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Business Lunch Review: Rockin’ Crab Seafood and Bar

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 June 9, 2022 No Comments
B2B Stories

Increased demand prompts popular pet care business to expand

On January 1 at midnight, Eric and Anne Dysinger began accepting pet boarding reservations for Masters Week. Thirty minutes later, they were completely booked. As a result of that demand, the Dysingers, owners of Paws in Paradise Luxury Resort & Spa, a 24/7 full-service facility, located at 4319 Evans to Locks Road in Evans, are expanding their business. Anne said they currently have more demand for their boarding and daycare services than they can handle. The couple has been forced to turn customers away due to a lack of space.

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Josh Heath June 8, 2022 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Unique concept restaurant opening soon in Aiken

In a couple of weeks, Greg Pierce will open The Feed Sack in the Mitchell Shopping Center Aiken. It’s a good bet that you’ve never been to anything quite like this. It will feature a restaurant, retail wine section, prepared food you can take home, two bars, outdoor dining – and a furniture store. Wait, what? For some background regarding the furniture, his wife, Angie, owns Savvy Home with locations in Augusta, North Augusta, and now Aiken. The Pierces moved from Augusta to Aiken and invested $425,000 to renovate their

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Mitzi Oxford June 8, 2022 No Comments
B2B Stories

Simon Says: Wage increases alone may not be enough to entice employees

The labor force in Augusta is below 267,000 (March 2022) compared to almost 271,000 pre-pandemic. Traditional thinking and economics suggest that employers should raise wages and that will increase the workers’ opportunity cost of staying at home and at least some workers will be enticed back into the labor force. Unfortunately, as I mentioned last week, average weekly earnings in Augusta have not kept up with increases at the state and national levels, and even declined in 2021. Nationally, earnings have increased by 5 percent in the same period. But

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Dr. Simon Medcalfe, AU Economics Professor June 8, 2022 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Construction continues on the south Augusta townhome project

Oscar A. Jessie has made a multi-million dollar investment in a south Augusta housing development that will likely benefit existing businesses in that area and even spur the construction of new ones. Jessie, a local real estate developer and owner of GreenSpace Communities, LLC is currently building the Orchard Landing luxury townhome development on a nearly eight-acre property located at 3699 Peach Orchard Road. He said the three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath homes sell for between $180,000 to $205,000, 10 percent below market value. “That provides homeowners instant equity as soon as they

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Josh Heath June 7, 2022 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Customers get a kick out of coffee entrepreneurs’ drinks

By early next year, Natalie Jacobs and John Bojescul plan to open a new coffee shop with an unusual name in the heart of Evans. Founded in 2021, Goat Kick Coffee Company will be located next to the Columbia County Performing Arts Center in a new development called Evans Society Center at the corner of Ronald Reagan Drive and North Belair Road. The business name is derived from an ancient legend about a goatherder in Ethiopia whose goats ate fruit from a tree that made them so energetic, that they

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Josh Heath June 7, 2022 No Comments
Digital Marketing

Free Access: Best practices for paid ads on Google

You’ve probably all heard the joke, “Where is the safest place to hide a body? The second page of Google.” Think about the last time you clicked on page two or three of Google: It may have been weeks or months. Most of us search, click and go on the first two or three search results we see. In fact, according to Zero Limit Web, “On the first page alone, the first five organic results account for 67.6% of all the clicks.” Page 2 and beyond can be so ineffective,

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Richard Brashear June 6, 2022 No Comments
Amy Richardson

Amy Richardson’s got your back for business

Name: Amy Richardson Company/Title: President/Founder Richardson Professional Solutions Years Served: 2 years Phone: 706-426-1773 Website: richardsonprosolutions.com Are you the owner of one of the thousands of businesses in the CSRA? Do you have time for bookkeeping, IT, marketing, recruitment, project, or event management? If not, maybe it’s time to call for backup. Amy Richardson created Richardson Professional Solutions to help solve the issues most business owners may not have time to address when their time can be better spent building a successful company. In other words, she has created a

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Mitzi Oxford, Photos by Melissa Gordon June 6, 2022 No Comments
B2B Stories

Local shopping center sold for more than $20 million

For nearly 17 years, Eddie and Carol Kennedy have owned and operated Great Deals on Furniture in the Village Plaza shopping center on Bobby Jones Expressway. The busy center, previously owned by an Ohio-based company, has been sold for a little over $20 million. Carol said she and her husband haven’t met the new owners yet, but they have received emails and phone calls from them. The couple isn’t worried about possible changes that could affect their business. “We had a great working relationship with the previous owners, and we

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Josh Heath June 6, 2022 No Comments
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