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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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Steve Swanson December 22, 2022 No Comments
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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Shawna Woodward, Re/Max Reinvented Evans December 22, 2022 No Comments
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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Gary Kauffman December 22, 2022 1 Comment
B2B Stories

Downtown businesses participate in decorations crawl, voting ends tonight

When Brandy Gibson relocated her business from Monte Sano Avenue to Broad Street last year, she fell in love with the new location’s storefront windows. Gibson, owner of Tiffinie Bleu Bridal Boutique (pictured above) located at 1251 Broad St., is one of 32 business owners participating in the fourth annual Making Spirits Bright Downtown Décor Crawl, a month-long event sponsored by the Downtown Development Authority of Augusta and Augusta & Co. “I decorate them every year, so when I found out about the crawl, it gave me another reason to

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Josh Heath December 22, 2022 No Comments
B2B Stories

The business of Christmas: Americans spend billions each year

In the 1960s, both the Charlie Brown and the Grinch TV specials forewarned about the growing commercialization of Christmas. Despite their warnings, Christmas has become big business in the United States. Here are just a few facts about the business side of Christmas. • Christmas tree farms sell 25-30 million real trees each year – in 2018, it was 32 million, accounting for about $6.1 billion in sales. The states producing the most Christmas trees are Oregon, North Carolina and Michigan, but there are Christmas tree farms in every state.

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Gary Kauffman December 22, 2022 No Comments
B2B Stories

Ebenezer Scrooge still provides lessons for modern-day business owners

Each year around this time, one of the world’s wealthiest fictional characters receives a lot of attention. That, of course, is Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly and bitter character created by Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol and retold in a number of movie versions. But just how wealthy was Scrooge and how did he earn all that money? Dickens’ novel, published in 1843, doesn’t say for certain, but obviously Scrooge was extraordinarily wealthy for the time period. Various people have ventured guesses at Scrooge’s wealth. Forbes listed him as the

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Gary Kauffman December 22, 2022 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Business Lunch Review: Cracker Barrel

Editor’s Note: Wes Hennings never met a meal he walked away from and is an opinionated eater! Each Thursday he shares the results of a business lunch he’s had with a colleague as a way to advise our business community on the good, bad, and tasty across the CSRA. He doesn’t let ABD or the restaurant know where he is going and his opinions are his own. He grades the restaurants he visits on a 1-5 scale with “5” being outstanding. We call this our “Real Business Lunch Review”. Food

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Wes Hennings December 21, 2022 No Comments
Darin Myers

Free Access: Tips for setting effective KPIs

There are many principles for running a strong, thriving business. Key among these guidelines is this: What can be measured should be measured. The data compiled for key business metrics can, as we have said before, “say a lot about what you’re doing right and where your best efforts are falling short.” No CEO or business owner should ever ignore or neglect the information available through KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). According to Investopedia, the most commonly used KPIs include: Revenue growth Revenue per client Profit margin Client retention rate Customer

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Darin Myers December 21, 2022 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Two local nonprofits work together to provide food, gifts for military families

Those serving our country in the military sometimes need a helping hand around the holidays. Two local organizations recently teamed up to provide some of that help for service members at Fort Gordon. Golden Harvest Food Bank helps to feed families facing food insecurity in 25 counties throughout the CSRA. The nonprofit has partnered with another local organization, the Fort Gordon Christmas House, to provide food for active-duty military servicemembers and their families. ABD previously ran a story about two local businesses, Elevate Auto Lab and Riley’s Paint + Body

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Josh Heath December 21, 2022 No Comments
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