Gregg Burkhalter “The LinkedIn Guy”, Jackie Davis of Georgia State University Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute, and Brad Taylor of Taylor Built Brands

April 24, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

North Fulton Business Radio

Gregg Burkhalter "The LinkedIn Guy", Jackie Davis of Georgia State University Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute, and Brad Taylor of Taylor Built Brands

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John Ray, Gregg Burkhalter, Jackie Davis, Brad Taylor

Gregg Burkhalter/”The LinkedIn Guy”

Gregg Burkhalter is a recognized authority on personal branding and LinkedIn. He has helped countless professionals in the U.S. and abroad define and grow their personal brand using LinkedIn.

Gregg spent the first part of his professional career behind the microphone at radio stations in Savannah, Jacksonville, Charleston, and Atlanta. Following his radio years, Gregg worked in national music marketing and distribution.

Today, Gregg is known by many as “The LinkedIn Guy”. He provides personal branding coaching and LinkedIn training via one-on-one and group training sessions, corporate presentations, and webinars. He is also a frequent speaker at civic and chamber events and area universities.

Jackie Davis/Georgia State University Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute

Jackie Davis is the Associate Director for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute (ENI) at Georgia State University’s (GSU) J. Mack Robinson College of Business where she contributes to the Institute’s vision, strategy, marketing, and co-curricular efforts. She is also the faculty advisor for GSU’s Chapter Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization (CEO) and the E-House Living Learning Community (LLC).

In her tenure with ENI, Jackie has helped grow Georgia State’s entrepreneurship programs beyond the classroom. She has established and overseen the planning and facilitation of over 30 co-curricular events a year that extend beyond the university’s academic programs in entrepreneurship. She also created the E-House LLC, and assisted in the development of the LaunchGSU Student Incubator. As an “intrapreneur”, Jackie enjoys building signature programs for the Georgia State community including, the WomenLead Center and the Women’s Mentoring Program.

Ms. Davis holds a M.Ed. and a B.A in Spanish and International Business from Georgia State University, and she is currently pursuing an M.B.A. at Georgia State.

Brad Taylor/Taylor Built Brands

Taylor Built Brands is a branding, marketing, and sales strategy consultancy based in Roswell. The founder Brad Taylor is a 30-year sales and marketing veteran who spent the last 24 years in marketing and sales leadership roles at The Coca-Cola Company. Prior to that, he gained valuable marketing experience at Pizza Hut and in the advertising agency industry. Brad has been thoroughly trained and has vast experience in consulting on all aspects of brand development/management, digital marketing, and sales management/business development. He is widely known as an “out-of-the-box” thinker and extremely easy to do business with. In addition to consulting small businesses, Brad also teaches branding and marketing classes at Emory University and Kennesaw State University. Brad can help you polish your brand and grow your business.

ITEN Wired Radio: Ep. 4-2018: Author Paul Carney-Moving Your Ash

April 23, 2018 by angishields

ITEN Wired Radio

ITEN Wired Radio: Ep. 4-2018: Author Paul Carney-Moving Your Ash

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Paul Carney/Author
Move Your AE

I help you take command of your career by showing you how to document and promote your full career value.

The “Æ” (pronounced “ash”) is the symbol that now represents the sum of your skills, talents, education, experiences, credentials and so much more about you. It represents your entire career value, not just a set of skills.

To get ahead in your job, or to get another job, you need to Know, Grow, and Show your career value, not just what is on a resume or your LinkedIn profile. Competition is tough out there, and without this knowledge, you will be left behind.

Buy “Move Your Æ (ash)” now on Amazon (paperback or Kindle):

http://bit.ly/MoveYourAshBook

Once you have started reading it (at least through Chapter 7), let’s connect and discuss. You will have a new view on your career at that point.

Bri Snellgrove
Marketing Well Played/Social Icon

My passion is business relations and I am what most call a, “marketing nerd.” To grow in any profession you have to READ, RESEARCH and ASK QUESTIONS. Never stop asking questions.

