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Danielle Cheung with Bank of America, Emily Truax & Rich Aaron with Chateau Elan, and Laure Hoffman with The C12 Group

June 29, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Danielle Cheung with Bank of America, Emily Truax & Rich Aaron with Chateau Elan, and Laure Hoffman with The C12 Group

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Rich Aaron, Emily Truax, Danielle Cheung, Laure Hoffman

Danielle Cheung/Bank of America

Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses, and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 46 million consumer and small business relationships with approximately 4,600 retail financial centers, approximately 15,900 ATMs, and award-winning online banking with approximately 34 million active accounts and nearly 22 million mobile active users. Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to approximately 3 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and more than 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Emily Truax & Rich Aaron/Chateau Elan Winery & Resort

Château Élan Winery & Resort is North Georgia’s premier meeting, event and vacation destination. On the 3,500-acre estate sits a 16th century-styled French château with a full-service winery and tasting bar, a AAA Four Diamond Inn and conference center, a 35,000-sq ft European spa mansion, 63 holes of championship golf, tennis center, seven distinctive dining outlets and a 95 room Hampton Inn & Suites. Château Élan is a proud member of the Preferred Hotels & Resorts group. For more information call 678-425-0900, visit them online at www.chateauelan.com or find them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Laure Hoffman/The C12 Group

The C12 Group is the largest and fastest growing Peer Advisory Group experience in the United States. Why? The C12 Group is not a business Bible study. It’s not a professional networking group or a guest speaker forum. It’s a movement of Christian business leaders truly changing the world in and through the marketplace. C12’s purpose and mission is to build great businesses for a greater purpose. In it’s 25th year, there are 2,000 Members across the country with seven groups currently meeting in and around Atlanta, with more groups starting in the coming months. The C12 Group has become the trusted authority on incorporating business best practices with the foundation of Biblical principles and core values. Business leaders from multiple industries convene monthly for a time of mutual sharpening, high-impact learning, and growth as stewards and Ambassadors for Christ in the marketplace. The C12 experience is accompanied by world-class curriculum and resources curated by top business and ministry leaders.

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Transitioning the Family Business

June 28, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

Transitioning the Family Business

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Brian Corbett, Gina Miller, Adam Gaslowitz, Craig Frankel

Gina Miller/Bennett Thrasher LLP

Gina Miller with Bennett Thrasher has twenty years of experience consulting on the valuation of equity interests in closely held and publicly traded companies. They offer valuations for a variety of purposes including estate and gift tax reporting requirements, financial reporting, acquisitions, buy-sell agreements, and employee stock ownership plans.

Brian Corbett/CCG Advisors

Brian Corbett is the founder and Managing Partner of CCG Advisors. He has over 15 years of experience advising the owners of successful privately held businesses as to the value and marketability of their businesses and the alternatives they have in terms of liquidity, exit strategies and accessing growth capital.

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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Cary Matthews with Opal Partners Group, Carrie Jones with The Hive Solution, and Trent Bramblett with Ceviche

June 27, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

North Fulton Business Radio

Cary Matthews with Opal Partners Group, Carrie Jones with The Hive Solution, and Trent Bramblett with Ceviche

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Cary Matthews, Carrie Jones, Trent Bramblett, John Ray

Cary Matthews/Opal Partners Group

Opal Partners Group helps technology services companies scale their operations for growth and facilitate their move to the next level using a fractional COO model. They focus on improving operational efficiency, structuring and aligning the management team, and helping companies break through the issues that are holding them back. They ensure companies have a sound strategic plan, a team aligned for achieving goals, and the right processes and tools for growing revenues and profitability.

Carrie Jones/The Hive Solution

The Hive Solution is a virtual office assistant company offering phone answering and admin for entrepreneurs who have become a victim of their own success. Founded in 2014, clients virtually share office services with other small to medium-sized businesses and start-ups. The Hive bees support skilled trades, attorneys and busy professionals who need office services, but not necessarily the overhead of a brick and mortar office. Choosing The Hive Solution helps businesses offer that extra old-fashioned customer service touch that most are lacking today. Services include phone answering, admin, vacation service, light bookkeeping, data entry, research, graphic design and Send Out Cards account management. Packages include Messenger Bee (a messaging service), Carpenter Bee, Honey Bee, Bumble Bee (Graphic Design), and Bank of Hours (Admin only).

Trent Bramblett/Ceviche

Not your typical Mexican spot, Ceviche offers true authentic Mexican food with a twist, a wide variety of tequila, and an awesome atmosphere. With two locations – one in the heart of downtown Roswell on Canton Street and in downtown Alpharetta on Milton Avenue – Ceviche is your local taqueria and tequila bar.

MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: Diamonde Williamson with BuiltxWomen

June 27, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Mastermind Your Launch

MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: Diamonde Williamson with BuiltxWomen

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Diamonde Williamson/BuiltxWomen

Since graduating college, Diamonde has dedicated her work to serving the needs and creating opportunity for women of color. From being an assistant to photographer Drexina Nelson, style influencer Mattie James, and money maven Patrice Washington, to working in television as a producer for the Oprah Winfrey Network, USA and TVOne, Diamonde has utilized her talents to serve. Now, as Diversity Coordinator at TechSquare Labs and Founder of her own digital media startup, Blossom, Diamonde is committed to creating an opportunity for women to build tech companies and disrupt the representation of women in media. The #BuiltbyWomen’s Initiative, presented by TechSquare Labs, is on a mission to pair 100 minority women, 50 technical, and 50 go-to market, in an effort to build technology products that people and companies are willing to pay for by solving the toughest problems that face industries in Atlanta and beyond.

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.

Male Body Image

June 25, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

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Food, Faith & Feelings

Male Body Image

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“Food, Faith, and Feelings” Podcast Episode from June 25, 2017

LAUNCHING A NEW PRODUCT (Part 5 of 5): Building a Website on a Budget and Working with Retailers

June 23, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

LAUNCHING A NEW PRODUCT (Part 5 of 5): Building a Website on a Budget and Working with Retailers

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Shark Tank winner Tiffany Krumins and co-host Steven Julian discuss how to build a website on a budget and how to work with retailers.

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

Frida’s Mexican Restaurant knocked it out of the park with today’s lunch!

Darcie McNamara with Priority1 POS, Bob Farris with Commodore Corporate and Cecil Powell with The Firm Answer

June 22, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Darcie McNamara with Priority1 POS, Bob Farris with Commodore Corporate and Cecil Powell with The Firm Answer

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Cecil Powell, Darcie McNamara, Bob Farris

Darcie McNamara/Priority1 POS

Priority1 POS started over six years ago and is located in downtown Buford in a 4,000 square foot facility where all set-up, training and implementation is done locally with “feet on the street”. They not only specialize in Point of Sale (POS) solutions, but also merchant processing so you are calling one person for all your cash management solutions.

Bob Farris/Commodore Corporate

Commodore Corporate specializes in identifying a client’s particular needs to provide funding for business transactions and growth. They locate and secure the necessary sources to meet funding needs so their clients can pursue long term growth objectives. They are a low overhead operation with access to contacts in various financial markets, equity, debt, hybrid vehicles, mezzanine, leasing, sale/lease back, asset based loans and more. They match their client’s need to the right type of funding. Commodore Corporate partners with you to provide financial and strategic relationship services to promote long term growth whether you need short or long term funding for commercial transactions.

Cecil Powell/The Firm Answer

The Firm Answer is a finder of funds for people who have need of funds for a business reason. They are a low overhead operation with contacts in various money markets, equity, debt, hybrid vehicles, mezzanine, leasing, sale/lease back, ABL, and more. They match the need to the type of funding.

MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: James Oliver with WeMontage

June 20, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Mastermind Your Launch

MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: James Oliver with WeMontage

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James Oliver/WeMontage

James Oliver, Jr. is Co-Founder of the world’s cutest twins, Thaddeus and Zoe, and CEO and Founder of WeMontage.com, the world’s only website that lets you turn your digital images into a custom collage on removable wallpaper. James is author of the book, The More You Hustle, The Luckier You Get: You CAN Be a Successful Parentpreneur. James has been featured in Money Magazine, Forbes.com, and on CNBC’s reality TV show, West Texas Investors Club. James has an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill, and a B.S. in Accounting from Morehouse College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude.

Stefanie Diaz/Mastermind Your Launch

Ed Brown with DataScan and Rick Folea with AutomationDirect.com

June 20, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

North Fulton Business Radio

Ed Brown with DataScan and Rick Folea with AutomationDirect.com

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Ed Brown/DataScan

DataScan provides clarity to wholesale loan accounting and manages risk with a holistic auditing solution. As a global leader, DataScan offers comprehensive solutions to banks, independent finance companies, and captive financial institutions.

Rick Folea/AutomationDirect.com

In business since 1994, AutomationDirect is a distributor of factory automation products including PLCs, operator interfaces, AC drives, motors, stepper systems, sensors, motor controls, enclosures and more. Their prices are typically well below the list price of more traditional automation companies because of their modern online business model where you just drop parts in the shopping cart and hit buy now. Most products are in stock and shipped same day via 2-day delivery. Orders over $49 get free two-day delivery; some limitations apply. For more information, contact them at 800-633-0405 or visit www.automationdirect.com.