Atlanta – The Reimagine Main Street project today announced Andrea TheoJohn of The ADS Agency has been awarded a national Backing Black Business cash grant. The small business grants are designed to fuel the growth aspirations and boost the trajectory of 200+ Black women-led small businesses and entrepreneurs across the U.S.  The ADS Agency is […]

This month I celebrated FIVE WHOLE YEARS of entrepreneurship! At the end of this blog post, I’ll share a link over to my YouTube video about the five big lessons I learned so far as a business owner. Until then, I thought you’d appreciate hearing about my story. I have some podcasts and interviews out […]

CLUBHOUSE ROOM: 11Feb2021 These are room notes from today’s Clubhouse Room entitled “Top Secrets to Building a Powerful Personal Brand” led by The A.D.S. Agency‘s @MissADS08 (Andrea D. Smith) and @DelanoAJohnson (Delano A. Johnson): I met Delano recently on Clubhouse in a Brand Voice room and was thoroughly impressed not only by his voice (he […]

MLK’s sermon – The 3 Dimensions of a Complete Life – is a classic and brings fresh meaning for entrepreneurs in particular here in 2021.

Fresh off the holidays, we know you might not have your January social media content all together just yet. (No worries, we’re not judging!). Of course, use your evergreen business content to post in between these fun holidays and observances below (if you’re stuck on what that is, skip to the video at the bottom […]

I’ve just hit my first 1K too and have gone live twice so far. One important thing to know up front is that going live here is not exactly like going live on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. Your live broadcast is not saved anywhere – it’s like a phone call: if you’re there, great. If […]

So we’re all quarantined at home – what do you do when a birthday or other cause for celebration comes up? What if you just want to have lunch with your friend or do happy hour like you used to but you’ve gotta figure out how to do it virtually? Use Zoom! It’s easy for […]

I did not want to get on TikTok. At all. Whatsoever. It smelled like another SnapChat, which, even though that hasn’t completely gone away, it’s largely become irrelevant for most businesses since Instagram picked up its cool feature (disappearing stories) and then Instagram got backed by Facebook. I’ve since learned, however, that TikTok is different. […]

WELCOME to a New Year, New Decade, New You….yes, yes, yes. It’s here. New Decade or not, though, one thing is for certain: we keep making resolutions and we keep breaking them. Ninety-two percent of us will make resolutions this year, yet again, and only 8% will supposedly keep them (or at least that’s what […]

Whether you’re a very small business or an established, large corporation, here are two simple pointers on #customerservice we think are important for everyone to remember. First is a quote to tack up on your wall that we absolutely LOVE. It’s from the Chief Talent Officer for Netflix, Patty McCord. “Over the years, we learned that if […]