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TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: I Have An Idea For a Product. Now What?

April 27, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: I Have An Idea For a Product. Now What?

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This edition of “The Tiffany Krumins Show” was recorded live at the offices of Product QuickStart in historic downtown Lawrenceville, GA. Tiffany’s guests were Don Muntner and Noah McNeely. They talked about how to turn your idea into a product, and then the steps to follow to take your product to market.

Don Muntner & Noah McNeely/Product QuickStart

Product QuickStart was created out of a passion to meet the product development, prototyping, and manufacturing needs of entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small companies. In their careers, they’ve met way too many inventors and would-be product entrepreneurs that have been taken advantage of in this industry, so they decided to do something about it. There is no shortage of engineers, marketing people, and “submission companies” that will gladly take your money and get you nowhere. That’s not Product QuickStart. Their goal is to be honest operators, and do everything they can to help clients understand what they are getting into and their odds of success.

TIFFANY KRUMINS

Tiffany Krumins, the first Shark Tank winner, is an Atlanta native and the inventor of Ava the Elephant, a child friendly dispenser that takes the fear out of taking medicine. Called a modern day Mary Poppins, Tiffany has gone from nanny to entrepreneur, and has seen her passion to help children grow into a business that is now known and loved all over the world.

Tiffany’s success story began when she was a nanny to a little boy with Down’s syndrome who was terrified of “medicine time”. To help alleviate his fear, she constructed an animal made of fabric, sponges, a store bought medicine dropper, and a recordable sound chip from a greeting card – and Ava the Elephant was born. Knowing that she would need to find a way to produce her invention, Tiffany began searching the internet and found a casting call on Craigslist that said: “Do you have the next million dollar idea but don’t have the funding to make it happen?” She immediately applied for the casting and was invited to be on the first ever episode of Shark Tank.

Her story has been a roller coaster ride as she went from being on a national TV show and receiving $50,000 to start her company, to learning just months later that she had thyroid cancer. While working from a hospital bed, she struggled through the growing pains of building a business and fighting cancer.

Tiffany’s appearance on Shark Tank and the success following continues to provide countless opportunities for her and her brand. Her story has received unparalleled exposure. Some of her more notable appearances and acknowledgements:

Follow-up appearances on Shark Tank on four separate occasions
Sharing her story and her product on the Dr. Oz Show to a national audience of millions of viewers
Nominated for the Top 50 Mompreneurs by Babble.com
Keynote speaker for Disney Social Media Mom’s
Her story has been featured on Forbes.com, Entrepreneur.com, TVGuide.com, YoungEntrepreneur.com, MomInventors.com and many other online and print publications

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Nicole Russell with Dave & Buster’s Sugarloaf, Chris Reese & Parker Cain with VRX Games, and Taelar Bybee with Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

April 27, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Nicole Russell with Dave & Buster's Sugarloaf, Chris Reese & Parker Cain with VRX Games, and Taelar Bybee with Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

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Nicole Russell, Chris Reese, Parker Cain, Taelar Bybee

Nicole Russell/Dave & Buster’s Sugarloaf

At Dave & Buster’s, their mission is to create their guest’s first choice for frequent fun through the best combination of the latest and greatest games, ultimate sports-viewing, extraordinary food, and remarkable drinks. They have been proud members of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce for over 10 years and their GM Stacy Pruitt has been a Chairmen’s Club member since 2009. Their Sugarloaf Mills location features 16 bowling lanes, 4 Billiard Tables, 2 Shuffleboard tables, a Million Dollar Midway Arcade, 3 bars, and a full-service restaurant. They also feature 3 private rooms with full audio/visual and several cocktail spaces available for all your event needs. Let Dave & Buster’s put the “LOL” in your day because they run the fun!

Chris Reese & Parker Cain/VRX Games

VRX Games is Atlanta’s premiere virtual reality and entertainment venue. They offer 10 VR Gaming bays plus a 323-square-foot VR Super Bay, classic video game consoles, giant sports screens, and great music.

