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Taking On Facebook

    Don MacNeil is the former Marketing Director of Windsor Jewelers and long-time on-air radio professional. Is it just me, or… Taking On Facebook It didn’t start out this way. Realizing I hadn’t yet led you into the weeds of Facebook advertising I decided to do that, intending to bypass the fluff and distill what I found down to an easy-to-understand, Facebook Marketing For Dummies. The dummy, it turned out, was right here. I could see trouble coming when, after searching YouTube tutorials on Facebook advertising, none of the

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Augusta Business Daily Podcast

2 Dekes discuss the Healthcare Business and serving others

In today’s Augusta Podcast, the two Deke’s get together to talk about the business of long-term healthcare. Deke Copenhaver is a business consultant who helps CEO Deke Cateau of A.G. Rhodes Health & Rehab lead approximately 600 employees who serve more than 1100 seniors each year.

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National grocery store chain remodels 87 stores, including three in CSRA

A national grocery store chain has made significant improvements to many of its locations, including three in the CSRA. Food Lion, which currently has 1,103 locations in 10 states, recently invested $127 million in remodeling 87 stores in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The local stores are located at 2115 Windsor Spring Road, 3722 Mike Padgett Highway (South Augusta store pictured above), and 365 South Belair Road. “The remodels of the stores make them easier to shop,” says Meg Ham, Food Lion’s President. “We have the

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B2B Podcasting

Brothers in Business in the CSRA

This episode features Jason Rueggeberg. Look familiar? He’s the brother to the host, Jeremy who is Publisher of the Medical Professionals Magazine. Besides running successful practices in Reston, VA, and Cincinnati, OH, Jason has a great practice in his home town of Augusta – Evans Sport & Spine.

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43 Employee-Owners build CSRA company made of steel!

A most unusual manufacturing company moved into Sage Mill Industrial Park in October, Central States Manufacturing, and they are already running their steel products as fast as they can. The sparkling new Graniteville plant produces metal roofing and siding panels. An observer can watch the raw materials, including 5-ton coils of steel, about a mile long, come in one end of the mammoth cave of a building, measuring 105,000 square feet, go through processing by teams of employees as they make them into exactly fitting pieces of a predesigned steel

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Augusta Business Daily Podcast

BIZBIT: Smittys

In the last three months, three prominent businesses in Augusta closed its door after about 250 years of combined service. None of them sold their business. They just closed, including a long-time South Augusta service company. Here is our video BizBitz!

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Do’s and Don’ts of Commercial Leasing

Each month, ABD will interview J. Brian King – our Business Attorney, about a business law topic. Yesterday, we asked him a few questions about leases for entrepreneurs. We think our readers will benefit from his legal insight and advice. ABD: What advice would you give a new entrepreneur about leasing a location for their business? Brian: First of all, do some research on the type of rental space you think you need in the market where you want to be located. Find out what the going rate is for

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BIZBIT: West Augusta Developments

Business is booming on Washington Road—starting with a new—used car franchise set to open and continuing towards Alexander Drive in West Augusta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUSXnl4_LvM

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Amazon executive to speak in Columbia County

Companies that invest in their employees tend to achieve greater success and have more satisfied customers. Investing in employees will be the topic of the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Luncheon Series on Wednesday, Nov. 17 at Savannah Rapids Pavilion starting at 11 a.m. The keynote speaker will be Robert Packett – Amazon’s southeast regional director of operations. In this role, he oversees more than 20,000 employees. The title of his presentation will be “Turning Team Members Into Team Leaders.” “Investment in our people leads to delighted customers,” says

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Augusta Business Daily Podcast

The Change Maker Podcast with Fuzzy Zoeller

Golf champion and Augusta National veteran Fuzzy Zoeller is also a successful businessman. Recently, he sat down with Augusta’s Deke Copenhaver —videotaped from the Augusta Podcast studios on 7th Street in Augusta. Deke talks golf, Fuzzy’s BBQ\Steak sauces and Fuzzy’s Ultra Premium Vodka.

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