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Christine Martinello with The Original Love Box and Michael Owens with BioLife Plasma Services

April 14, 2016 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Christine Martinello with The Original Love Box and Michael Owens with BioLife Plasma Services

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Mike Sammond, Christine Martinello, Michael Owens, Steven Julian

Christine Martinello/The Original Love Box

The Original Love Box is a treasured tradition that gives people the opportunity to create closer relationships and families. It’s easy to do. People write love notes to each other and include words of affirmation and appreciation. Then a family or group gathers and reads them to each other. The couple’s book is a keepsake where they write their love story. The tradition captures a legacy of love and is a gift that will be passed down from generation to generation.

Michael Owens/BioLife Plasma Services

BioLife Plasma Services is an industry leader in the collection of high-quality plasma that is processed into life-saving plasma-based therapies. They operate numerous state-of-the-art plasma collection facilities throughout the United States and Austria. BioLife is committed to safety. Through superior service, they strive to ensure the safety of their donors and the patients who receive life-saving plasma-based therapeutics.

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Steve Palmer with The Cottage School, Dr. Dionne Poulton with Poulton Consulting Group, and Jeff Plank with HLB Gross Collins

April 13, 2016 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

Steve Palmer with The Cottage School, Dr. Dionne Poulton with Poulton Consulting Group, and Jeff Plank with HLB Gross Collins

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Steve Palmer, Dr. Dionne Poulton, Jeff Plank, Dominick Rainey

Steve Palmer/The Cottage School

The Cottage School has a 31-year history of serving students with mild to moderate learning differences including ADD, ADHD and Anxiety Disorders. The students learn in addition to the State of Georgia required classes for graduation, a business model that is based on time accountability and financial reward and balance. This fall for the first time they are adding 4th and 5th grades to their current 6-12th grades.

Dr. Dionne Poulton/Poulton Consulting Group

Poulton Consulting Group is an HR and Leadership Consulting business specializing in diversity and inclusion. They serve all businesses from small to large, government, educational institutions, non-profits, and social groups. PCG is led by President and owner, Dr. Dionne Poulton, who for the past 16 years, has been researching and teaching in areas of diversity, inclusion, equity, bias, intercultural dialogue, adult education, adult learning, and adult behavior. PCG offers targeted, research based professional development opportunities, education, advisement, and conflict mediation to HR professionals, leaders, and employees in all workplace settings.

Jeff Plank/HLB Gross Collins

HLB Gross Collins is an Atlanta-based full service certified public accounting and consulting firm that has been providing excellence in client service for over forty years. Serving clients both locally and around the globe, the firm offers tax, auditing and assurance, business consulting, valuation, estate and personal financial planning, and international services.

Angels Among Us Pet Rescue and Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia

April 8, 2016 by Garrett Ervin

Giving Back To Gwinnett

Angels Among Us Pet Rescue and Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia

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Lynn Robinette, Nikki, Bruno Taillefer, Megan Bowman, Randy Redner

Presented by Minuteman Press of Duluth, this new program is dedicated to promoting local charities and non-profit organizations. CLICK HERE to watch the video of this show.

Megan Bowman/Angels Among Us Pet Rescue

Angels Among Us Pet Rescue is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity dedicated to saving dogs and cats from high-kill shelters in north Georgia. They operate through a network of volunteers and foster homes in the metro Atlanta area. Their efforts are funded by tax-deductible contributions from compassionate people and organizations who care and want to help make a difference, one pet at a time.

Their mission is two-fold. First, to educate the public on the plight of animals that have found themselves in high kill shelters throughout Georgia and on the responsibilities involved with pet ownership, such as spay/neuter and heart-worm prevention. Second, to save as many animals as they can from high-kill shelters and to see each animal through from the actual rescue to the loving foster home and ultimately to the “forever” home they were meant to have.

Randy Redner/Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia

For more than three decades, the Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia has worked in partnership with donors to donate close to $60 million to the charitable causes that matter most to the community.