Taelar Bybee/Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

The Gwinnett Chamber is the forum where business, government, education, healthcare, arts/culture/entertainment, and philanthropic and public service communities come together to advance the region’s economy and enrich Gwinnett’s quality of life.

Philip Bernardi with Oconee State Bank

April 27, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Beyond The Cupola

Philip Bernardi with Oconee State Bank

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“Beyond the Cupola” allows invited customers, community, and team members of Oconee State Bank to have an opportunity to share their stories of success and inspiration, and/or how the Remarkable culture of Oconee State Bank has inspired them to mark lives in their own right.

Philip Bernardi/Oconee State Bank

In the early 1900s, there were banks in all the small towns of Oconee County… Bishop, Bogart, Eastville, Farmington and Watkinsville. When the Depression came along in 1929, all the banks went broke and Oconee County was without a bank for the next 30 years. Farmers and small merchants had to travel to Athens for their banking needs.

In 1958, a group of community leaders recognized the need for a bank in Oconee County and started a process of getting the necessary approval for a state chartered community bank. In 1959, the FDIC approved a community bank and Oconee State Bank opened its doors for business on February 1, 1960 with 3 employees and a small corner office on Main Street in downtown Watkinsville.

Today, Oconee State Bank has 3 full-service financial centers located in Oconee County, GA as well as a website which serves as an “Internet Branch.” The vision of the founders continues today. Oconee State Bank is proud to provide an unparalleled commitment to personalized service, value-added products, and a deep sense of responsibility to the communities they serve.

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Quentin Moses with HealthMarkets

April 27, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Quentin Moses with HealthMarkets

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Quentin Moses/HealthMarkets

Quentin Moses with HealthMarkets was born in Atlantic City, NJ where he attended elementary, junior and high School and ran the 440 in track. He then attended Livingston College, the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and ran a successful nutrition business before starting a fruitful career on Wall Street.

From 1980 through 1999, Quentin worked with Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, D. H. Blair, Reich & Company, and was a managing partner with Americorp Securities. He has been an independent agent for 11 years with HealthMarkets and was recently named an Ambassador with the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. He loves to hike with over 100,000 steps or over 40 miles per week.

Quentin has successfully worked with all types of business owners both large and small with effective risk management over the last 30 years. He is excited about helping businesses forge an effective growth strategy using health insurance as a means of recruiting and retaining key employees in Gwinnett County.

Jennifer Rusz/Sterling Rose Consulting Corp

Jennifer Rusz has a long career working for both corporations and as an entrepreneur. Rusz began her career, in the 90’s in market intelligence, business operations and management for companies such as Mid America Research/Fact in Focus, Lucent Technologies, Kyocera Wireless, ARS/ Current Analysis and Websense Software Solutions before starting her first company in 2004. She has since been a business consultant now Founder and CEO of Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Sterling Rose Consulting Corp is an award winning full service business consulting firm, with three divisions, which include business consulting, marketing consulting and strategic technology consulting. For more information about Jennifer Rusz or Sterling Rose Consulting Corp please visit www.sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com or call (470)202-8659.

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.

Identifying Investment Fraud and Misconduct

April 27, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

Identifying Investment Fraud and Misconduct

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Robert Port, Jason Doss, David Bain, Millie Baumbusch

Jason Doss/The Doss Firm

Jason Doss is the owner of The Doss Firm, LLC, an Atlanta-based law firm devoted to representing consumers across the country in a variety of areas including investment disputes and consumer class action litigation. He has helped recover millions in damages from well-known financial services companies on behalf of individual investors who lost their life savings due to bad investment advice and in some cases, financial fraud.

Notably, Mr. Doss successfully represented a large of group of investors who were defrauded in a Ponzi scheme at the Atlanta-based mega-church New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. The case was deemed as one of the largest church-based affinity fraud schemes in American history, received national media attention, and was featured on the popular ABC show Nightline. In addition, Jason Doss was co-lead counsel on two separate consumer class action cases against two of Georgia’s largest natural gas providers, obtaining class settlements totaling $18.5 million on behalf of over 750,000 Georgia residents for alleged overcharges.