I’ve developed skills in several areas; Marketing, Communications, Branding, Advertising Campaigns, Social Media, Public Relations, Event Management, Project Management, Media Production, Journalism, Graphic Design and more.

Jim Rhodes/ITEN WIRED

The ITEN WIRED Team

ITEN WIRED is a conference hosted by IT Gulf Coast and Florida West Economic Development Alliance. The annual summit provides networking and learning opportunities for executives, entrepreneurs, technology professionals and academia to foster local economic development efforts surrounding innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.

The ITEN WIRED planning team is composed of volunteers from IT Gulf Coast, Florida West Economic Development Alliance, and other members of our local IT community.

Ebonie Carzo with Scrumptious Cakery

April 19, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

ePresence

Ebonie Carzo with Scrumptious Cakery

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Ebonie Carzo/Scrumptious Cakery

After working in corporate America for six years, Ebonie Carzo decided that to truly follow her passion of helping start-ups and small businesses become successful, she needed to subject herself to the emotional and physical joys and pains of running a small business. At the age of 29, Ebonie gave up her company car, gas card, health insurance, and steady income to start a social experiment of the entrepreneurial journey.

January 2018 marked Ebonie’s 4-year anniversary of operating Scrumptious Cakery fulltime. Scrumptious Cakery was awarded the “Couple’s Choice Award” as one of the best wedding cake bakeries in Atlanta for 2017 and 2018. She was voted to serve as the youngest Board Member with the DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce, and she sits as Madam Chair to the Young Professionals Committee for the chamber. She now has a wealth of knowledge and fire in her that she is sharing with entrepreneurs across the world.

Mark Galvin/ePresence

ePresence provides personal branding services for individuals, executives and entrepreneurs. They leverage social media on an individual level since that is where the audience is most engaged.

Mark Galvin, CEO and Founder of ePresence, is a personal social media expert with 29 years of business management and hotel industry experience including stops with Marriott, Hyatt, Omni and IHG.

Pensacola Business Radio: 3-18-18-Coconut Water and Hog Fest

April 18, 2018 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: 3-18-18-Coconut Water and Hog Fest

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Scott Bollinger/HogFest and Alex Hill/Emerald Coast Coconuts

The 14th Annual HOGFEST 
 will be held on 
 Saturday April 21, 2018 at 6:30 at the 
Pensacola Harley-Davidson dealership and will be another sellout.

If you haven’t been to HOGFEST –  PUT IT ON YOUR BUCKET LIST AND BUY YOUR TICKET FOR TWO TODAY!!
IF YOU HAVE, congratulations and we are looking forward to seeing you again this year.

What is HOGFEST?
Simply put, HOGFEST is a PARTY!
A PARTY that raises piles of money for carefully chosen local charities. 
The 2017 event donated over $25,000 to Pathways for Change, over $20,000 to ECARE, and over $7,500 to Capstone.
 
Where else can you spend $100 and have all of the following included in each ticket?

Admission for 2.
A chance to win a 2018 Harley Fat Boy valued at over $20,000.
Bottomless beer and wine garden.
Tasty food from over 15 local restaurants serving their signature dishes.
Live music for your dancing and listening enjoyment.
Bid on live and silent auctions win exciting items.
A 50/50 ticket drawing to win cash.
And much more !

Purchase your ticket for two today!
 ALL TICKETS PURCHASED AFTER 4/18/2018 WILL BE HELD FOR YOU
@  WILL CALL.
Call 850.206.4803 if questions

Purchase Your Ticket From NE Pensacola Sertoma

Alex Hill/ Emerald Coast Coconut
Army veteran. Serial entrepreneur. UWF student. 10X Ambassador

Alex Hill has a lovely bunch of coconuts, and you can too if you visit him at HarborWalk Village at his Emerald Coast Coconut stand.

