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LIVE from the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration: Shuntel Beach, King’s Ridge Christian School

September 7, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

LIVE from the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration: Shuntel Beach, King’s Ridge Christian School

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LIVE from the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration: Shuntel Beach, King’s Ridge Christian School (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 513)

Shuntel Beach is the Director of Admissions at King’s Ridge Christian School. While attending the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration, Shuntel sat down with host John Ray to discuss the work of King’s Ridge, the value of Chamber membership for the school, how and why King’s Ridge hosts the Chamber’s annual luncheon devoted to education, and much more.

This show was originally broadcast live from the Grand Opening celebration and ribbon cutting of the new offices of the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce at the 10000 Building at Avalon in Alpharetta, Georgia, on August 18, 2022.

North Fulton Business Radio is produced and broadcast by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

King’s Ridge Christian School

King’s Ridge Christian School is an exceptional place. But, among their strengths, several things set them apart.

First, this is a place of great intellectual activity and academic rigor. They seek to be the best in the world at providing a Christian college-preparatory program for students in grades Pre-K – 12, teaching students to view all learning through a Biblical template.

Second, they have a passion for bringing every student into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ while equipping our students with all excellence God calls them to do.

From its founding in 2001 until now, its enduring mission has been to be a Christian community providing a college preparatory education equipping students to know, to serve, and to believe in Christ.

Third, the school is preparing young men and women not just for college but also for life. They aim to educate, not indoctrinate. As a result, students have not only the freedom but also the encouragement to pursue knowledge and their giftedness and calling to the fullest extent possible.

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Shuntel Beach, Director of Admissions, King’s Ridge Christian School

Shuntel Beach is the Director of Admissions for King’s Ridge Christian School.

She is also a board member for the REACH Georgia Foundation, whose mission is to be the most effective champions for Georgia’s children in need and unlock the full potential of our future workforce.

Shuntel holds an MBA from Kennesaw State University and lives in Alpharetta, Georgia with her husband, Senator Brandon Beach.

Questions and Topics in the Interview:

King’s Ridge Christian School
Shuntel’s experience with GNFCC
Annual celebration of education in North Fulton

North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

Special thanks to A&S Culinary Concepts for their support of this edition of North Fulton Business Radio. A&S Culinary Concepts, based in Johns Creek, is an award-winning culinary studio, celebrated for corporate catering, corporate team building, Big Green Egg Boot Camps, and private group events. They also provide oven-ready, cooked-from-scratch meals to go they call “Let Us Cook for You.” To see their menus and events, go to their website or call 678-336-9196.

LIVE from the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration: Rory Robichaux, Sciera

September 6, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

LIVE from the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration: Rory Robichaux, Sciera

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LIVE from the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration: Rory Robichaux, Sciera (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 512)

Rory Robichaux of Sciera joined host John Ray LIVE from the Grand Opening Celebration of the new offices of the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce at Avalon. Rory discussed the work of Sciera, why he and his company are so involved with GNFCC, their sponsorship of Chairman’s Circle activities, and much more.

North Fulton Business Radio is produced and broadcast by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Sciera, Inc.

In late 2007, with the rapid explosion of publicly available information, Sciera’s two founders wondered, “What if this can be harnessed to answer the question, What Changed?” Using the then-nascent AWS (Amazon cloud), unstructured text mining, and advanced analytics, they set about creating a scalable framework to capture changes…which when combined with known client data, identifies triggers that initiate a buy journey.

Today Sciera is a team of Strategists, Analysts, Data Scientists and Technologists who provide answers to the most important marketing questions – Who, When, Where & Why.

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Rory Robichaux, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Sciera, Inc.

Rory Robichaux has been at the forefront of each technology revolution of the past 40+ years. He has led technology, strategic planning, design and development, data analytics, and sales and marketing teams across the technology industry. He has held leadership positions in major firms such as Coca-Cola, Sun Microsystems, and Deloitte Consulting, as well as created and built successful start-ups in industries ranging from transportation and entertainment to technology and financial services. He currently leads the sales and marketing functions of a global market intelligence firm headquartered in Atlanta.

