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Michael Young and Drew Schildwachter, ConnectPay

May 4, 2020 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Michael Young and Drew Schildwachter, ConnectPay

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“North Fulton Business Radio,” Episode 227: Michael Young and Drew Schildwachter, ConnectPay

ConnectPay combines the best of first-name basis service with the latest payroll technology, offering reliable and quality payroll and HR services to small and medium-sized businesses. CEO Michael Young and COO Drew Schildwachter joined host John Ray to discuss the company’s growth and development. “North Fulton Business Radio” is produced virtually by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta.

ConnectPay

ConnectPay™ combines first-name-basis service with secure payroll technology designed to connect small businesses in all 50 states to the professionals they trust to manage their health benefits, insurance, retirement savings, accounting, and bookkeeping. The ‘connected model’ of payroll stands out in the belief that clients are often best served by maintaining relationships with their own trusted advisors.

The ConnectPay mission is to help their clients focus on their core business by reducing the time and resources required to complete their payroll and payroll taxes.

Formed in 2009, ConnectPay set out to do things differently from other online payroll programs. Founders Michael Young and Paul Altavena sought to create a payroll company that combined first-name-basis, localized expertise with innovative technology solutions—that specialized in servicing and growing small businesses.

ConnectPay has steadily built a reputation through flexible, responsive, and honest support of clients, without the upselling or pushed products of most of their competitors.

ConnectPay payroll acts as the centralized data hub, offering integrated support to accountants, brokers, and bookkeepers—or supplementing services through our own connected network of partners. Every client is matched to the best resources for their unique needs to drive efficiency, streamline workflows, and save them time and money.

Michael Young is the Co-Founder and CEO of ConnectPay. Drew Schildwachter serves as Chief Operating Officer. You can learn more about ConnectPay by visiting https://connectpayusa.com/.

The Atlanta representatives for ConnectPay are Tom Martin (email Tom) and Ella Carter (email Ella).

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

Overview of ConnectPay
“pay as you go” workers comp premiums while maintaining insurance broker relationship
impact of Covid-19 on the payroll business
Updating their system to handle FFCRA, CARES and the 7200
increased reporting requirements of PPP
ConnectPay HR Resource Center
Web store – CDC Handwash guidelines, Awareness & Prevention posters
Our best practice checklist can be downloaded
PPP Loans and the loan forgiveness
ConnectPay’s value proposition for clients
development of an interface with QuickBooks Online
Atlanta-area representatives Tom Martin and Ella Carter

North Fulton Business Radio” is produced virtually from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® 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, 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.

Mark McKenzie, Docqmax Digital Printing, and Tom Martin, ConnectPay

September 24, 2019 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Mark McKenzie, Docqmax Digital Printing, and Tom Martin, ConnectPay

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**John Ray, Tom Martin, and Mark McKenzie**

“North Fulton Business Radio,” Episode 166: Mark McKenzie, Docqmax Digital Printing, and Tom Martin, ConnectPay

Printing and payroll were on the docket for this edition of “North Fulton Business Radio” as we welcomed Mark McKenzie, Docqmax Digital Printing, and Tom Martin, ConnectPay. John Ray is the host of “North Fulton Business Radio,” broadcast from Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Mark McKenzie, Docqmax Digital Printing

Docqmax Digital Printing, Atlanta’s Business Printer since 1975. Brothers Mike, Rich and Mark Mckenzie are second generation business owners with a vast knowledge and experience of print, marketing and operating a successful business. Quite a bit has changed in the print industry and Docqmax Digital Printing and the McKenzie Brothers have changed along with the industry. By using their fully functional website and the tools it provides their clients are able to use the resources provided to create, order, track and ship all through their personal gateway. Using some of the industry’s leading digital equipment Docqmax is able to provide efficiencies with faster turnarounds, consistency in their clients’ brand, image and functional forms all while working within our clients budget and deadlines. We do all of this by helping our clients promote and market their Brand and Image by utilizing the various products and services we provide including, a fully functional website with web-to-print capability, full color print-on-demand digital printing, 2 color offset printing, big color wide format digital poster and banner printing. We provide products such as, variable data personalized printing, envelopes, letterhead, brochures, postcards, mailings, labels, catalogs, reports plus many other items businesses need to promote and run their companies.