Pensacola Business Radio: Women In Leadership Series Ep 5, Brought to you by Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast

April 13, 2018 by angishields

Stacey Kostevicki/Gulf Coast Kids House

I graduated from Florida State University with a BA and earned my MBA at the University of West Florida. My most recent job before accepting the Executive Director position at GCKH was at Studer Group. My heart has always been with not-for-profit organizations though and I have a decade of experience in this area. I have been with GCKH since December 2010. I serve as the President of the Florida Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers, a statewide membership organization representing all of the children’s advocacy centers in Florida. I am a proud Cordova Rotarian and United Way of Escambia County volunteer.

Leslie Donovan/ Gulf Coast Kids house

Prevention Coordinator

Leslie received a BS from Florida State University in Interpersonal Communication and Child Development and an MS from FSU in College Student Personnel Administration and Health and Wellness. For 17 years she worked at various colleges and Universities in Student Affairs. Positions include: Student Affairs Counselor and Coordinator of Orientation; Student Activities Director; Assistant Dean of Students; Wellness Coordinator; and Director of Orientation. Leslie also was a stay at home mom to her 4 kids for 12 years. Leslie is currently a Child Abuse Prevention Coordinator at GCKH and a Certified Yoga Instructor.

Her passion is protecting children and teens and empowering them to be safe and successful throughout life.

Joan Irby

Guardian ad Litem

Air Force brat from Atl. Went to the University of Ky (go Blue) , Business owner in Atl, Navarre/ Gulf Breeze area to raise my 3 kids the last 16 years and sell Real Estate. A man came to my church 6 years ago to talk about GAL and I started volunteering. I was so passionate about the program they offered me the Recruiting position 4 years ago. Took me a long time to find my calling but incorporated my Passion for orphans and at risk children and my sales background to replicate myself to bring other advocates in.

Kolleen Edwards Chesley has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and spent the majority of her career as a financial advisor. In that role, Kolleen was responsible for finding her own clients and quickly learned the value of networking, networking, and even more networking. It was in 2004 and during her sales career that she, along with two other professional business women met for lunch with the purpose of helping to motivate each other after Hurricane Ivan had blown through our area and changed not only the physical landscape of the area, but also impacted the business landscape as well. Out of that lunch was born what is now a thriving not-for-profit organization for business women.

Kolleen currently serves full-time as the Founding Director of what was originally called Women’s Business Lunch and is now known as Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast. The organization advocates a culture of confidence building, lifelong learning, collaboration, empowering others and a spirit of charitable giving.

The mission of Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is to promote, advance and improve women in business and the organization accomplishes these in a number of different ways.

– Monthly networking meetings in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze. These are open to all women and are free to attend. We run a structured meeting with open networking, an educational segment, a sponsor presentation, an opportunity to hear about the businesses of all attendees, and a whole lot of fun. We frequently hear from attendees that these meeting are chock full of value and a great way to build new relationships to help support their businesses. The Pensacola meetings include lunch paid for by our sponsors.

– Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast Magazine. We have produced 4 editions of this print magazine. Each edition features interviewees of local successful leaders in business who share their honest thoughts on leadership, success, obstacles, and inspiration as it relates to women in business. We also include other articles on leadership, networking, and other skill development. It is geared for anyone in business or looking for business motivation and tips. Our goal is for this to be a quarterly publication, however the magazine is currently on hold as we explore graphic designers. Our latest edition can still be found on our website.

– Annual Pursue Your Passion Women’s conference. To help celebrate National Business Women’s Week, we hold a full day conference during the third week of October along with several other events leading up to the conference. We feature a national keynote speaker, several local successful leaders in business, along with Speed Networking, an Experience Hall, structured and unstructured networking exercises and plenty of laughter, relationship building and excitement. Our attendees are not only motivated by the conference but they leave with tangible tips they can take back and implement in their businesses to lead them to success. For 2018, our conference will be held on Wednesday, October 17^th and Thursday, October 18^th, 2018 at Sanders Beach.

