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Josh and Tom Nickell with Nickell Rental

May 30, 2017 by Danny

CEO Exclusive Radio

Josh and Tom Nickell with Nickell Rental

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Josh Nickell / Nickell Rental
Owner

Initially, Josh wanted to pursue a career in the restaurant business, or as a traveling magician. Even though he was around the rental industry his whole life, Josh had no plans to join his dad – who founded Nickell Rental in 1998. One eye-opening internship later, the course of his decisions changed. In 1998, Josh started out washing equipment. Later, he climbed the managerial track after graduating Summa Cum Laude in Management from Drexel University. Now he serves as the President of the American Rental Association of Georgia, and has been published numerous times in Rental Management Magazine – including being listed as one of the Top 10 to Watch Under 40. In 2014, the ARA named Josh Person of the Year. In his spare time, Josh volunteers as the PE coach at Carolyn Barron Montessori School.

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Tom Nickell / Nickell Rental
Founder / Owner

Tom Nickell was high school Valedictorian and a die-hard Kentucky Wildcats fan, which put him on the path to a Pre-Med degree from UK. Tom went on to dental school, but changed course two months before graduating and went to work in the rental business with his father-in-law. Tom didn’t intend to stay in this industry; it was just a stop on his journey to find a career that he could be truly passionate about. To Tom’s surprise, that career wound up being the rental business, where he could tie his passion for helping people with his love for family. Tom founded Nickell Rental in 1998, building it from the ground up. He has been in the industry nearly 40 years now and has served at both the local and national level on boards for numerous organizations, including The American Rental Association.

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Cobb County Chamber of Commerce Prepares for 2017 Small Business of the Year Awards

May 30, 2017 by Danny

Midtown Business Radio

Cobb County Chamber of Commerce Prepares for 2017 Small Business of the Year Awards

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Joshua Wikoff and Chris Arrendale

Cobb County Chamber of Commerce Prepares for 2017 Small Business of the Year Awards

VP of Marketing and Communications for the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce, Amy Selby joined CW Hall in the studio to host two of the 2017 Cobb County Chamber of Commerce Businesses to Watch. Chris Arrendale, CEO & Principal Deliverability Strategist of Inbox Pros, and Joshua Wikoff, Practice Manager for Peachtree Hearing.

Inbox Pros is your partner in email deliverability and improving overall inbox placement. To this effort,
we assist in evaluating mailing infrastructure, DNS authentication, IP and domain reputation, list quality and permissions, domestic and international compliance, message content, and delivery tracking. Some of our services include deliverability audits, ISP remediation, 24/7 monitoring, IP warming plans, and industry updates. Inbox Pros works with clients of all shapes and sizes, including both B2B and B2C senders.

Inbox Pros also offers deliverability certification courses for both beginner and advanced senders –
(https://inboxpros.com/classes-virtual- atlanta). Our case studies show some of our recent client
successes – (https://inboxpros.com/case-studies). Inbox Pros also developed an automated email
deliverability monitoring, alerting, and reporting service that provides email marketers with daily details
about IP and domain reputation.

This innovation includes daily, weekly, and monthly automated deliverability bounce reporting. The monitoring tool sends out daily emails with reputation metrics and Guest Information detailed deliverability data for each IP and domain we monitor. The goal is to triage any current email deliverability issues, and correct any issues found, to keep emails flowing to the recipient’s inbox.

Peachtree Hearing is Atlanta’s premier hearing boutique. Led by Audiologist Dr. Melissa Wikoff, the staff at Peachtree Hearing believe that your hearing care should be a superior experience that offers you the comprehensive treatment required to properly address your specific needs. To ensure this, Peachtree Hearing uses the latest technology, scientifically proven techniques, and compassionate personalized care to treat each of our patients.

In addition to ensuring our patients have good overall hearing health, Peachtree Hearing also specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of dizziness. Dizziness is typically due to disorders of the inner ear, a field in which Dr. Wikoff specializes. Dizziness is actually a very common reason for adults to see an Audiologist. Left untreated, dizziness can be a debilitating illness, but with the correct diagnosis inner ear disorders can be managed and treated. Dr. Wikoff can diagnose and treat the inner ear disorders leading to dizziness and help you feel healthy again.

Culinary Atlanta Series Featuring Greg Lipman with Piastra

May 29, 2017 by Danny

Atlanta Business Radio

Culinary Atlanta Series Featuring Greg Lipman with Piastra

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Greg Lipman / Piastra
Chef and Owner

Originally from Boston, Chef Greg learned about food at a young age when he first learned the phrase, “Food is love”. His first culinary steps were what captured his passion when Grandmother Rose showed him how to make chocolate chip cookies, and he states that he is still perfecting the recipe. After training at New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vermont, he worked in different restaurants in the Boston area.

