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Local pet bakery to relocate and expand to Columbia County

A local pet bakery and grooming business will soon have two locations in the CSRA. Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming is relocating from 2907 Washington Road, Suite 204 in the Washington Crossing Shopping Center near Bonefish Grill to 2701 Washington Road in the National Hills Shopping Center. The new location was formerly occupied by the Legends Club and Simon’s Formal Wear. Summer Bennett – Manager and Co-owner of the local franchise, says she and her business partner, Dean King, plan to complete the move by the end of December. “We

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Josh Heath November 30, 2021 No Comments
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Your TV Ad: The Future Is Here

    Don MacNeil is the former Marketing Director of Windsor Jewelers and long-time on-air radio professional. Is it just me, or… Your TV Ad: The Future Is Here In a previous chat I took you on a marketing deployment journey into Facebook, finding it frankly a hall of mirrors for you not familiar with online social media ad placement. You may recall I confronted a legion of Facebook tutorial videos labeled, “Easy” and, “For Beginners”, the shortest of which ran 17 minutes, with the majority closer to 30. Then

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Don MacNeil November 30, 2021 No Comments
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New franchisee to take over “cool” local business

Maranda Carruth has always wanted to be a business owner, but she wasn’t sure what type of business it would be. Carruth will officially take over the Kona Ice of Western Augusta franchise on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022, but she has been preparing for this new role for the last three years by learning the business from the current franchise owners, Dean and Denise Dozier. Dean is retiring, and Denise plans to continue working with the business for now. “It will be nice to have her around while I’m learning,”

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Josh Heath November 29, 2021 No Comments
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Nearly $2 million price tag for Augusta landmark

After 25 years in business, a local liquor store has been listed for sale for $1.9 million. According to a newsletter from the Beman Group with Blanchard & Calhoun Real Estate Company, the owners of Harvard’s Wine & Beverage, located at 110 Old Evans Road near the intersection of Bobby Jones Expressway and Washington Road, are ready to retire. The more than 9,000-square-foot store, which opened in 1996, carries a wide selection of alcoholic beverages, including wine, beer, and liquor. There’s also a second location at 145 Kings Grant Drive

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Josh Heath November 24, 2021 No Comments
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How to improve the value of your business to a buyer

In working with business owners on the sale of their businesses, we always start the process with a business valuation to determine what we feel the company would sell for in the market place. And it probably comes as no surprise that many business owners are hoping for a price greater than what the market probably will pay. Why this occurs is there is no public database of what businesses sell for that a seller or buyer can research to arrive at a value, especially if there is no real

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Tim Dalton, President Integra Business Brokers November 24, 2021 No Comments
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Turning empty office space into possible money

Editor’s Note: Don Lawrence and his company have been helping Augusta Business Daily to sub-lease unused offices at the building we lease at 930 Stevens Creek Road. He’s leased three executive suites for us and I thought if he can help ABD, perhaps he can help your company! Have you ever walked around your CSRA office building and seen a lot of rooms with the lights off and no one there? Do you ever think that space is being wasted? Even after the pandemic, more employees are working from home

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Don Lawrence November 23, 2021 No Comments
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Blending the Old and the New

    Don MacNeil is the former Marketing Director of Windsor Jewelers and long-time on-air radio professional. Is it just me, or… Blending the Old and the New For 50 years, nothing changed. Marketing your business meant fashioning a blend of newspapers, magazines and direct mail in the print world; radio and TV in the electronic, and as long as you stayed on top of minor developments in each realm, that body of media knowledge could pretty much take you from your 20s to retirement. I don’t have to tell

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Don MacNeil November 23, 2021 No Comments
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Nothing Bundt Cakes Coming Soon to Aiken

When the inventors of Nothing Bundt Cakes, Dena Tripp and Debbie Shwetz of Las Vegas, tasted their first homemade Bundt cake, made in one of their kitchens as a party gift for the other, they knew they had something special and different. They didn’t know if they had a business, but they say they knew that if they stuck to their family recipes and treated customers with the fun and welcoming spirit that their home gatherings were known for, surely, they would get a following. Now, 25 years after their

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Stephen Delaney Hale November 22, 2021 No Comments
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Mondays with Rick: Business and the Braves!

Editor’s Note: Rick Franza’s’ daughter Audie is an account executive for the Braves in the membership services department. She hit a home run by working with a World Series champion, and some would say she works for a world class organization. The Braves allow employees to invite family members to some games and Dr. Franza attended one playoff game vs. Milwaukee, Los Angeles and one World Series contest vs. Houston. Rick is the Dean of the Hull College of Business at AU and believes there are lessons, business leaders can

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Neil Gordon November 22, 2021 No Comments
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GA Jobs, Southern Company and UGA company honors

    A twenty-year unemployment record is shattered. Plant Vogtle is running into big money overruns and ABD celebrates the “Bulldog 100”. Reporter Mike Petchenik has more from the capitol in Atlanta.

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Mike Petchenik November 22, 2021 No Comments
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