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January 4, 2023
Consumer Stories

Business Lunch Review: Oliviana’s

Editor’s Note: Wes Hennings never met a meal he walked away from and is an opinionated eater! Each Thursday, he shares the results of a business lunch he’s had with a colleague as a way to advise our business community on the good, bad, and tasty across the CSRA. He doesn’t let ABD or the restaurant know where he is going and his opinions are his own. He grades the restaurants he visits on a 1-5 scale with “5” being outstanding. We call this our “Real Business Lunch Review.” Food

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Wes Hennings January 4, 2023 No Comments
Employee Benefits

Free Access: Medical Biz: Why are you paying 8400% MORE than you should?

Former Major Leaguer, Tom Mastny is an Employee Benefits consultant with the Pennant Group. He did some research on healthcare costs. In our continuing series this week, he looks at why your premiums and out-of-pocket costs are so high and what you can do about it. Watching this 90-second clip could save you a bunch of money!

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B2B Stories

Trash can cleaning company increases business fivefold

Drayton Oswald has more than quintupled his client base by buying out his competition. Oswald launched Spic & Span Georgialina Cans in the spring of 2022. The company cleans outdoor trash cans and just bought Brighter Bins from Andrew Tyson and Chase Lord. Oswald said Tyson and Lord, owners of MEGAH SoftWash, a pressure washing business, wanted to get out of the trash can cleaning business and offered to sell Brighter Bins to him. He declined to disclose the price he paid for the business. “It wasn’t for them, I

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Josh Heath January 4, 2023 No Comments
Darin Myers

Free Access: Resolve to be better at time management

You are a hardworking business owner who is consistently stressed about time. You end each day reflecting on all those tasks and activities that you didn’t check off your tick list. Darn. You should have called that vendor to negotiate a better price. You forgot to review the marketing calendar that you promised to approve. You completely missed an important scheduled meeting with your distribution manager. And that was just today. Important tasks and activities are being dropped regularly. But who can blame you? You are just one business owner

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Darin Myers January 4, 2023 No Comments
B2B Stories

Augusta IT company builds out to expand the local facility

Premier Networx, at 116 Cooper Drive just off River Watch Parkway, is expanding by building out an additional 2,500 square feet of its existing facility. The extra space will be used to build a dedicated network operations and security operations center, according to the company’s President and CEO, Chad Harpley. “We were going to lease that out, but things have gone so great that we’re having to build that space out for us,” Harpley said. He said the new center will house an additional 14 employees. Construction is expected to

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Josh Heath January 4, 2023 No Comments
Mergers/Acquisitions

Local real estate phenom purchases agency

24-year-old Noah McBride is wise beyond his years. Perhaps, he learned it from his grandpa Tommy McBride, who is working in his 55th year in local real estate, or from his old boss, Larry Miller, the former broker of Century 21 Larry Miller Realty. On New Year’s Day, Noah assumed control of the brokerage Miller had owned for 36 years. “I’m excited for the legacy he is leaving behind and to continue what he’s built,” said the three-year real estate agent from his temporary offices at 4426 Washington Road in

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Neil Gordon January 4, 2023 No Comments