In today’s Georgia business report, Mike Petchenik looks at a ruling against a Peach State employer, an increase in Georgia companies firing up firearms firms plus a Coke and a lot of smiles!
Editor’s Note: The above cover photo is how the old/new brand will look when the January edition comes out in the next several days. A long-time CSRA advertising business now has a new name. HomeDirect of Augusta (see photo above) – a company that allows both local business owners and national franchises to buy advertising in its direct mail magazine, has announced it will be rebranded as SuperSavers. Founded in 1994 as SuperSaver Coupon by Blane Bailey, the monthly magazine that contains a variety of coupons is mailed to 120,000
Watch this 2-minute video from one of the leading experts on transitioning from a bad culture to a good one. Patrick Reynolds, the CEO of Cross Link Consulting in North Augusta, gets us all ready to tackle 2022 the right way!
Don MacNeil is the former Marketing Director of Windsor Jewelers and long-time on-air radio professional. Is it just me, or… Marketing and Your Brain Don’t you hate it when something you took as gospel for a lifetime turns out not to be true? Who knew that the old chestnut of right-brain, (creative) left-brain (accountant type with pocket protector) had been discredited in this century? There just seem to be folks among us determined to take the fun out of everything. And it was such a comforting theory, too.
Longtime, successful CSRA financial planner, Woody Merry brought on a new advisor in 2021. In today’s member spotlight, Neil Gordon learns she may “teach” him a thing or two, as well as the rest of us!
This week is the first full week of 2022. Everyone is back to work and ready to row the boat in the same direction to “win” for our companies. In today’s Vodcast, Darin Myers says now is the time to recap what went right and wrong in 2021.
In Part Two of our series with Coach Darin Myers, the TAB CSRA facilitator shifts from the 2021 into the New Year’s planning for 2022.
Small business owners are facing an ever-changing climate, so it’s essential they remain current on topics that affect their businesses. The University of Georgia’s Small Business Development Center wants to help local business leaders stay informed on these topics. The center will host its Eighth Annual CEO Breakfast Workshop on Wednesday, Jan. 19 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Snelling Conference Center located at 3165 Washington Road, Suite D near Goodwill in Augusta. The workshop will feature three speakers: Alison Couch – owner of Couch Consulting, LLC –
As 2022 begins, we now know how hard COVID-19 hit the local economy in 2020, such as the speed with which official government data on real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is released. For the Augusta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), real GDP fell by 1.4% in 2020. However, the effect of COVID-19 was not uniform across all the counties in the MSA as shown in the table below. Burke County actually saw real GDP grow by 5.6% while Richmond County saw the biggest decline at 2.7%. County % change real GDP
After growing up in a military family and retiring as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Army, Brian Burns wanted to find a way to give back to soldiers and their families. Burns – Managing Partner of FMI Defense, LLC – launched the Tee 4 Troops program in 2013. The program, which has raised over $1 million to support military families, allows golfers to play for free by waiving greens fees at five Army and Air Force golf courses throughout the U.S., including Gordon Lakes Golf Club at Fort Gordon,
