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SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Skot Waldron with Skotwaldron.com, Allen Read with M3, and Steve Phillips with Northwest Exterminating

August 15, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Skot Waldron with Skotwaldron.com, Allen Read with M3, and Steve Phillips with Northwest Exterminating

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Skot Waldron, Allen Read, Steve Phillips, Al Simon

Skot Waldron/Skotwaldron.com

For the past 18 years, Skot Waldron’s work for clients such as J.P. Morgan Chase, CDC, Georgia Tech, Royal Caribbean, Sesame Workshop, Chiquita, and The Coca-Cola Company has included national and international branding campaigns as well as positioning, naming, corporate identity development, video, web, print, trade show, digital marketing, and event design, and communication development.

His focus is on small businesses and entrepreneurs, and how he can use his extensive experience and a proven process to help them clarify their positioning, develop a clear brand strategy, and build a “brand first” mentality in everything they do.

In addition to running his own agency, Skot has been teaching branding and design at the Portfolio Center. Skot has also traveled to different cities in the U.S. to conduct communication workshops, and speaks about how the value of branding pertains to us as individuals, families, and businesses.

Allen Read/M3

Built by hoteliers, exclusively for hoteliers, M3 is a powerful cloud-based financial platform and services company serving the hospitality industry that drives cost savings, revenue enhancement and business insight. After 20 years in business without increasing prices, M3 has added customers and properties every single month and is expected to add the 6,000th property using one or more of M3’s solutions before the end of this year (2019). Used by management groups and hotels of all sizes, the platform works seamlessly with other key systems and tools in the hospitality industry and offers robust accounting and financial analysis across entire portfolios with optional operations and time management features. M3’s professional services team provides on-demand support for hotels of any size by offering a full range of customized accounting solutions to scale with a hotel’s needs. Privately held and employee owned, M3 also includes a proprietary hotel benchmarking index that combines data from thousands of properties into a single accessible data set to compare hotel financial performance.

Steve Phillips/Northwest Exterminating

Northwest Exterminating was founded in 1951 by L.A. and Emma Lene Phillips. The company was founded on the values of honesty, integrity, and excellence, and it is now in its 3rd generation of the Phillips’ family leadership. Northwest Exterminating has grown to include over 600 teammates in 27 service centers across five states, with a focus on providing green solutions for pests, termites, lawns, mosquitoes, wildlife, and insulation. Their goal is to create healthier living and working environments while keeping to their “Customers for Life” motto. Northwest Exterminating has been recognized as one of the AJC’s Top Workplaces for 7 consecutive years.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Armand Hammer with Candy Mountain Sweets & Treats and Chris Maier with Green Circle Demolition

July 18, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Armand Hammer with Candy Mountain Sweets & Treats and Chris Maier with Green Circle Demolition

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Chris Maier, Bob Davis, Armand Hammer, Al Simon

Armand Hammer/Candy Mountain Sweets & Treats

Candy Mountain Sweets & Treats has been making kid’s candy for over 25 years utilizing the Too Tarts brand name. The appeal of healthy candy for kids became apparent to Armand Hammer, the president and CEO of the company. The sugar was removed from all the candy offerings in 2004. The reception from consumers was immediate and overwhelming. Too Tarts candy helped spearhead sour candy becoming a major category in the kid’s candy market, making Too Tarts candy an instant success.

Too Tarts candy is no longer considered a novelty candy and is currently a staple component in the candy market. Linear inch for linear inch, Too Tarts candy has been proven to be one of the most profitable items on the retailer’s candy shelves and has continuously enjoyed unsurpassed success. Since Too Tarts candy is made in the USA – and considering its health benefits – Too Tarts would be an instant winner for any distributor or retailer.

Chris Maier/Green Circle Demolition

Green Circle Demolition bring over 50 years of demolition and environmental experience ranging from a single-story home to industrial decommissioning of process equipment and facilities. Green Circle provides owners and general contractors with a trusted partner and environmentally aware alternative to traditional demolition means and methods.

Green Circle Demolition now operates multiple stand-alone verticals that support and enhance the demolition operations, including waste hauling, concrete crushing, and Browns Mill Recycling, a full-service ferrous and non-ferrous recycling center. The addition of these sister companies allows Green Circle to provide a robust, turnkey proposal.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Alexandra Radford with The Edge Agency and Joyce Bone with Anxiety-Free Selling

June 17, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Alexandra Radford with The Edge Agency and Joyce Bone with Anxiety-Free Selling

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Alexandra Radford, Al Simon and Joyce Bone

Alexandra Radford/The Edge Agency

The Edge Agency brings peace to like-minded business professionals through a marketing partnership, creating and overseeing your brand, design and marketing strategy.

