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Webinar to provide information on how to start a business

If you’ve considered launching your own business but have no idea where to start, the University of Georgia Small Business Development Center can help. The Center will offer a webinar called Starting a Business on Thursday, Jan. 5, 1-3 p.m. It will cover a variety of topics, including determining the feasibility of your business idea, financing, building a solid team, and planning, as well as market research and competitive analysis strategies. The SBDC offers the webinar multiple times throughout the year. Registration is required, and the cost is $39. For

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Josh Heath December 29, 2022 No Comments
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Columbia County Chamber accepting applications for young professional mentoring programs

Robbie King has a passion for mentoring the next generation of local business leaders. King, the founder of Lead Augusta, helps to guide young professionals participating in Young Men on the Move, a 10-month program offered by the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce. The program, which is designed for men between the ages of 23 and 30, teaches valuable personal and professional skills, such as networking. “It demonstrates the importance of mentoring, networking, building relationships, and giving back to the community,” he said. “Often, these relationships are created and last

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Josh Heath December 28, 2022 No Comments
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Thoughts from the General: How About Some Good News

It is important to be aware of bad news, and more importantly, to take steps to deal with it. However, recognizing, celebrating, and enjoying the good news should be part of everyone’s life journey. A favorite expression in our family is “Don’t Postpone Joy” Here is some good news list from far and wide. The strength of the dollar. For the first time in twenty years, the dollar is worth almost as much as the Euro (the other important currency in the world). This news is mostly positive. It indicates

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Ret. Maj. General Perry Smith December 27, 2022 1 Comment
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Simon Says: The 12 Days of Christmas, adjusted for inflation

The major economic concern this year has been inflation. The latest data suggest that prices have risen by 7.1 percent over the last year. This has hit consumers’ pockets hard and at this time of the year made Christmas more expensive but by how much? A whimsical take on the cost of Christmas is provided by PNC bank which calculated the cost of the presents in the 12 days of Christmas. A partridge in a pear tree is 25.8 percent more expensive due to the higher cost of fertilizer. Higher

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Dr. Simon Medcalfe, AU Economics Professor December 27, 2022 No Comments
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Good things come to those who plan

Let’s just go ahead and preface with this: I fell into entrepreneurship and therefore leadership. And riding a bull is about the equivalent of being a business owner; perhaps you can relate. There are tremendous ups and downs, spins and ejections. So, keeping that in mind, I wanted to talk about questions that continually come up for me while I am out in the community: “How do you do all the things you do?” “I see you everywhere! Do you sleep?” “Do you have a clone?” “I didn’t expect you

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Amy Richardson December 27, 2022 No Comments
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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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Mike Petchenik December 26, 2022 No Comments
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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
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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
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