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Mastering your Google business profile

In today’s online world, one of the most powerful tools for businesses is the Google Business Profile. The Aiken Chamber of Commerce wants to help teach the tricks of building one. The Chamber is offering “Mastering Your Google Business Profile” on June 12. The result is to teach business owners how to build a profile that will attract customers, improve online visibility, and raise trust for their brand through Google. “A lot of times, that’s the first place people are going to search for companies,” Jim Tunison, Chamber President and

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Dana Lynn McIntyre June 8, 2025 No Comments
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2 Questions for the Dean: Helping High Schoolers

The Hull College of Business is at the forefront of helping your high school-aged students transition into both college and adulthood. In today’s 2 Questions for the Dean segment, Dean Thompson explains how students are getting an early start to college and life. ABD: So, how does your dual enrollment program work? HULL: So, Augusta University has a dual enrollment program with the high schools and where the high school student can take college classes, given that they meet certain admissions criteria. It is at no cost to the students.

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Neil Gordon June 8, 2025 No Comments
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SRMC helps save $2 billion for DOE

Savannah River Mission Completion (SRMC) has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) strategic sourcing program for contributing $38 million of a $2 billion total cost savings over three years. The Supply Chain Management Center (SCMC) recently passed a significant milestone, achieving more than $2 billion in savings by National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and DOE Environmental Management (EM) prime contractors across the country. SCMC is a strategic supply chain program dedicated to simplifying the buying process to enable savings for those prime contractors. SCMC helps sites stretch

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Staff Report June 5, 2025 No Comments
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FREE Dual Enrollment Courses at Hull

If your high school student wants to get a jump start in business and economics, the Hull College of Business may have just what they are looking for, if they meet the requirements.

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HCoB Dean Mark Thompson June 5, 2025 No Comments
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New tort reform and liquor liability laws in South Carolina

Gov. Henry McMaster (R) has signed H. 3430 into law. Titled the Tort Reform and Liquor Liability law, its goal is to reform the state’s liability laws and address rising insurance costs for businesses. It also creates safety and insurance guidelines for businesses that serve alcohol. “In March, we called on the General Assembly to take bold action on tort reform by finding a commonsense solution that provides accountability, certainty, and just compensation without damaging our economy,” said McMaster in a bill signing ceremony broadcast on SCETV. “Getting to this

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Dana Lynn McIntyre June 5, 2025 No Comments
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Keeping young minds “cyber active” this summer

A summer camp featuring the Mars Rover and Metallica is a match made in heaven. Aiken Technical College is holding Cyber Power Camp: Mars Rover Mission Edition from June 9 through 13. It will teach coding, robotics, and tech innovations. “What we were focusing on really was cybersecurity careers and those things we’re already doing. The idea really was to start building a better and stronger pipeline anywhere we can for cyber careers, those things within computer technology,” Chad Crumbaker, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Workforce Innovation, explained for

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Dana Lynn McIntyre June 4, 2025 No Comments
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Chamber workshops to teach Artificial Intelligence

The Aiken Chamber of Commerce is offering a series of workshops to demystify artificial intelligence (AI). Jim Tunison, President and CEO of the Chamber, said he wanted to arrange workshops focused on AI to help members realize how the technology can be valuable. “I just wanted to be able to equip our members with the tools necessary to stay competitive,” he said. “It’s one of those things that, even I was a little leery at first when you started hearing about AI, but then you got playing around with it,

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Dana Lynn McIntyre June 3, 2025 No Comments
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Summer School: Focusing on Processes

I am teaching one course this Summer, an MBA-level course on Operations and Supply Chain Management. Operations and Supply Chain Management focuses on how companies create and deliver products and services to meet customer demand. At the heart of the operations of a firm are the processes required to produce its goods and deliver its services. Therefore, for more than half of the course, we focus on how to design, manage, analyze, and improve a firm’s processes. Basically, a process is a series of steps or actions taken to achieve

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Dr. Rick Franza June 3, 2025 No Comments
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Club Car Leads Fight Against Chinese Imports in D.C.

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) will soon make a final determination in the antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) case concerning Chinese low-speed vehicle imports. Club Car leaders and other representatives of the coalition representing the United States’ leading manufacturers of golf and personal transportation vehicles (PTVs) recently traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with Congressional leaders and seek support. The above picture on Capitol Hill features Congressman Rick Allen (GA-12), who met with leaders from Club Car and EZ-GO in Washington, D.C., to address the impact of illegally dumped

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Mitzi Oxford June 3, 2025 No Comments
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Simon Says: New Housing BOOM in the CSRA!

The Augusta Leading Economic Index (LEI) increased 1.9 percent in March from April. This is the highest monthly increase since August 2020, when we were coming out of the covid lockdown. The LEI is 1.4 percent higher than a year ago. The big driver of this month’s data was residential building permits, which were 631 in March, the highest on record going back to 2000. 298 permits were for 1-unit structures, and 329 were for 5 units or more. Although there has been news of a cooling of the national

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Dr. Simon Medcalfe June 2, 2025 No Comments
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