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Cathy Reinking with Your It Factor and Oliver Yarbrough with BOBCAT Academy

September 4, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Cathy Reinking with Your It Factor and Oliver Yarbrough with BOBCAT Academy

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John Ray, Cathy Reinking, Oliver Yarbrough

Cathy Reinking/Your It Factor

Cathy Reinking is the owner of Your It Factor and she believes you are the leading role in your business, so why not make it easier for clients to want to connect with you? Her experience as a Hollywood casting director, honed over two decades working with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars (including Jason Bateman, Steve Carell, Tessa Thompson, Tony Hale, Jon Hamm, Kelsey Grammer, Will Ferrell, James Earl Jones, David Alan Grier, Ann Down, Jenna Fischer, Jim Belushi, Marsha Mason, Jean Smart, Michael Keaton, and hundreds more) can help business owners and their teams be more charismatic, authentic, and natural in everything they do. No more boring, stiff, or dispassionate presentations, networking opportunities, and videos. Cathy offers the following services: Marketing Videos (with Trenton Carson of TC Videos), Live Presentation Coaching, Charisma Coaching Workshops, Team Building, and Organic Marketing Messages (that don’t sound scripted).

“Don’t fear the unblinking eye of the camera. You will leave the studio a stronger person.” Brendan Burke, Managing Director with Capstone Headwaters

Oliver Yarbrough/BOBCAT Academy

BOBCAT Academy is a leading provider of Project Management, Leadership, Team Building, PMP® Exam Prep, and CAPM® Certification training courses for project managers and teams. BOBCAT offers simplified, easy-to-follow, step-by-step methods to develop your hard and soft skills.

Their training programs cater to corporate and government project managers and teams by providing confidence-building and motivating instruction that aids them in their overall success. BOBCAT Academy has successfully delivered training classes to thousands of professionals, government agencies, corporations, as well as universities across North America.

Frank O’Brien with IberiaBank and Ron Freeman with ITsimple

August 28, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Frank O'Brien with IberiaBank and Ron Freeman with ITsimple

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Frank O’Brien/IberiaBank

Frank O’Brien is the Client Advocate Officer for IberiaBank serving the North Fulton communities. Frank has lived in Alpharetta for the past 15 years, and loves living and working in his community. He enjoys outdoor activities including running, biking, hiking, and generally any outdoor activities. A little secret about Frank is that he’s a regular vendor at the ABA Alpharetta Farmers Market where he shares his passion for Kombucha and his love for animals by donating the proceeds to the Atlanta Humane Society.

Frank can be found at Iberiabank’s newly opened Mansell Branch in Roswell. he leads a team of retail, business, and private bankers as IberiaBank expands its coverage to its partners in the North Fulton communities. He offers his partners the resources of a regional bank with the agility and personalized customer service of a smaller organization. Frank’s business plans and decisions are made locally by his market leadership who have deep roots in Atlanta and know the industries and communities.

Ron Freeman/ITsimple

ITsimple is an Alpharetta-based software startup and the creator of ITsMyTown City App. ITsimple was founded based on a vision of “Simplifying People’s Everyday Life” and practicing a mission of “Connecting City and Community”. ITsimple’s solution is an SaaS-based content platform for cities and counties built with the latest cutting-edge technologies.

Wendell Strickland with Strongside Solutions and John Herbert with the Roswell Attorney Project

August 14, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Wendell Strickland with Strongside Solutions and John Herbert with the Roswell Attorney Project

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John Ray, John Herbert, Wendell Strickland

Wendell Strickland/Strongside Solutions

Strongside Solutions is a cost management consulting firm that specializes in the design, implementation and supply-chain management of self-funded healthcare benefit programs for employers. Experts in mitigating healthcare costs, Strongside Solutions’ has a game changing healthcare benefits package, eBenefix, that is revolutionizing the healthcare benefits industry by delivering a better healthcare experience to employees and reducing healthcare costs up to 40%.

Employee healthcare is one of the largest expenses by an employer that goes mostly unmanaged. The clear majority of employers are used to 10 to 15 percent (or more) in increases annually and are struggling to not pass on the increases to their employees. With eBenefix, employers are realizing savings and it is truly making healthcare benefits a competitive recruiting & retention tool again.

