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Greg Lang with Good Samaritan Health Center and Jay Moran with Followed Social Media for Business

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Mike Sammond, Greg Lang, Jay Moran, Steven Julian

Mike Sammond, Greg Lang, Jay Moran, Steven Julian

Greg Lang/Good Samaritan Health Center

Greg Lang, Good Samaritan Health CenterGood Samaritan Health Center of Gwinnett is a non-profit organization committed to caring for the uninsured and under-insured working poor in Gwinnett County. It is the aim of Good Samaritan Gwinnett to not only meet physical needs, but to also address the spiritual needs of their patients through prayer and biblical counseling. They serve the community by helping to eliminate health disparities for uninsured and under-insured populations, and their programs help reduce the cost of indigent care on the public health care delivery system.

Jay Moran/Followed Social Media for Business

Followed Social Media for Business takes social media off your marketing “To-Do” list, and keeps you top-of-mind with your target market to influence their buying decisions, all while saving you time, money and keeping your work-life balance in harmony.

 

 

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Steve Collins with Integrated Insurance Solutions and Josh Axelberd with Displayit

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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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SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Johanna Ellis with Atlanta Classic Cars and Mark Treager with Cornerstone Media Group

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Johanna Ellis/Atlanta Classic Cars

Johanna Ellis, Atlanta Classic CarsAt Atlanta Classic Cars, the exclusive authorized Mercedes-Benz dealer of Duluth, you will find a large selection of new and pre-owned vehicles as well as professional staff ready to help you find the perfect car for your lifestyle. They are committed to providing excellent customer service. Atlanta Classic Cars is a family owned and operated organization proudly serving their customers from the Duluth area for 40 years. Their friendly sales team is eager to help you drive away with the vehicle that fits your individual needs. They encourage you to browse our new inventory of Mercedes-Benz models.

Mark Treager/Cornerstone Media Group

Cornerstone Media Group knows that innovation is not born from a business plan. They focus on developing new ways to help their clients sell more products and services. They deliver results that are strategically sound and executable, with a value that is unmatched. They’ve been in the Internet development business for nearly 20 years. Clients tell them regularly that Cornerstone Media Group’s longevity and experience matters.

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Philip Saxton with Small Business Samaritans

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Vlad Rusz and Philip Saxton

Vlad Rusz and Philip Saxton

 

On this episode of “Strategic Insights Radio”, host Vlad Rusz introduces you to Philip Saxton, founder of Small Business Samaritans, and discusses different sales techniques that can help further a small business owner and small business sales team.

PHILIP 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 & 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 & active consulting leading to positive results. They intend not only to ‘Come Along Side’ but to ‘Walk Along Side’ bringing them in some cases to participate in the SBS Shark Tank process providing access to investors, banks & business brokers. Their ultimate objective is to help provide the creation of wealth, organization stability, outstanding operations and job creation.

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.

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.

 

 

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

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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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Littie Brown with NAWBO, Melissa Smith with The PVA and independent film producer Monique McGlockton

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Littie Brown/National Association of Women Business Owners

NAWBO is the voice of America’s 10.6 million women-owned businesses. Since 1975, NAWBO has helped women evolve their businesses by sharing resources and providing a single voice to shape economic and public policy. National Association of Women Business Owners is the only dues-based national organization representing the interests of all women entrepreneurs across all industries. National Association of Women Business Owners started as an informal meeting of women business owners in the Washington, D.C. area who met to trade information about federal contracts, bank credit, and other business issues. Every few weeks, more women began attending the group and it became clear that there was a great need for a formal organization devoted to helping women business owners, so NAWBO was created. Today the organization features chapters in almost every metropolitan area in the United States.

Melissa Smith/The PVA

The PVA is a virtual assistant staffing and administrative consulting business. Serving small businesses (less than 10 employees) to help them stay competitive in an ever changing world without the high cost of employees.  They create time.  You make more money.

 


Monique McGlockton/Independent Film Producer

Independent film producer who will produce film and television projects written by her and other script writers. She recently ventured to take producing on full- time to finish her most recent project titled “Dundu Dole – The Documentary” and to work with other entertainment professionals on future projects.

 

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STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Alejandro Tamayo and Paula Rivas with Green C Trading Company

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Vlad Rusz, Paula Rivas, Alejandro Tamayo

Vlad Rusz, Paula Rivas, Alejandro Tamayo

On this episode of “Strategic Insights Radio”, host Vlad Rusz introduces you to the owners of Green C Trading Company and their PAPAGAYO brand of all-natural frozen fruit pulp drinks.

ALEJANDRO TAMAYO & PAULA RIVAS/GREEN C TRADING 

Green C Trading is a Georgia-based Limited Liability Corporation, owned and operated by Paula Rivas and Juan Alejandro Tamayo Pelaez. The company is located in Gwinnett County and the owners originally heard about Gwinnett by listening to Business RadioX while still working and living in the South American country of Colombia. With combined experience of over 15 years in international import and export, marketing, communications and finance, the management of the business is positioned well for success.

The initial product offering that Green C Trading has launched in the United States under the PAPAGAYO brand is frozen fruit pulp in multiple flavors including Mango, Blueberry, SourSop, Passion Fruit and Lulo-Naranjilla. The product is available for distribution to restaurants, grocery stores, health food stores, ice cream shops, beverage depots, bars, hotels and spas. In addition, the company has natural fruit drinks.

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.

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.

BREAKING PAR IN BUSINESS: Marbury Creative Group and Grandview Strategic Partners

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Rich Bartolotta, Rob Marbury, Bryant Shipp, David Morris

Rich Bartolotta, Rob Marbury, Bryant Shipp, David Morris

Rob Marbury/Marbury Creative Group

Rob Marbury, Marbury Creative GroupMarbury Creative Group, based in Duluth, GA, is an award-winning branding and advertising agency founded in May 2010 by Rob Marbury, after 22 years as an art director, creative director and VP creative in the advertising industry.

