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Businesswomen to discuss mentoring and coaching next generation leaders

Behind every successful business leader, there’s a mentor who provided guidance, motivation and advice. Female professionals will have the opportunity to learn from local mentors at the next Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce Women in Business Program on Tuesday, March 15 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Enterprise Mill Events Center on Greene Street. Three businesswomen will discuss mentoring and coaching the next generation of leaders in a panel discussion called “Leadership & Legacy.” The panelists are Dr. Patrice Jackson, founder and facilitator of EduCare Training & Consulting,

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Josh Heath March 9, 2022 No Comments
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CSRA Heart Walk promotes better employee health for local businesses

The first step to better health can literally mean taking the first step. Local residents have a chance to do just that with the American Heart Association’s CSRA Heart Walk at 8 a.m. Saturday at SRP Park in North Augusta. The Heart Walk is a time to celebrate heart and stroke survivors, raise funds and encourage physical activity. “The past year has shown us that no matter where we are, we can come together for a common cause,” said Dr. Philip Coule, Chief Medical Officer at Augusta University Health, who

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Gary Kauffman March 9, 2022 No Comments
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Your Ad Pro As Bench Coach

  Don MacNeil is the former Marketing Director of Windsor Jewelers and long-time on-air radio professional.   Is it just me, or… Your Ad Pro As Bench Coach Baseball invented the bench coach as a way of acknowledging the fallibility of single-decision-maker decision making. Medicine calls it the second opinion. Napoleon and Hitler could have used one when contemplating Russia. Things just seem to get smarter with a second viewpoint. You and your marketing are no different. To demonstrate, let’s meet Mark. Mark owns a modest electronics store and fervently

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Don MacNeil March 8, 2022 No Comments
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Local business consultant to discuss improving your company’s situation

It’s hard to pin down Michael Scott’s leadership style on The Office, but for better or for worse, many business owners and CEOs adopt one style and stick with it. Others subscribe to the Situational Leadership model, a flexible leadership approach developed in the 1960s by Ken Blanchard and Paul Hershey that involves adapting to ever-changing workplace situations. Katie Wynn, founder and President of Dynamik Consulting of Augusta, will discuss this model at the next Columbia County Chamber of Commerce Executive Luncheon Series event on Wednesday, March 16 from 11:30

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Josh Heath March 8, 2022 No Comments
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Mondays with Rick: Too much money, supply chain issues causing high inflation

  Dr. Rick Franza, is the Dean of the Hull College of Business who discusses a different, timely business topic each Monday in this column. This week, take a look at the impact of the highest inflation in four decades. The interview has been edited for clarity and impact. ABD: The inflation rate is currently nearly 7.5 percent, the highest it’s been in 40 years. What is causing that? Rick: I’m not an economist, I’ll start with that caveat, but much of what’s caused the inflation is cheap money. We

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Gary Kauffman March 7, 2022 No Comments
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Former Fort Gordon leader to command business leaders’ attention

If you had the opportunity to listen to a speech from the former commander of Fort Gordon, you would probably do whatever you could to take advantage of that opportunity. Retired Brig. Gen. Jeff Foley, a 32-year Army veteran, author and leadership coach, will serve as keynote speaker for a local business meeting next week. Foley will speak at a breakfast meeting for CSRA Home Connections, a division of CENTURY 21 Larry Miller Realty, on Wednesday, March 9 at the Snelling Conference Center, 3165 Washington Road, Suite D in Augusta.

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Josh Heath March 3, 2022 1 Comment
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Columbia County event shines spotlight on small businesses

An event that started as a way to get people out the house during the pandemic will continue this Saturday in Harlem. Harlem will be holding its 2nd Annual Small Business Expo from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., Saturday, at the Harlem Library. The inaugural event was held last year. “During the pandemic, we wanted a way to get small businesses together and to get people out the house,” said Amber King, owner of Mama’s Sweet Spot Shoppe in Harlem and organizer of the event. Despite a windy day, the

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Gary Kauffman March 3, 2022 No Comments
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Simon Says: Hotel and Tourism industries try to dig out from covid

We all know the leisure and hospitality sector has been hardest hit by the pandemic. Leisure and hospitality employment in the Augusta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has fallen from more than 28,000 pre-pandemic to 24,000 in December 2021. The leisure and hospitality sector includes hotels and restaurants as well as arts, entertainment and recreation. However, there is some good news from the hotel section of the industry as reported by Smith Travel Research. In Richmond County, both occupancy rates and revenues per available room (RevPAR) were generally higher in 2021

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Dr. Simon Medcalfe, AU Economics Professor March 2, 2022 No Comments
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Georgia agriculture continues to grow

Although Atlanta is one of the largest metropolitan centers in the nation, Georgia is still a largely rural state. In 2021, Georgia ranked 22nd in the nation in field crop values and fourth in the Southeast, according to a report issued by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. For the year, Georgia crop values were $2.61 billion, a 20 percent jump over 2020. The bulk of that value came from cotton and peanuts. As it has for a long time, Georgia led the nation in peanut production at $774 million,

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Gary Kauffman March 2, 2022 No Comments
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IRS changes reporting requirement for mobile payment apps

Mobile payment apps like CashApp and Venmo have been a boon for some small businesses, but a change in the tax law will increase the need for stricter accounting practices. In the past, a business could bring in $20,000 through an app without triggering any additional paperwork, but in 2022 the IRS has lowered that threshold to $600. Any amount of business transactions totaling more than $600 will require the app to send a 1099-K income form to the business. This includes apps that have accounts that hold money, like

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Gary Kauffman March 1, 2022 No Comments
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