John Herbert/Roswell Attorney Project

The Roswell Attorney Project was born out of the vision of John Herbert and Kurt Hilbert who were opposing counsel in litigation a few years ago. The focus of the organization are to promote civility in all legal matters and to raise awareness of the great attorneys who call Roswell home.

Dale Sizemore with Voterworkz and Jonathan Stelling with PrideStaff Financial

August 7, 2018 by Mike

Business RadioX® Community

Dale Sizemore with Voterworkz and Jonathan Stelling with PrideStaff Financial

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Dale Sizemore, John Ray, Jonathan Stelling

Dale Sizemore/Voterworkz

Voterworkz helps improve the political “DNA” by making it easier to run for political office. They provide a score based on 12 years of voting history for individuals and households. That helps organize time, budget and volunteers to get the message to the right people.

Jonathan Stelling/PrideStaff Financial

Jonathan and Marian Stelling opened their PrideStaff office in 2010, and since that time, the office has helped over 3,000 individuals find jobs with over 100 top North Atlanta companies. PrideStaff and PrideStaff Financial specialize in working with business owners and senior level hiring managers of companies with 20 to 500 employees. The PrideStaff division specializes in Customer Service, Call Center, Administrative, and Light Industrial positions. The PrideStaff Financial division adds professional recruiting for finance and accounting positions ranging from Staff Accountants to VPs of Accounting and Financial Analysts to CFOs. Clients value the difference that local owners bring to their recruiting and staffing needs – taking the time to understand their needs, providing attentive customer service, and consistently meeting their expectations.

Tom Briggette with Pioneer Capital Group and Kyli Owen with 27th and Leo

July 31, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Tom Briggette with Pioneer Capital Group and Kyli Owen with 27th and Leo

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Tom Briggette/Pioneer Capital Group

Pioneer Capital Group provides alternative financing to small business owners. Through their relationships with numerous lending groups, Pioneer Capital Group is able to assist existing business owners and provide them with short term, uncollateralized, and non-equity financing. The most common use of funds for businesses is to help them expand, hire, bid jobs or fill orders. Traditional bank financing for small business owners is difficult, and the upsurge in merchant cash advance providers has filled a finance gap that has provided over 10 Billion dollars to almost 180,000 small business owners from 2015 to 2017.

Kyli Owen/27^th and Leo

27th and Leo is a retail consulting firm that guides brands and consumer product companies into building long-lasting relationships with their customers through optimal product planning and marketing strategies. The firm takes a holistic approach with each of their clients to understand consumer behaviors and how to make the biggest impact in today’s dynamic retail environments. 27th and Leo steers brands through specific crossroads that are reached through overwhelming growth or a slow down in growth. No matter the path, 27th and Leo develops strategic road-maps to navigate clients through these critical crossroads, and offers brands fully integrated services including consumer trends and analytics, product merchandising and development, and business strategies.

Dr. Mike Majmundar with Northside Plastic Surgery and Alex Van Winkle with Van Winkle & Associates

June 19, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Dr. Mike Majmundar with Northside Plastic Surgery and Alex Van Winkle with Van Winkle & Associates

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John Ray, Dr. Mike Majmundar, Alex Van Winkle

Dr. Mike Majmundar/Northside Plastic Surgery

Dr. Mike Majmundar of Northside Plastic Surgery is a double board certified and fellowship trained facial plastic surgeon. He has made Alpharetta and Atlanta become destinations for excellence in plastic surgery with his signature Natural procedures. Physicians come from all over the country to learn about his nonsurgical injectable techniques and his trademarked MM Lift. Patients come from all over the world for his signature Natural Facelift and Natural Mini-Facelift, which is a product of years of experience and advanced surgical approach. Dr. Majmundar has been named a Top Doctor for 8 years in a row by Atlanta Magazine and Castle Connolly Medical; a National Top Doctor by U.S. News & World Report; Best Plastic Surgeon for Face by Best Self Atlanta; Best Botox and Filler Injector; and a top beauty expert.

