Toure Muhammad of Chicago, Illinois has earned the heralded position of Team Leader in the TAG TEAM Marketing Business Opportunity. This is a tremendous accomplishment and propels Toure into the lead of the Chicago expansion of the Black Business Network.

The TAG TEAM Marketing Opportunity allows everyday people to earn money by getting Black people to buy from Black-owned businesses.  Members of the opportunity, called "Marketers" earn when their customers make purchases from the Black Business Network online store, and can also build teams of other Marketers who make sales as well.  When a Marketer builds a solid team of other Marketers, and helps them all become productive by reaching sales minimums, they earn the position of Team Leader.

Toure has worked hard from the very beginning and has single handedly pioneered the creation of a Chicago team. After joining and taking a trip to the TAG TEAM Marketing Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Toure returned to Chicago and began uniting Black people to build a Chicago team of TAG TEAM Marketing and a chapter of the Black Business Network.  His efforts have produced a dynamic team, and thousands of dollars in sales for Black-owned businesses.

We interviewed Toure after his accomplishment, and this is what he had to say:

Congratulations Toure!  How do you feel?

I feel wonderful.  I feel very excited and encouraged and just so ready to really work even harder to build this movement in this phase of our history.  The feeling of knowing that I achieved a certain level to become Team Leader by helping other people to achieve Team Builder… this system is so wonderful.  This game that Delxino and Debbie have put together is not just lip-service, this is a true win-win situation for our people.  We are sitting here at 9pm, 10pm, 11pm, 12 o'clock at night, helping each other so that we can help Black businesses so that they can thrive and employ more people.  There are no losers in our community in this game, and it is so exciting to me.

I definitely understand the historical significance of achieving Team Leader.  However, Team Leader is not my goal.  My goal is Master Marketer (the top earned position in TAG TEAM Marketing).  My goal is to help as many Black people put their money into the hands of Black-owned businesses and to do this all across the country.

I am taking this win!  I’m excited about Team Leader and I am happy.  I am focused on long term.  This is just one picture in the big picture of the movement.

Who would you like to thank?

Everybody! 

Once again, I would like to thank Delxino and Debbie for their vision and the commitment,... for their passion and integrity.  I am learning so much from them about gratitude and patience and moving and encouraging people and really doing the things that will help people to achieve their greatness.  Can you dig it!!!

I would like to thank Brother Raymond Muhammad from Chicago. A week ago, the idea crept in my mind that I could make it to Team Leader this month. But then, I started to second-guess myself and say, "Well, if it doesn’t happen this month, it will definitely happen next month".  When that thought came into my mind, Brother Raymond Muhammad called me.  He was so excited, that he ran that little thought of doubt out of my mind.  I want to thank him.  He came at the right time with work and productivity that really got the whole team with the power of intention, knowing… Wait a minute… let’s do this!

Brother Benny Bass… he put work in to make sure he was in position.  I'd like to also give big ups to Brother Ranoule Tatum for coming through with his sales.  I'd like to send a big thanks to Sister Lakichay Muhammad and Sister Imani Muhammad for sacrificing sleep and everything to make it happen wherever they were.  They said, "don’t worry, we got you!".

Nobody had any doubt that it was going to happen this month, and everybody was putting the calls in to make the sales and make it happen.  It really shows the importance and the value of working together.  There is nothing that a group of positive Black people cannot accomplish.

We all are so happy for each other right now.  I’m happy for them and they are happy for me.

Where do you see the Black Business Network movement going in the future?

There is no doubt that we have moved beyond just the idea and the possibility and the framework. The game has been put together, and now it’s time for us to play it.  There is no doubt that if we stick together and we continue to love and support each other that we will move from a few thousand people online and coming to events, to hundreds of thousands of people online, coming to events, and us being able to walk down in the streets of Chicago and see Black businesses flourishing because we had the commitment and the passion to work hard and promote and push them to the utmost.  All we have to do is stay committed to each other, fall deeper in love with each other, follow the training, and move to the TAG TEAM System to the “T”. If we do, there will not be any obstacle that will stop us from having tremendous success, achieving tremendous wealth and helping millions of people.

All we have to do to make all this happen is to push and promote and get every positive Black person we know to the Black Business Network Convention in Atlanta, August 27th, 28th and 29th, and our city will not be the same.

Congratulations Toure on your tremendous accomplishment.  We all look forward to seeing you and congratulating you in Atlanta at the convention.