

SELF-HELP AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN
Author: ASWAD

Self-help and self-determintion has been a hot topic amoung African-Americans since the end of Slavery.

As a people, African-Americans have been denied self-determination by social edict. There movements, ways of dress, ways of speech, and even ways of worship have been dictated to them by social edict.

During the 1960¹s Black became beautiful, and African-Americans began to take charge of their appearence, minds and thoughts and decided that they could do things for themselves for a change.

Recent evidence indicates that more and more African-Americans are taking charge of their lives in various ways. One way is starting their own businesses.

It is a little known fact that African-American¹s had more community- based businesses before integration than after.

Today, thanks to the internet, Many African-Americans are no longer counting on a simple ? to 5?to get them by They are throwing up Afrocentric websites and selling their wares on line.

When I first arrived in San Francisco, California I was leaving the grocery store when a Gay man of about 60 yelled at me, ³You won¹t get very far with your Black shit!!?br>
At first I was offended. But as the years passed, I realized in a certain way, he was right.

The sight of a tall Black man in Afro-Indian clothing with dreadlocks seems to make people in the corporate world very uncomfortable.

It¹s all about image. And that image is one that Corporate America has been trying t erradicate for some time.

However, as I¹ve always said, ³The Internet don¹t care if your colored!?br>
Acess to the internet for African-Americans becomes easier every day. Here are a few low-cost tips for starting your own business on-line with very little money.

FREE E-MAIL: There are no end of websites (some Black-owned) where you can get a 100% free e-mail account. All you have to do is sign up!

FREE WEB PAGES: Just like free E-mail there are many companies that offer a small amount of web space for absolutely free!

LOW COST WEBSITES: Can¹t afford a website? There are actual websites you can run your business from with all types of features for anywhere from to a month!

FREE ADVERTISING: This is one I make liberal use of myself. Until you can afford to advertise your business in a big way, make use of all the free resources out there. There are tons of them to be found on any search engine!

USED COMPUTERS: One of the biggest stumbling blocks to African-Americans getting on the web has been the price of a computer. My advice would be to scour the classifieds for used computer ads. I actually got mine when my best friends company auctioned off their old models. I got a keyboard, moniter, and cpu, for ! I bought a brand new modem for . AOL was free for the first month, and I was in business!

African-Americans face extra hurdles to sucess that others do not. Self-doubt. Self-hate. An over-riding fear that ³the white man?won¹t let you have anything. Lack of access to information, and financing.

But information is only a click away on the internet, and public libraries now have internet access! And as for financing; well let¹s just say that the 0 you spent on those new ³AIR JORDANS?could have been spent on a new bsuiness for yourself!

THE END

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ASWAD IS THE OWNER OF ASWAD'S BOOKSTORE. AN ON-LINE BOOKSTORE FEATURING HIS OWN SELF-PUBLISHED WORK LOCATED AT www.bookmasters.com/aswad/ & MRASWAD@AOL.COM

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