Rather than giving haphazardly to every donation request, they help people learn where the real needs are and which non-profits are directly addressing those needs. Instead of giving in a rush at year-end for tax purposes, they offer tools that allow you to invest your resources now and give more purposefully when you’re ready. And if you want to leave a legacy that reaches far beyond your lifetime, they can help with that, too.

They make giving easy, with a powerful return on investment for the community. In short, they connect people who care with causes that matter.

Bruno Taillefer/Minuteman Press of Duluth

When it comes to business communications services, Minuteman Press of Duluth can do it all. With a complete range of products and services at your disposal, they can help you get your message out to customers, employees and vendors alike. Using the latest printing and document management technology, they handle your projects from start to finish. Their energetic and experienced staff is dedicated to delivering what you need, when you need it.

Minuteman Press of Duluth. They design, print and promote – You! They’re the one-stop shop for your business.

Lynn Robinette/Wishes 4 Me Foundation (and Show Host)

The Wishes 4 Me Foundation is a Georgia non-profit organization which provides a group style home for disabled adults. They currently have five homes in Lawrenceville, GA. Each home provides accessibility based on the needs of the residents which exceeds ADA code. The homes also include a positive family environment.

Lynn Robinette, a single mother and the founder of the organization, was inspired by her two disabled children when she was not successful in finding solutions for independent living for her precious loved ones. Lynn has accomplished a successful model of group style living of disabled adults who wish to be active in the community.

Nikki/Minuteman Press of Duluth

Nikki is the Official Mascot of Minuteman Press of Duluth. Nikki is a rescue pit bull mix.

Marie Fratoni with Get Clients Everywhere, Rick Loose with Milton Park Partners, and Elizabeth Burgner with Planned PEThood of Georgia

April 7, 2016 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Marie Fratoni with Get Clients Everywhere, Rick Loose with Milton Park Partners, and Elizabeth Burgner with Planned PEThood of Georgia

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Mike Sammond, Marie Fratoni, Rick Loose, Elizabeth Burgner

Marie Fratoni/Get Clients Everywhere

Get Clients Everywhere provides coaching support to entrepreneurs so that they find more clients, make more money, make a greater impact, and have more fun! They work with smart, talented business owners providing coaching, training, and speaking around important entrepreneurial topics that help businesses grow.

Rick Loose/Milton Park Partners

Milton Park Partners is a staffing company providing a broad array of solutions designed to meet the needs of today’s small businesses. Their purpose is to enable the small business owner to “get on with business” by relieving executives of the many burdensome and time consuming aspects of employment from hiring to well after the employee has left the organization. Business owners and their employees can rely on Milton Park Partners to be their HR department and provide a full scope of administrative and professional HR support.

Elizabeth Burgner/Planned PEThood of Georgia

Planned PEThood of Georgia reduces the overpopulation and suffering of dogs and cats through education and low-cost spay/neuter programs and to rescue, vet and place adoptable dogs and cats into good permanent homes. Adoptable is defined as dogs and cats that pose no health or safety risk, which makes the animal unsuitable for placement as a pet.

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Marc O’Conner with Curant Health and Vera Watkins with The Marena Group

April 6, 2016 by Garrett Ervin

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Marc O'Conner with Curant Health and Vera Watkins with The Marena Group

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Marc O'Connor, Vera Watkins, Dominick Rainey — Marc O’Connor, Vera Watkins, Dominick Rainey

Marc O’Conner/Curant Health

Curant Health is one of the fastest-growing healthcare companies in the nation including being listed #4 on the 2015 INC 500/5000 for large healthcare companies. Curant Health is a national thought leader on developing and implementing chronic disease state patient focused protocols and providing robust medication management for their patients. Curant Health’s robust patient experience dramatically improves patient outcomes while significantly reducing the health spend associated with these problematic disease states. Their nearly perfect patient retention rate is a testament to their patient focused care and services.

