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Monica Caras with Club Z! and Okelo Bristol with Southeast Commercial Services

April 21, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Monica Caras with Club Z! and Okelo Bristol with Southeast Commercial Services

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Mike Sammond, Okelo Bristol, Monica Caras, Steven Julian

Moncia Caras/Club Z! In-Home Tutoring Service

For 20 years, Club Z! has had the privilege of providing high quality in-home tutoring and test prep services to nearly 300,000 students. Club Z! is an academic solutions provider offering a customized learning program for each and every student. They have learning programs to fit any family’s needs and preferences, whether it’s in-home, on school campus, or even at the library in a small group!

Okelo Bristol/Southeast Commercial Services

Southeast Commercial Services has been a family business since their inception, supported by an organization with more than a hundred years of exercise in the application of ceiling and wall cleaning, non-skid floor safety systems, and aggressive, long-term, microbial cleaning. In many cases, they can clean your business ceilings and walls to a “like new” condition in just a few short hours, saving of up to 90% on the cost of replacement. Their floor safety system virtually guarantees that your floors are safe, impossible to slip on, and completely conforming to OSHA standards. Plus, their anti-microbial cleaning system eliminates molds, mildews, and pollutants, and continues to assure perfect sanitary conditions long after the cleaning process has ended.

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STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Phillip Saxton with Small Business Samaritans

April 21, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Phillip Saxton with Small Business Samaritans

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On this episode of “Strategic Insights Radio“, host Vlad Rusz introduces you to Philip Saxton, founder of Small Business Samaritans. They discuss different sales techniques to help small business owners and their sales team.

Phillip Saxton/Small Business Samaritans

Small Business Samaritans cares about the individuals who have the dream and courage to start a business. These dreams are important, not just to them and their families, but to their customers and the community where they operate. Their mission is to help small businesses & non-profits to become self-reliant and independent of economic forces including a lack of capital by identifying through business/organization assessments current needs that can be addressed through training, increasing know-how, and active consulting leading to positive results. They intend not only to “come alongside” but to ‘walk alongside”, bringing them in some cases to participate in the SBS Shark Tank process providing access to investors, banks and business brokers. Their ultimate objective is to help provide the creation of wealth, organization stability, outstanding operations and job creation.

About “Strategic Insights Radio”:

“Strategic Insights Radio” is intended to be an interactive radio show hosted by Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Listeners can Tweet their questions for a live response on the radio to @sterling_rose1 or via @strategicradio. Also, suggestions on business topics that listeners would like to learn more about are welcome. Please send suggestions to info@sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com.

DIGITAL MARKETING FOR SMALL BUSINESS: Cliff Tillery with Make It Loud

April 20, 2016 by Mike

On the Money

DIGITAL MARKETING FOR SMALL BUSINESS: Cliff Tillery with Make It Loud

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On this episode of “On the Money”, Cliff Tillery with Make it Loud Creative Marketing discusses digital marketing and social media platforms with host Joe Moss.

Cliff Tillery/Make It Loud

Make It Loud is a marketing company specializing in digital marketing. They provide web design, search engine optimization, social media, email marketing, printing and other marketing services, primarily for small and medium sized businesses.

To watch the video of this show, CLICK HERE.

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“On the Money” focuses on topics and issues allowing small businesses to better navigate the financial services minefield, with analysis and opinions from today’s industry experts on banking and loans. “On the Money” also introduces you to some of the top small business leaders in the Atlanta market.

Hosted by Joe Moss, the president of Embassy National Bank, “On the Money” airs live every Wednesday at 3:00 PM EST from the Business RadioX studio in Gwinnett.

Rob MacLane with 3Ci, Jeff Andrews with GT Software and Michele Richards with Community Management Associates

April 20, 2016 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Rob MacLane with 3Ci, Jeff Andrews with GT Software and Michele Richards with Community Management Associates

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Rob MacLane, Jeff Richards, Michele Richards, Dom Rainey

Rob MacLane/3Ci

3Ci is one of the industry’s most established and reputable technology staffing firms. Founded in 1978, 3Ci has been innovating to deliver technology staffing solutions for nearly 40 years. 3Ci is committed to addressing the talent needs of small, medium and enterprise-level companies in multiple markets across the United States. The company has a national reach with headquarters in Atlanta.

Jeff Andrews/GT Software

GT Software revolutionizes data, process and transaction access to optimize business information across mainframe, distributed and cloud platforms. By enabling data, companies are able to easily create new business applications regardless of the data type, platform, or programming language.

