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TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Live from the 4th Annual Gwinnett Small Business Summit & Pinnacle Small Business Awards

October 13, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Live from the 4th Annual Gwinnett Small Business Summit & Pinnacle Small Business Awards

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Broadcasting from the Infinite Energy Center in Duluth, GA

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

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Live from the 4th Annual Gwinnett Small Business Summit & Pinnacle Small Business Awards

October 13, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Live from the 4th Annual Gwinnett Small Business Summit & Pinnacle Small Business Awards

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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.

Full Supply and Special Kneads and Treats

October 12, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Giving Back To Gwinnett

Full Supply and Special Kneads and Treats

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Connie Menser, Lynn Robinette, Tempa Kohler

Connie Menser/Full Supply

Full Supply is a non-profit organization that was founded by Connie Menser in 2004 to enrich women’s relationships with Jesus Christ, teach application principles, and equip women for life and leadership. Through one-on-one mentoring and group mentoring, women gain confidence to share their faith, obtain practical tools for life, and discover their God-given passion and purpose. As a result, these women become leaders who mentor others for Christ, as well as leaders within their churches and communities. Some women start their own businesses, while others thrive where God already has them. In addition to helping women to grow in Christ and become Christian leaders, the ministry further impacts multitudes of women along their faith journey by leading workshops or teaching at events and conferences in the U.S. and abroad. It is by God’s grace, the ministry of Full Supply has expanded from the U.S. into Russia, Venezuela and Kenya.

Tempa Kohler/Special Kneads and Treats

Special Kneads and Treats is a 501c3 non-profit bakery with a core mission to try and ensure that any child in their community that has a birthday receives a birthday cake for free if the family cannot afford a cake. Their business focus is the hiring of special needs adults once they age out of county programs. They work with DFCS, Foster Care, and local food cooperative ministries, as well as many other local support groups to get these cakes into the hands of those in need. Special Kneads and Treats believe every child should have a birthday cake on their special day.

MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: Gene Hammett – author of The Trap of Success: A Brutally Candid Guide to Overcoming Your Fears, Finding Significance, and Achieving Profound Success

October 10, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Mastermind Your Launch

MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: Gene Hammett - author of The Trap of Success: A Brutally Candid Guide to Overcoming Your Fears, Finding Significance, and Achieving Profound Success

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Gene Hammett/Author

Gene Hammett works with companies to discover new strategies for growth. From small businesses to large corporations, he presents his ideas on becoming THE choice, not A choice, and unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit by activating internal brand ambassadors for companies. Gene’s podcast, Leaders in the Trenches, has been recognized by Inc. and Entrepreneur for its insight on marketing and sales leadership.

Gene is also the author of The Trap of Success: A Brutally Candid Guide to Overcoming Your Fears, Finding Significance, and Achieving Profound Success. A regular contributor to Entrepreneur, Gene has also been featured in Forbes, Success, Business Insider, and Inc.

Contact Gene via email directly at gene@leadersinthetrenches.com or via the Contact page.

Stefanie Diaz/Mastermind Your Launch

Stefanie Diaz has always had a keen ability for developing marketing strategies for entrepreneurs, but it’s her ability to position startups for accelerated momentum through personal branding and content marketing that has become the cornerstone to her professional success. Her background includes being a strategic adviser to CEO’s spanning startup phase to over $100 million in annual revenue. She has led strategic partnerships with global retailers and Fortune 500 companies, as well as facilitated multi-million dollar government contracts. There is something magnetic about the energy of startup founders that draws Stefanie in. They’re hungry, driven, and committed to making positive change for themselves and the greater community. Learn more at MastermindYourLaunch.com.

Brock Kolls with TechConnectHub.com & TechSquare Labs, Edward Getty with TechConnectHub.com, and Kacie Lett Gordon with 352 Inc.

October 10, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

North Fulton Business Radio

Brock Kolls with TechConnectHub.com & TechSquare Labs, Edward Getty with TechConnectHub.com, and Kacie Lett Gordon with 352 Inc.

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John Ray, Brock Kolls, Kacie Lett Gordon, Edward Getty

Brock Kolls/TechConnectHub.com & TechSquare Labs

Brock Kolls is a serial entrepreneur who develops market-changing technology by identifying and capturing intellectual property around breakthrough innovation. He is a prolific inventor and U.S. Patent Agent. He took a FinTech startup to a successful NASDAQ exit. He was a member of Coca-Cola R&D and started Coca-Cola’s global open innovation program, scouting for technologies worldwide. Now his focus is TechConnectHub.com (TCH), an online innovators community he founded to connect corporates with innovation needs to researchers, entrepreneurs, and startups who have solutions. TechSquare Labs is a TCH innovation hub where he leads a corporate innovation program. He is also a co-founder of Enterprise Innovation, an event series focused on the interface between corporate innovation and the startup community.

Edward Getty/TechConnectHub.com

Dr. Ed Getty has over 28 years of R&D Technology Management & Strategy experience gained over twenty years while creating and managing world-class open/external innovation business models, processes and capabilities for:

– The Procter & Gamble Company: Connect + Develop(SM) Program
– The Coca-Cola Company: External Technology Acquisition Program
– Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company: Global External Alliance Program
– Mars Incorporated: Global External Innovation Program

Through his external innovation journeys, Dr. Getty has been mentoring and cultivating entrepreneurs and startups in how to work with large enterprises, helping develop mutually beneficial relationship agreements, and coaching the startup community on how to move from prototype to commercial scale.

He is currently Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at TechConnectHub.com where he is working to connect corporate innovation challenges to capabilities and solutions from researchers, entrepreneurs, and startup communities around the world.

