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KSU Entrepreneurship Center Spotlight Episode “Shrimp Tank” on Atlanta Business Radio

December 2, 2015 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

KSU Entrepreneurship Center Spotlight Episode "Shrimp Tank" on Atlanta Business Radio

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About the Kennesaw State University Entrepreneurship Center

We believe that entrepreneurship has the power to change lives. Those who embrace an entrepreneurial mindset will make more money, be happier in life, and have better relationships.

L to R Chris Hanks, Rhonda Duffy, Frank Duffy, Ted Jenkin

Chris Hanks/ KSU EC

Christopher C. Hanks is the founder and executive director of the KSU Entrepreneurship Center. Prior to this, Hanks was the founder and director of the entrepreneurship program at the University of Georgia. He has owned multiple businesses, including music, e-commerce, publishing, and export ventures. He is also the co-author of a best-selling book on low risk entrepreneurship.

Hanks leads the International Entrepreneurship Institute and is certified in business valuation, providing expert witness testimony. Before teaching at UGA, Hanks taught entrepreneurship at Georgia State University and assisted in leading the Russell Center for Entrepreneurship. He earned a BBA from University of Georgia and an MBA from San Jose State University. Before launching his first business, Hanks held corporate risk management positions in the pharmaceutical and beverage industries.

Rhonda Duffy/Duffy Realty

Considered as a credible real estate expert and consumer advocate, Rhonda has been interviewed and published in hundreds of articles. She has been in the Wall Street Journal at least 20 times, on CNN, CNBC, on 4 major news channels, on Clark Howard’s Prime Time Real Estate special, quoted on MarketWatch and many, many publications.

Frank Duffy/Duffy Realty

Frank Duffy, co-owner of Duffy Realty of Atlanta, has been a home seller coach to over 20,000 Atlanta clients saving them millions in traditional agent fees.

Ted Jenkin/Oxygen Financial

Ted Jenkin has spent the past 22 years giving personal financial advice to thousands of people across the United States. After graduating from Boston College in 1991, Ted spent more than 16 years working for American Express Financial Advisors/Ameriprise Financial. He was one of the youngest people in the history of the company to reach both Field Vice President and Group Vice President level. He managed more than 800 financial advisors throughout 8 states in his last position with the company. He won the premier performer award, leader of the year award, and had the number one office in the country for more than two years in a row. In 2008, Ted founded oXYGen Financial to help revolutionize the financial services industry by creating a new company that focused on serving the X and Y Generation. oXYGen Financial now has more than 1,700 clients throughout 25 states across the country. Ted has been featured in over 25 magazines and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and The Huffington Post. He has six advanced designations from the College for Financial Planning (CFP®, CRPC®, CRPS®, AWMA®, AAMS®, CMFC®) and is an on air radio personality featured on the popular drive time Atlanta radio show The Rock 100.5 Morning Show on Rock 100.5 FM. Ted lives in Milton, GA with his wife Genna and three kids Olivia, Lyla, and Louden.

Ben Hendrick, Managing Director, Global Delivery – Enterprise Systems & Networking for the Dell Corporation

November 18, 2015 by angishields

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Booth 61 with Ricky Steele

Ben Hendrick, Managing Director, Global Delivery - Enterprise Systems & Networking for the Dell Corporation

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As always it was an honor and privilege to have Ben Hendrick join me in Booth 61 at the GCLA 2015 CIO of the Year breakfast. I met Ben in 2006 or 2007 while he was earning his MBA at Kennesaw State University. Ben and I became more than friends. Many call us Brothers from different Mothers. 🙂

I am in awe of what Ben has accomplished since joining Dell in 2009. Everyone knows who Michael Dell is and the great success of his company. In 2009, I did not know anyone who worked at Dell nor did I ever see anyone from Dell at industry events. Within a year of Ben joining the company he became the Face of Dell in Atlanta. There were not 10 CIO’s in Atlanta who could have given you the name of their sales executive from Dell in 2009. Today there is not a CIO in Atlanta who does not know and respect Ben Hendrick. Ben is the Face at TAG, TechBridge, WIT and so many other organizations in our community. The Dell After-Party at the annual Techbridge Digital Ball is legendary.

If you don’t know Ben Hendrick, I hope you will listen to this short interview and then connect with Ben on LinkedIn or other social media. You will connect with one of the greats!

Chris Arrendale of Inbox Pros and Andy Green with Kennesaw State University

September 23, 2015 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Chris Arrendale of Inbox Pros and Andy Green with Kennesaw State University

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Chris Arrendale/Inbox Pros

Inbox Pros is your partner in Email Deliverability. To this effort, they assist in evaluating mailing infrastructure set up, authentication, sender reputation, bounce and complaints management, list quality and permissions, domestic and international compliance, message content and delivery tracking. They also provide ISP remediation and outreach, domain specific volume and policy guidelines, and industry updates. Services include:

Deliverability Audits – This deliverability audit suits any client of any provider and will include a comprehensive report on the state of the ESP.
24/7 Monitoring & Alerting – Their monitoring alerts keep an eye on your email deliverability 24/7. These alerts monitor IP/domain blacklists, as well as IP/domain reputation.
Reporting & Analysis – They work with you to design custom reports for better overall email deliverability analysis.
Reputation Building – From IP warming plans to helping establish or rebuild your reputation, they are focused on achieving solid email deliverability.
IP & Domain Authentication – Making sure that you have the proper IP/domain authentication set up is a valuable piece to getting emails delivered.
Whitelisting Assistance – They look at your program and provide feedback on how to get white-listed with those ISPs and domains that accept white-listing.
Bounce Code Reasoning & Assistance – They analyze your bounces, determine the cause, and provide assistance on either suppression or getting those emails delivered.
Block Removal Assistance – ISP blocks can be difficult, but their consultants have expertise in working to get these blocks removed.

Andy Green/Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw State University is a comprehensive university recognized for its entrepreneurial spirit, global engagement and sense of community. As Georgia’s third-largest university and one of the fifty largest public universities in the country, Kennesaw State offers more than 100 undergraduate and graduate degrees, including an increasing number of doctoral programs. Kennesaw State is committed to becoming a world-class academic institution positioned to broaden its academic and research missions and expand its scope on a local, national and global level.