Outside of his responsibilities with Sciera, Mr. Robichaux belongs to the Chambers of Commerce across the Atlanta region and is very involved in helping to lead and mentor a number of Rotary Clubs across the Atlanta area.

Questions and Topics in the Interview:

What Sciera does
Sciera’s involvement in the Chamber
The Chairman’s Circle

Kyle Waide, Atlanta Community Food Bank

September 2, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Kyle Waide, Atlanta Community Food Bank

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North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 511)

Kyle Waide, President and CEO of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, joined host John Ray on this edition of North Fulton Business Radio to discuss ACFB and its work across 29 Georgia counties. Kyle shared his background and the passion he developed at an early age for fighting food insecurity, the widespread support ACFB receives from corporate, small business, and individual donors, news of a $200,000 grant from Kroger to improve the organization’s technology capabilities, and much more.

North Fulton Business Radio is produced and broadcast by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Atlanta Community Food Bank

Atlanta Community Food Bank works with more than 700 nonprofit partners—including food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, shelters, and senior centers—to distribute over 67 million meals to more than 1 million people estimated to be food insecure due to COVID-19 in 29 counties across metro Atlanta and north Georgia.

They are a member of Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity.

Atlanta Community Food Bank partners with food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, night shelters, and senior centers that receive food and goods from us. In turn, these partners provide food and other critical resources for the more than 1 million people estimated to be food insecure due to COVID-19 in their service area who suffer from hunger and food insecurity.

Atlanta Community Food Bank’s mission is to fight hunger by engaging, educating, and empowering its community. While their core work is food distribution, their efforts extend far beyond that. Their mission is lived out every day by engaging, educating, and empowering both people in need and those who want to help. From volunteering to assisting people in finding economic security, the Atlanta Community Food Bank covers a wide range of opportunities for people to learn and get involved.

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Kyle Waide, President and CEO, Atlanta Community Food Bank

As President and CEO of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, Kyle Waide oversees the distribution of nearly 75 million pounds of food and grocery products each year through a network of 700 local and regional partner non-profit organizations that feed those in need across 29 Georgia counties.

Prior to being named CEO in June of 2015, Kyle served for three years as the Food Bank’s Vice President of Partner Operations, leading the organization to record-breaking years of food distribution to the hungry. Prior to joining the Food Bank, Kyle held several management roles at The Home Depot Inc. in disaster relief, corporate responsibility, community affairs and store operations. He also previously served as part of the management team that created and launched Charity Navigator, the nation’s premier charity evaluation service. Kyle is a graduate of Harvard University.

He currently serves as the Chair of the Southeast Regional Cooperative and the Vice Chair of the Georgia Food Bank Association. Kyle also is a member of the National Affiliate Council and the Policy, Education and Advocacy Committee for Feeding America, for which he also chairs the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee. He serves on the boards of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and Goodwill of North Georgia. He is a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2015, the Rotary Club of Atlanta, the Community Advisory Board for The Junior League of Atlanta, Inc., the Super Bowl LIII Host Committee Advisory Board, and the Committee For A Better Atlanta.

Kyle resides in Atlanta, GA with his wife, Christina, and their three children.

Questions and Topics in the Interview:

Who ACFB serves
The demand on the Food Bank as need increases
Kyle’s journey to ACFB
How the Food Bank and regional organizations intersect
Kroger’s involvement and their recent contribution
Georgia Accounting Food Fight

Corporate Buyers Can Be Driven By Emotion, Too

September 1, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Studio

Corporate Buyers Can Be Driven By Emotion, Too

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Corporate Buyers Can Be Driven By Emotion, Too

You might assume, if you’re a consultant or some other professional services provider looking to do business with a major corporation, that that corporate buyers make decisions based on “logic,” not emotion. You might assume that the decision always comes down to price. If that’s what you assume, then listen to this story behind the phrase “nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM.”

The Price and Value Journey is presented by John Ray and produced by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®.

TRANSCRIPT

John Ray: [00:00:00] Hello. I’m John Ray on The Price and Value Journey. Years ago, there were two major mainframe computer manufacturers. Those were in the days when mainframe computers were a big deal. IBM and Amdahl were the two players in the market. Of course, IBM was the market leader by far and away. And Amdahl was the upstart competitor.

