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Tim Campos, CIO of Facebook on Booth 61 at the GCLA CIO of the Year 2013

November 1, 2013 by angishields

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Booth 61 with Ricky Steele

Tim Campos, CIO of Facebook on Booth 61 at the GCLA CIO of the Year 2013

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Tim Campos, CIO of Facebook on Booth 61 11/01/2013

Tim is in Atlanta today as a guest of Ed Steinike, CIO of The Coca-Cola Company. 1,110 technologists are gathered to see the CIO’s of the Year honored and hear Tim Campos share where Facebook is today and where Facebook is taking the business community.

It was an honor to have Tim in Booth 61!

Keeping Seniors on their Feet – Prasant Desai and Chris Burds of Ability Rehab

October 31, 2013 by angishields

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Keeping Seniors on their Feet - Prasant Desai and Chris Burds of Ability Rehab

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Did you know that 70% of people over the age of 65 will fall? Additionally, within the next ten years, the number of broken hips will exceed the number of surgeons to fix them? Startling, huh! Prasant Desai and Chris Burd are committed to helping reduce the number of surgeries required by keeping seniors on their feet! After many years of experience in the healthcare industry, both these men decided to come together to create Ability Rehab.

Ability Rehab LLC focuses on outpatient services providing Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy. Uniquely, Ability Rehab brings the care to the client – in independent and assisted living communities. Furthermore, their program is unique in that it isn’t reactive, it’s preventative! Ability will start part establishing a baseline from clinically observable conditions using established scoring tools. Then they will develop a plan of care to address the clinical deficiencies.

The best way to get more information is to meet the principals of Ability Rehab face to face. A perfect opportunity to do this is at their Grand Opening event next Wednesday, October 30 from 11:30am to 2PM. Their new offices are at 1835 Savoy Dr., Suite 100, Atlanta, GA 30341. Call to RSVP at (678-298-9484). Check out their website at www.ability-rehab.com.

We want to thank Griswold Home Care for sponsoring today’s show. Griswold Home Care has been a preferred provider of high quality, affordable in-home senior care in Atlanta for more than 20 years.

Mary Blackmon with Farm Star Living, Angie Reese with Accurate Protection, and Raven Sampson with The Smart Data

October 31, 2013 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Mary Blackmon with Farm Star Living, Angie Reese with Accurate Protection, and Raven Sampson with The Smart Data

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Mary Blackmon/Farm Star Living

Mary is a 3rd generation farmer from Arkansas, who left her hometown to pursue college and a career in advertising sales and marketing in Los Angeles, Atlanta and New York City. She worked for publishing houses and internet companies (Wired, Walt Disney Internet Group, Vivendi-Universal Internet Group). In NYC in 2002, she founded Spa-Addicts.com, the first national discount site for the spa & wellness industry. She grew it into a multi-million dollar business and a leader in the industry, and attracted hundreds of thousands of women as well as sponsors including Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, General Motors, Kimberly Clark, Allergan, American Express, et al.

In 2008, however, she learned most of her family farm bordering Ark / LA would be sold. Not wanting to lose the family heritage and farmland her family before her had so cherished, Mary, along with the support of her brother Douglas, was adamant to preserve and keep the remaining farmland. She then began making changes in her life so that she could move from Los Angeles back South in order to keep, operate and run the farm. She bought back her grandparents house and renovated it, and discovered that ‘saving the family farm’ had changed her life forever – and for the better. Today she admits that she is happier than ever – inspired, loving the farming business and now launching Farm Star Living, which she felt compelled to create for the good of farming and the people she has met along her new path. She hopes that Farm Star Living will provide farmers the respect, acknowledgment and support they so deserve and attract new farmers as well as support the current ones.

Angie Reese/Accurate Protection

Accurate Protection is an independent insurance agency specializing in business insurance. Safeguarding your company from potential losses requires more than just the purchase of an insurance policy. We invest ourselves and our time to understand your business and assist you with developing strategies that lower your overall business risk as well as your cost of insurance over an extended period of time. From your first meeting with us throughout your interactions you will see that we strive to consistently go beyond the expected standard routine and deliver results that exceed your expectations.