Founded in 1982, GT Software’s heritage of application modernization began with the mainframe and now continues through today’s modern technologies. It has always been their mission to help clients achieve success by extending the value of their IT investments through agile development with an intuitive, robust integration layer that provides standards-based APIs, improved workflow, and enhanced operational efficiency.

Their solutions make data enablement easy through Web services to quickly drive innovations including cognitive computing, mobile enablement, IoT, and business analytics. GT Software’s solutions are trusted by more than 2,500 organizations worldwide to improve operational efficiency, customer experiences, and to drive innovation.

Michele Richards/Community Management Associates

For more than twenty years Community Management Associates has provided proven and professional property management throughout northern Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee. They bring many assets to every Association they manage including first-class customer service, proactive, experienced property management and cutting edge technology. Whether your Association is large or small, a mid-rise or high-rise condominium, co-op or master planned community, CMA delivers professional, effective and cost-efficient management—customized to your Association’s requirements at a price you can afford.

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BREAKING PAR IN BUSINESS: Lisa Bianchini with Lexis Printing & Fulfillment and Harold Kolbe with BluIP

April 15, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

BREAKING PAR IN BUSINESS: Lisa Bianchini with Lexis Printing & Fulfillment and Harold Kolbe with BluIP

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Lisa Bianchini, Harold Kolbe, Rich Bartolotta

Lisa Bianchini/Lexis Printing & Fulfillment

Lexis Printing is a customer service focused commercial printing, fulfillment and direct mail marketing company. They strive to be a trusted extension of your marketing department by providing superior products at competitive prices. They keep your valuable time and bottom line in focus with everything they do.

Harold Kolbe/BluIP

BluIP delivers mission critical solutions, such as Hosted PBX, Unified Communications, Presence Management, and tailored Call Center solutions to SMB and Large Enterprises nationwide. Their customized solutions have served Enterprises across multiple vertical markets with multiple sites and complex application and infrastructure integrations, while satisfying the most stringent industry compliance and security requirements. BluIP, along with its partner ecosystem, focuses on providing customers with exceptional support, high level of innovation. Their solutions are fully integrated, flexible and scalable, and require no capital investment or ongoing maintenance. Visit them at www.bluip.com.

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Christine Martinello with The Original Love Box and Michael Owens with BioLife Plasma Services

April 14, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Christine Martinello with The Original Love Box and Michael Owens with BioLife Plasma Services

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Mike Sammond, Christine Martinello, Michael Owens, Steven Julian

Christine Martinello/The Original Love Box

The Original Love Box is a treasured tradition that gives people the opportunity to create closer relationships and families. It’s easy to do. People write love notes to each other and include words of affirmation and appreciation. Then a family or group gathers and reads them to each other. The couple’s book is a keepsake where they write their love story. The tradition captures a legacy of love and is a gift that will be passed down from generation to generation.

Michael Owens/BioLife Plasma Services

BioLife Plasma Services is an industry leader in the collection of high-quality plasma that is processed into life-saving plasma-based therapies. They operate numerous state-of-the-art plasma collection facilities throughout the United States and Austria. BioLife is committed to safety. Through superior service, they strive to ensure the safety of their donors and the patients who receive life-saving plasma-based therapeutics.

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Steve Palmer with The Cottage School, Dr. Dionne Poulton with Poulton Consulting Group, and Jeff Plank with HLB Gross Collins

April 13, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Steve Palmer with The Cottage School, Dr. Dionne Poulton with Poulton Consulting Group, and Jeff Plank with HLB Gross Collins

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Steve Palmer, Dr. Dionne Poulton, Jeff Plank, Dominick Rainey

Steve Palmer/The Cottage School

The Cottage School has a 31-year history of serving students with mild to moderate learning differences including ADD, ADHD and Anxiety Disorders. The students learn in addition to the State of Georgia required classes for graduation, a business model that is based on time accountability and financial reward and balance. This fall for the first time they are adding 4th and 5th grades to their current 6-12th grades.

Dr. Dionne Poulton/Poulton Consulting Group

Poulton Consulting Group is an HR and Leadership Consulting business specializing in diversity and inclusion. They serve all businesses from small to large, government, educational institutions, non-profits, and social groups. PCG is led by President and owner, Dr. Dionne Poulton, who for the past 16 years, has been researching and teaching in areas of diversity, inclusion, equity, bias, intercultural dialogue, adult education, adult learning, and adult behavior. PCG offers targeted, research based professional development opportunities, education, advisement, and conflict mediation to HR professionals, leaders, and employees in all workplace settings.

