Bio Given Via Diversity Magazine:
Jamilah Barnes Creekmur knows what it’s like to have all her dreams come true.
Her titles include entrepreneur, wife and mother — illustrating that she’s seen success across the board in her professional and personal lives. But while the people in her life help make it worth living, Creekmur’s inner courage, hard work and independent spirit made it all happen.
After she graduated from the University of Delaware, she moved to New York to pursue her love of business and fashion. There, she attended the Fashion Institute of Technology and landed a position as assistant buyer in women’s designer handbags with Saks Fifth Avenue.
In 2003, she joined her friend, “Grouchy Greg” Watkins, and husband, Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur, on a full-time basis at AllHipHop.com, a site devoted to all things hip-hop, including news, features and reviews. She worked there part-time for three years.
As an acting COO of AllHipHop.com, Creekmur had to teach herself everything she could about the Internet and the business aspects of running a Web site. In her first three months with the company, she doubled its earnings, and a year later, led the company to make its first $1 million in advertising sales revenue. She also brought in advertising clients from Fortune 500 companies including Pepsi, Verizon, GM and Nike.
During the past few years, she has helped forge many significant partnerships and business deals, including capital investment and acquisition opportunities, the launch of AllHipHop Week, AllHipHop’s College Rep program, AllHipHop Mobile LLC and a long-term, multimillion-dollar deal with Radio One’s interactive platform.
In 2006, AllHipHop.com earned Black Enterprise magazine’s Small Business Award, and many consider the company the “CNN of hip-hop.”
As if all of her duties with AllHipHop.com weren’t enough to keep her busy, Creekmur also manages her own publishing company, Imagine Me Publishing, and she consults for corporate clients with her digital consulting company, JBC LLC.
Born and raised in Baltimore, Creekmur credits the success of AllHipHop.com to teamwork. “We have made insurmountable sacrifices, for the good of AllHipHop,” she said in a company biography. “Only one day will people actually read about all that we have been through. I truly believe in the concept of teamwork.
A quote that I honor says, ‘Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision and the ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.’
A quote that I honor says, ‘Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision and the ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.’
This has single-handedly been the secret to our success over the past nine years at AllHipHop.com and our other growing brands.”
Jamilah Barnes Creekmur is a ROLE MODEL as well as a fab person with a humble heart. We celebrate her accomplishments and the many more to come.
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