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Mondays with Rick: Benchmarking: A key to economic development success

I am a huge fan of benchmarking as a tool for evaluating both progress and success. However, benchmarking is also a great tool for identifying ideas for improvement. My experience with benchmarking has typically come from evaluating and improving business products and processes. In this column, I would like to share with you what benchmarking is, the different types of benchmarking and my past experience of helping to apply benchmarking to an area’s economic development, and how we might apply it in a similar way here in the Augusta area.

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Dr. Rick Franza May 22, 2023 No Comments
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Keeping you up on a great product

Keith Perret, State Farm Insurance agent, sits down with Augusta Business Daily publisher, Neil Gordon to discuss hiring and skills to be successful in the insurance business. Perret says companies and employees should find different ways to talk about products to fit consumer needs. For more information, contact Perret at his website: https://www.kpinthehouse.com/.

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Neil Gordon with Keith Perret May 22, 2023 No Comments
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Economic Update: ABD Extra Conference and Expo Edition

In this week’s economic update, we take a look at the employee recruitment and retention panel discussion from ABD’s Conference and Expo last week! Darin Myers, who is co-owner of TAB CSRA, speaks about interviewing job candidates and creating company values. This panel was moderated by Mike Petchenik who creates the weekly Georgia Business Minutes and other media for Augusta Business Daily.

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Darin Myers May 22, 2023 No Comments
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Georgia Business Minute: Just doing our jobs

That’s right. A record number of Georgians are employed. Though the CSRA has fallen short according to recent employment statistics, unemployment reports have remained steady for the ninth month throughout the Peach State. Mike Petchenik reports from Atlanta with the latest on this and other stories in this week’s Georgia Business Minute.

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Mike Petchenik May 22, 2023 No Comments
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Simon Says: Looking at the labor market

The Augusta Metropolitan Statistical Area had the worst labor market over the last year of all metro areas in the state of Georgia. The Labor Market Index (LMI) for Augusta fell 0.4 percent from March 2022 through March 2023. Only Hinesville and Warner Robins also saw declining LMIs. The Georgia LMI grew by 0.9 percent over the past year. Columbus had the best labor market over the last year. Across the state, employment increased by 2.8 percent, or 133,400 jobs over the last year. By contrast, Augusta lost 1,100 jobs

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Dr. Simon Medcalfe May 22, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

CSRA ice cream shop celebrates 10th anniversary by giving back

Who doesn’t love ice cream? Neither rain, sleet, snow, nor hail stops the love for the frosty treat which has been popular since the 1700’s. Flanigan’s Ice Cream is celebrating its 10th anniversary under the current ownership, quite an accomplishment since 65% of businesses fail in the first 10 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “My parents retired in Aiken and my husband, Jay, and I moved here in 2002. The following year, the previous Flanigan owners moved further south. My husband had done some landscaping work for

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Mitzi Oxford May 21, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Local barbecue team to compete in national championship series

Kurt Mueller and his brother, Aleki Fualau have been busy preparing barbecue for CSRA events and fundraisers, but this summer, they’ll hit the road to test their culinary skills against other teams in various cities throughout the United States. Mueller, a local certified financial planner, and Fualau, pitmasters for Ironhead BBQ, formerly known as Atomic City Smokers, have been invited to participate in the Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que of America All-Star Series as “celebrity” pitmasters. Famous Dave’s is a popular chain of barbecue restaurants that had a location on Washington Road

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Josh Heath May 21, 2023 No Comments
B2B Stories

Local entrepreneurs pedal fun experiences into the CSRA

Anthony Jones and his wife, Charity loved pedaling around Atlanta and Nashville on a bar on wheels so much that they decided to bring the business concept to Augusta. In early Dec. 2022, the couple, along with Charity’s sister, Syderist Manuel, launched Pedal Pub Augusta located at 305 12th St. “We always went outside of Augusta to do fun activities, so we decided to bring a little more fun to Augusta, the city we love,” Anthony said. They have two 15-passenger bikes that they use to take customers on 90-minute

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Josh Heath May 21, 2023 No Comments
Cyber Security

Mobile security options

Say, you have a job where you will be out and about and away from a secure internal network and want to know how you can protect your system better. One option that you can consider is a product called Firewalla. This is an affordable way to add extra protection to your network when you are on the go. This company produces a number of different products to meet your specific needs, but the concept of the product is that it gives you a way to connect to Wi-Fi through

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Patrick Reynolds May 21, 2023 No Comments
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