The Marbury motto is ‘Tell it Better! (if necessary, use words.)” For more information, or to see samples of the agency’s work, please visit WeTellitBetter.com, email Rob at rob@marburycreativegroup.com or call 648-735-5220.

Bryant Shipp & David Morris/Grandview Strategic Partners

Bryant Shipp, GrandviewDavid Morris, GrandviewGrandView Strategic Partners is the investment advisory entity of the GrandView integrated group of financial services companies. GrandView’s team of specialists works closely with business owners – and high net-worth individuals – providing solutions to address investment needs.

GrandView’s approach emphasizes preservation of principal, with a focus on current and future cash flow. By focusing on generating passive income, they strive to help clients successfully achieve life’s milestones.

Rich Bartolotta/Schooley Mitchell

Rich 2Rich Bartolotta of Schooley Mitchell is the host of “Breaking Par in Business“.

Schooley Mitchell is the largest independent consulting business in North America that specializes in helping businesses improve profitability by reducing telecom and merchant services expenses.

One unique aspect of their offering is that they work on a contingent fee basis, meaning their fee is a share of the savings they generate. So business owners take no risk in working with Schooley Mitchell.

Schooley Mitchell has been in business since 1980, saving thousands of clients almost a quarter of a billion dollars. To learn more about Schooley Mitchell Atlanta go to schooleymitchell.com/rbartolotta or email Rich at rich.bartolotta@schooleymitchell.com.

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Jamie Dukes of Drip Fusion, Phil Van Gelder of Atlanta Office Technologies and Littie Brown of SpeedPro Imaging

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Mike Sammond, Phil Van Gelder, Littie Brown, Jamie Dukes, Steven Julian

Mike Sammond, Phil Van Gelder, Littie Brown, Jamie Dukes, Steven Julian

Jamie Dukes/Drip Fusion Institute

The Drip Fusion Institute (DFI) Concussion & CTE Protocol is the first “comprehensive” pharmacological treatment for Concussions and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. For maximum absorption, DFI utilizes IV infusions as the primary vehicle to disburse medicines to the brain.

 


Phil Van Gelder/Atlanta Office Technologies

Atlanta Office Technologies (AOT) is an office equipment dealer and full technology solutions partner. They don’t consider trying to be everything to everyone. They are experts in print and copy management, but every once in a while, they find ways to help clients improve their workflow and overall infrastructure. They accomplish this through alternative technologies such as software, automation and professional managed services.

AOT won’t tell a client they can do it all, but you can guarantee that whatever they do commit to, they will honor that 100% of the way through the relationship.

Littie Brown/SpeedPro Imaging

SpeedPro Imaging specializes in producing high quality graphic images for their customers that convey a message, attract attention and reinforce their brand. Their products ranges from a small yard sign to attract attention to a vehicle wrap reinforcing their brand. Dressing up the store front or participating in a trade show, they can provide the right look for their customers. If you can imagine it, they can print it.

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The Marketing of NAPA and NAPA AutoCare Centers

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Gwinnett Business Radio - September 22, 2015

Mike Sammond, Ron Givens, Scott Holton, Brian Gardner, Zachary Bennett

Brian Gardner/NAPA

Brian Gardner, NAPANAPA Autoparts has been a trusted part of the American automobile industry for more than 90 years, providing corporate, independent, and home auto mechanics with quality parts for their vehicles. NAPA’s commitment to quality has earned them a respected leadership position in the industry.

Wanting to venture further into the auto repair side of the industry, NAPA joined together with the top automotive repair centers to bring you NAPA AutoCare. Now you have top, local certified mechanics, quality, reliability, and efficiency standards backed by the national power of NAPA. Just look for the NAPA AutoCare logo.

NAPA AutoCare Centers. The parts you trust are now the shops you rely on.

Ron Givens/GK Tire & Automotive, a NAPA AutoCare Center

Ron Givens, G-K TireEstablished in the early 1980s, GK Tire is owned and operated by Tom and Ron Givens. Their motto has
always been “If it’s not right, we’ll make it right”. Their capabilities include diesel diagnostics and repair,
electrical diagnostics and repair, as well as all gasoline engine diagnostics and repairs. Their technicians are all ASE certified. They are an authorized Michelin tire dealer but they also inventory tires from all manufacturers such as Michelin, Bridgestone, Uniroyal, Goodyear, Firestone, Falken, Nexen, Dunlop, Kelly Springfield and many others.

Scott Holton/Aero Automotive, a NAPA AutoCare Center

Scott Holton, Aero AutomotiveAero Automotive has been in business for over 10 years and they’ve been proud to be a NAPA AutoCare
Center since 2009. While they appreciate the recognition from NAPA, their real motivation for joining the family of NAPA AutoCare Centers was the additional benefits that it enables them to provide to their customers!

They are professionals and their work reflects that. They pride themselves on doing the best job possible. That starts with understanding the complexities of today’s automobiles, how to maintain them so you get the most out of them, and a systematic approach to repairing them when mechanical failures do occur.

Zachary Bennett/Reformation Productions

Zacahry Bennett, Reformation ProductionsReformation Productions is a full-service marketing agency offering Marketing Consultation and Creative Production services. The agency leads businesses through the proven marketing process used by Fortune 500 companies so that they can compete both efficiently and effectively on the marketplace.

Services include: Brand Identification & Development, Customer Targeting, Competitive Analysis, Strategic Planning, Messaging, Campaign Concepting, Web and Graphic Design, Photography & Video Production, Voiceovers & Radio, Social Media, Print Advertising & Collateral, Media Buying, Business Coaching, Public Relations and SEO.

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