Around age thirty, he trained with a classically trained French chef on a small yacht while sailing over a third of the way around the world. Shortly after the trip, Chef Greg moved to Atlanta and began working at Maxim Prime at the Glenn Hotel in downtown Atlanta. He then worked as the Chef at Alon’s Bakery and Market. After Alon’s, Chef Greg was Executive Chef at Dal Cuore in Johns Creek when he married his wife, Maggie. Just before opening Piastra, their first daughter was born and shortly after the opening, their second daughter came along.

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Biz Radio U Featuring Rick Smith with Hometown Pizza and Grill

May 26, 2017 by Danny

Atlanta Business Radio

Biz Radio U Featuring Rick Smith with Hometown Pizza and Grill

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Hosted by Adam Wozniak and Darren Parkinson

Rick Smith / Hometown Pizza and Grill
CEO and Founder

Hometown Pizza and Grill is located in Rockmart, GA. and is a family owned and operated business. They offer a variety of foods from pizza, burgers, and their famous all you can eat wings. Rick Smith founded Hometown Pizza and Grill in 1990, and at one point, had five locations. Rick’s entrepreneurial expertise has led him to be successful and to continually improve his business for the past 26 years.

Does My Practice Still Need To Prepare For MACRA?

May 23, 2017 by Danny

Top Docs Radio

Does My Practice Still Need To Prepare For MACRA?

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Sydney Welch

Does My Practice Still Need To Prepare For MACRA?

Lawmakers changed the way Medicare physicians and other health care professionals are paid
when they passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in 2015.
MACRA resulted in the Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP), which is designed to move
physicians from a fee-for- service program to a value-based payment system.

The actions that physicians take in 2017 will determine what they get paid in 2019. The Centers for Medicare, Medicaid Services’ goal is to tie 90 percent of all Medicare fee-for- service payments to quality or value by the end of 2018. The QPP replaced the Medicare SGR, and it is a zero-sum gain
program – which means that there will be winners and losers. Physicians could see their pay
increase or decrease by as much as four percent in 2019, depending on what they do in 2017.

The QPP established two paths for physicians to take, including the Merit-based Incentive
Payment Program (MIPS), which is a modified fee-for- service system, and Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs), which is a track for physicians who are already participating in one of the eligible advanced alternative payment models. It is crucial for physicians to figure out how to fulfill their QPP reporting requirements to avoid any cuts in pay in 2019 – as well as determining whether they will go above and beyond the minimum requirements to position themselves for a pay increase in 2019.

Finally, it is highly unlikely that MACRA/MIPS will be revised or repealed in the foreseeable
future.

Sidney Welch is the chair of Health Care Innovation at Polsinelli PC. Sidney counsels physicians, physician practices, and health care technology clients in transactional, regulatory, administrative law, and litigation matters on a national basis. She serves in leadership roles for the ABA Health Law Section, the America Health Lawyers Association, and the American Society of Medical Association Counsel.

Sidney has a bachelor’s degree from Davidson College, a master’s degree in public health from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and a law degree from Samford University. It is also worth noting that she has written a regular feature for MAG’s quarterly Journal since 2008.

Special Episode: Market Research

May 23, 2017 by Danny

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CEO Exclusive Radio

Special Episode: Market Research

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This week on CEO Exclusive we talk about market research. Understanding your market is absolutely critical to helping you understand the context in which you are to growing your business, increasing profit margins, developing strategies, and leading your people.

Knowing your market gives you the power to successfully grow your business. This week we talk about what kinds of information you need, and where to find it, and how to set up structures to manage regular market research as a recurring system in your company.

AGLCC Hosts Tyler Ogburn Photography and KEYLAY Design

May 23, 2017 by Danny

Midtown Business Radio

AGLCC Hosts Tyler Ogburn Photography and KEYLAY Design

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Emma Foulkes, Kyle Strahl, Bruce Logue, Tyler Ogburn

Tyler Ogburn Photography and KEYLAY Design

This week, co-hosts Emma Foulkes of Greenwood Wealth Management, and Bruce Logue, of Common Ground Real Estate, and members of Atlanta Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (AGLCC), were joined in the studio by Tyler Ogburn of Tyler Ogburn Photography and Kyle Strahl, of KEYLAY Design.

Tyler Ogburn shared how he developed a passion for capturing images of people when he was young, ultimately deciding to make a career in photography. Ogburn’s website describes his work this way, “The images you and I create will always have an upscale fashion flair. These are techniques and styles I crafted from my experience living in incredible cities around the world: from Melbourne, Australia to New York to Atlanta. My style can be described as high-contrast and dynamic with a coy play between shadow and light.”