Jason Doss is past-President and a current Board of Directors member of Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA). PIABA is an international bar association devoted to protecting the rights of the investing public. Mr. Doss is also a founding board member and current President and CEO of The PIABA Foundation, a charitable organization devoted to promoting investor education.

Jason Doss believes that the best way to avoid becoming a victim of consumer fraud and/or investment abuse is through education. To help prevent investment and consumer abuse, Mr. Doss co-authored a book with best-selling author and investment adviser Frank Armstrong III, entitled “The Retirement Challenge: Will You Sink or Swim?” It was released in January 2009 and is currently sold at book stores across the country.

David Bain/Law Offices of David A. Bain

David Bain represents angry investors. He began his practice with a class action firm, litigating securities class actions in the age of Enron. For the last 11 years he’s had his own practice The Law Offices of David A. Bain, representing investors in cases against directors, officers, auditors, investment bankers, venture capital firms, broker-dealers, and investment advisers. He often provides the plaintiff’s perspective at securities seminars and has assisted state officials in preparing to testify before Congress concerning securities legislation.

David received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Georgia, where he was a Woodruff Scholar and was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He was awarded a Chancellors Scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, where he received his J.D. with honors.

David is active in the leadership of several community organizations, including having served as President of the Board of Directors for the Federal Defender Program, Inc. and President of the Board of Directors of GreenLaw (an environmental non-profit organization). He recently concluded his term as Co-Chair of the Atlanta Bar’s Securities Subsection, and he is currently the President of the Federal Bar Association’s Atlanta Chapter.

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About Gaslowitz Frankel:

Gaslowitz Frankel is an experienced trial practice firm specializing in all aspects of complex fiduciary litigation throughout Georgia and the Southeast. With a focus on representing individuals, companies, banks, and fiduciaries in dispute involving wills, estates, trusts, guardianships, businesses, and securities law, their experienced and highly qualified litigation attorneys have tremendous credentials and a proven history of success.

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Gregg Burkhalter “The LinkedIn Guy”, Jackie Davis of Georgia State University Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute, and Brad Taylor of Taylor Built Brands

April 24, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

North Fulton Business Radio

Gregg Burkhalter "The LinkedIn Guy", Jackie Davis of Georgia State University Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute, and Brad Taylor of Taylor Built Brands

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John Ray, Gregg Burkhalter, Jackie Davis, Brad Taylor

Gregg Burkhalter/”The LinkedIn Guy”

Gregg Burkhalter is a recognized authority on personal branding and LinkedIn. He has helped countless professionals in the U.S. and abroad define and grow their personal brand using LinkedIn.

Gregg spent the first part of his professional career behind the microphone at radio stations in Savannah, Jacksonville, Charleston, and Atlanta. Following his radio years, Gregg worked in national music marketing and distribution.

Today, Gregg is known by many as “The LinkedIn Guy”. He provides personal branding coaching and LinkedIn training via one-on-one and group training sessions, corporate presentations, and webinars. He is also a frequent speaker at civic and chamber events and area universities.

Jackie Davis/Georgia State University Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute

Jackie Davis is the Associate Director for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute (ENI) at Georgia State University’s (GSU) J. Mack Robinson College of Business where she contributes to the Institute’s vision, strategy, marketing, and co-curricular efforts. She is also the faculty advisor for GSU’s Chapter Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization (CEO) and the E-House Living Learning Community (LLC).

In her tenure with ENI, Jackie has helped grow Georgia State’s entrepreneurship programs beyond the classroom. She has established and overseen the planning and facilitation of over 30 co-curricular events a year that extend beyond the university’s academic programs in entrepreneurship. She also created the E-House LLC, and assisted in the development of the LaunchGSU Student Incubator. As an “intrapreneur”, Jackie enjoys building signature programs for the Georgia State community including, the WomenLead Center and the Women’s Mentoring Program.

