Liquid Barrier

02/26/2025

Voices Of Africa LinkedIn Live Event: Continuing Your Education in the US -

We are excited to invite you to our LinkedIn Live Event where Wendy Pierce, PhD, MBA, PMP, Eden Andom Woldetinsae, Blen Eshetu, and I, Frank Bryant, will provide valuable insights on journeying to the United States for further education.

02/11/2024

Dear Voices Of Africa Followers, Friends, Connections & Colleagues:

Please join Leah Awiti Omil, CEO of Omil Staffing Services and a Voices Of Africa Partner, Kori Whisenant from the Law Office of K. E. Whisenant, LLC, and me, Frank Bryant, Voices Of Africa's Chief Inspiration Officer, for another informative and entertaining LinkedIn Audio Event titled "Why & How I Created My Business."

During this event, you will learn the forces driving us to create our businesses and some specifics on how we did it! We also hope you can gain some insight into starting and scaling your own business.
https://www.linkedin.com/events/why-howicreatedmybusiness-part27162410664374775808/

Please come prepared to ask plenty of questions; Leah, Kori, and I will happily answer them all.

Best regards,
Frank

On est ensemble / We are all African!!!🎉

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02/02/2024

Dear Voices Of Africa Followers, Friends, Connections & Colleagues:

On Saturday, February 3rd, please join Leah Awiti Omil, CEO of Omil Staffing Services and a Voices Of Africa Partner, Fran Strickland from V Chastain Global Enterprises, and me, Frank Bryant, Voices Of Africa's Chief Inspiration Officer, for an informative and entertaining LinkedIn Live Event titled "Why & How I Created My Business."
https://lnkd.in/ge5eCbdV

During this event, you will learn the forces driving us to create our businesses and some specifics on how we did it! We also hope you can gain some insight into starting and scaling your own business.

Please come prepared to ask plenty of questions; Leah, Fran, and I will happily answer them all.

Best regards,
Frank Bryant

03/07/2023

"Finally, Someone Who Cares About Us," was a phrase communicated to me by a young lady of African heritage when I described Liquid Barrier's latest venture to create a digital platform to amplify young African female voices.

As most of you know, I started Liquid Barrier about two years ago at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic when an offer to join a major pharmaceutical company was rescinded. Since then, Liquid Barrier has expertly created technology, business, and social media content--mostly thought leadership articles, newsfeed posts, and website copy. We've also dabbled in improving the look and feel and design of our client's websites and LinkedIn profiles.

Recently, to expand and deepen Liquid Barrier's influence and to address more than several critical needs identified within and around our African diaspora, I have decided to create a platform to serve as a vehicle for young African women to express their perspectives on such important themes as environment/climate change and sustainability, politics, health/reproductive care, technology, economics, and education--only to name a few.

In my opinion, young African women have not always had the opportunity to express themselves as freely and as often as they might like--and/or perhaps they haven't had the platform. At the same time, young African women will without question play a critical role in the future development of our Continent as well as maintain our rich history.

Since recently speaking to so many young African ladies over the past few weeks to introduce the platform, words can barely express how impressed I've been with their intelligence, polish, poise, education, style, class, and charm--not to mention their extraordinary beauty.

I sincerely believe Africa's true treasures are not petroleum products, diamonds, gold, copper, lithium, or timber. It is our young African women whom we must promote, cherish, and protect.

Mining the minds and learning from our most precious commodities, and at the same time showcasing the excellence of our African culture to the world, is an experience I'm sure you won't want to miss!

For more information on our upcoming digital platform to amplify young African female voices, please drop me a DM stating, "I want to learn more."

09/12/2021

A Script for This and A Script for That
Sales for my technology, business, and writing social media content creation business are largely centered on using a series of pre-written scripts I’ve composed. I have a script prepared for every possible existing and potential customer interaction—which I deliver via social media text messaging or email.

I have a script for thanking folks for accepting my LinkedIn and Facebook invites; a script for asking for a meeting that summarizes my writing services. I even have a script to reply to someone who is interested in my services but is not quite ready to move forward. Believe it or not, I even have a follow-up script to a less effective sales script I sent out months beforehand. But honestly, I have too many sales-related scripts to list here but I’m sure you get the point.

I think I’ve become an adept sales scriptwriter because: (1) English was my college major; (2) as an IT tech writer, business analyst, and project manager; I wrote tons of tech documents; and (3) I’ve done product sales before and learned how to be fairly persuasive. In fact, I consider my ability to write in all forms to be by far my greatest business superpower. And I am by no means the world’s most talented writer.

I’d argue, though, by having ready-to-go, every occasion sales scripts, I have, to a degree, semi-automated my sales operation. For every current or in sales cycle customer communication I send, there’s no need to think about what needs to be expressed, it's 'down on paper' already. Proverbially speaking, I don't need to reinvent the wheel. Further, my scripts are written eloquently, professionally, and straight to the point.

By far the biggest advantage in making use of pre-written sales scripts is it saves that all so precious entrepreneurial commodity …. TIME! Since my writing business is a little over a year old, I’m still pretty much an operational one-person show. I sell, market, and do the daily accounting; I do customer work myself and farm out and manage my staff's assignments.

Employing sales scripts facilitates communicating to audiences faster and more effectively—freeing up time for me to cram more stuff on my plate. C'est la vie! I’m at the point now where I’ can predict script effectiveness. For instance, if I push out 100 sales scripts to potential clients, I can safely predict how many warm prospects I’ll get in return. But I’m also fairly keen on my audience avatar(s).

The next step on my sales script journey is to start using LinkedIn’s and Facebook’s sales campaign tools to carry my scripts to wider and better-defined audiences. Right now, I pretty much blast off my scripts one at a time—but again they work. My work process improvement approach is to always first define an effective manual process, then automate it, then automate it some more after doing some basic analysis. I let you all know how things work out.
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09/06/2021

Who was the first Black woman to appear on the cover of "Vogue"?

Beverly Johnson

When Ford Models told Beverly Johnson she wouldn't book covers because of her race, she wasn't discouraged; she simply sought out new representation. She joined Wilhelmina Cooper's agency, and she soon made history. In 1974, Johnson became the first person of color to appear on the cover of "Vogue." Francesco Scavullo's portrait depicted Johnson smiling and wearing a blue sweater, fitting for the fall fashions she modeled inside.

Johnson was a successful working model before the cover, but her "Vogue" appearance — a major milestone in the magazine's then-eight-decade history — launched her into superstardom.

In 1975, she broke barriers again as the first Black woman on the cover of French "Elle." She went on to book three more "Vogue" covers and has spent much of her life advocating for her fellow models. In 2019, she walked the runway for Tommy Hilfiger and Zendaya's TommyNow collection at Paris Fashion Week, along with 58 other Black models, including fellow legends Pat Cleveland and Grace Jones.

Source: Vogue | Date Updated: May 5, 2020