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Tony Fountain with Intelligent Safety USA, Tonya Burge with My Apple Gadgets, Jim Ware with iMadeThis and Albert Grassia with Digital Safety Net

March 6, 2015 by Mike

Business Leaders of Today

Tony Fountain with Intelligent Safety USA, Tonya Burge with My Apple Gadgets, Jim Ware with iMadeThis and Albert Grassia with Digital Safety Net

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Chris Horne, Tony Fountain, Albert Grassia, Tonya Burge, Jim Ware, Tess Turrin

Tony Fountain/Intelligent Safety USA

Intelligent Safety USA is a technology-based security company that provides high end video surveillance, burglar and fire alarms, and access control. Their solutions use the latest in technology for deterrence, proactive responses, and evidence for the prevention and prosecution of crime. Their servers allow for the integration of your access control points to video surveillance and all your mobile devices.

Tonya Burge/My Apple Gadgets

Want to get the most from your iPad or iPhone? My Apple Gadgets is Your Source For iPad and iPhone apps, news and accessory reviews. Tonya Burge (a.k.a. The iGadget Lady) shares some great iPad and iPhone Apps and Accessories with you as well as a ton of iPhone and iPad tips and tricks she’s found helpful. The reviews are unbiased and they are products that she’s either tried or currently use on a regular basis. She does the research so you won’t have to!

Jim Ware/iMadeThis

The relationship is paramount to Jim Ware, the owner of iMadeThis. Graphic design and website development are Jim Ware’s passions and creative solutions are what he does best. He wants to help you brand your business, build your website, launch your new advertising campaign and find overall creative solutions to reach your clients.

Albert Grassia/Digital Safety Net

Digital Safety Net helps private and commercial organizations assess their vulnerability to technological and security risks, and develop customized solutions to support workstations and networks from hackers.

Chase Williams and Mark Moczarski with The Edge Firm

March 4, 2015 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Chase Williams and Mark Moczarski with The Edge Firm

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Silver Lining in the Cloud - March 4, 2015 — Mark Moczarski, Chase Williams, Dom Rainey

Mark Moczarski & Chase Williams/The Edge Firm

The Edge Firm is a technology, design and marketing firm from Atlanta, GA.

Established in 2014, current services include, but are not limited to, web design and marketing enhancements and content creation, social media enhancement and content creation, as well as Online & E-commerce marketing and strategizing. They deploy a top to bottom “Turn-Key” process paired with a unique approach to delivering revolutionized strategies to the vastly overwhelmed large market place. This is precisely their vantage point, as well as, the “edge” currently creating a massive gap between The Edge Firm and its competitors, if any.

Ask them how they turned a failing mom and pop toy company into a thriving online business within 90 days, tripling previous average profits! They’d love to EDGEucate you!

Business Communications and Social Media: Lara Sadowski with First Prize Writing

January 14, 2015 by Mike

On the Money

Business Communications and Social Media: Lara Sadowski with First Prize Writing

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Lara Sadowski with First Prize Writing joins host Joe Moss to discuss web content, copywriting and business communications including how you can use Twitter, Facebook, blogging and other social media platforms to grow your business.

Lara Sadowski/First Prize Writing

First Prize Writing specializes in copywriting and business communications for individuals and companies. A few of the writing projects they handle are creating and revising web content, preparing articles for publications, ghostwriting blogs, books, e-books and social media sites as well as press releases. This is just a tip of the iceberg! At First Prize Writing, they love words, and they want your words to make your business or project shine.

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On the Money focuses on topics and issues allowing small businesses to better navigate the financial services minefield, with analysis and opinions from today’s industry experts on banking and loans. On the Money also introduces you to some of the top small business leaders in the Atlanta market.

Hosted by Joe Moss, the president of Embassy National Bank, On the Money airs live every Wednesday at 3:00 PM EST from the Business RadioX studio in Gwinnett.

