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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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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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Simon Says: Looking at the power of Plant Vogtle

Georgia Power announced on Monday, March 7 that it had begun splitting atoms in reactor 3 at Plant Vogtle. The previous week, my students and I had toured the facility with Mike McCracken, Communications Coordinator for Southern Nuclear Company, to learn more about the economics of nuclear power and what it means to our area. Southern Nuclear announced it would file an Early Site Permit to build Units 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle in 2005. At the time, the estimated cost was $14 billion. Currently, it is more than

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GreenJackets getting the green light on updates

The Augusta GreenJackets stadium has been making improvements just in time for opening day on April 11. Located at SRP park in North Augusta, S.C., the stadium is a key feature of activity in the CSRA. New suite level floors have been added from B&B Decorative Concrete. “We love working with local companies to improve SRP Park,” said Tom Denlinger, vice president of Augusta GreenJackets. The renovations to the stadium come as many minor league baseball teams are going through similar upgrades. Improvements made to the park are there to

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A step closer to funding the new James Brown Arena

A bill to cover the cost to build a new James Brown Arena is making its way through the Georgia Legislature. Meetings in Atlanta earlier this year gave Augusta-Richmond County Coliseum Authority members the opportunity to ask state lawmakers to support a new, half a penny sales tax for the project. “We went before a sales tax committee, just to tell them about our project, what we’re doing and why we wanted to have (half) penny sales tax added to build a new arena,” said Brad Usry, chairman of the

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Mondays with Rick: How to recruit employees with a plan for retention

Dr. Rick Franza, Professor of Management at the Hull College of Business, discusses a different, timely business topic each Monday in this column. This week, he gives tips on recruiting employees who will stay. The interview has been edited for clarity and impact. ABD: We’re in a time period when just about everyone is looking for employees, especially those who they can retain. What’s the starting point when trying to recruit someone? Rick: Part of it depends where you’re recruiting from, locally or from somewhere else. If you’re recruiting from

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More large-scale development headed to North Augusta

A more than 1,700-acre development is reportedly coming to the North Augusta area. Information surfaced with a post on the Twitter feed of Eureka Earth, an Augusta-based company specializing in “shared robotics and autonomous systems.” Its social media and website feature aerial photos, primarily of the Augusta National Golf Club and The Masters tournament. The tweet included a name for the development, Cypress Shoals, and a link to the developer’s website. The website for Cypress Shoals said it will be a multi-generational, mixed-use development that will include residential lots, condominiums

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Economic Update: Charged and ready to “A.C.E.” business

Ready to “ace” it this week? Coach Dave Holdeman from The Alternative Board of the CSRA and Augusta Business Daily publisher Neil Gordon look at how a local hotel is preparing for Masters Week in the latest economic update. Holdeman also shares his A.C.E. acronym for business owners to help their employees.

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Georgia Business Minute: Georgia’s “Focus” on Jobs

The Peach State made the Forbes annual list of America’s best large employers. See which companies landed a spot on the list and catch up on the status on the state’s banks in this week’s Georgia Business Minute from Atlanta reporter Mike Petchenik.

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