Alexandra Radford creates marketing plans and implements business strategies that bring attention and awareness to your business through networking opportunities, one-on-one client appointments, industry involvement, and public speaking to target audiences. These avenues serve to increase brand awareness, generate buzz and create opportunities for collaboration and growth.

Joyce Bone/Anxiety-Free Selling

Imagine selling without anxiety, without stress, and with no resistance to prospecting, following up, negotiating, or closing. What would stronger financial results do for you? A life without prospecting stress and more wins is possible. Most salespeople feel anxiety sometimes. Anxiety-Free Selling melts away any hesitancy to take the necessary daily actions resulting in you hitting your financial goals. No more missed forecasts!

Anxiety-Free Selling was developed by a salesperson like you who figured out how to overcome sales anxiety becoming a top salespeople as a result. Because of her success in overcoming sales anxiety, Joyce Bone decided to develop a program to help others overcome their anxiety so they too can flourish.

With persistence, the right mindset and focus any salesperson can crush their sales goals!

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Mark Galvin with ePresence, Tim Fulton with Small Business Matters, and Caleb Stevens with Corners Outreach

May 16, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Mark Galvin with ePresence, Tim Fulton with Small Business Matters, and Caleb Stevens with Corners Outreach

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Mark Galvin, Tim Fulton, Caleb Stevens, Al Simon

Mark Galvin/ePresence

ePresence launches and manages your personal social media. ePresence, is a professional social media management firm for individuals. Mark and his team take care of YOUR online personality, so you do not have to. There are many people who do not have the time, know how, or desire to do this today? But it is important to have your profiles and activity optimized so you always look your best. You never know when a future boss, a potential client/customer, or important peer lands on your profile. ePresence keeps your feeds active and clean up profiles, so you ALWAYS look your best.

Mark Galvin is the Founder and CEO of ePresence. In addition to growing ePresence, Mark is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, podcaster and host of “How’s your ePresence?” on Business RadioX, and a LinkedIn and branding consultant.

Tim Fulton/Small Business Matters

With over 30 years of experience, Small Business Matters (SBM) brings a results-based approach to each and every client. Whether your business has been established for 50 years or 50 days, they are passionate about helping you achieve your goals and mission.

Small Business Matters was established in 1994 as an independent management consulting and training practice. The primary goal of SBM is to increase the effectiveness and enhance the lives of CEO’s. Since its existence, Small Business Matters has worked with companies such as Lucent Technologies, Carlson Companies, CB Richard Ellis Real Estate Services, Inc. (formerly Insignia/ESG, Inc.), and Georgia Power.

Small Business Matters is owned and operated in Atlanta, Georgia by Tim Fulton. Tim is a nationally-recognized small business coach, consultant, and advocate. He has been involved in the field of entrepreneurship for over three decades as a successful business owner, small business counselor, and adjunct university professor.

Tim is currently a Vistage Group Chair in Atlanta. Vistage is an international membership organization for company CEO’s and Presidents that provides a very unique growth experience for its members. In addition, Tim is a facilitator for the University of Georgia SBDC’s GrowSmart training program, which is designed for growth-oriented small business owners, operators, and executives.

Caleb Stevens/Corners Outreach

Corners Outreach began in 2012 by partnering with a local elementary school and working in the neighborhood of the students who have the greatest academic need.

Their focus of helping children in their community with better education grew to include bettering home life by helping their parents get better jobs. Because they focus in Title 1 schools, many of their 600 students live in trauma caused by low income, language, transportation, multiple families dwellings and immigration.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Lorraine Edwards with Lorraine Communications, Inc.

April 18, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Lorraine Edwards with Lorraine Communications, Inc.

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Lorraine Edwards/Lorraine Communications

Lorraine Communications is a strategic communications company. They apply integrative and often non-traditional approaches to solve client communications and marketing issues with work based on extensive research and detailed measurement of results. They focus on complicated subjects and complex situations and frequently work in areas often overlooked by other agencies, such as mid-sized markets and under served populations.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Rich Bartolotta with Schooley Mitchell Atlanta and Jeff Waller with 7 Mindsets

March 28, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Rich Bartolotta with Schooley Mitchell Atlanta and Jeff Waller with 7 Mindsets

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Rich Bartolotta/Schooley Mitchell Atlanta

Businesses are bombarded with offers on the latest technology, service or application every day. That’s why Rich Bartolotta of Schooley Mitchell helps his clients make sense of their merchant services, telecom, and small-package shipping expenses, allowing them to receive independent, objective advice that reduces their expenses by an average of 28%. One unique benefit of Rich’s offering is that he works on a performance-fee basis, meaning his fee is a share of the savings he generates. Business owners take no risk in working with Schooley Mitchell. At Schooley Mitchell, they’ve helped over 18,000 clients realize over $320 million in savings.

