Consumer Stories

CSRA limo companies and the holidays

Late December is a very busy time for Harley Napier’s limousine drivers. Napier owns Celebrity Limos of GA, Inc. in Augusta. He said they transport their clients to many Christmas and New Year’s Eve events and celebrations. “People are going to see Christmas lights and attending dinners and formal events,” Napier said. Of course, Celebrity Limos also takes people to events throughout the year, including graduations, weddings, proms, and bachelor parties. Unlike Napier’s business, an employee with C&C Limousines located at 3701 Peach Orchard Road in Augusta said the company

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Digital Marketing

Free Access: Free Wi-Fi offers marketing gateway for businesses

Wi-Fi Marketing We have all been to the local coffee shop, restaurant, or business office that has Wi-Fi available to its customers. “This is known as a hotspot,” states Captain Obvious. Technically, a hotspot is a physical location (read: business, retailer, hotel, etc.) with a Wi-Fi device that gives free wireless internet access to anyone who wants it. This is done by connecting a wireless router that the business owns to an internet service provider. In this case, the business is responsible for setting up the network, maintaining the Wi-Fi

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Education

Augusta Technical College reveals plan to build technology training center in Columbia County

Augusta Technical College plans to grow the future workforce by bringing a new advanced manufacturing and engineering technology training facility to Columbia County. This plan involves building a state-of-the-art manufacturing simulation center that will include classrooms and labs for engineering, robotics, chemical technology, and machining, according to an article from the college. The article said the college’s current facilities are insufficient to train its students for jobs in these STEM fields, and these industries employ more than one-third of the region’s workers. “The establishment of the facility in Columbia County

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B2B Podcasting

Free Access: Job market cooling in Georgia

  The state recorded its second straight month with a slight increase in the jobless rate and companies are suing Georgia over backroom deals in granting medical marijuana licenses. More in this Georgia Business Daily Business Update by Mike Petchenik.

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Consumer Stories

New York natives launch CSRA photo booth biz

When Katrena and her husband, Jason, moved to Augusta from New York City more than two years ago, she noticed there weren’t many businesses that offered 360-degree photo booth rentals, so she decided to start her own. The couple, who asked us not to use their last name, launched NYC to AGS 360 Rentals at the end of October and are currently working on marketing their new business. People can rent their photo booth for a variety of celebrations, including Christmas, birthday, and New Year’s Eve parties, as well as

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Consumer Stories

LIV golfers receive invites to play at the Masters

The battle over the new LIV Golf Tour won’t keep some of the world’s top golfers away from Augusta National. The golf world had questioned whether golfers who had left the PGA for the Saudi-backed tour would be allowed to play in the Masters Tournament. But last week, Augusta National Golf Club chairman, Fred Ridley announced that 16 members of the tour will receive invitations to play in the 2023 Masters, April 6-9. Those 16 include six past Masters champions: Bubba Watson, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Sergio Garcia, Patrick Reed,

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Faith

Faith Friday: Thinking about Christmas

Part 2 The celebration of Christmas is unlike anything else. All of us are impacted by it. The birth of Jesus, God coming to earth as a baby, is the most incredible true story ever conceived. Mixed in with the celebration, we’re often wrapped up with gift buying, party planning, family events, concerts and many other activities. It can be a crazy time of year for sure. I pray your Christmas will be full of joy as you celebrate the greatest gift ever given. If you have children in your

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Shawna Woodward

Free Access: Real Talk Real Estate: Christmas games can be fun – and competitive – for the whole family

Finding ways to create holiday fun and games are some of my favorite things to do at Christmas. As a parent of only adult kids, it looks different than it did when they were younger. Since you still have a few days left to make some Christmas memories, I thought I’d share a few ideas we find fun! First off, we are a very competitive family! So we like to make sure there are winners and of course losers! Losers get nothing, but we give good prizes to the winners.

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B2B Stories

Big business: The 25 top grossing Christmas films

Christmas vacation is a great time to download a movie or pop in a DVD (or, if you’re really behind the times, a VHS tape) – especially this year, as the weather makes staying inside seem prudent. It’s also often a good time for movie producers to lure people to the theaters. Christmas movies are big business, both at the box office when they’re released and later as they’re shown ad infinitum on cable channels. There are a number of lists online of the top-grossing Christmas movies, all with varying

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