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SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Ethan King with Zeus’ Closet

January 21, 2021 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Ethan King with Zeus’ Closet

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Ethan King/Zeus’ Closet

From starving artist to owning multiple million-dollar brands, Ethan King believes YOU have the power to transform your life in every area – financially, spiritually, physically, intellectually, in relationships, and in fun/lifestyle. Ethan was once a struggling artist, with no business background, who evolved to start and scale multi-million dollar companies, while helping other entrepreneurs do the same. The co-founder and CEO of Zeus’ Closet also serves as former Atlanta chapter president and global member-leader in the nonprofit Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), an organization helping over 14,000 business owners in 62 countries grow personally and professionally.

Whether you need branded apparel for your business, custom wardrobe for a production, exclusive Greek gear, or you just want to make cool personalized gifts, Zeus’ Closet is your partner for success. Partner with Zeus’ Closet to help your brand stand out in a crowded marketplace. They specialize in personalized apparel & gifts, with advanced design, no minimums, and same-day service capabilities. They’re like a tattoo shop for your clothes with locations in West Midtown and Kennesaw. Or shop online at zeuscloset.com.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Tricia Houston of MMR LIVE Experience Design, Josh Sweeney of FounderScale, and Larry Talbert of Talbert Insurance Services

December 17, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Tricia Houston of MMR LIVE Experience Design, Josh Sweeney of FounderScale, and Larry Talbert of Talbert Insurance Services

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Tricia Houston/MMR LIVE Experience Design

MMR LIVE is an experience design consultancy that puts human emotions at the core of their work. They believe that everything about a brand communicates, and that staying relevant requires consistent adaptation. Their focus is closing experience gaps through the integration of research, creative thinking, and operational expertise. Their process takes the mystery out of brand loyalty and ensures your vision comes to life. They help you become more valuable to the people you care about. They help you become ExperienceBuilt™.

Josh Sweeney/FounderScale

FounderScale helps B2B companies increase sales by optimizing sales and marketing operations. They turn your sales and marketing team into a sales and marketing machine.

Larry Talbert/Talbert Insurance Services

Talbert Insurance Services is an independent agency with a large number of providers with a small company service feel. Live people answering the phones is very important to them, so all the phones in the office ring until someone answers. Of course, Covid has limited this a little, but they try their best. They have won Best in Gwinnett 10 years in a row and Best in Duluth 3 years in a row. They work for the customer, not the carrier.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Kip Rapp of Concora and Saurel Quettan of exeQfit

November 24, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Kip Rapp of Concora and Saurel Quettan of exeQfit

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Kip Rapp/Concora

Concora is a purpose-built Digital Experience Platform that helps manufacturers sell more products by providing a first-class web experience, technical content, and valuable tools for their design community.

Saurel Quettan/exeQfit

exeQfit exists to transform leaders from managers to propellers of growth and development. Be The Leader You Most Respect.

Founding Beliefs:
• Each of us is whole and perfect. Therefore, growth is natural and improvement unnecessary.
• To value the present above any other moment gives us the freedom of limitless wonder.
• Humans, humanity, and life itself are magnificent and merit respect.
• A vulnerable, caring leader is a courageous leader.
• Achievements are temporary and finite. Success is perpetual and infinite.
• None of us is smarter than all of us. Only the collective can reach unimagined potential.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Dan Wells with Signarama Buford/Duluth and Jeff Lantz & Brian Boston with C. L. Services

October 15, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Dan Wells with Signarama Buford/Duluth and Jeff Lantz & Brian Boston with C. L. Services

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Dan Wells, Jeff Lantz, Brian Boston, Al Simon

Dan Wells/Signarama Buford & Duluth

Signarama Buford and Duluth is a full-service sign shop that can help any business with their visual marketing needs. They do interior and exterior signage, vehicle graphics and wraps, promotional items with your logo of all kinds. If you can put your logo on it, they can make it. They create anything from a business card to the largest electrically lit sign that would need a crane to mount it on a skyscraper here in Atlanta. They are Atlanta’s sign company, proudly serving the metro Atlanta area for 20 years and running!