Kacie Lett Gordon/352 Inc.

Kacie Lett Gordon is the VP of Client Engagement at 352 Inc., a product development and innovation firm based in Tech Square. 352 works with Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies to ideate, validate and accelerate growth opportunities. She is also the Co-Founder of EnterpriseInnovation.com, and the Atlanta-based Enterprise Entrepreneurship Series. The event series brings together corporate innovation and business leaders to create community around best practices and thought leadership. 352 has helped companies like Cox Automotive, INVISTA, Verizon Telematics and Fifth Third Bank transform their businesses.

Jay Millwood with Homestar Financial Corporation and Mark Sherwin with Sonesta International Hotels Corporation

October 5, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Jay Millwood with Homestar Financial Corporation and Mark Sherwin with Sonesta International Hotels Corporation

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Steven Julian, Jay Millwood, Mike Sammond

Jay Millwood/Homestar Financial Corporation

Homestar Financial Corporation‘s purpose is to maintain a strong reputation as an honest mortgage company offering outstanding customer service, and exceptional community relationships. They strive as a company to meet the needs and wants of their customers, ensuring the client arrives at “the easiest way home”. They offer FHA, USDA, VA, conventional, and jumbo home loans.

Mark Sherwin/Sonesta International Hotels Corporation

Sonesta is a growing, global hospitality brand with more than 60 properties in seven countries, centered on a corporate dedication to delivering a guest experience that provides more than just a place to stay. With a portfolio of diverse and distinctive properties as individual as its guests, there is no typical Sonesta. With a full range of exceptional experiences found in many of the most memorable destinations in the world, Sonesta proudly exceeds guest’s expectations time and time again.

MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: Kimberly Graver, Susan Smith and Maranda Bennett with E-Transform

October 3, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Mastermind Your Launch

MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: Kimberly Graver, Susan Smith and Maranda Bennett with E-Transform

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Kimberly Graver, Stefanie Diaz, Maranda Bennett, Susan Smith

Kimberly Graver, Susan Smith and Maranda Bennett/E-Transform

The team at E-Transform began with one simple goal in mind; to revolutionize the call center business. Many have seen business done the wrong way, and they have set out to change it. They are proactive, instead of reactive. Their internal corporate culture reflects the way they do business – with respect, communication, and a positive and energetic attitude. This successful model has transferred to their other related lines of service as well. They like “e” words. One of their favorites is execution. They truly believe that the secret to a successful business model is exceptional execution all the time. And that is what E-Transform gives you. They push themselves to go the extra mile, provide the same level of service they want to receive, and think “out of the box” by providing flexible pricing models.

Stefanie Diaz/Mastermind Your Launch

Luke Keller with Amplio Recruiting, Diane Dixon with Stryde Savings, and Alex Porter with FOX Digital Strategies

October 3, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

North Fulton Business Radio

Luke Keller with Amplio Recruiting, Diane Dixon with Stryde Savings, and Alex Porter with FOX Digital Strategies

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John Ray, Luke Keller, Diane Dixon, Alex Porter

Luke Keller/Amplio Recruiting

Luke Keller with Amplio Recruiting grew up in the Atlanta area and attended Samford University in Birmingham, AL. After school, he worked in business development for Lauren Construction, based in Texas. He then became the Executive Director of The Lantern Project in Clarkston training refugees in construction skills such as welding, pipe-fitting, electrical, masonry and carpentry. Over 200 men have graduated the program since inception and has had an incredible impact on the Atlanta economy. Luke and his wife Mallory believe every refugee deserves an opportunity to provide for their family as well as bring tremendous value to local companies.

Diane Dixon/Stryde Savings

Stryde Savings helps companies obtain large federal tax credits and expense reductions that would otherwise go uncaptured. Their proprietary software identifies tax incentives, tax credits, and corporate expense reductions. On average for a small to mid-size company, they are able to identify over $200K in savings. Stryde now provides business owners with their own Tax Credit Web Portal where they can screen for their own tax credits by answering a few simple questions. Stryde has a team of Consultants, Project Managers, Engineers, Intellectual Property Attorneys and Expense Auditors who work together seamlessly to uncover specialized tax incentives and expense reductions. They focus on saving you money so you can focus on your business.

Alex Porter/FOX Digital Strategies

The combination of FOX 5 Atlanta and FOX Digital Strategies together delivers a comprehensive marketing platform that is focused on making your cash register ring. FOX Digital Strategies and FOX 5 Atlanta provide a complete suite of marketing products that include website development, social marketing, digital engagement and television advertising. That means FOX can deliver results for businesses of any size and any budget. FOX Digital Strategies would like to partner with local business owners who are focused on bottom-line results so together they can uncover your goals, needs and challenges in order to create a custom marketing solution that gets results.

Jason Moss and Marjorie Dykes with the Georgia Manufacturing Alliance

September 29, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Jason Moss and Marjorie Dykes with the Georgia Manufacturing Alliance

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Jason Moss, Marjorie Dykes, Steven Julian

Jason Moss and Marjorie Dykes/Georgia Manufacturing Alliance

Serving Georgia manufacturing businesses, the Georgia Manufacturing Alliance provides monthly plant tours, educational sessions and networking opportunities designed to help make profitable business connections for our members. GMA is one of the fastest growing communities of manufacturing professionals in the state.

During most events, each participant is given the opportunity to introduce themselves and their business to all of the members. After the introductions are complete, each member has an opportunity to share business ideas or pose a question to the group. All attendees are also treated to a guest speaker’s helpful presentation and take back with them valuable and useful knowledge.