Vera Watkins/The Marena Group

The Marena Group is a Lawrenceville-based company that manufactures the next generation of medical grade compression life wear made to fit every moment of life. Marena offers proven medical-grade compression wear to help the body heal faster in order to feel better, look better and play better.

Their USA-made garments are not only functional but uniquely engineered for long-term comfort with their patented ComfortWeave® fabric, exclusive to Marena. They believe in curve appeal, a healthy lifestyle, and feeling your absolute best whether at the gym or on the couch.

Their team of caring professionals are dedicated to exceptional client support. They don’t simply sell – they serve needs. Their proprietary made-to-measure program allows you to accommodate every individual and every patient to ensure the optimal results. They are the Doctors’ partner to reduce patient complaints and garment hassles while increasing revenue with their Marena Lifestyle products. Their passion for comfortable, high compression textiles is second only to their passion for helping improve lives.

Dan Lucas with CREDO Financial Services and Brenda Lopez with The Lopez Firm

March 31, 2016 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Dan Lucas with CREDO Financial Services and Brenda Lopez with The Lopez Firm

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Steven Julian, Dan Lucas, Brenda Lopez, Mike Sammond

Dan Lucas/CREDO Financial Services

CREDO Financial Services has been servicing clients of all sizes, both internationally and domestically, for many years. Whether you are an entrepreneur in start-up phases, or a longstanding pillar of the business community, CREDO’s commitment to forming a true partnership with their clients is exactly what you have been missing from your typical CPA or CFO.

Brenda Lopez/The Lopez Firm

The Lopez Firm is a law office that specializes in immigration matters. Brenda Lopez is a proud Gwinnettian for over ten years, living and working in District 99. As a resident and business owner in the district, she is fully invested in the economic development of the communities in her district and understands firsthand the challenges faced by residents and business owners daily. Brenda is committed to using her legal background and expertise in community development to zealously advocate for her constituents in the State General Assembly.

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SAFEGUARDING YOUR DATA: Olivia Rose Jenkins with QloudSecure

March 30, 2016 by Garrett Ervin

On the Money

SAFEGUARDING YOUR DATA: Olivia Rose Jenkins with QloudSecure

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On this episode of “On the Money”, host Joe Moss talks to Olivia Rose Jenkins from QloudSecure about how cyber threats and online security breaches can affect a small business and how to monitor them.

Olivia Rose Jenkins/QloudSecure

QloudSecure was founded by Olivia Rose Jenkins in 2016 to address the concerns of law firms about exposure to the risks of data breaches, leakage, theft and subsequent liabilities. QloudSecure is a technology consulting services company, offering law firms the strategy, guidance and support they need to migrate to, and continually to successfully operate on, a centralized cloud computing infrastructure. This type of infrastructure offers a turn-key solution for law firms’ explicit needs.

Olivia has over 15 years’ experience in the cybersecurity field with the last ten years as a consultant helping organizations achieve and maintain best security practices to safeguard their assets and comply with regulatory and industry requirements. A love of using technology as an enabler for clients to achieve and exceed their business goals led to an interest in cloud computing.

One of the foremost concerns of a law firm is the threats of exposure, and understandably so due to the following reasons:

• Legacy IT systems are widely in use.

• Data has become more disparate across multiple locations and systems.

• Employees blur the lines between personal and corporate technologies.

• Security awareness is lacking among firm employees and third-parties

• There is a shortage of qualified IT staff to manage it all.

These issues are also very present at any type of small business.

QloudSecure has a proprietary six step process to help you close gaps for good called QloudPrint. It includes discovering your risk, assessing the potential business impact, designing a plan to close the gaps, deploying your security controls and even providing policies and procedures you can use, educating your employees on best security practices to reduce potential going forward, and then managing it for you if you don’t have access to a good IT resource. Everything is customized to your specific environment and tailored towards small to medium law firms.

