B2B Stories

Military legal expert to speak at Women in Business Program

If you want to hear a presentation from a top military attorney at this month’s Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce Women in Business Program, you’d better act fast. The deadline to register is today at 3 p.m. Col. Danyele Jordan, a military attorney and legal advisor to the Commanding General of Fort Gordon and the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence, will speak at the event, which lasts from 11:30 a.m. to 1 pm. on Tuesday, April 19 at the Enterprise Mill Events Center, located at 1450 Greene St., Suite

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Debbie McCord

WIB Spotlight: Debbie McCord has long history of serving local and state voters

Name: Debbie McCord Company/Title: Columbia County GOP Chairman Years Served: 34 years in various roles with GOP Contact info: 706-833-4731 No phrase better describes Debbie McCord’s rise in Columbia County and the state of Georgia’s GOP better than the ‘apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.’ “My father worked on the presidential campaign for Barry Goldwater when he ran against incumbent President Lyndon Johnson in 1964,” she explained. Even as a child she was paying attention. Civics was her favorite subject in school and politics would become a passion. McCord

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Consumer Stories

Business Lunch Review: The Pot Smoker

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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Office Support

Free Access: Adding more customers can be as easy as sending emails

At Richardson Professional Solutions (RPS), we help you make more time in your business by providing back-office solutions such as bookkeeping, marketing, or project management. This, in turn, provides small business owners the flexibility to do the things that matter most to them, like building their business, continuing their education, traveling, or spending time with family. One of the many services we provide is Marketing Management. At RPS we can handle your social media marketing, content creation, content management, brand management, and/or email marketing. I know what you might be

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B2B Stories

Local CVB director discusses paddling, glamping and attracting visitors

Kayaking to an island of goats and donkeys and camping in an air-conditioned tent with a coffeemaker sound like exotic destination spots. But both can be found within Columbia County. Shelly Blackburn, executive director of the Columbia County Convention and Visitors Bureau, the county’s destination marketing agency, spoke to a group of local real estate agents and home services professionals at a CSRA Home Connections meeting on Wednesday about those and other attractions that draw visitors to the county. It’s an important economic venture – in 2019, Columbia County tourism

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Top Story

Local Chambers of Commerce to host major networking event

If you’ve been looking for professional networking opportunities, six local Chambers of Commerce have just the event you need. The Augusta Metro, Columbia County, Burke County, Aiken, North Augusta and Thomson-McDuffie chambers have partnered to host a Mega Mixer event on 4-7 p.m., April 20 at the Columbia County Performing Arts Center located at 1000 Market St., Evans. More than 5,000 people have been invited to attend the event. Many local businesses, such as C&C Automotive, Augusta Gift Baskets, Sol Himalayan Salt Cave and Honda Cars of Aiken, will have

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B2B Stories

Simon Says: Covid affects Augusta employment numbers; Georgia jobs grow

Two years from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, employment in the Augusta MSA in February 2022 is more than 6,000 jobs below the level in February 2020. Employment in the state of Georgia in February 2022 is 1.2 percent higher than in February 2020. Over the past two years, three sectors of the local economy have seen employment surpass pre-pandemic levels: manufacturing (up to about 200 jobs), retail (up to 3,000 jobs), and transportation and utilities (up just less than 1,000 jobs). The state of Georgia also sees higher

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B2B Stories

Giant sculptures help businesses make a big first impression

Outside of the clubhouse of The First Tee in Augusta is a colorful tee worthy of a Paul Bunyan-like drive. The one-ton, 30-foot-long sculpture is made of steel and solid foam. Ed Durant, the former owner of The Frame Shoppe on Walton Way in Augusta, created the concept to give the course its own unique identity. The project took about 14 months to complete and was unveiled in December 2021. “I went by First Tee, and there was no signage,” Durant said. “They needed an expression of what they do.”

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B2B Stories

Two local marketing firms combine operations and services

One of CSRA’s largest full-service advertising and marketing companies is about to become even larger. The M3 Agency, located at 229 Furys Ferry Road, Suite 123 in Augusta, has announced its merger with another local firm, Emineo Marketing. M3, which stands for Mass Media Marketing, offers a variety of services, such as graphic design, website development, and video production. The agency serves businesses in the manufacturing, banking, medical and retail industries, among others. Emineo also offers a range of services that include branding, social media marketing, and event planning. The

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Helen Blocker-Adams

Helen Blocker-Adams learns it’s never too late to reinvent yourself

Name: Helen Blocker-Adams Company/Title: The Adams Group Agency, LLC/Vice President Years Served: 7.5 Contact info: theadamsgrouplife.com One could call Helen Blocker-Adams a phoenix who has risen from the ashes of defeat. A crippling public fall from grace in 2014, after a financial scandal tanked her second run for Augusta mayor, catapulted her from what she thought was her calling – politics – to what is truly her calling: people. “It’s never too late to reinvent yourself,” she said. “It is never too late to take a profound self-reflection and self-assessment and

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