Video is on the shortlist of driving business. If you haven’t introduced that format in your marketing, the clock is TikTok-ing. Kate Sanders dives into some of the best ways to capture your next customers at ABD’s recent Inspire 2024 Conference.
Members of the Augusta-Richmond County Coliseum are taking steps to close the James Brown Arena and prepare for demolition. Members held what is expected to be their second to last monthly meeting at the arena just before the ribbon cutting to re-open the renovated and expanded Bell Auditorium. Ed Enoch, the authority’s legal counsel, updated members on the hiring of a construction manager for the $250 million project that includes a concourse to connect the new JBA to the Bell. “I got to fill out an RFP (Request For Proposal)
How and why your customers find your business has changed dramatically in the past few years. As a marketing expert, Kate Sanders shared best practices for finding customers at the recent ABD Inspire 2024 Conference.
This week will mark my last as an entertainment writer for Augusta Business Daily, and it is a bittersweet feeling. When I started last September, I was fresh out of the Savannah College of Art & Design with a degree in Dramatic Writing and, seemingly, nothing to do with it. The movie industry was frozen: paralyzed for a moment with pangs of greed, anger, demonstrations, and perseverance by the folks who make the biz operate daily. Yet, my passion for movies – a love story dating back to being a
After more than 10 years of planning, land clearing, groundbreakings, and construction, there is no more room at the Inn over at the Village at Riverwatch in Augusta. The leasing agents and property managers at Jordan Trotter Commercial shared the celebratory news on Wednesday morning. JT tells ABD that the last two tenants to open were Starbucks and Smoothie King and that there are more than 20 different entities open for business. The last parcel of land developed was at the entrance of the center when the Olive Garden moved
The public got its first look inside the newly renovated and expanded Bell Auditorium during a Tuesday ribbon-cutting ceremony. The facility closed about a year ago for the more than $17 million project, designed to enhance the current venue as the first phase of a three-phase development. “For more than 80 years, this venue here has hosted a lot of fun events,” Mayor Garnett Johnson told the crowd. “Here we are, bigger and better, to host more events for generations to come.” The Bell is more than 80 years old.
Gathering insights into what customers are looking for in a product can help brands stay ahead of the competition and drive growth. Isn’t this what we all want? Kate Sanders shares how to accomplish your goals at ABD’s recent Inspire 2024 Conference.
During my three-week hiatus from writing this column earlier this month, Augusta Business Daily’s publisher (Neil Gordon) and editor (Mitzi Oxford) chose to fill my usual space with what they considered “Best of” columns of mine from the past year. One of those columns was one which I wrote in December in which I made business-related predictions for 2024. (Note: Toward the end of June, I will write a column that will evaluate how accurate all of those predictions have been at the halfway point of the year.) One of
Staff at Augusta Regional Airport are tallying up the numbers following the 2024 Masters Tournament. Across the board, most are higher than for the 2023 tournament. Looking first at the number of flights, the airport traffic peaked on Friday with 645 flights. That compared to 544 in 2023, but still below the 684 the airport logged in 2022. In fact, although numbers were higher for most categories, 2024 is still overshadowed by the 2022 tournament visitors. “All our performance indicators were behind 2022. But keep in mind that 2022 was
The first day of summer is still about three weeks away, but with temperatures starting to hit 90 degrees in the CSRA, the opening of The Classic Cone ice cream shop is perfect timing. When Carrie Srnka moved from New York to Aiken in 2016, she knew she would eventually open a soft-serve ice cream business. It took a while because she also owns Wellness Deserved, which offers PEMF, Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy for Humans, Horses, and Pets. For more information, click here. Another delay came when Srnka was looking