Government Contractors Association, Modavate, Amyra Tutoring Services, and SuiteLife Systems

December 30, 2014 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Government Contractors Association, Modavate, Amyra Tutoring Services, and SuiteLife Systems

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Government Contractors Association, Modavate, Amyra Tutoring Services, and SuiteLife Systems

I got to sit down with experts from Government Contractors Association, Modavate, Amyra Tutoring Services, and SuiteLife Systems this week. Recently on LinkedIn I read a great post by Abe Xiong, of Government Contractors Association. I related to much he shared in his article about his pleasant surprise encounter with a stranger who had hit his car while he was on a trip. The stranger who had bumped his fender was kind enough to leave their contact number and had already contacted their insurance company about the incident when he called. I thought it was a great story to share and that inspired me to look into what Government Contractors Association was all about. Given their expertise in the steps required to secure a contract with a government agency I thought it would be great to have him join us on the show. Abe shared some excellent information about the association and if you have a business that has a potential to grow through doing business with the government (as Abe points out, the largest customer in the world), membership with Government Contractors Association is a must. They provide coaching along the way and serve up an array of tips and information that increase the likelihood a company can successfully do business with a government agency.

Abe introduced us to Buki Opanuga, of Modavate. They’re a digital marketing and technology company. They help businesses develop a plan for and executing a marketing strategy across the full gamut of digital platforms. Their suite of services includes web design, SEO, SEM, social media marketing, and more. They work with a wide range of companies and even organizations such as CDC. Buki talked about how Modavate came to be and how they had hoped to grow by expanding to include government agencies as clients. She linked up with Government Contractors Association and took advantage of the helpful services they provide, ultmately becoming 8(a) Certified, which has lead to even more opportunity. She gives some great advice for business owners thinking about vying for a government contract.

Barbara Culp, of Amyra Tutorial Services, also a member of GCA and benefactor of their expertise, joined us to talk about their K-12 tutoring services. She shared how she became inspired to open her business and the meaning behind the name she chose. It’s clear she has a passion for helping children learn and now, by being able to effectively engage with the public school system, she is starting to see great potential for her company to grow.

Kenny Miller is the National Director of Sales for SuiteLife Systems. They offer a software solution that gives an enterprise a platform through which they can monitor mission-critical equipment for trouble in an effective, easy-to-use interface that lets their users achieve efficiencies in how they monitor/react to problems, and even how they consume power. Data their solution provides empowers users to moderate the way they manage their power consumption in ways that lead to substantial cost savings overnight. SuiteLife Systems solutions make sense for a wide variety of enterprises and even organizations like schools and churches that have large operations and/or media networks/content generation services.

Special Guests:

Abe Xiong, President of Government Contractors Association

Bachelors, Business Management, Minor in Leadership, Shorter College
Former President/Founder, Metro Furniture
Co-Founder, Fmr. President, Government Business Consultants
Fluent, Hmong

Buki Opanuga, CEO/Digital Marketing Strategist of Modavate

Masters, Internet Marketing, San Francisco University
Former Product Support Specialist, Onity
Successful Freelance Web Designer
Second Language, Yoruba

Barbara Culp, President of Amyra Tutorial Services

Certified National Trainer, Time To Teach
Former Clinical Supervisor, School of Education, Brenau University
Retired Principal, Atlanta Public Schools
MA, Education, Clark University

Kenny Miller, National Director of Sales of SuiteLife Systems and NFB Consulting

Former Senior Account Manager, Comprehensive Technical Group
Former Manager, Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers
Former Senior Account Manager, Niche Video Products

Payscape Advisors

December 2, 2014 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Payscape Advisors

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Payscape Advisors

According to the Atlanta Metro Chamber, “Georgia is 3^rd in the nation, just behind New York and California in FinTech revenue. Georgia FinTech companies have produced more than $83 billion of shareholder value since 1995 and revenues are more than $34 billion annually. Wages in Atlanta’s financial and IT industry are lower than competitive markets. Here, there is a convergence of three key sectors: finance, IT, and software, all of which have a strong presence in Atlanta, along with an abundant IT, software and financial labor force.”

