Pensacola Business Radio 10.06.15 – Guests: Jerold “Buck” Hall with Eggfest and Chain Reaction

October 6, 2015 by Keith

Jerold Hall / Chair
Pensacola Eggfest

About Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction’s mission is to empower teens to learn through service. The program is teen-directed, teen-driven and teen-organized using volunteerism as its teaching tool. Since 2003, Chain Reaction has provided local teens ages 13 to 18 in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties with safe, meaningful and educational service activities.

In a safe, fun and empowering environment, our teens discover their innate strengths and untapped abilities; unite as a team of connected, committed citizens; and believe in themselves to achieve more and aspire to see the good in all things.

To learn more or sign your teen up, please visit www.mychainreaction.org.

ABOUT EGGFEST

Join us on November 14th, 2015, from 11am until 2pm, at Blue Wahoos’ Stadium for Pensacola Egg Fest to benefit Chain Reaction.

Over 1300 people attended our 2014 EggFest and sampled food from more than 75 EggChefs. Don’t miss out! Your $25 ticket includes entry to the event, samplings, entertainment and Big Green Egg demonstrations! Come sample what our chefs and local celebrities have cooked up for you on their Big Green Eggs. Best of all, proceeds benefit Chain Reaction, Pensacola’s only Teen Leadership Institute.

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Pensacola Business Radio 10.02.15 – Guests: Beej Davis with USO, Dana Cervantes Richardson with USO, Tim Ekelund with The Agency, Erin Wilmer with Edward Jones

October 2, 2015 by Keith

Beej Davis/USO

Center Supervisor PNS

www.uso.org/northwestflorida

Dana Cervantes Richardson/USO

Programs & Operations Manager

Dana Cervantes-Richardson is the Operations and Programs Manager for USO Northwest Florida. She ensures USO services are provided to service members and their families on nine bases from Mobile, AL to Panama City. She also oversees the operations of all three USO centers which serve over 15,000 troops every month in Northwest Florida. Dana has been with the USO for almost three years. Before that, she was a radio personality in Pensacola and was embedded with troops in Iraq and Kuwait three times. It was during her time reporting overseas that she experienced first-hand what the USO does for our Nation’s Heroes. It is her pleasure today to share with you just what the USO does and how you can help.

www.uso.org/northwestflorida

Erin Wilmer / Edward Jones

Financial Advisor

As a Financial Advisor, my desire is to help my clients reach their financial goals through tailored solutions. I use the “education” approach vice the “sales” approach. If a person is serious about investing, I am serious about helping them.

Edwardjones.com

Tim Ekelund / That Realtor Guy – The Agency

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Pensacola Business Radio: Guests-Brittney Reader and Bart Zehren and Brittany Reader

March 23, 1500 by Keith

Brittany Reader / Versatile Pursuits

After being in the merchant services industry, I realized, through business owners I had the pleasure of assisting, that there were so many other services they needed to compete in their market. And, they had no idea where to begin to look or how to decipher the good from the bad from the mediocre. I took 6 months to really do extensive research and I connected with the proper channel partners to form alliances, and develop relationships to get these business owners proven solutions to their challenges that I would trust in myself. That is how Versatile Pursuits, LLC was formed! I found the best options to improve capital and streamline cash flow for SMBs. The main point was to be able to offer these solutions to them without charging them directly, but being able to still ensure profitability for the company. So, I partnered with the nation’s industry leaders to guarantee my clients “the best of the best”. I am compensated through the companies I am partnered with, thus eliminating the middle man mark up that is usually tacked on to these services. SO I CAN TRULY BE THE EPITOME OF A MERCHANT ADVOCATE. Small Business is important to me. I see how it can truly help a community thrive in an organic way and I could see the benefits of the win/win. I also found a way to offer comparable, if not better, website design services to my clients at a 1/3 of the cost of average services on the same level. That is the one service that Versatile Pursuits, LLC actually receives payment directly from the business owner. We facilitate alternative business financing and invoice factoring solutions through leading first rate enterprises that have the best reputation and can provide premium results for small business owners. I am partnered with 4 different electronic payment processing companies to ensure that the merchants I deal with have options and those options are flexible and pertinent to their specific needs. I also offer an accounts receivable management & profit recovery system to retrieve payments at a 76% better clearance rate than any other “debt collection” option. All of the services Versatile Pursuits, LLC provides and facilitates are to the benefit of SMBs. That was my goal when deciding to start my company. I truly take my role as a merchant advocate seriously, and that continues to be my purpose today.

Phone : (615) 578-9026

Email : info@versatilepursuits.com

Facebook : @VersatilePursuits

Bart Zehren /Creator of Market Research for Consumer Product Innovations:

“One & Done” Quick Market Assessment

E-RM focuses on getting vital market information/insights to entrepreneurs and small or young businesses with my innovative survey research: “One & Done” Quick Market Assessment. It quantifies consumer demand augmented with qualitative feedback on new product ideas PRIOR to expensive market launch, expansion, or national roll-out. Exemplary uses in marketing: Better product development/consumer targeting, more effective marcomm, best pricing, branding, geomarketing, etc. Result: Better funding, more confident strategic planning, more sure-footed execution. Goal: Increase success and reduce failures of new products. For detailed info, see: your-research-resource.com/q3ma-quick-market-test.

E-RM has designed and managed qualitative and quantitative primary marketing research, using online and offline fielding procedures. I bring pertinent experience in corporate leadership roles and consultative skills across different marketing applications and issues. We are “Your Research Resource” in support of your “Market Planning, Strategy, Product & Program Development”. E-RM has served clients and partnered with ad/PR agencies, brand strategists, consultants, etc., on marketing issues in B2C and B2B sectors. My constant objective: to bring market information that reduces the risks and uncertainties in marketing decisions.