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“On the Money” focuses on topics and issues allowing small businesses to better navigate the financial services minefield, with analysis and opinions from today’s industry experts on banking and loans. “On the Money” also introduces you to some of the top small business leaders in the Atlanta market.

Hosted by Joe Moss, the president of Embassy National Bank, “On the Money” airs live every Wednesday at 3:00 PM EST from the Business RadioX studio in Gwinnett.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Doug Ireland with Freeland Painting & Construction, A.C. Chan with Power Slide, Sterling Porter with Sterling Porter CPA, and Courtney Spencer with the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

March 25, 2016 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Doug Ireland with Freeland Painting & Construction, A.C. Chan with Power Slide, Sterling Porter with Sterling Porter CPA, and Courtney Spencer with the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

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Johnny Phelps, A.C. Chan, Courtney Spencer, Sterling Porter, Doug Ireland

Doug Ireland/Freeland Painting & Construction

The mission at Freeland Painting is to bring excellence to their clients through home repairs. Painting, roofing, and general renovations are not a unique business but Freeland Painting & Construction intends to be unique within this industry. They believe that their customer’s fulfillment and happiness is their ultimate goal and their only assignment. They believe that only by serving their customers FIRST can they then serve their employees, suppliers, and families.

A.C. Chan/Power Slide

Power Slide’s mission is to help you become a more effective communicator through your pitch, presentation or keynote. Effective communicators get funded, win customers and influence others. Whether your audience is an individual, small group or large audience, they can help you stand out and be memorable.

Sterling Porter/Sterling Porter CPA

In today’s competitive environment, information is power. With Sterling Porter, CPA, you will receive valuable information to improve your cash flow, control your operation, and reduce your taxes. Your financial statements will be prepared accurately, based on proper accounting rules and procedures. Plus, you will understand what the numbers mean and how to use them to manage your business more profitably.

Courtney Spencer/Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

The Gwinnett Chamber is the forum for business, government, education, healthcare, arts/culture/entertainment, and philanthropic and public-service communities to come together to advance the region’s economy and enrich Gwinnett’s quality of life. The mission of the Gwinnett Chamber is to strengthen existing businesses, facilitate the growth of quality job opportunities, and enrich the community’s quality of life. The Gwinnett Chamber serves over 2,000 members throughout metro Atlanta by delivering pertinent and useful programs that strengthen and connect businesses locally, regionally, and globally. The Gwinnett Chamber uses its strategic marketing and communications capabilities to support its members, promote its programs, and enhance economic development efforts.

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Littie Brown with NAWBO, Melissa Smith with The PVA and independent film producer Monique McGlockton

March 24, 2016 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Littie Brown with NAWBO, Melissa Smith with The PVA and independent film producer Monique McGlockton

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Mike Sammond, Littie Brown, Melissa Smith, Monique McGlockton, Steven Julian

Littie Brown/National Association of Women Business Owners

The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) is the voice of America’s 10.6 million women-owned businesses. Since 1975, NAWBO has helped women evolve their businesses by sharing resources and providing a single voice to shape economic and public policy. NAWBO is the only dues-based national organization representing the interests of all women entrepreneurs across all industries. The organiztion started as an informal meeting of women business owners in the Washington, D.C. area who met to trade information about federal contracts, bank credit, and other business issues. Every few weeks, more women began attending the group and it became clear that there was a great need for a formal organization devoted to helping women business owners, so NAWBO was created. Today the organization features chapters in almost every metropolitan area in the United States.

Melissa Smith/The PVA

The PVA is a virtual assistant staffing and administrative consulting business serving small businesses (less than 10 employees) to help them stay competitive in an ever changing world without the high cost of employees. They create time so you make more money.

Monique McGlockton/Independent Film Producer

Monique McGlockton is an independent film producer who produces film and television projects written by herself or other script writers. She recently ventured to take producing on full-time to finish her most recent project titled “Dundu Dole – The Documentary” and to work with other entertainment professionals on future projects.