Jeff Plank/HLB Gross Collins

HLB Gross Collins is an Atlanta-based full service certified public accounting and consulting firm that has been providing excellence in client service for over forty years. Serving clients both locally and around the globe, the firm offers tax, auditing and assurance, business consulting, valuation, estate and personal financial planning, and international services.

Angels Among Us Pet Rescue and Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia

April 8, 2016 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

Angels Among Us Pet Rescue and Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia

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Lynn Robinette, Nikki, Bruno Taillefer, Megan Bowman, Randy Redner

Presented by Minuteman Press of Duluth, this new program is dedicated to promoting local charities and non-profit organizations. CLICK HERE to watch the video of this show.

Megan Bowman/Angels Among Us Pet Rescue

Angels Among Us Pet Rescue is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity dedicated to saving dogs and cats from high-kill shelters in north Georgia. They operate through a network of volunteers and foster homes in the metro Atlanta area. Their efforts are funded by tax-deductible contributions from compassionate people and organizations who care and want to help make a difference, one pet at a time.

Their mission is two-fold. First, to educate the public on the plight of animals that have found themselves in high kill shelters throughout Georgia and on the responsibilities involved with pet ownership, such as spay/neuter and heart-worm prevention. Second, to save as many animals as they can from high-kill shelters and to see each animal through from the actual rescue to the loving foster home and ultimately to the “forever” home they were meant to have.

Randy Redner/Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia

For more than three decades, the Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia has worked in partnership with donors to donate close to $60 million to the charitable causes that matter most to the community.

Rather than giving haphazardly to every donation request, they help people learn where the real needs are and which non-profits are directly addressing those needs. Instead of giving in a rush at year-end for tax purposes, they offer tools that allow you to invest your resources now and give more purposefully when you’re ready. And if you want to leave a legacy that reaches far beyond your lifetime, they can help with that, too.

They make giving easy, with a powerful return on investment for the community. In short, they connect people who care with causes that matter.

Bruno Taillefer/Minuteman Press of Duluth

When it comes to business communications services, Minuteman Press of Duluth can do it all. With a complete range of products and services at your disposal, they can help you get your message out to customers, employees and vendors alike. Using the latest printing and document management technology, they handle your projects from start to finish. Their energetic and experienced staff is dedicated to delivering what you need, when you need it.

Minuteman Press of Duluth. They design, print and promote – You! They’re the one-stop shop for your business.

Lynn Robinette/Wishes 4 Me Foundation (and Show Host)

The Wishes 4 Me Foundation is a Georgia non-profit organization which provides a group style home for disabled adults. They currently have five homes in Lawrenceville, GA. Each home provides accessibility based on the needs of the residents which exceeds ADA code. The homes also include a positive family environment.

Lynn Robinette, a single mother and the founder of the organization, was inspired by her two disabled children when she was not successful in finding solutions for independent living for her precious loved ones. Lynn has accomplished a successful model of group style living of disabled adults who wish to be active in the community.

Nikki/Minuteman Press of Duluth

Nikki is the Official Mascot of Minuteman Press of Duluth. Nikki is a rescue pit bull mix.

Marie Fratoni with Get Clients Everywhere, Rick Loose with Milton Park Partners, and Elizabeth Burgner with Planned PEThood of Georgia

April 7, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Marie Fratoni with Get Clients Everywhere, Rick Loose with Milton Park Partners, and Elizabeth Burgner with Planned PEThood of Georgia

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Mike Sammond, Marie Fratoni, Rick Loose, Elizabeth Burgner

Marie Fratoni/Get Clients Everywhere

Get Clients Everywhere provides coaching support to entrepreneurs so that they find more clients, make more money, make a greater impact, and have more fun! They work with smart, talented business owners providing coaching, training, and speaking around important entrepreneurial topics that help businesses grow.

Rick Loose/Milton Park Partners

Milton Park Partners is a staffing company providing a broad array of solutions designed to meet the needs of today’s small businesses. Their purpose is to enable the small business owner to “get on with business” by relieving executives of the many burdensome and time consuming aspects of employment from hiring to well after the employee has left the organization. Business owners and their employees can rely on Milton Park Partners to be their HR department and provide a full scope of administrative and professional HR support.

Elizabeth Burgner/Planned PEThood of Georgia

Planned PEThood of Georgia reduces the overpopulation and suffering of dogs and cats through education and low-cost spay/neuter programs and to rescue, vet and place adoptable dogs and cats into good permanent homes. Adoptable is defined as dogs and cats that pose no health or safety risk, which makes the animal unsuitable for placement as a pet.