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Help for Retailers Facing a Tight Market; Make Your Website Work Harder and Sell More

February 19, 2013 by angishields

BRX National

Help for Retailers Facing a Tight Market; Make Your Website Work Harder and Sell More

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Stu Kent with SW Kent & Associates, LLC, a consulting expert in the retail industry shares some hard truths about retailing today but provides answers that you can put to work in your company. Meredith Kahan, a principal in Vesist Media, LLC, a web and graphics design company provides insights about the different impact on your success of a poorly executed site and one done by professionals who bring graphic design, technology, and business acumen to the process.

Stu Kent SW Kent & Associates

Stu Kent, a 30 plus year veteran of big box and medium size retail management knows what works and what doesn’t. A global thinker, he’s tuned in to demographic and cultural shifts that are already impacting retailers and that all retailers will need to understand to survive and grow an a tight market era. You’ll really want to learn what he sees for retailers coming out of the great recession and how to take advantage of the trends.

A consultant to some very large franchise organizations today and counting dozens of retailers across the nation as clients, Stu brings insights and solutions to declining sales, flat growth and tight margins. You’ll want to engage Stu if you are a franchisor with struggling franchisees. He’ll get them on track for success.

If you are a retail store owner wondering how to get on the growth track, give Stu a call, he’ll spend the time with you to understand your situation and offer sound advice on the way forward. You can reach him at: 866-235-1240 or email swkent@comcast.net.

Meredith Kahan, Versist Media

Meredith Kahan has an MS in Digital Imaging and Design and is marketing professional by trade. Her partner, located in Denver and their technical team , bring 30 years of technology experience and deep expertise to developing a website that meets any requirement. Counting large and small firms from New York to the west coast and even abroad as customers, they have a solid reputation and many years in business backing them up.

Just as a good magazine layout or well done display catches your eye and gets you to consider their content or features, a professionally done website does the same thing. But that won’t help if no one sees your site. That’s where social media marketing and SEO come in. If you are not an expert in these, you need to contact Versist Media, they are experts and can make these tools bring more prospects to you.

Unfortunately, many business owners have amateurish site, built with tools on inexpensive systems. And their visitors notice it. With less than 10 seconds to convince a web visitor not to click away, many of these home built sites actually drive away business.

It’s why you need professionals to do your website. You wouldn’t let your kid do surgery on you or use garden shears to remove your appendix just because they were handy or cheap. If you wouldn’t let untrained amateurs do surgery or use a cheap solution on you, why use the same approach to create your most customer-facing business presence, your website?

Get in touch with Meredith at 973-495-3510 or email her at mkahan@versistmedia.com

The Secrets to Business Success from Marketing to Mindset and Taxes to Technology

February 11, 2013 by angishields

BRX National

The Secrets to Business Success from Marketing to Mindset and Taxes to Technology

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Purple Snowflakes Get Noticed, white ones don’t. Our guest, Dagmar Sands, is a true success story with a list of successes in live, business and real estate that won’t fit on five or six closely spaced pages. President of Dagmar Sands – Real Estate International, Inc., an international real estate group and luxury property marketing firm, networking wonder, mentor to many and the brains and drive behind Johns Creek City Guide, an online community resource that has helped draw many to Johns Creek. She and the Guide have likely facilitated more business connections that have made people money than AT&T. She is originally from Czechoslovakia although you’d never pick up on it in her speech and is fluent in about five languages… Which helps explain why she’s such a powerhouse international property broker.

What a great person to talk about the power of helping others and making your business stand out from the crowd. She explains more than just what a city guide can do to help connect people and companies with services and opportunities and why that is so critical to your success today. Dagmar also delivers wonderful insights into the business and personal secrets that made her a well known, well respected and sought after speaker, mentor and partner.

Her upcoming book is all about getting noticed and you’ll want to stay in touch and get a copy as soon as it’s available, especially if you are one of the 1.3 million Realtors out there aspiring to stand out and get the best deals.

You can reach Dagmar at: www.johnscreekcityguide.com, email her at dagmar@johnscreekcityguide.com or call 404-313-3456.

HCREW Technologies President and Co-Owner Tommy Higginbotham and his team work with you like business partners, not technocrats. Why? Because Tommy literally grew up an entrepreneur along side his dad who ran his own business. He and his partner understand their job is to help their clients save money and make smart decisions on technology to improve business infrastructure reliability, decrease operating costs and increase productivity.

Offering consultative advice on a company’s technology, data and network setups, Tommy’s company tackles the soft underbelly of so many firms dependent on IT infrastructure to operate. They start by making sure the equipment and software are maintained, monitored for problems and proactively upgraded so small glitches are caught before they become catastrophes.

Helping be sure if “the asteroid hits your building” you can carry on today what with today’s firm so dependent on IT, is essential to survival. After all, how long can you operate with no way to get to your Accounts Receivable records? It’s why they offer monitored backups of your systems and data so ifthe worst happens, your critical customer records, accounting data, sales information, etc., can all be back up and running almost instantly.

If you are small business, even if it’s just one PC and you can’t see living without it… up to a medium size firm, you’ll want to invite Tommy in for a review of your situation. After all, the business you save might be your own!

You can contact Tommy at www.hcrewtech.com or email thigginbotham@hcrewtech.com and call 855-427-3986.