John Ray: [00:00:28] Well, in those days there was a mantra among chief information officers of major companies that said, No one ever got fired for hiring IBM. You see, even if as a CIO, you believe that an Amdahl mainframe offered faster performance at a lower cost than the IBM equivalent. As a CIO, you were reluctant to propose a multimillion dollar corporate commitment to what was regarded as the upstart.

John Ray: [00:01:00] A choice for IBM was the safe, understandable decision. If you advocated Amdahl, on the other hand, your own decision making ability might be questioned. If something went seriously wrong, that Amdahl decision you’d promoted might necessitate an updated resume.

John Ray: [00:01:22] Decisions in favor of Big Blue were routinely made in corporate America in those days, even though IBM was invariably the more expensive choice. Why then, professional services provider, would you assume that enterprise buyers of your services are “more logical” than individuals and that with big companies it’s all about “price”?

John Ray: [00:01:48] I’ve heard this one more than a few times from professional services providers, like consultants, who work with major corporations. Corporate buying decisions, folks, are no different in this regard than choices of individuals. They are driven by both tangible and intangible considerations. In the IBM/Amdahl case, the intangibles of fear and risk avoidance routinely overcame “logical” price considerations.

John Ray: [00:02:22] For you as a professional services provider, it’s not a question of right or wrong or that big companies are dumb. Understand that uncertainty and fear are powerful emotions, which are invariably a factor in every buying decision, whether individual or corporate.

John Ray: [00:02:42] The question you need to answer objectively is whether you’re a safe choice or a risky choice. Is what you offer that buyer one that’s easier to justify if something goes wrong later? Is there a smaller downside? Do you help that buyer avoid or minimize risk? If so, you’re offering value. And that value, as IBM routinely proved in the salad days of mainframes, is worth a premium price.

John Ray: [00:03:16] I’m John Ray on The Price and Value Journey. Past episodes of this series can be found at pricevaluejourney.com. And feel free to email me if you’d like, john@johnray.co. Thank you for joining me.

About The Price and Value Journey

The title of this show describes the journey all professional services providers are on: building a services practice by seeking to convince the world of the value we offer, helping clients achieve the outcomes they desire and trying to do all that at pricing which reflects the value we deliver.

If you feel like you’re working too hard for too little money in your solo or small firm practice, this show is for you. Even if you’re reasonably happy with your practice, you’ll hear ways to improve both your bottom line as well as the mindset you bring to your business.

The show is produced by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® and can be found on all the major podcast apps. The complete show archive is here.

John Ray, Host of The Price and Value Journey

John Ray The Price and Value Journey — **John Ray, Host of “The Price and Value Journey”**

John Ray is the host of The Price and Value Journey.

John owns Ray Business Advisors, a business advisory practice. John’s services include advising solopreneur and small professional services firms on their pricing. John is passionate about the power of pricing for business owners, as changing pricing is the fastest way to change the profitability of a business. His clients are professionals who are selling their “grey matter,” such as attorneys, CPAs, accountants and bookkeepers, consultants, marketing professionals, and other professional services practitioners.

In his other business, John is a Studio Owner, Producer, and Show Host with Business RadioX®, and works with business owners who want to do their own podcast. As a veteran B2B services provider, John’s special sauce is coaching B2B professionals to use a podcast to build relationships in a non-salesy way which translate into revenue.

John is the host of North Fulton Business Radio, Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Radio, Alpharetta Tech Talk, and Business Leaders Radio. house shows which feature a wide range of business leaders and companies. John has hosted and/or produced over 1,500 podcast episodes.

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Navigating A Recession

August 31, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Studio

Navigating A Recession

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Navigating A Recession

It’s a mistake to do business planning based on the predictions of economists. A better approach to navigating a recession, or any other economic environment for that matter, is to stay close enough to your clients to understand the value they perceive in your service. More in this episode.

The Price and Value Journey is presented by John Ray and produced by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®.

TRANSCRIPT

John Ray: [00:00:00] Hello. I’m John Ray on The Price and Value Journey. Navigating a recession or any other major economic event, for that matter, there’s lots of talk right now about recession and some conflicting views about whether we’re in one. Paul Samuelson, a Nobel Prize winner in economics, wrote that the stock market had predicted nine of the past five recessions. What he failed to point out is that economists have a similar track record, if not worse.