– Power Up Challenge is a 12 week educational series where we hold classes once a week for two hours. Classes focused around four main areas of business: Networking, Marketing, Business Efficiency, and Sales Skills. Open to men and women and all classmates receive the full audio recording of each class along with class notes, expanded notes, and extra resources. Remote classes also available. Classes are affordable and attendees are elated with the amount and quality of the information that is shared.

– Women in Leadership radio podcast show – sponsored by Pensacola Business Radio X. We hold monthly shows featuring local community leaders and other men and women in business. We engage our guests in conversational style in-depth interviews. They share their advice on topics such as mentoring, keys to success, time management tools, personal mantras and favorite inspirations, and what men can do to help support women in business.

– Membership in Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is also available.

Contact directors@powerfulwomengulfcoast.com for more information or visit our website at www.powerfulwomengulfcoast.com or Facebook at “Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast” for all of our meeting information.

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: Women In Leadership Series Ep 5, Brought to you by Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast

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TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Tiffany’s Visit to the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) Trade Show

April 6, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Tiffany's Visit to the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) Trade Show

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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

Pensacola Business Radio: David Bear and ACE, Vacation Artfully

April 6, 2018 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: David Bear and ACE, Vacation Artfully

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GET TO KNOW BEAUTIFUL PENSACOLA FLORIDA

Vacation Artfully is a national tourism campaign sponsored by the nonprofit organization Art, Culture, and Entertainment, Inc. (ACE), to highlight Pensacola, Fla. as one of the premier arts and culture coastal communities in the United States.

Pensacola is the “Festival City of the South” and home to the Pensacola Opera, Ballet Pensacola, Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, Live Theatre and the accredited Pensacola Museum of Art.

Visitors can experience a unique, diverse cultural experience year-round all within Pensacola’s historic downtown district. A thriving culinary scene, coupled with one of the most impressive art calendars in the country, have crowned Pensacola as the top cultural coastal destination in the South.

RHINO NATION Alex Schreck with Solvature Inc and Mindy Weinstein with Market MindShift

April 5, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

RHINO NATION Alex Schreck with Solvature Inc and Mindy Weinstein with Market MindShift

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RHINO NATION Alex Schreck with Solvature Inc and Mindy Weinstein with Market MindShift

Alex Schreck grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He played the violin and many sports with a focus on soccer. Since his parents moved to Wisconsin from Germany, he was involved in German societies as well. He still plays the drums for the Spielmannzug Milwaukee and represented them as Kinderprinz when he was younger.

After he graduated high school, he decided to attend Arizona State University and major in Kinesiology. While his sports background drew him towards health and fitness, half way through college he decided to change direction and start focusing on business. He started working for various internships with a sales and marketing focus. That experience lead him to doing business development for Solvature.

He decided to work for Solvature because of his excitement with the future of eCommerce. Any business that sells goods and services, whether it be B2C or B2b, technology needs to be leveraged to stay competitive and continue to achieve growth. His goal is to help companies achieve the highest possible results selling online.

With Solvature, you can grow, convert and gain trust from shoppers online. They understand the complexities of building and managing the best possible customer experience for eCommerce stores. They strive to empower your website’s performance to support your SEO, marketing and sales goals. With their Magento solutions, the growth potential of your eCommerce business is infinite.

Connect with Alex on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow Solvature on Facebook.

Mindy Weinstein is the founder and CEO of Market MindShift. Mindy is also a national speaker, trainer and digital marketing strategist. She has worked with and trained companies of all sizes, including Facebook, The Weather Channel, Rosetta Stone, Investor’s Business Daily, HBO, Fandango, Telemundo, LL Bean, Cisco, Transamerica and Sportsman’s Guide. Other digital marketing agencies come to Mindy to learn the latest trends, concepts and methodologies.

Market MindShift is a boutique digital marketing firm in Scottsdale, Arizona. Their team doesn’t consist of newbies who just joined the industry—on the contrary, they are veteran digital marketing specialists who have worked with both big and small brands and are contacted regularly to share their expertise at conferences and in online journals. They have helped brands go from little to no web traffic to thousands of visitors every month.

