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Candy Hilliard with American Family Protectors, Randy Winfield with Winfield Realty Group, and Russ Tanner & Evan Nissley with PrimeLending

Steven Julian, Russ Tanner, Evan Nissley, Candy Hilliard, Randy Winfield, Mike Sammond

Candy Hilliard/American Family Protectors

American Family Protectors offers health, life, home and auto insurance to individuals, families and small business owners. They work with top rated carriers in the industry and can shop the market for the best possible solutions and rates for their clients. Their approach is to educate clients and then customize the plan to fit the clients specific needs.

 

Randy Winfield/Winfield Realty Group

Winfield Realty Group specialize in fine homes, executive homes and estates, active adult retirement living homes, land, commercial sales and leasing including retail, office and restaurant space. They strive to exceed the expectations and goals of all their clients each and every time through accessibility, dedication, a solid work ethic, honesty, integrity and conscientious attention to detail.

Russ Tanner & Evan Nissley/PrimeLending

Whether you’re a first time homebuyer or you’re well-versed in the process, buying or refinancing a home can be an exciting and rewarding experience with PrimeLending. They take the time to listen and they’ll work with you to find a home loan that fits your needs.

 

 

 

 

John Orr with Ceridian, Cappi Arneson with Foster & Whitmer Insurance Agency, and Stephanie Duncan with Etiquette Excellence

Steven Julian, Stephanie Duncan, John Orr, Cappi Arneson, Mike Sammond

John Orr/Ceridian

At Ceridian, they create innovative technology that organizations around the world use to attract, develop, manage and pay their people. Their award-winning Dayforce solution helps their customers manage compliance, make better decisions, build great teams and drive engagement with their employees. Ceridian has solutions for organizations of all sizes. Ceridian. Makes Work Life Better™.

Cappi Arneson/Foster & Whitmer Insurance Agency

Established in 1976, Foster & Witmer specializes in all types of insurance coverage with a focus on hard to place risks. If you or someone you know is having a difficult time with their insurance, give them a call. Their ability to shop your coverage with several companies allows for the best results in the marketplace.

Stephanie Duncan/Etiquette Excellence

Etiquette Excellence provides professional development to K-12, college and beyond

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Cichanski with Flex HR, Rob Moffa with Ernest Sports, and Lenore Graham “The Money Lady” with Prosperitas Financial

John Ray, Lenore Graham, Rob Moffa, Jim Cichanski, Steven Julian

John Ray, Lenore Graham, Rob Moffa, Jim Cichanski, Steven Julian

Jim Cichanski/Flex HR

Flex HR, a professional Human Resources organization, has been assisting businesses for over 16 years. Whether you have one HR project, or need Senior HR Strategic help or want to fully outsource your Human Resources activity, Flex HR can design the right plan for your organization.

 

 

Rob Moffa/Ernest Sports

Ernest Sports provides a full line of launch monitors to fit any golfer’s needs. With products designed for teachers, driving ranges, club fitters & golf novices, know your shot statistics instantly and improve your game with a launch monitor from Ernest Sports.

 

 

Lenore Graham/Prosperitas Financial

Prosperitas Financial Group is the nation’s leader in Living Benefits life insurance. A company represents a “culture.” At Prosperitas Financial Group, it is the coming together of people around a common set of values, beliefs, and purpose. It’s more than products and services, or features and benefits. It is about sharing a common cause. It is about their customers achieving peace of mind.

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STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Saving Yourself and Saving Your Business

This episode of “Strategic Insights Radio” will discuss what you need to understand about individual insurance for people under 65 and for those over 65. This topic comes at a time when many employers have moved away from providing insurance as a benefit and the individual is now responsible for obtaining their own policies. .

Quentin Moses/HealthMarkets

HealthMarkets Insurance Agency searches thousands of insurance plans from over 180 insurance companies to find the coverage that’s right for you at a price that fits your budget. HealthMarkets searches thousands of Medicare Insurance, Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Supplemental Insurance, and Life Insurance policies. They meet in person to design a plan for your needs. HealthMarkets offers hundreds of subsidy-eligible health insurance plans from nationally recognized insurance companies. With over 2 million insurance policies sold, HealthMarkets gets you the guaranteed lowest price for the insurance plans they offer.

Vlad Rusz/Sterling Rose Consulting Corp

Sterling Rose Consulting Corp is a Gwinnett County, GA based company that provides business plan creation and review, online and offline marketing, marketing plan creation and review, ongoing marketing services, accounting, bookkeeping, financial analysis, operations and business consulting. Sterling Rose Consulting Corp.’s staff has over 100 years of successful entrepreneurial experience. In addition, the CEO of the Company, Vlad Rusz, has launched and ran four successful businesses that currently range in age from 17 months to 7 years old with gross revenues ranging from $175,000 to over $5.0 million.

Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. prides itself on providing quality, investor ready documentation. The company takes it even one step farther to make sure that the client understands how to effectively present these documents, whether they are being prepared for internal use or outside investors. Sterling Rose Consulting also provides full loan SBA packages, Immigration Visa Business Plans, Commercial Lending Business Plans, Commercial Space, Growth, Not-For-Profit and Venture Capital/Investment Ready Plans.In addition, Sterling Rose Consulting Corp also provides Zoho Customization, Design and Implementation, Custom CRM solutions, Payroll, Bookkeeping and Accounting Services.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Quentin Moses with HealthMarkets, Nick Morgan with Peachtree Planning, Duke Smith with Rottweiler Systems, and Cliff Tillery with Make It Loud

Johnny Phelps, Cliff Tillery, Nick Morgan, Duke Smith, Quentin Moses

Johnny Phelps, Cliff Tillery, Nick Morgan, Duke Smith, Quentin Moses

Quentin Moses/HealthMarkets

HealthMarkets Insurance Agency searches thousands of insurance plans from over 180 insurance companies to find the coverage that’s right for you at a price that fits your budget. HealthMarkets Insurance Agency searches thousands of Medicare Insurance, Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Supplemental Insurance, and Life Insurance policies. They meet in person to design a plan for your needs. HealthMarkets Insurance Agency offers hundreds of subsidy-eligible health insurance plans from nationally recognized insurance companies. With over 2 million insurance policies sold, HealthMarkets Insurance Agency gets you the guaranteed lowest price for the insurance plans they offer.

Nick Morgan/Peachtree Planning

Peachtree Planning offers a specialized approach to total wealth management by adhering to the belief that no single advisor can specialize in all facets of financial planning. At the heart of their philosophy is the fundamental belief that specialized knowledge and expertise will ultimately produce a superior and higher quality total wealth management strategy.

Duke Smith/Rottweiler Systems

For over 30 years Rottweiler Systems has serviced the Metro Atlanta area. Rottweiler still installs and services business telephone systems of just about any variety. Rottweiler also provides award winning monitored security systems; surveillance cameras and card access systems; all with interactive apps. Rottweiler technicians are experts which fully integrate diverse systems together to maximize the effectiveness of any one aspect. The result: Business Intelligence for key decision makers. Owners and managers will have more information to help them make more informed decisions, improve processes, and maximize efficiency. Combined with interactive mobile apps Rottweiler’s Systems provides solutions to business owners making them informed with what’s happening at their business from anywhere.

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.

 

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Steve Collins with Integrated Insurance Solutions and Josh Axelberd with Displayit

Mike Sammond,Steve Collins,Josh Axelberd,Steven Julian

Mike Sammond, Steve Collins, Josh Axelberd, Steven Julian

Steve Collins/Integrated Insurance Solutions

Integrated Insurance Solutions is an independent insurance agency located in Johns Creek, GA specializing in all types of business insurance products and professional liability lines. No matter what type of business insurance is needed, they have the knowledge, experience, and support team to assist you. Though IIS is large enough to place and handle the most complex risk, they consider their number-one strength to be the personal service that they provide to the client. Each of their clients are treated as an “individual” from the origination and throughout follow-up. Their agency’s objective is to provide the best possible commercial insurance available. They know you have options out there, but what they feel sets them apart from the competition is the superior and courteous customer service they provide. Their agency’s success depends on the happiness and satisfaction of you, their valued client!

Josh Axelberd/Displayit

Displayit produces portable displays for a wide variety of trade show and event marketing applications. They generate 90% of their leads through digital marketing channels such as Google Adwords. They started selling via the internet in 1997.

 

 

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

Mike Sammond, Marie Fratoni, Rick Loose, Elizabeth Burgner

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.

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STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Protecting Your Business From Disaster

Ellen New, Vlad Rusz

Ellen New, Vlad Rusz

Welcome to Strategic Insights Radio presented by Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. This month’s episode discusses ways to protect your business from disaster.

ELLEN NEW/BLACKBURN-TABB INSURANCE AGENCY

Ellen New, Blackburn-Tabb Insurance AgencyAs an independent full service Georgia insurance agency, the duty for Blackburn-Tabb Insurance Agency is to their clients, not the insurance companies. As your insurance agents, it is their responsibility to provide YOU the best service and the best coverage, at the best possible price. They know you expect the best value without sacrificing personalized service and that’s what they do at Blackburn-Tabb Insurance Agency. They are a professional agency with a personal feel.

They start by evaluating your specific needs and finding the company that will give you the best insurance value for your dollar. They bring it all together with easy, affordable payment plans to suit your budget. As a client, they provide you with quality customer service, periodic reviews of your insurance coverage’s and premiums, and assistance with reporting claims. They are here for all your insurance needs.

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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.