Ms. Davis holds a M.Ed. and a B.A in Spanish and International Business from Georgia State University, and she is currently pursuing an M.B.A. at Georgia State.

Brad Taylor/Taylor Built Brands

Taylor Built Brands is a branding, marketing, and sales strategy consultancy based in Roswell. The founder Brad Taylor is a 30-year sales and marketing veteran who spent the last 24 years in marketing and sales leadership roles at The Coca-Cola Company. Prior to that, he gained valuable marketing experience at Pizza Hut and in the advertising agency industry. Brad has been thoroughly trained and has vast experience in consulting on all aspects of brand development/management, digital marketing, and sales management/business development. He is widely known as an “out-of-the-box” thinker and extremely easy to do business with. In addition to consulting small businesses, Brad also teaches branding and marketing classes at Emory University and Kennesaw State University. Brad can help you polish your brand and grow your business.

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Broadcasting from LIVE @ FSI

April 20, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Broadcasting from LIVE @ FSI

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Business RadioX broadcasting from Live @ FSI

This special edition of “The Tiffany Krumins Show” was a live broadcast from the “LIVE @ FSI” Networking Open House in Austell, GA. Guests included Linda Williamson with FSI (Fulfillment Strategies International), Matt Bravo and Stosh Cohen with PutterPong, and Willie and Saleema Cartwright with Hydratherma Naturals.

TIFFANY KRUMINS

Follow-up appearances on Shark Tank on four separate occasions
Sharing her story and her product on the Dr. Oz Show to a national audience of millions of viewers
Nominated for the Top 50 Mompreneurs by Babble.com
Keynote speaker for Disney Social Media Mom’s
Her story has been featured on Forbes.com, Entrepreneur.com, TVGuide.com, YoungEntrepreneur.com, MomInventors.com and many other online and print publications

Ebonie Carzo with Scrumptious Cakery

April 19, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

ePresence

Ebonie Carzo with Scrumptious Cakery

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Ebonie Carzo/Scrumptious Cakery

After working in corporate America for six years, Ebonie Carzo decided that to truly follow her passion of helping start-ups and small businesses become successful, she needed to subject herself to the emotional and physical joys and pains of running a small business. At the age of 29, Ebonie gave up her company car, gas card, health insurance, and steady income to start a social experiment of the entrepreneurial journey.

January 2018 marked Ebonie’s 4-year anniversary of operating Scrumptious Cakery fulltime. Scrumptious Cakery was awarded the “Couple’s Choice Award” as one of the best wedding cake bakeries in Atlanta for 2017 and 2018. She was voted to serve as the youngest Board Member with the DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce, and she sits as Madam Chair to the Young Professionals Committee for the chamber. She now has a wealth of knowledge and fire in her that she is sharing with entrepreneurs across the world.

Mark Galvin/ePresence

ePresence provides personal branding services for individuals, executives and entrepreneurs. They leverage social media on an individual level since that is where the audience is most engaged.

Mark Galvin, CEO and Founder of ePresence, is a personal social media expert with 29 years of business management and hotel industry experience including stops with Marriott, Hyatt, Omni and IHG.

Travis Butler with Butler Properties and Josh Collins with Oconee State Bank

April 19, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Beyond The Cupola

Travis Butler with Butler Properties and Josh Collins with Oconee State Bank

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Travis Butler/Butler Properties & Development

Butler Properties & Development is a full service commercial real estate development and management firm specializing in national retail client services to include turn-key build-to-suits, ground leases, joint ventures, and fee developments. The company has also been successful in numerous multi-family, office, and industrial projects.

The firm also has a successful track record in complicated real estate financial transactions to include arbitrage, asset re-positioning, loan acquisitions, bond debt, tax-free exchanges, and defeasance.

Josh Collins/Oconee State Bank