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Mondays with Rick: Yearly planning promotes proactivity instead of reactivity

Dr. Rick Franza, Professor of Management at the Hull College of Business, discusses a different, timely business topic each Monday in this column. This week, he gives tips on planning for a new year in your business. The interview has been edited for clarity and impact. ABD: In just a few weeks, we’ll be starting a new year, likely to be filled with a variety of challenges for businesses. How important is it to plan ahead in your business when the future is unknown? Rick: You need to plan a

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Gary Kauffman December 10, 2023 No Comments
B2B Stories

Peering into the economic outlook crystal ball

Augusta University (AU) continued a longtime tradition of putting a spotlight on the area economy over the past year and predictions for the coming year. Dr. Simon Medcalfe led the university’s annual Economic Forecast breakfast on Thursday. Medcalfe, a professor of economics at AU and contributor for the Augusta Business Daily, began with an overview of changes in types of business, percentage of employment, and population growth. Between 2004 and 2023, Medcalfe said the mixture of industries, including hospitality, healthcare, education, and manufacturing, while looking different on the surface, remain

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Dana Lynn McIntyre and Neil Gordon December 7, 2023 No Comments
B2B Stories

CSRA colleges offer options for hungry students

If you run a business, you offer a lunch break and probably take one yourself, even if it’s a working lunch with a client. Your future employees are in college and may not have the luxury of even eating lunch. Aiken Technical College is establishing a way to help with those needs through a new student-centered food pantry thanks to a grant from the Community Foundation of the CSRA. The ATC Foundation has received $13,500 to transform the College’s unused cafeteria space into the food pantry, add appropriate appliances and

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mitzi-oxford December 7, 2023 No Comments
Shawna Woodward

Real Estate Rollercoaster: Navigating the impact of FED’s rate decision on Augusta’s market

Real estate news is big this week, as the FED’s have agreed that they are done raising the rate for the immediate future, and there may be some very small adjustments moving rates down in the first quarter of 2024. This should be good for our area. Hopes are high to see some major adjustments, but that is very unlikely. Stability is coming, and everyone is ready for it, it just will unlikely meet the hopes of consumers. I feel very strongly that if you can get a loan and

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Shawna Woodward, Re/Max Reinvented Evans December 7, 2023 No Comments
B2B Podcasting

More coming from Meybohm

See how the local real estate firm is adding mortgages to their service offerings in today’s edition of BizBits with Mike Petchenik.

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Mike Petchenik December 7, 2023 No Comments
Faith

Faith Friday: Give these gifts

I have a confession to make. I am not a shopper. If the retailers across the CSRA (or in cyberspace) depended on my dollars to prosper, their outlook would be bleak. Perhaps, it’s because there is nothing I really need and the fact that my wife is very comfortable using her credit card and navigating the aisles and miles in her various shopping endeavors. My contributions are driving her to the stores she chooses and carrying the bags of merchandise once we have returned home. It’s a balanced approach that

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Steve Swanson December 7, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

In ‘May December,’ Savannah Sets the Stage

Moviegoers and lovers of complex drama will adore Todd Haynes’ new flick May December, but Savannahans will fall head-over-heels upon seeing many of their favorite locales as the host of its most pertinent scenes. Actors, Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore star in the film, shot entirely on location in Georgia’s most historic city. The film, which was released on Netflix on December 1st, is a dark and hilarious story of actress Elizabeth Berry (Portman) who arrives in the city in 2015 to meet and research a role she intends to

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Dylan James December 6, 2023 No Comments
Awards/Celebrations

Getting business advice from the experts

The North Augusta Chamber of Commerce’s Power Lunch this week was powerful, featuring a panel discussion led by two business owners with a decade-long track record of success. Stephen and Nancy Posey, 4th generation owners of Posey Funeral Directors, and Alan Owings and his daughter, Allison Bass, 3rd generation owners of Owings & Sam Dentistry on W. Martintown Road, fielded questions about longevity, and how to nurture a business for future generations. Posey opened on Georgia Ave. in North Augusta in 1879, while Dr. David Owings started his dentistry practice

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Dana Lynn McIntyre December 6, 2023 No Comments
B2B Stories

Multimillion-dollar CSRA business gets help from local college and foundation

The inventory value of horses and their equipment in Aiken County is $68 million. The horse business includes stabling, saddles and bridles, feed, workout rings, riding apparel, and farrier fees, not to mention the visitors who spend money attending polo and steeplechase events. This fall, Aiken Technical College partnered with the Aiken Horse Park Foundation to create a new equine technician course through the College’s Office of Continuing Education. The inaugural cohort of students were recognized during a completion ceremony yesterday at Great Oaks Equine Assisted Programs location, 1123 Edgefield Highway

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mitzi-oxford December 6, 2023 No Comments
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