Workers’ compensation is a fixed commodity and a controllable expense. Our job is to ensure that you do not pay a dime more than you have to for coverage. Accurate Protection will provide you with money-saving strategies that reduce your bottom line. We understand how the system really works. Let us teach you how to control your workers’ compensation program, instead of allowing it to control you.

Raven Sampson/The Smart Data

Raven Sampson is the Founder and CEO of The Smart Data. The Smart Box is a fun-filled way to encourage children to successfully master spelling, reading, vocabulary, math, history, general knowledge and specific topics of interest – all while engaging in their normal video games.

Gabe Damiani & David Degitz Share the iVision Success Story 10/30/13

October 31, 2013 by angishields

Booth 61 with Ricky Steele

Gabe Damiani & David Degitz Share the iVision Success Story 10/30/13

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Booth 61 with Gabe Damiani and David Degitz is one of the best interviews since we began this show in January. You are going to hear the amazing success story of iVision. You are going to hear pearls of wisdom you can use beginning today to improve your personal life and the life of your organization.

There are more highlights in this interview than I can list so you will have to listen to this in its entirety. What struck me is the success of iVision is the perfect example of Cause and Effect. The Values of iVision are PIRRFAH. I know you are eagerly awaiting the explanation of this almost unpronounceable acronym. Passion, Integrity, Respect, Rigor, Focus, Accountability, and Humility are the values of iVision. All decisions from hiring to new client strategy to expansion plans are focused on their values and what is best for their clients. That is Cause. The Effect is growth from $220,000 in revenues in 2004 to over $37,000,000 in revenues in 2012. In addition, iVision has maintained 100% client retention for the past 9 years. Finally, their employee retention rate is also off the charts. Those are three of the many metrics that are the Effect from the Cause.

I know you are going to enjoy this interview. It was certainly a blessing for me to spend several hours with Gabe and David.

Year End Planning for Medical Practices

October 31, 2013 by angishields

The Doctors Roundtable

Year End Planning for Medical Practices

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The healthcare environment changes daily and physicians often struggle to keep up with regulatory changes, competition and reimbursement changes. There are many challenges looming: Obamacare, ICD-10 and Meaningful Use. Providers must spend time working on their practices as well as in their Atlanta Business Radio practices to thrive and not just survive. However, practices do not have to stay in a reactive mode. Taking time to plan can put a practice in a proactive mode to be able to anticipate and appropriate respond to opportunities, changes and challenges.

Quarter 4 is the perfect time to take action to minimize tax burden, maximize retirement plans, reconcile inventory, create the coming year’s budget and evaluate the coming year’s capital needs. Taking inventory, updating depreciation schedules, retirement planning, fee schedule analysis, A/R cleanup, tax planning, productivity and compensation evaluation are just some of the year end financial activities that can really make a difference in achieving solid financial performance.

Planning for retention of market share and growth is key to future practice viability yet how many practices have a formal, annual marketing plan. Marketing is often viewed as an expense vs. an investment yet new patients are a critical piece of revenue generation for every practice. The same marketing plans often do not yield different results and how providers reach, communicate with and message to current and potential patients is changing. Year end is a great time to acknowledge referral sources and examine the ROI of existing marketing efforts, brand cohesiveness, content relevancy and process, social media effectiveness and to make adjustments as needed. In a recent poll, 51% of patients said that digital communications would make them feel more valued as a patient and 41% said social media would affect their choice of healthcare providers. Is your practice keeping up with the interactive“new word of mouth” ?

An overall strategic plan can be the differentiating for success. Yet, many providers either don’t know how or feel they don’t need it. Yet, evaluation of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to show the current standing of a practice, a SWOT analysis, a competitive overview and then making and implementing a strategic plan will help all businesses be positioned to recognize and capitalize on growth opportunities, assist in overcoming challenges and help protect market share for any business. Why should the business of medical practices be different?

In this segment of The Doctor’s Roundtable, three industry subject matter experts will weigh in on tips, strategies and considerations for year end planning for 2014 for medical practice success. Join Sharon Allred of LW Consulting ( a healthcare strategic planning expert), Beth McCauley of McCauley Marketing and Mark Estroff, CPA and medical practice tax expert as they share their best advice for positioning your practice for success in 2014. Listeners can visit: www.lw-consulting.com , www.mccauleyadvertising.com and www.pyagatesmoore.com for more information.