John Ray: [00:00:34] Asking whether we’re in a recession to determine what business moves to make in our individual businesses is the wrong question. The better consideration each of us must weigh is whether our clients perceive value which is in excess of the price they pay us for our services. When there’s a major economic shift, business owners face what you might call a value decision point on everything that they buy.

John Ray: [00:01:02] They’ll reassess their perception of the value they think they are receiving from the goods and services they purchase and compare that new perceived value to the price they’re paying. These value decision points come repeatedly over the life of a client relationship. Sometimes without us as service providers even knowing it’s happened.

John Ray: [00:01:26] Value decision points most certainly occur in a down cycle of business conditions, but they occur across the spectrum of macroeconomic events, whether it’s a recession, an inflationary period, a pandemic, or when the pendulum swings back toward prosperity. Sometimes value decision points result in changes to client perception of value, which are very minor. Other times, of course, they can be momentous, or, often, they are somewhere in between. Shifts at the micro level bring business owners to a value decision point as well.

John Ray: [00:02:04] One example is when you announce a price increase. The business owner or manager will naturally assess whether the value they believe they are receiving from the professional relationship they have with you still exceeds the new higher price. Another example is when there’s a service offering change, such as a change in personnel that are doing the work. It could also be that the micro level change has nothing to do with you, such as when there’s been a major internal blow to the business.

John Ray: [00:02:36] If you’re a solopreneur or a small firm professional services firm owner, the question is not whether we’re in a recession. The question for you is whether your client’s perception of the value they receive from your firm remains more than what you’re being paid. And that’s always the question in all economic cycles.

John Ray: [00:03:00] I’m John Ray on The Price and Value Journey. Past episodes of this series can be found at pricevaluejourney.com. If you’d like to connect with me directly with an email, send me a note, john@johnray.co. Thank you for joining me.

About The Price and Value Journey

The show is produced by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® and can be found on all the major podcast apps. The complete show archive is here.

John Ray, Host of The Price and Value Journey

John Ray is the host of The Price and Value Journey.

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Raising Prices is Not Just About Making More Money

August 30, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Studio

Raising Prices is Not Just About Making More Money

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Raising Prices is Not Just About Making More Money

No, contrary to what some might think, raising prices is not just about making more money. For small and medium-sized business owners, better pricing allows for reinvestment in the business which benefits employees and clients.

The Price and Value Journey is presented by John Ray and produced by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®.

TRANSCRIPT

John Ray: [00:00:00] Hello. I’m John Ray on The Price and Value Journey. Raising prices is not just about making more money. Occasionally, I run into people who, in a bad attempt at humor, tell me that I’m contributing to the inflation problem because of my encouragement to professional services firm owners to tend to their pricing. I also get a few who, in a backhanded way, accused me of giving license to business owners to be “greedy”. That’s a big load of buffalo bagels, folks, and that’s as kind as I can be about it.

John Ray: [00:00:36] What the uninformed don’t realize, or sometimes they don’t choose to understand, is that arguably the biggest challenge small business owners face, and particularly professional services providers who are pricing what’s between their ears, is adequately pricing their product or service. Because of this struggle, the entire business suffers. Because of inadequate pricing, employees don’t get the raises they should receive leading to unnecessary turnover.

John Ray: [00:01:09] The business itself doesn’t get the cash flow needed for reinvestment to improve customer experience or add client benefits. There’s not enough financial flexibility to allow the business owner to work on the business instead of in it. Maybe, most important, the business owner suffers personally. They experience a high stress level, which, untended, leads to burnout, problems at home, and worse.

John Ray: [00:01:38] Small business owners are not like a corporate behemoth squeezing out every little penny possible, such as the one with a website in which you’ll go check out an item, come back a few minutes later to buy, and you’ll find the price has gone up a few dollars because your online behavior that they’re tracking surreptitiously predicts that you’re ready to buy.

John Ray: [00:01:59] I talked to one of my clients recently about this subject. He said something that I love, that one of the benefits of better pricing is that you fall in love with the business all over again. I just love that. He went on to talk about how the stress of business ownership gets lowered. You create a better life and you get time back. We talked about how time is a vanishing asset which can never be replaced.