Jeff Lantz & Brian Boston/C. L. Services

C.L. Services opened its doors in 1997 with the goal of providing shippers and carriers with a world-class logistics experience. For over two decades, C.L. Services has continuously developed innovative ways to combine the personal attention provided by a smaller brokerage, with the versatility and capacity of a large-scale freight management organization. C.L. Services continues to build on the foundation laid more than 20 years ago, offering trusted freight services and innovative solutions, backed by the industry’s most dynamic team.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Dennis Hoffman with Community Management Associates and Arthur Salus with Duluth Travel

September 17, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Dennis Hoffman with Community Management Associates and Arthur Salus with Duluth Travel

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Dennis Hoffman, Arthur Salus and Al Simon

Dennis Hoffman/Community Management Associates

Community Management Associates began in 1989 with 7 Associations and 4 employees. Today we manage over 900 Associations located throughout the southeastern United States (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee). For the past 16 years, CMA has ranked as the number one association management firm in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Arthur Salus/Duluth Travel

Duluth Travel opened in 1994. They are a full-service, locally-owned travel agency located in Duluth, GA. They are the second-largest travel agency in Georgia. Their business services include corporate/business travel, leisure/vacation travel, incentive travel, and government travel. They are a tour operator for Costa Rica. With over 70 employees, Duluth Travel has a 95% customer rating with D & B. Their primary focus is excellent customer service. As Arthur likes to say, “When the customer speaks, we listen!” Their experienced labor force is made up of “hand picked” personnel. Their advantage over other travel agencies is that customers stay with them. Contact Arthur Salus directly at (770) 308-7060.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Lauren Gall and Melanie Ammerman of VaVa Virtual Assistants

August 20, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Lauren Gall and Melanie Ammerman of VaVa Virtual Assistants

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Lauren Gall & Melanie Ammerman/VaVa Virtual Assistants

VaVa Virtual Assistants provides remote administrative and marketing solutions to growth-oriented business owners. They build long-term relationships with their clients, offering efficient, expert-level assistance at a fraction of the cost of employing in-person staff. They take the necessary daily back-office duties off their clients’ plates so they can focus on revenue generating tasks that grow their businesses.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Kara Brown of LeadCoverage

July 16, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Kara Brown of LeadCoverage

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Kara Brown/LeadCoverage

LeadCoverage executes B2B marketing, sales, and PR on behalf of clients in the supply chain, heavy industrial, and technology industries. The LeadCoverage team executes lead generation through targeted marketing and sales strategies and media coverage that drives inbound conversions and measurable marketing Return on Investment (ROI).

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Elliot Holland of Guardian Due Diligence and Nick Keller of Prinovus International

June 18, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Elliot Holland of Guardian Due Diligence and Nick Keller of Prinovus International

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Elliot Holland/Guardian Due Diligence

Elliot Holland is the founder of Guardian Due Diligence, a boutique firm that leads due diligence processes for family offices, investors and private equity firms. Their focus is finance, accounting, operations, and legal diligence. They’ve helped companies like Three Arrows Group, Trilogy Investment Group, The Watermill Group, and Karmijn Capital execute high-quality due diligence so they could execute transactions worth millions of dollars of ROI/IRR. Their goal is to solve the problem for groups new to direct deals in finding a reliable diligence provider. They use proven methods, proprietary tools, and market leading experience to solve the diligence problem for buyers.

Nick Keller/Prinovus International

Prinovus offers end to end production of dietary supplements. They provide contract manufacturing for a number of supplement brands as well as their in-house brand Apocalypse Labz.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Stephanie Sokenis with SmallBiz Ally, Joe Morrison with Adams Keegan, and Branden Lisi with Object 9

May 21, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Stephanie Sokenis with SmallBiz Ally, Joe Morrison with Adams Keegan, and Branden Lisi with Object 9

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Stephanie Sokenis/SmallBiz Ally

Now more than ever, small businesses face unique challenges. Having been there, SmallBiz Ally brings a unique understanding and empathetic perspective of the day-to-day challenges you face to everything we do with you. From hundreds of small business consultations and inspiring success stories, you’ll see they’ve got the secret sauce you need to propel your business forward. They understand your small business goals and budget and will help you achieve one without exceeding the other.
Branden Lisi/Object 9

Object 9 works with manufacturers and franchise brands to find and qualify prospective customers. Founded in 1992, their company has evolved as businesses continue their migration towards a digital economy. Object 9 excels at both integrating the different technology stacks and managing the myriad marketing resources required to succeed in digital commerce.

Joe Morrison/Adams Keegan

Adams Keegan is a leading national provider of HR services with clients in all 50 states. They provide HR services, Payroll/Tax administration, employee benefits, and benefits administration delivered to their clients through their proprietary cloud-based HR information and payroll system “Efficenter” and by expert HR teams dedicated to each client.