KEYLAY Design describes their firm, “KEYLAY is a full-service, Atlanta graphic design agency that specializes in big ideas for small businesses. Those ideas are produced by an expertly crafted team built on innovation, experience, reliability and passion for creative work. Together, we deliver an experience to our clients based on several principles…”

Emma Foulkes recently rebranded her wealth management firm to Greenwood Wealth Management. Greenwood Wealth management is a merging of different individual companies and financial advisors who have come together to be the beacon of light in the murky waters of the financial industry. Said Foulkes, “We get in the face of the industry when they try to work in the gray areas of putting their best interest above the needs of the clients. At Greenwood our clients come first.”

Bruce Logue talked about the new realty office he became part of, Common Ground Real Estate. Bruce explains, “I have a true passion for real estate and I’m never too busy to help you find your way home! Prior to entering the real estate profession, my focused on marketing implementation and fulfillment. I have also engineered processes to enhance customer satisfaction for various businesses in the financial services and utility industries. I’m active in many business associations throughout the Greater Atlanta area and considers myself a professional networker. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, I also lived in the St. Augustine, FL area for 20 years before relocating to Atlanta in 2006 and deciding that I’d finally found my way home.”

Albert Blackwelder and Deke Cateau with A.G. Rhodes Health and Rehab

May 22, 2017 by Danny

CEO Exclusive Radio

Albert Blackwelder and Deke Cateau with A.G. Rhodes Health and Rehab

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Albert Blackwelder / A.G. Rhodes Health & Rehab
CEO

Al Blackwelder has served as the Chief Executive Officer of A.G. Rhodes Health & Rehab since 2012. A.G. Rhodes is a nonprofit organization providing therapy and rehabilitation services, short-term recovery and long-term care at three metro Atlanta locations. Blackwelder is responsible for an operating budget of approximately $40 million, approximately 550 employees and bed space for more than 400 residents and patients.

Prior to A.G. Rhodes, Blackwelder was with Emory Healthcare for 37 years. During that time, he served as Chief Operating Officer for Emory’s Wesley Woods Center, and Chief Operating Officer for Emory Crawford Long Hospital (Emory University Hospital Midtown). Mr. Blackwelder is a member of LeadingAge and a member of Georgia Health Care Association. He is also the President of the Midtown Atlanta Rotary Club. Mr. Blackwelder earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and an MBA from Georgia State University.

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Deke Cateau / A.G. Rhodes Health & Rehab
COO

Deke Cateau is the Chief Operating Officer at A.G. Rhodes. Cateau directs, supervises and coordinates the overall clinical and business operations for the organization, and manages the administration and coordination of a comprehensive array of services and programs. He also oversees the planning and execution of new initiatives, training and innovations across the organization, concentrating on efforts to improve the model of care for patients and residents.

Cateau has worked in the long-term care industry for more than 15 years. Prior to his current position, he was the Administrator for seven years at A.G. Rhodes’ flagship location in Grant Park, and before working at A.G. Rhodes, Cateau worked in various roles at other long-term care facilities.

In addition to being a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator, Cateau holds several certifications related to caring for people living with dementia. Cateau holds a Graduate Diploma in International Relations and a B.A. in Political Science and Economic History, both from the University of the West Indies.

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Eric Hunger with ElectroBike Georgia and Alan Goodman with Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce

May 22, 2017 by Danny

CEO Exclusive Radio

Eric Hunger with ElectroBike Georgia and Alan Goodman with Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce

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Eric Hunger / ElectroBike Georgia
President

Eric Hunger is President of ElectroBike Georgia. A former Global Vice President of Sales & Marketing for several manufacturing and distribution companies, Eric is passionate about clean commuting, outdoor recreation and time spent with family – all of which he enjoys on his ElectroBike. Having traded in his business suit for a bicycle helmet, Eric is enthusiastically introducing people of all ages to the benefits and fun of owning an ElectroBike.

He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and is married with two grown daughters. Look for him in one of his stores, at community cycling events, or out on the bike trail.

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Alan Goodman / Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce
President

Alan Goodman has been President of the Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce since February of 2016. Committed to the business of Brookhaven, Alan has made an effort to work closely with city government as an advocate for businesses doing business in Brookhaven.

Alan’s 20 year career in residential and commercial lending has provided him with the ability to strategically acquire capital, increase sales through effective marketing, and analyze commercial loan packages. The forming of CM Lenders has allowed Alan to expand his interest in all phases of commercial lending including SBA, Conventional, and investor lending.

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