Connect with Mindy on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow Market Mindshift on Facebook.

ABOUT RHINO NATION

Rhino Nation is a growing community of influential entrepreneurs and small business owners that share a common trait, they don’t walk, they don’t run, they CHARGE to their destiny. We acknowledge and celebrate their business expertise, leadership and fearless attitude to be victorious in their goals. Rhino Nation is committed to making powerful connections and providing enhanced exposure to broaden the reach and promote the extraordinary talents of our community members.

ABOUT YOUR SPONSOR

Rhino Online Strategies & eCreativity helps you free up your precious and limited time, as a business owner, to do what you do best….running and growing your business. Michelle Faust and her team partner with you to identify your content and marketing needs and provide you with fresh, innovative, dynamic copy that will effectively reach your target market, leading to increased customer engagement, a higher conversion rate, and increased sales.

Great content becomes the seeds of a bountiful business harvest, so you can cultivate and grow your business. We take the time to personally understand you and your company’s purpose, so your marketing message reflects who you are and speaks directly to your target market. Let us join you as part of your team. We’ll partner with you to develop powerful messaging strategies.

We strive to create an expansive mindset through education, marketing content and access to a talented team of business consultants. Our mission is to deliver cutting edge entrepreneurial support by providing engaging targeted messaging along with online business education, ancillary business services, and enhanced exposure.

Michelle has an extensive background in sales, marketing and public speaking, primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. When she left her corporate career, she shifted into the entrepreneurial world, combining her experience, talents and passions to reinvent herself. As a marketer and copywriter, Michelle thrives on discovering what motivates people into action and what their key emotional triggers are. Michelle and her team create powerful and targeted messaging that improve conversion rates and increase sales. Michelle loves to connect people through the power and beauty of the written word. her passion is helping people create a road-map to success, so they can fulfill their dreams and live their destiny.

For more about Rhino Online Strategies & eCreativity find them at www.rhinostrategy.com, on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Pensacola Business Radio: Spot Light Episode-AIYANA VICTORIA MATHEWS/business development and global travel consultant

April 4, 2018 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: Spot Light Episode-AIYANA VICTORIA MATHEWS/business development and global travel consultant

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Biography – AIYANA VICTORIA MATHEWS

Aiyana Victoria Mathews is a business development and global travel consultant. Her frequent exploration of the road less-traveled, has nurtured her natural affinity for intercultural exchange, foreign languages and business acumen. Mathews incorporates this unique skill-set coupled with her extensive experiences into the operation of her business ventures including Gardner-Mathews Travel Concierge and Edgewood Associates.

Mathews received her Bachelor’s of Science from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) with a minor in Spanish and Latin American Literature. In 1999, she completed a research study at Chiba University (千葉大学).

After launching a career in the U.S., Mathews returned to Japan in 2007 to work for Japanese government spreading interculturalization. In 2009, Mathews was elected co-Director of the 2010 Miyagi Art & Culture Show, a prefectural-wide art exhibit in Sendai City. She began monthly programs which were attended by both Japanese nationals and residents. She also gained popularity through an online TV show called OnegaiLIVE. In 2010, Mathews received a National Award for a fusion work of Japanese & African art and her piece was on display at the National Kokeshi Museum in Naruko for one year.

During her journey, Mathew’s indubitable ability to foster relationships, structure teams and coordinate unique projects has made her a dynamic asset to both the private sector and non-profit world. Examples of her impactful creativity has resonated through many corporate and cultural events. One example, is evident during the time served on the Official Planning Committee of JapanFest. Another is the successful execution of the Florida-Japan Aerospace and Aviation Summit; with business matchmaking, sponsorship and marketing.

A native Atlantan, Mathews has spent most of her life exploring her interests in literature, culture, science, foreign languages and travel (having stamps on her passport from over 25 countries). Her interests also include photography, food and craft cocktails, horticulture and discovering new artists on Pandora.