Jeff Waller/7 Mindsets

Combining elements of relationship-based teaching and social-emotional learning, the 7 Mindsets distills extensive research on the nature of happiness and success into tools that provide a new language and operating system for schools and classrooms. With multiple courses of flexible, age-appropriate online curriculum for elementary, middle and high school, 7 Mindsets for schools is an easy-to-implement, transformational program that has been established in 22 U.S. states.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Wes Littlejohn with Marathon Financial Strategies and Derek Harp with The CyberList

February 21, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Wes Littlejohn with Marathon Financial Strategies and Derek Harp with The CyberList

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Wes Littlejohn/Marathon Financial Strategies

Wes has been in the financial services industry since 1996. He began his career providing audit and tax services, including jobs at Ernst and Young and The Coca-Cola Company. For over 14 years he has focused on providing financial planning services to individuals, families and small businesses. Wes believes in a long-term approach and values ongoing, trusting relationships. As a CFP® and CPA, Wes is qualified with the knowledge and capabilities to help clients with their investment and retirement planning needs. With his comprehensive education to handle all aspects of a person’s financial situation, Wes strives to design strategies designed to fit each client’s personal situation. For more info visit marathonfinancialstrategies.com

Derek Harp/The CyberList

The CyberList offers cyber security assessment services, training and a referral service to trusted third parties who can get appropriate cybersecurity work done for business leaders who generally do not have those contacts themselves. When you subscribe to The CyberList, you harness the best in the business who each have decades of experience with large and small companies alike in providing guidance and support in incident response, threat mitigation, penetration testing, business continuity planning, disaster recovery, employee awareness training, enterprise resource planning and more. Founded by Derek Harp, a former US Navy officer, serial entrepreneur of 25 plus years, a trusted leader in the field of cybersecurity and a founder of multiple SMB companies himself, The Cyber List allows you to gain access to balanced counsel and expert insights in all areas of cybersecurity.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Patrick Sutton of Milner, Inc.; Rob Otersen of SPATCO Energy Solutions; and Todd McCarty of WSI Marketing Upside

November 26, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Patrick Sutton of Milner, Inc.; Rob Otersen of SPATCO Energy Solutions; and Todd McCarty of WSI Marketing Upside

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Patrick Sutton, Rob Otersen, Al Simon, Todd McCarty

Patrick Sutton/Milner, Inc.

For decades Milner, Inc. has assisted businesses to improve efficiency and productivity, streamline operations and stay competitive. Their integrated use of the latest equipment and technology, tailored software, and business process changes has made Milner an industry leader. From the mailroom to the boardroom, Milner can help you reach your goals. They are in the business of understanding your business, and their expertise can be the difference between an office of yesterday or a business of the future. Their team looks forward to working with you to find business solutions that will ensure your success.

Rob Otersen/SPATCO Energy Solutions

SPATCO Energy Solutions is a supplier of liquid handling equipment, installation, and service in the petroleum, industrial, natural gas, and DEF markets. SPATCO was built on service and it is certainly their biggest strength today. They understand that downtime is lost revenue. That’s why they do everything possible to keep your facility pumping. They have certified technicians near your sites who receive on-going training on industry standards and best practices. They have quick access to the parts you need in order to correct pumping issues and provide other services in the least amount of time, and as economically as possible. With over 130 technicians in the southeast, SPATCO is the ideal partner for all of your petroleum needs.

Todd McCarty/WSI Marketing Upside

The purpose of WSI Marketing Upside is to help clients understand their return on marketing investment so they don’t believe that half of their money is wasted. They do this by helping clients connect the dots from marketing activities like website visits to outputs such as leads to business outcomes such as revenue, profit and market share using marketing technology and digital marketing. Their owner, Todd McCarty, is driven to help small and medium sized business owners find their growth potential or “upside” by leveraging his over 20 years of marketing experience across five Fortune 500 companies (NCR Corporation, Cox Enterprises, BellSouth, Anheuser-Busch and Omnicom).

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Benny StaRomana with the UGA Small Business Development Center

October 25, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Benny StaRomana with the UGA Small Business Development Center

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Benny StaRomana/UGA Small Business Development Center

Existing and aspiring business owners come to the UGA Small Business Development Center for professional business consulting to help them start and grow their businesses with maximum advantage. UGA SBDC provides consultants with a successful track record in entrepreneurship and/or corporate management and a Master’s degree in business. Consultants use premium database and information systems to supply facts, statistics, and analyses for intelligent strategies and decisions. UGA SBDC’s services are provided at no cost to its clients.