John Ray: [00:02:28] In reflecting on our conversation later, I also thought about giving back. Small business owners overall are extraordinarily generous. They come at life wanting to help people and solve their problems. This characteristic extends over to their community involvement. They love being able to give back. Many owners I know put funding a cause important to them high on the list of reasons for leaving corporate to start their own business.

John Ray: [00:02:58] Sure, there are some bad actors among small business owners, but I find they’re the exception. The preponderance of small business owners I know, if anything, are too selfless. And that’s one reason I’m passionate about pricing.

John Ray: [00:03:15] I’m John Ray on The Price and Value Journey. Past episodes of the series can be found at pricevaluejourney.com. And if you’d like to send me a note, you can email me, john@johnray.co. Thank you for joining me.

About The Price and Value Journey

The show is produced by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® and can be found on all the major podcast apps. The complete show archive is here.

John Ray, Host of The Price and Value Journey

John Ray is the host of The Price and Value Journey.

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LIVE from the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration: Jon-Paul Croom, Wellstar North Fulton Hospital

August 29, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

LIVE from the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration: Jon-Paul Croom, Wellstar North Fulton Hospital

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North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 506)

Jon-Paul Croom, President of Wellstar North Fulton Hospital, joined John Ray to chat about the grand opening celebration for the new offices of GNFCC at Avalon, the recent improvements at Wellstar North Fulton including the new CyberKnife®, Wellstar North Fulton’s support of GNFCC, and more.

North Fulton Business Radio is produced and broadcast by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Equipped with the latest technology and medical expertise, Wellstar North Fulton Hospital is committed to delivering quality, personalized care, tailored to you. Wellstar North Fulton is a Level II Emergency Cardiac Care Center, Level II Trauma Center, and Joint Commission Primary Stroke Center.

From their convenient Roswell location, Wellstar North Fulton Hospital offers the most advanced stroke care and leading therapies, specializing in complicated and complex cases. Count on their dedicated neuro team, state-of-the-art imaging technologies, and neuro-trained intensive care unit (ICU), to treat all types of strokes, including ischemic strokes, intracerebral hemorrhages, and subarachnoid hemorrhages.

Wellstar North Fulton’s team of neurosurgeons, neurocritical care physicians, and neuroradiologists perform thrombectomies, aneurysm treatments, and cerebral bypass procedures. In addition, our dedicated hybrid neurovascular suite is equipped with innovative bi-plane technology. This allows neurosurgeons to view highly detailed images of brain vessels, so our experts can customize treatments in real-time. That means you don’t have to go far for expert stroke treatment.

From diagnostic testing to life-saving emergency care to physical rehabilitation, Wellstar North Fulton Hospital provides comprehensive stroke care so you can get back to life, faster.

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Jon-Paul Croom, FACHE, President of WellStar North Fulton and SVP at WellStar Health System

Jon-Paul Croom is President of Wellstar North Fulton and joined the hospital in 2017.

Croom previously served as CEO of the 429-bed Central Mississippi Medical Center (CMMC) in Jackson, Miss. At CMMC, Croom was regarded as a team builder, using daily team huddles focused on delivering care that exceeded patient expectations while working to improve access to needed services. Croom opened the only burn center in Mississippi and increased the availability of inpatient psychiatric services at the facility.

Croom was also CEO for Merit Health Rankin in Brandon, Miss., chief operating officer for Clearview Regional Medical Center in Monroe, Ga., and chief operating officer for Roxborough Memorial Hospital in Philadelphia. Additionally, he served on the board of the Mississippi chapter of March of Dimes.

Croom received his bachelor’s degree from Mercer University, in Macon, Ga., and a master’s degree in both business administration and health administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Jon-Paul lives in Roswell with his wife and three children.

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

Wellstar North Fulton’s recent improvements
The addition of the CyberKnife®
Wellstar North Fulton’s involvement with GNFCC
Chamber luncheons

A Short Comment on Proposals

August 29, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Studio

A Short Comment on Proposals

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A Short Comment on Proposals

In this episode of “The Price and Value Journey,” John Ray notes that well-crafted proposals are focused on what successful outcomes for the client look like, not the tasks necessary to achieve those results.

