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Eat a sub and make a difference!

Jersey Mike’s sandwich locations are wrapping up their 13th Annual Month of Giving fundraising campaign with the traditional Day of Giving today. All this month, patrons have been encouraged to make donations through the Jersey Mike’s mobile app or by stopping in a location to buy a sub. It culminates with this year’s Day of Giving today when 100% of sales in Jersey Mike’s nearly 2,500 locations in the United States go to help local charities. Beneficiaries include youth organizations and food banks. Eric Clark owns eight Jersey Mike’s locations

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Dana Lynn McIntyre March 28, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Businesses support first-ever brunch festival

There’s nothing like sitting down to Saturday brunch, but next month, the Aiken Downtown Development Authority will give attendees a chance to enjoy it while visiting retail shops and restaurants located in that area. The ADDA will host the first-ever Aiken Brunch Festival on Saturday, April 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The non-profit organization’s Executive Director, Haley Knight said the free, family-friendly event will include food trucks, beer, and live music. Businesses participating in the festival include Cork and Cap and Neon Fig. Knight said most of the

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Josh Heath March 28, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Local restaurant owners to open second CSRA location

People living and working in Augusta will no longer have to drive to Evans to enjoy fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, and other Southern favorites. Today, Goolsby’s will celebrate the grand opening of its second location at 3122 Wrightsboro Road, across the street from Forest Hills Golf Club. The restaurant’s co-owner, Wilkes Goolsby, said, unlike other businesses, they won’t give away free items today. “I anticipate us being pretty busy, so we’re not going to do anything extra,” Goolsby said. He has a couple of reasons to be excited about

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Josh Heath March 28, 2023 No Comments
B2B Podcasting

Making it count

There’s a quote from Titanic when Jack Dawson is dining with the rich folks from First Class and they all raise a toast to him. “I figure life’s a gift, and I don’t intend on wasting it. You don’t know what hand you’re gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you, to make each day count.” Amy Richardson has more on the subject with the YPs of Augusta who have learned to make each minute count in networking.

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Amy Richardson March 28, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Boost in manufacturing and nursing development programs to benefit CSRA

The U.S. Department of Labor has selected three colleges including Aiken Tech to form a consortium to develop a virtual Workforce Innovation Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Nursing — two sectors the agency identified as priority workforce needs. This comes with a large grant from the DOL to accomplish the task. Piedmont Technical College (PTC) and Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College (OCtech) are also included in a grant to address the needs of those two sectors. Combined, the three technical colleges are expected to have a big impact on the CSRA and

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Staff Report March 27, 2023 No Comments
Digital Marketing

5 Reasons AI will NOT take your job

As you may have read in Mitzi Oxford’s article yesterday, Will Artificial Intelligence take your job?, the answer is probably yes and no. As she explained, there are some jobs that are ripe for the picking for AI, but there are also many others that are not. Anyway, here are 5 reasons why AI may not take your job. Teaming Up with AI for Better Results Integrating AI technology, like GPT, into small businesses can do wonders for boosting productivity and sparking creativity among employees. AI isn’t here to replace

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Richard Brashear March 27, 2023 No Comments
B2B Podcasting

Why join YPA?

Amy Richardson asks two young professionals why join the group and the #1 answer is networking!

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Amy Richardson March 27, 2023 No Comments
B2B Stories

Options galore for tracking customers and business data

Dates, times, schedules, oh my! How do you track it all? Well, there is an app for that! Depending on your objectives and industry, there is the perfect software to meet the specific needs of tracking your customers and data. In sales, you are interested in tracking the correspondence you have with prospects. For recruiting, you’re interested in tracking the correspondence you have with applicants. Whatever the industry, whatever the task, you have options. In fact, there are so many options that this is Part 1 of a 2-part series

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Erin Campbell March 27, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Technical college offers forklift training program to local inmates

A group of local inmates is now eligible for jobs in the logistics industry, thanks to a partnership between the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office and Augusta Technical College. The college recently offered a two-day continuing education forklift certification course to 12 men who were about to be released from jail in Augusta. The detention center paid for the program. The college’s President, Dr. Jermaine Whirl said they chose a program that could be taught at the jail. He said the inmates were very excited about completing that program, which combined

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Staff Report March 27, 2023 No Comments
B2B Stories

Thoughts from the General: Teddy Roosevelt is coming to Augusta

All the way from Medora, North Dakota, the 26th President is coming to town. On April 10, he will be speaking at noon, at St Paul’s Church in downtown Augusta. Joe Wiegand is the performer–he looks like, dresses like, speaks like, and performs like the first president named Roosevelt. Ranked near the top of our very best presidents, Theodore Roosevelt can teach us much about decision-making, leadership, and long-range planning. Let’s spend a few minutes examining his life and legacy. When President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901, Vice President

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Ret. Maj. General Perry Smith March 27, 2023 No Comments
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