CPA, CFA and Business Adviser Steve Rothschild, with RRB Financial Services, has been helping businesses small and large avoid not just the tax traps but dodge the tiger pits that kill so many start-ups and growing firms. Steve’s company sets itself apart by helping you interpret the numbers and take action on what they are telling you.

Blending a combination of common sense and sound business advice in with the numbers you need to run your business along with sound tax advice, he helps you avoiding getting one of those “Dear Felon” letters from the IRS. Since 1987, Steve has helped firms avoid thinking about gaming the tax code but instead of putting the code to work for them in a positive way that returns big bucks to the company to help it grow.

If you are starting a company, have a new growing one , or own an established successful one, Steve can help you look to the future so you create an exit strategy and retirement program that will maximize your wealth and secure a comfortable and worry-free retirement.

You can contact Steve at www.rrbcpa.com email steve@rrbcpa.com or call 404-974-3066.

Tax Credits Can Save You Millions. Your CPA May Not Know All That Are Available To You. You Can Even Buy Someone Else’s Tax Credits. (11/16/2010 Show)

November 18, 2010 by admin

Corporate Conversations

Tax Credits Can Save You Millions. Your CPA May Not Know All That Are Available To You. You Can Even Buy Someone Else's Tax Credits. (11/16/2010 Show)

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Many of the largest companies in the country pay less than 5% in taxes. They have experts who know the nuances of the many tax credits available to them. These are available to even the small and mid-sized business, but they are often unknown – even by your CPA. Be more proactive about what is available to you. Listen to our experts and learn how and some of the little-known credits available to you.

Steve Rothschild, Partner State Tax Credit Exchange

Mr. Rothschild is a partner in State Tax Credit Exchange. He has 22 years in the real estate industry and 8 years as an investment advisor with a concentration on real estate investments. He is a partner in PREF LLC an investment and advisory firm and he’s a partner with Preferred Real Estate Funds LLC a commercial real estate investment company. Steve works with many highly successful individuals, family offices, CPA’s, wealth managers, estate attorneys and financial planners as their partner and/or advisor relating to real estate holdings, tax planning and generational wealth transfer. He has worked for or represented pension funds, foreign funds, endowments and institutions. Steve is the founder of Will’s Club a Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta philanthropy, and The Foundation for Mitochondrial Medicine. He is on the Board of Governors for the Buckhead Club. He is a member of Buckhead Rotary and Lions Club. He is a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM), a graduate of Vanderbilt and a licensed real estate broker. Steve Rothschild Segment

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Peter Stathopoulos, Shareholder Bennett Thrasher

Peter leads Bennett Thrasher’s state and local tax consulting practice. He has been practicing in the area of state and local taxation and economic development incentives since 1993. Peter has extensive experience in helping clients reduce their effective state tax rates through multistate tax planning and in resolving stat tax controversies from the audit level through litigation in state trial and appellate courts. Prior to joining Bennett Thrasher, Peter was a partner with a national law firm and practiced in the area of state and local tax controversy and litigation. Prior to entering private law practice, Peter was a aprincipal consultant in the multistate tax consulting practice of a Big Four accounting firm. Prior ro joining Big Four accounting, Peter was a tax policy attorney with the Georgia Department of Revenue.

Peter has worked closely with state tax and economic development policy makers to represent the business community’s interests. In 2002, Mr. Stathopoulos co-chaired a joint Georgia Department of Revenue/State Bar of Georgia committee that helped draft Georgia’s current consolidated income tax return regulations. In 2001, Peter served on the executive committee of the Business Council of Alabama that helped draft Alabama’s privilege tax scheme. In 1995, Peter was a tax policy attorney with the Georgia Department of Revenue and led the drafting of regulations for many of Georgia’s current tax credits and acted as a liaison with the Governor’s Economic Development Council.

Peter is a frequent speaker on state and local tax issues to various organizations including the Southeastern Association of Tax Administrators, the Institute for Professionals in Taxation, the Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, the Atlanta Tax Club, Tax Executives Institute, Lorman Educational Services, and various state departments of revenue. Mr. Stathopoulos has been a guest professor at the University of Georgia Terry School of Business and the Georgia State University School of Law. Mr. Stathopoulos is a Georgia tax correspondent for the State Tax Today, published by Tax Analysts, and has published several articles in The State & Local Tax Lawyer, published by the American Bar Association and the Georgetown University Law Center. He is also a member of the Georgia Economic Developers Association. Peter Stathopoulos Segment

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Wood Hughes, Owner EQUITAX Property Tax Advisors, Georgia & Florida

Wood Hughes owns the EQUITAX Property Tax Advisors franchises for three Georgia counties and just added five Florida counties. In 2010, his company has the largest market share of properties represented in all three Georgia counties. Wood was the first Realtor in Metro Atlanta to earn both the Accredited Land Consultant (ALC) designation and the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation. He graduated from the University of Alabama and has been in real estate sales since 1983. For five years, he filled in as guest host of the John Adams “Money Talks Real Estate Investment Show” on WGST.

Wood has served as Dean of the National Realtors Land Institute Leadership Academy, Director of the Georgia Association of Realtors, the Atlanta Commercial Real Estate Board, and the Georgia Chapter of the Realtors Land Institute, of which he is also past President. Wood Hughes Segment