ABOUT STERLING ROSE CONSULTING CORP

Sterling Rose Consulting Corp.is a full-service marketing, financial & business consulting firm. They incorporate multi-channel and multi-vertical knowledge and best practices into targeted and actionable online and offline marketing, public relations, advertising, business consulting, business operations, business planning, market research, competitive intelligence, accounting, finance and growth strategies. Sterling Rose has successfully created and launched over 250 marketing plans, 500 investor ready business plans and 1,000 market/competitive research reports. 92% of their business plans have resulted in acquisitions of SBA, Angel, and Series A Factoring, among others.

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Dr. Alan Wang with Salude, Cappi Arneson with Foster & Witmer and Mike DiLeone with Lanier Islands

Steven Julian, Dr. Alan Wang, Cappi Arneson, Mike DiLeone, Mike Sammond

Steven Julian, Dr. Alan Wang, Cappi Arneson, Mike DiLeone, Mike Sammond

Dr. Alan Wang/Salude

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Cappi Arneson/Foster & Witmer

Cappi Arneson, Foster & WitmerEstablished in 1976, Foster & Witmer specializes in all types of insurance coverage with a focus on hard to place risks. If you or someone you know is having a difficult time with their insurance, give them a call. Their ability to shop your coverage with several companies allows for the best results in the marketplace.


Mike DiLeone/Lanier Islands

Mike DiLeone, Lanier IslandsSituated along the shores of Georgia’s Great Lake, Lanier Islands features 1,500 scenic acres, beckoning to families and corporate groups alike. Marrying luxurious amenities with unparalleled natural beauty, a Lanier Islands vacation is one to be treasured long after your bags have been unpacked and your photos have been uploaded. With over 24,000 sq feet of indoor space, multiple unique outdoor function spaces and extensive team-building activities, a meeting at Lanier Islands is never just a meeting – it’s an inspirational experience.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS presented by the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

Mike Sammond, Stephanie Moyer, Kevin Ford, Stephanie Sokenis, Norma West, Johnny Phelps

Mike Sammond, Stephanie Moyer, Kevin Ford, Stephanie Sokenis, Norma West, Johnny Phelps

Stephanie Moyer & Kevin Ford/Insperity

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Norma West/Country Financial

Norma West, Country FinancialFrom the first fire policy in the 1920’s to the billions of dollars in assets and investments they protect and manage today, their history tells the story. Country Financial began in the state of Illinois and is currently available in 17 states. In 2005, they acquired Cotton States Insurance in Georgia. Currently they have ten financial representatives in the Gwinnett County area and many more throughout the state of Georgia. Country Financial is able to protect your assets, family and businesses by looking at ways to help save money for the future, retirement planning, and helping to protect your assets for the next generation. Country Financial has been a leader in providing auto, home and life insurance for over 85 years and, most importantly, their financial representatives understand the value of great service to their clients.

Johnny Phelps/Harry Norman Realtors

Johnny Phelps, Harry Norman RealtorsFounded in 1930, Harry Norman, REALTORS is Atlanta’s oldest and largest residential real estate firm with 12 sales offices, various franchise and satellite offices, and more than 1,000 real estate professionals. Harry Norman, REALTORS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate. HomeServices is the second-largest full-service independent residential real estate brokerage firm in the U.S. with 30 locations, over 20,000 sales associates and more than 3,500 employees. Harry Norman, REALTORS is the exclusive Atlanta affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate and achieves additional international exposure through membership in such exclusive real estate networks as Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® the largest network of independent residential real estate firms, with 600 members representing 5,000 offices and 150,000 associates across the U.S. and in more than 35 countries.

Stephanie Sokenis/Gwinnett Chamber

Stephanie Sokenis, Gwinnett ChamberThe mission of the Gwinnett Chamber is to strengthen existing businesses, facilitate the growth of quality job opportunities, and enrich the community’s quality of life.

The Gwinnett Chamber serves over 2,000 members throughout metro Atlanta by delivering pertinent and useful programs that strengthen and connect businesses locally, regionally, and globally. The Gwinnett Chamber uses its strategic marketing and communications capabilities to support its members, promote its programs, and enhance economic development efforts.

The Gwinnett Chamber develops opportunities for job growth by working with strategic partners to enhance economic development initiatives in Georgia. The Gwinnett Chamber promotes economic development in Gwinnett and the metro Atlanta area primarily through its Partnership Gwinnett initiative. Partnership Gwinnett focuses on holistic economic development in targeted industries through continuous efforts to retain, expand and leverage existing Gwinnett businesses; focused marketing efforts to attract businesses to locate or expand operations in Gwinnett; and comprehensive efforts to assist entrepreneurs in launching and sustaining start-up businesses.

The Gwinnett Chamber supports community development efforts that enrich Gwinnett’s quality of life and quality of place. The Chamber also facilitates efforts to develop, attract, and retain world-class entrepreneurial and community leadership talent.

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