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SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Brandy Swanson with Smith & Howard

February 16, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Brandy Swanson with Smith & Howard

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Brandy Swanson/Smith & Howard

Headquartered in Atlanta, Smith & Howard is a top Atlanta CPA firm providing a wide range of services, including assurance, tax, accounting and advisory services. Their business clients range from start-ups to large, established businesses that operate across the U.S. and internationally. They also have a strong nonprofit client family, including many of Georgia’s most respected organizations. By extension, Smith & Howard also serve the tax, accounting and advisory needs of the owners and executives of businesses. Many of these individuals and families are also clients of Smith & Howard Wealth Management, a wealth management firm serving as the family’s CFO.

Recognized for two consecutive years (2014 and 2015) as the number one firm in the nation by INSIDE Public Accounting and as a Top Accounting Firm to Work For by Accounting Today, they bring a national scope of services with a personal, responsive service approach and a team of smart, dedicated professionals that work with clients year after year.

Smith & Howard’s current clients appreciate their responsiveness, creativity, innovation, expertise, imagination, and an “uncompromising commitment to exceed expectations and contribute to their financial success”.

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Sam Nebel and Charlie Siciak from Goodwipes

February 16, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Sam Nebel and Charlie Siciak from Goodwipes

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Sam Nebel, Charlie Siciak, Tiffany Krumins, Linda Williamson, Steven Julian

Sam Nebel & Charlie Siciak/Goodwipes

Sam Nebel and Charlie Siciak, also know as “The King of All Wipes” and “Mister GoodWipes” respectively, are the co-founders igniting the hygiene revolution with their company Goodwipes, a fun, modern and eco-friendly wet wipes brand empowering people to do more, feel good and live clean.

After converting all of their fraternity brothers to wiping their bottoms with baby wipes, Sam and Charlie invested their life savings towards innovating upon one simple idea: that adult men and women deserve the same euphoric sensation of a clean behind that babies enjoy every day. As the old saying goes “there’s nothing like a good wipe!”

Since then, the duo has led their brand to triple digit year-to-year growth and onto the shelves of Walmart, Container Store, CNBC Airport shops, Academy Sports and Outdoors, a booming Amazon business, and a 2000 CVS-store roll-out coming soon.

Spencer Thomas with Cannon Financial Institute

February 15, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

ePresence

Spencer Thomas with Cannon Financial Institute

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Spencer Thomas/Cannon Financial Institute

For over 50 years, Cannon Financial Institute has developed, designed and executed performance improvement programs. These programs serve to support financial institutions, their staff, and the clients and communities they serve. They have highly skilled instructors who are gifted translators turning complexity into practical knowledge. Their rigorous course offerings are a real point of pride for those who have been through them. Spencer Thomas serves as a member of Cannon’s Enterprise Solutions Team, where he is responsible for leading the development of client relationships. His decades of experience in financial services and Cannon’s resources allows him to create partnerships with his clients through growth-driven, strategically planned, and superior engagement experiences.

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.

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Financial Statements and Small Business (Part 2 of 4)

February 15, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Financial Statements and Small Business (Part 2 of 4)

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David Wilkins/Sterling Rose Consulting Corp

Dave Wilkins has over 30 years experience working for companies such as E&Y, Whitridge Associates, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and IBM in business and technology management and consulting. He is currently the Senior Vice President of Sterling Rose Consulting Corp and the Business Unit Manager for the Business Technology Division of Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Originally from Michigan, he has a BBA and MBA from the University of Michigan, and he has been a resident of Gwinnett County, GA for over 20 years. In his 30 years in business and technology, he has worked with clients in multiple business sectors including finance, manufacturing, energy, healthcare and government, among others.

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.

Glen Mandernacht from Ricoh-USA

February 15, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Glen Mandernacht from Ricoh-USA

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Glen Mandernacht/Ricoh-USA

Ricoh transforms the way people work and communicate. With Ricoh’s expertise in capturing, managing and transforming information, they deliver a broad portfolio of services and technologies that empower digital workplaces. By providing you with the ability to collaborate anytime, anywhere with real-time exchanges of ideas, Ricoh can help you innovate, grow and work smarter.

Business is booming and you’re ready to grow your company and expand into new markets, but you’re concerned about the growing pains of business expansion. You don’t just need great product innovation; you need the resources to deliver exceptional service and support for those products. This is why they offer RICOH Service Advantage. It allows organizations like yours to leverage their resources to deliver exceptional service to your customers, without the upfront capital costs required to expand your own service organization.