For more information, you can visit the Docqmax website, or call Mark at 404-724-9963. Docqmax Digital Printing is located at 689 11th Street NW #B Atlanta, GA 30318.

Tom Martin, ConnectPay

Tom Martin is a CPA and a 23 year veteran of the payroll industry. ConnectPay offers a revolutionary way of doing your payroll by bringing in the right expert at the right time. They focus on customer service and technology so you can focus on your business. Many other payroll companies will say as much, and then claim to know all about changing health coverage, retirement savings intricacies, all while covering your business with insurance products at the same time. Overselling services they have no business tackling when buying these solutions individually from trusted advisors can lower your costs, increase coverage, and make your retirement savings go farther. Instead, ConnectPay acts as the glue that binds and integrates your payroll data with all of these additional services—utilizing either your trusted network, or introducing you to our cost saving partners. You wind up with the best of both worlds—ease of use combined with the best solution for your business. They provide a blend of human and technological support for a rapid and comprehensive response to help you achieve your goals. They’re not trying to up-sell, so we can provide recommendations that are tailored to your specific needs – not one solution for all. ConnectPay partners rather than competes with brokers to provide their clients with the best possible service and connections to support your business.

To be in touch with Tom directly, you can email or call 404-410-0031. ConnectPay is located at 2805 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Suite 214, Duluth, GA, 30097.

“North Fulton Business Radio” is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®, located inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. 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 approximately $12.9 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.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Kevin Ford & Stephanie Moyer with Insperity, Dave Wilkins with Maid Right of Duluth, and Sean George with the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

August 28, 2015 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Kevin Ford & Stephanie Moyer with Insperity, Dave Wilkins with Maid Right of Duluth, and Sean George with the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

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Sean George, Kevin Ford, Stephanie Moyer, Dave Wilkins, Mike Sammond

Kevin Ford & Stephanie Moyer/Insperity

More than 28 years ago, Insperity CEO Paul Sarvadi envisioned making business owners’ lives easier by taking HR and administrative burdens off their plates. So he decided to start a company with little more than 600 square feet of space and one telephone. Since then, Insperity has grown into a $2.3 billion debt-free company with 57 offices nationwide as a result of helping clients reach their goals.

Their business model is simple. They’re dedicated to helping businesses succeed by taking care of the things that could be distracting you from the bigger picture. They do this by helping you control expenses, minimize risk exposure, and maximize your opportunities for revenue generation. Through their flagship HR service, Insperity Workforce Optimization, they help you tackle healthcare reform. They also provide everything you need to grow your business, from large company benefits to payroll processing, while managing employer liability and compliance issues.

David Wilkins/Maid Right of Duluth

Maid Right of Duluth is a different type of home cleaning service. One big difference is that the Maid Right of Duluth cleaners are not hourly workers – they are the business owners. Take comfort in knowing the same reliable and trustworthy cleaning crew will clean on each visit. At Maid Right of Duluth, they customize a house cleaning plan to fit their clients’ unique needs and busy lifestyle. Personal attention to detail, a thorough cleaning regimen, and a commercially-tested process translates into superior maid services for your home. Maid Right of Duluth is proud to be a certified Trust Dale company

Sean George/Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce is to strengthen existing businesses, facilitate the growth of quality job opportunities, and enrich the community’s quality of life.

The Gwinnett Chamber serves over 2,000 members throughout metro Atlanta by delivering pertinent and useful programs that strengthen and connect businesses locally, regionally, and globally. The Gwinnett Chamber uses its strategic marketing and communications capabilities to support its members, promote its programs, and enhance economic development efforts.