The Price and Value Journey is presented by John Ray and produced by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®.

TRANSCRIPT

John Ray: [00:00:00] Hello. I’m John Ray on The Price and Value Journey. In your proposals, how do you address what success looks like? Or do you even define success? If the answer involves all the tasks that you will complete as part of the engagement, then your proposal risk falling flat and positioning you as a commodity.

John Ray: [00:00:25] Success in a proposal needs to be client-focused, outcome-focused, not focused on you as the services provider. But you might say the client needs to know all the steps involved. Well, no. The typical client doesn’t want to know how the sausage is made. They may not even care whether the meal is sausage or fish. They just want the hunger pangs to go away.

John Ray: [00:00:55] The success metrics you detail in a proposal need to be both tangible and intangible. Those metrics flow from an in-depth value conversation, one in which you’ve allowed the client to dream aloud as to what their significantly improved life will look like as you perform your transformational work. Those tangibles should be as specific as you can get them. Instead of more sales, it should be sales will rise 50 to 90 percent.

John Ray: [00:01:29] Intangibles should be both business and personal. On the business side, for example, detail what happens because of that sales increase, such as greater cash flow, which allows a debt paydown or the ability to add much needed staff. On the personal side, the effect of those increased sales could mean less worry, more family time, or a happier spouse. If you define success in your engagement from the client’s point of view, then you’ll be clearly articulating the value you deliver and you’ll be able to price more effectively.

John Ray: [00:02:08] I’m John Ray on The Price and Value Journey. Past episodes of this series can be found at pricevaluejourney.com. And you’re welcome to send me a note, john@johnray.co. Thank you for joining me.

About The Price and Value Journey

The show is produced by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® and can be found on all the major podcast apps. The complete show archive is here.

John Ray, Host of The Price and Value Journey

John Ray is the host of The Price and Value Journey.

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Business RadioX®: LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

LIVE from the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration: Kali Boatright, Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce

August 22, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

LIVE from the GNFCC Grand Opening Celebration: Kali Boatright, Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce

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North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 503)

The Greater North Fulton Chamber (GNFCC) recently celebrated their move to 10000 Avalon with a day-long grand opening and ribbon cutting celebration. During the event, President and CEO Kali Boatright sat down with host John Ray to reflect on the process of finding the space, making the investment in their members, celebrating with the community, and much more.

North Fulton Business Radio is produced and broadcast by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce is to be the recognized leader in its region for business growth, talent development and regional prosperity.

The Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce is a private, nonprofit, member-driven organization comprised of over 1,200 business enterprises, civic organizations, educational institutions, and individuals. Its service area includes Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Milton, Mountain Park, Roswell and Sandy Springs. GNFCC is the leading voice on economic development, business growth and quality of life issues in North Fulton County.

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Kali Boatright, President and CEO, GNFCC

Kali Boatright joined the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce as President and CEO in 2018. As an expert in nonprofit management and a proven leader in organizational growth and strategy execution, she is most proud of her history of growing individuals on her team and collaboration with similar mission-driven organizations. Prior to taking the helm at GNFCC, she served as the CEO of the Douglas County Chamber of Commerce from 2004-2018 and before that as Chief Operating Officer of the Golden Key International Honour Society.

Boatright is a graduate of the US Chamber’s Institute for Organizational Management and is a Georgia Certified Chamber Executive. In addition, she serves as chair of the Georgia Chamber Federation on the Georgia Chamber Board of Directors, as an executive board member of the Regional Business Coalition, as a board member of Tech Alpharetta and as past Chair of the Georgia Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives.

In 2017, Boatright was honored by the chamber industry when she received the Georgia Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Legacy Award. As the association’s most prestigious award, it recognizes long-term executives who have excelled over a period of years in leading and innovatively building their Chamber. The award is based on the demonstration of excellence in areas of chamber leadership, organizational management, service to the profession, community reputation/involvement, and personal attributes.

Kali is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She and her high school sweetheart David have recently become empty nesters with their oldest adulting ITP and only their youngest, a sophomore at Georgia Tech, remaining on payroll. David is a Chemistry Teacher at Cambridge HS in Alpharetta, Georgia.