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Sabrina Hines

Sabrina Hines is a survivor of the struggling staffing business

Name: Sabrina Hines Company/Title: Branch Manager for HireQuest Years Served: Staffing for 15 years, 7 years in current position  Contact info: 706-798-5860 Sabrina Hines has learned how to scramble the hard way. She worked her way up over the years from a receptionist to a recruiter, to her present position as a Branch Manager with HireQuest. When COVID reared its ugly head a couple of years ago, staffing agencies struggled to meet their client demands for workers. The hardest-hit industries like travel, restaurants, entertainment, education, health care, and retail grabbed

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Mitzi Oxford May 3, 2022 No Comments
Digital Marketing

Free Access: No silver bullets, but sound strategies can boost your digital marketing

You don’t need to be Elon Musk to be a good online marketer (although he is a master at getting attention online). You will need to have a digital marketing strategy for your business, though. There is no single approach that will make your online marketing plan a success. Looking for a ‘silver bullet’ marketing solution is not a sound strategy in today’s ever-changing world. What is a digital online strategy? We’ll explore this topic over the next several months. Before we start, let’s address the elephant on the web…

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Richard Brashear May 2, 2022 No Comments
Shawna Woodward

Free Access: Real Talk Real Estate: Will CSRA trends in the volatile housing market?

So much is happening in this market since interest rate changes were initiated to cause a market correction in house and inflation. Personally, I feel like they are overcorrecting, but I am reminding myself, as I often do, that it is not my monkey and not my circus! But some life lessons are sure and constant, like being proactive and not reactive. We are seeing a reactive response where a proactive one would have been a much better idea. This applies to all aspects of business and life! Whether you

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Shawna Woodward, Re/Max Reinvented Evans April 29, 2022 No Comments
Employee Benefits

Free Access: Good health benefits help companies attract good employees

Tom Mastny went from a Major League pitcher to helping local businesses with their health care benefits with The Pennant Group. In part 3 of his interview with Neil Gordon, Tom tells us how we’re currently in an area with a strong competition that drives down costs and helps employers take control of the benefits they offer.

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Neil Gordon April 29, 2022 No Comments
Food and Fun

Entrepreneur combines fun and sales experience to start video biz

Kevin Jay loves sampling restaurants and having a fun time in the CSRA. His new brand, Eat Play Explore Augusta, allows him to have his cake and eat it too. Jay uses his iPhone to record and edit videos for local hospitality businesses that want more exposure and content to use on social media. “I’ve traveled all over the country and see first-hand that small businesses don’t have a lot of money for advertising,” Jay said, himself a transplant to Martinez from Kansas City, Mo. Jay has spent 25 years

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Neil Gordon April 28, 2022 No Comments
Stacey Campbell-Hopkins

Meet the woman who makes Duckworth Development run like a well-oiled machine

Name: Stacey Campbell-Hopkins Company/Title: Business Operations Manager for Duckworth Development Years Served: 7 years  Contact info: 706-922-6186 Stacey Campbell-Hopkins has found her dream job in an unlikely place – the male-dominated field of construction. Women comprise only 11 percent of the workforce in the industry. For executive positions, the number drops to 7 percent. To be both female and the Business Operations Manager of the fast-growing Duckworth Development makes her a phenomenon in the industry. When Campbell-Hopkins began working on her marketing degree in 2000, she took a job answering

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Mitzi Oxford April 27, 2022 No Comments
Shawna Woodward

Free Access: How to make a cash offer with a conventional loan

Trying to buy a house in the market we are in can be very discouraging to new home buyers in the $150,000 to $250,000 price range. I have a current client, who is a good friend of mine, and he has been looking to buy his first house for a few months now. There were weeks when we would view a newly listed home every single day. We made plenty of offers – I think our score count was 0 offers accepted and 10 offers made, so we were 0-10.

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Braydon Woodward, Re/Max Reinvented Evans April 22, 2022 No Comments
Employee Benefits

Free Access: Finding the best health care benefits for your business

Tom Mastny went from a Major League pitcher to helping local businesses with their health care benefits with The Pennant Group. In part 2 of his interview with Neil Gordon, Tom talks about the changes in the health care benefits industry and the importance of finding the right benefits for your company.

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Tom Mastny April 21, 2022 No Comments
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