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Shawna Woodward

Free Access: Real Talk Real Estate: Selling a Home with Pets

I hope that we all share the love of a beloved pet or two. I can admit I am fully pet-crazed and love my fur babies like they are my children. My friends affectionately refer to me as the crazy cat lady! When I am helping buyers and sellers, pets often take center stage with their needs. Those who have pets want to buy a home with a fenced yard for the dogs or a screened porch for the cats. If you are a seller, you are concerned with what

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Darin Myers

Free Access: 5 steps to make your business stronger

Darin Myers is the local facilitator of The Alternative Board (TAB), a peer-to-peer advisory board designed to help company leaders maximize their opportunities and work through challenges. Darin recently retired after a 30-year career in the nuclear industry as the leader of Plant Vogtle I and II. He has proven success in strategic planning and alignment, employee development, organizational performance improvement, accountability, and coaching. Recently, he started a family business in Augusta focused on home health care, providing him the knowledge and experience surrounding small- to medium-sized business operators. Now

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Digital Marketing

Free Access: Get your business noticed with Google Business Profile

Google Business Profile is the perfect way to show off your business to the world. With your own listing, you can provide all the details potential customers might want to know, like what services and products you offer, where your business is located, and even some photos. Google Business Profile is available to businesses that interact with customers. This includes businesses with a physical location and businesses that provide services remotely. Having a Google Business Profile ensures your business presence is maximized on Google and it makes it easier for

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Shawna Woodward

Free Access: Real Talk Real Estate: Defining the Due Diligence Period

Once you’ve secured a purchase agreement on a home, you may have questions: Are you 100 percent locked into the agreement? What if there were things about the house that you didn’t notice at first? Are you allowed to change your mind? Hopefully, you asked for a due diligence period that gives you time to confirm that you actually do want to purchase the property. The “Due Diligence Period” of a real estate contract is an agreed-upon period after the contract has been fully executed. It is a term that

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Darin Myers

Free Access: Clamoring for talent: 3 ways to improve employee retention

Darin Myers is the local facilitator of The Alternative Board (TAB), a peer-to-peer advisory board designed to help company leaders maximize their opportunities and work through challenges. Darin recently retired after a 30-year career in the nuclear industry as the leader of Plant Vogtle I and II. He has proven success in strategic planning and alignment, employee development, organizational performance improvement, accountability, and coaching. Recently, he has started a family business in Augusta, focused on home health care, providing him the knowledge and experience surrounding small- to medium-size business operators.

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Office Support

Free Access: Offering a helping hand in making estate plans

Today, I want to tell you why estate planning is important. But why would someone need help with their estate? An estate plan is a vital component of any financial plan, regardless of the ages of your family members or your net worth. Whether you are single, married, or partnered, there are essential components of an estate plan that can help ensure your family’s financial security. According to The Balance magazine, there are three key reasons why estate planning is essential for any family. • Estate Planning Protects Beneficiaries. There

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Neil Gordon

Free Access: Media Watch: TV news and changes made to get and keep viewers

Legal Battles Starting today, journalist, Ashley Campbell-White will walk into her new TV home and feel like she’s going from the basement to the penthouse – Gray Television’s approximate $41 million state-of-the-art media complex on the Riverwatch Parkway. It’s not that her previous digs at WFXG weren’t nice with its remodeled studio, but she’s gone through two months of legal challenges getting released from a non-compete clause in her contract. White, who made a significant salary as WFXG’s former Executive Producer and 6:30 p.m. anchor wanted to be able to

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Digital Marketing

Free Access: Get more views for your website by pumping up off-page SEO

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is like the weather in Augusta – it is always changing. From hailstorms in the morning to sunny skies in the afternoon, it’s hard to keep up with what to wear, how to plan, and what to think. SEO is a lot like this. SEO has been around for more than 20 years and has changed, it seems, almost daily during that time. The impact on your website’s online visibility and your business results can be monumental. With so many types of SEO, it’s hard to

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Shawna Woodward

Free Access: Real Talk Real Estate: Don’t believe everything you hear in the news about housing

Let me answer the main question everyone has these days: How’s the market? Well, I don’t expect our market to collapse or fall apart, and I am pretty certain that a monumental drop in values is not forecasted for our market. You cannot believe everything you hear on the news, my friends! Make sure you remember we are not a big metropolis like Los Angeles or Chicago. We have a very stable economy here. Every sector of the employment world can be found in our special little town! We have

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Digital Marketing

Free Access: Google It!

Google Business Profiles – What It Is and Why You Need It Google is, hands down, the most popular search engine on the internet. As a result, Google is where people go for information, whether that is to find restaurant hours, see where a business is located, or get reviews about the business. It is so popular that we’ve created a verb out of their name, “Just Google it.” If you want your local business to be found by potential customers, it’s important to have a verified and claimed Google

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