Alex Van Winkle/Van Winkle & Associates

Van Winkle & Associates is Atlanta’s oldest independent advertising and marketing firm. Founded in 1984, VWA established itself as the agency that could provide senior level talent to solve complex marketing issues at a more reasonable cost than the network agencies. The agency has built a reputation of bringing value to a client’s marketing spend by providing thoughtful strategic direction and execution all the way through the sales funnel. With a track record of building brands from the ground up, such as Texas Pete Hot Sauce and Hennessy Lexus, VWA has been able to leverage past success with regional clients into relationships with national brands such as Homewood Suites by Hilton and Ancestry.com. Today, VWA continues to lead the rapidly evolving marketing landscape through innovative strategy that connects the digital-first consumer with brand strategy focused on results.

Tom Martin with Proactive Payroll and Ben Huard with GO

June 12, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Tom Martin with Proactive Payroll and Ben Huard with GO

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Tom Martin/Proactive Payroll

Proactive Payroll is a small business payroll service for employers with 1 to 100 employees. Tom Martin has been a CPA for over 40 years. He uses that experience to help small business in many ways. Proactive does not sell insurance, bookkeeping, retirement or tax services, but is extremely knowledgeable in all those areas. Proactive helps their clients by referring them to the best providers in the payroll ancillary businesses with total independence. Proactive Payroll also focuses on referring clients to each other. At Proactive, they provide clients with their cell phone number so you can reach them when you need to.

Ben Huard/GO

GO is a group of entrepreneur-minded creative individuals who have joined forces to become an award-winning full-service marketing and communications agency with offices in Hartford, CT and Atlanta, GA. Since 2004, they’ve believed that their client’s goals come first – not their services. It’s easy to create cookie-cutter marketing solutions that fit every client. But GO are not ones to take the easy road. Instead, they approach each client open and fresh, building unique strategies based on your intended outcomes. And yes, they have all the internal marketing and communications capabilities to do so. But so do a lot of agencies. What makes GO different is their ability to use those capabilities – creatively, efficiently, successfully.

Jim Zavorski with Alpharetta Sign Company and Phil Wahl with Kale Me Crazy

May 29, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Jim Zavorski with Alpharetta Sign Company and Phil Wahl with Kale Me Crazy

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Jim Zavorski/Alpharetta Sign Company

Alpharetta Sign Company is a local sign company that offers high-quality, custom business signs, banners, and vehicle wraps for clients in and around Alpharetta, GA. They offer a specialized service to local clients that is backed by a nationwide network of independent sign companies. This allows them to provide a wide range of product to customers, while responding to their client’s needs in a timely and economical manner.

Phil Wahl/Kale Me Crazy

Kale me Crazy is a new, fast growing artisan health food restaurant. They’re all about promoting healthy living through fresh organic and natural foods. They provide a fast and convenient alternative to traditional fast food restaurants. They are serving wraps, salads, acai bowls, cold pressed juices, delicious smoothies, energy shots and iced coffee and tea, Poke Bowls and Avocado Toast, all made from scratch, all made from fresh fruits and vegetables delivered daily. Kale Me Crazy even makes their own almond milk! They feature cleansing packages that are the perfect support system to your healthy lifestyle. Visit their restaurant and catch the healthy vibe. They also offer catering for your next meeting, special event or sports outing. Download the app for pick up, or have it delivered through Door Dash or Foodsby. Their motto says it all: “Healthy habits start here.” Look for their newest location in Alpharetta.

Tino Mantella with Tier4 Advisors

May 22, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Tino Mantella with Tier4 Advisors

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Tino Mantella/Tier4 Advisors

Tier4 is one of the fastest-growing private companies in Atlanta and 2-years running PaceSetter award winner. The company is five years old and was founded by Jake Sherrill. Jake started the company on the premise that there had to be a better way to help companies procure their IT services. Tier4 was created to save companies time and money through their trusted advisory services. The company has developed a unique model of matching clients to optimum IT solutions. Their clients have recognized their extraordinary work by giving them a cumulative NPS score of 97 (in comparison, Disney is 83 and considered one of the best). Tino Mantella wanted a new challenge so he left TAG for Tier4 in January 2017.