Mark Estroff

CPA, PYA GatesMoore

Beth McCauley

Founder, McCauley Marketing Services

Sharon Allred

Principal, LW Consulting

Sarah Day with Sarah Atlanta Events, Mesita Partridge with Ivory Bridal and Formal, and Tracy Kaltman-Ahmed with Westin Atlanta Perimeter North

October 30, 2013 by angishields

Meeting Pros Radio

Sarah Day with Sarah Atlanta Events, Mesita Partridge with Ivory Bridal and Formal, and Tracy Kaltman-Ahmed with Westin Atlanta Perimeter North

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Sarah Day/Sarah Atlanta Events

Sarah Day with Sarah Atlanta Events has over 15 years of experience in wedding consultancy and event management. From beginning to end or anything in between. Her aim is to exceed client expectations; whether their unique celebration is near or far away from home, a grand or intimate affair they deserve to have all the details taken care of. Sarah relocated to Atlanta in 2010 from Washington State where she owned and operated a historic wedding chapel and reception venue since 2005. Her passion for her brides and clients is what continues to motivate her to produce one of kind events.

Sarah has become an integral part of the Atlanta Events community by being a member of NACE, ISES, AWP and the Allie Awards along with being a founding member of Painting the Town Peach an Atlanta Events Women’s Networking Group. In Washington State she served as the Vice-Chair / Membership Director, Mid-Columbia Small Business Council, Board of Directors, Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce, Ambassador, Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Tri-Cities Visitors and Convention Bureau.

Mesita Partridge/Ivory Bridal and Formal

Mesita has worked in the hospitality industry for 7 years and has gained a lot of experience planning corporate and social events. Her favorite event has been weddings. Weddings are always challenging, yet fun helping brides with their big day.

Opening a salon has been a dream since college. Around the time of her own wedding, Mesita decided to make that dream a reality. During the process of shopping for her own gown, some of the shops she visited seemed to all fall short in some areas. For her shop, she wanted to create an intimate boutique, with an experience all about the bride, not just the sell. Mesita’s goal is to offer only the best in customer service and inventory to fit women of various sizes. Hence, Ivory Bridal was born. Mesita invites you to a unique shopping experience in Smyrna’s premier bridal salon where “It’s All About The Dress”.

Tracy Kaltman-Ahmed/Westin Atlanta Perimeter North

Tracy moved to Atlanta in July to take the Director of Sales & Marketing position at the Westin Atlanta Perimeter North after 6 years at the Westin Tysons Corner outside of Washington, DC. She has over 30 years in the hotel industry with both independent, franchise and owned and managed hotels. Tracy has worked for Four Seasons, Hilton, Starwood, Loews as well as Management Companies.

Tracy is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music with a degree in Performance Voice (Opera). Tracy has two children – a daughter who is an Ensign in the US Navy currently in training as a Naval Flight Officer and a son who is a second year student at Berkeley studying Astro Physics and Chinese.

Natalia Hall with Aromas by Johnette, Adam Houtman with Vault Stem Cell and Noah Lekas with Dynamic Self Defense of Atlanta

October 30, 2013 by angishields

Health Fair Radio

Natalia Hall with Aromas by Johnette, Adam Houtman with Vault Stem Cell and Noah Lekas with Dynamic Self Defense of Atlanta

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Natalia Hall/Aromas by Johnette

Aromas by Johnette uses all natural ingredients that are handmade from our own garden along with carefully selecting 100% therapeutic grade essential oils organically grown and distilled from around the world. Products include Aromatherapy Diffusers, Hydrosols, Essential Oils, Natural Perfumes, Body Sprays, Luxury Skincare, Bath n Body, Lotions, Soy Candles, and more.

Adam Houtman/Vault Stem Cell

Adam Houtman has over 10 years of experience owning and operating businesses in medical leads, sales, and multi-channel marketing fields. He grew his previous startups from $0 to $10 Million in revenues while managing 30 call centers in three countries. He purchased a diabetic mail order supply company and grew that business by 7,000% starting from servicing 40 patients to over 3,000. Today, Adam is the founder and CEO of Vault, which represents a revolutionary way to collect and store you or your family’s own adult stem cells. Originally from London, England, Adam is an Oxford graduate, husband and father of two boys.

Noah Lekas/Dynamic Self Defense of Atlanta