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Steve Waddell from NASONI and Don Muntner from Product QuickStart

February 9, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Steve Waddell from NASONI and Don Muntner from Product QuickStart

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Steven Julian, Tiffany Krumins, Don Muntner

Steve Waddell/NASONI

NASONI ’s Founder, Steve Waddell, began his 25-year career at Newport News Shipbuilding, building the most advanced nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines the world has ever seen. As an apprentice, he graduated with academic honors and went on to become a Nuclear Refueling Engineer, responsible for refueling a reactor plant aboard the USS Enterprise, the most complex nuclear refueling effort ever undertaken at the shipyard.

In 2015, after getting tired of tilting his head under the faucet to rinse after brushing and thinking “there has to be a better way”, and, after being inspired by Shark Tank, Steve decided to take what he had learned in designing and building the world’s most complex ships, and apply it to reinventing the bathroom faucet. And the results speak for themselves. NASONI’s Fontanina Fountain Faucet is about to become the world’s best faucet, having won numerous awards for its unique, innovative design.

Don Muntner/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.

Rhonda Cox with Sage Dental and Art Bottoms with B2B CFO

February 8, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Rhonda Cox with Sage Dental and Art Bottoms with B2B CFO

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Rhonda Cox/Sage Dental

At Sage Dental, they create smiles by providing truly caring, comprehensive and convenient dental care for your entire family – from basic preventive care to complete dental reconstruction, they do it all! Sage Dental has been serving patients since 1997. They are passionate about their brand promise of being the most comfortable, convenient “one-stop” solution for their patients’ oral health care. Their core values are having a positive with a “can-do” attitude and always doing the right thing while doing it right the first time. They use the latest technology and highest quality of material. They only hire staff members who have caring, sensitive and nurturing personalities in order to provide patients with a comfortable and easy experience. They accept most insurances including PPO and DMO. Sage has a discount fee program for patients without insurance as well as patient financing and payment options to fit everyone’s budget. They are committed to the health of their patients by identifying Oral Cancer, Periodontal Disease that leads to Heart Disease, Diabetes and early onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. Building long lasting relationships with patients is something they strive for and you will often hear them say “Welcome to our Sage family”. Sage looks forward to meeting your needs and welcoming you into their family.

Art Bottoms/B2B CFO

Founded in 1987, B2B CFO is the largest CFO and Business Transition services company in the nation. The firm provides services to privately-held businesses. B2B CFO is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ and has a nationwide presence with more than 225 CFO and Exit Transition Professionals in 46 states across the USA. These Professionals specialize in providing senior level executive services to growing companies that need assistance in finding solutions to their business challenges. The firm’s motto is “First Direction, then Velocity”. Each B2B CFO Professional is a senior level executive averaging 25-30 years of experience.

Ed Fortier with Strategic Stewardship, Kevin McDonough with Miles Hansford & Tallant, and Rand Cabus with Mojo Vinyl Records

February 6, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

North Fulton Business Radio

Ed Fortier with Strategic Stewardship, Kevin McDonough with Miles Hansford & Tallant, and Rand Cabus with Mojo Vinyl Records

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John Ray, Kevin McDonough, Rand Cabus, Ed Fortier

Ed Fortier/Strategic Stewardship

Complexity and volatility in today’s financial and business environment dictate a collaborative planning approach. Strategic Stewardship integrates their knowledge with specialists in legal, accounting, banking, trusts, benefits, retirement, and related fields for their clients. Their national reach through PartnersFinancial, a national community of industry-leading, independent life insurance and financial professionals, and NFP gives them access to institutional resources without sacrificing responsive personal service. For more than 25 years, the organization has supported its members as they build insurance industry knowledge and expertise. In the process, PartnersFinancial members created a powerful culture of ideas sharing and collaboration – all for the benefit of their claims.

Kevin McDonough/Miles Hansford & Tallant

Attorney Kevin McDonough with Miles Hansford & Tallant has worked with businesses for the past 15 years. In this role, Kevin has been involved in all parts of a business life – from starting a company, to helping draft contracts, to protecting a company involved in litigation, to participating in the sale or wind down of a business. Across these issues, Kevin focuses on bringing strategic, practical concepts to solve legal and business problems. As a continuation of his business focused law practice, Kevin is civically involved working to help businesses as well. He is chairman elect of the Cumming Forsyth Chamber of Commerce.

Rand Cabus/Mojo Vinyl Records

Mojo Vinyl Records is an independent record store established in 2011 in historic Roswell, GA. The store buys and sells new and used records. They also sell Audio-Technica, Music Hall and Pioneer turntables, art and miscellaneous cool stuff. Mojo Vinyl Records celebrates Record Store Day every year since 2012. Their motto is “Listen Naked” since vinyl is the natural sound. Come by, hang out and listen to some good music. Buy something too.

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: 2018 Kickoff Show

February 3, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: 2018 Kickoff Show

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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