Today I got to sit down with 3 of the folks on the team from Payscape Advisors, an Atlanta company through and through that is an important player in those amazing statistics. I was joined by Rachel Lawrence, Technology Integration Specialists, Hunter Hudson, Director of Business Development, and Zach Wing, Product Manager. Hunter Hudson has been with Payscape Advisors for a number of years and he shared the story of how Payscape Advisors was started and launched by two Atlanta residents, Jeremy Wing and Adam Bloomston. They have since grown the company to include offices in 13 cities nationwide that also has clients and partners around the globe. The company initially focused on payment processing but saw opportunities to expand their suite of services to include point-of-sale processing, access to working capital, SaaS services including Reg Point and Billing Orchard, international payment processing, web development for eCommerce sites (including compliant payment features) and more. The company has striven to provide the gamut of services to merchants

As Hunter described why they’re different than many of the other merchant services companies out there, “We do have those feet on the street. We have a team. We have somebody you can call. You’re gonna call their cellphone and you’ll have their email address. We’re not just a 1-800 number. You’re gonna have someone who’s going to be there for you.” He went on to talk about the different service options they provide and how they collaborate with SaaS developers to provide the payment interface for their applications, enabling them to provide a more desirable, robust product to their users.

We talked about the innovative user registration software they make available to groups such as camps and other large events that provides a secure way for attendees to sign up and enter sensitive information and provide payment. The company also offers several avenues for companies to access working capital when bank loans are not readily available.

As I sat with these 3 experts it was clear that they all share a passion for what they’re doing and take pride in engaging their clients and partners with a personable, professional approach with the goal of forging long-term, mutually-beneficial relationships.

Special Guests: Payscape Advisors

Rachel Lawrence, Technology Integration Specialist, Payscape Advisors

BA Communication, University of Georgia
WW IBM WebSphere GB and Partner Sales Executive 4/13
Recipient, Rep of Quarter Q1 2013, IBM

Hunter Hudson, Director Business Development, Payscape Advisors

BA Finance, University of Alabama
Successful entrepreneur

Zach Wing, Product Manager, Payscape Advisors

BA Marketing, University of Alabama
Former Manager, Direct Sales, Atlantix Global Systems
Former Owner/Partner, USA Payroll

Marketing Eye, SolTech, Cox Digital Solutions, and Pindrop Security

November 11, 2014 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Marketing Eye, SolTech, Cox Digital Solutions, and Pindrop Security

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Marketing Eye, SolTech, Cox Digital Communications, and Pindrop Security

Today, I had the opportunity to feature another four technology companies that help businesses grow and operate more efficiently. I was pleased to host Marketing Eye, SolTech, Cox Digital Solutions, and Pindrop Security. Mellissah Smith, founder and CEO of Marketing Eye brought along Veanne Smith, Vice President of SolTech, an innovative Atlanta technology company and client of Marketing Eye. One of the digital strategy experts from Cox Digital Solutions, Drew Erickson, joined us to talk about why it makes sense to work with Cox Media and their digital team to maximize ROI on investing in a digital marketing strategy. And Matt Anthony, VP of Marketing for Pindrop Security stopped by to talk about how they help companies avoid falling victim to phone fraud of a variety of types, protecting them and their customers from financial loss.

Marketing Eye is a disruptive marketing consulting firm that delivers small to medium-sized businesses with an experienced marketing team for a small, weekly fee. Their outsourced marketing solution delivers exponential growth to the companies we work with through a strategic approach and clear understanding of marketing strategy, creative, brand, lead generation, public relations, and sales and marketing automation. Marketing Eye’s model is simple; they provide businesses with a marketing manager and outsourced marketing team dedicated to ensuring that your business achieves its marketing goals. Complete with branding, graphic design, web development, search engine optimization, social media, lead generation and direct marketing expertise – Marketing Eye is the ultimate results-orientated marketing solution in Atlanta. Whether you need a marketing resource to accelerate your business growth, or a more strategic approached aligned to your business outcomes, Marketing Eye is well known for high performance, technology-driven marketing campaigns that deliver results for their clients.

SolTech is a Custom Software Development, Web Applications Services, IT Staffing and Technology Consulting Company in Atlanta, GA. The company, now in its 16th year, helps companies fulfill visions of success and goals for growth through custom software development, strategic technology consulting, system integration, application infrastructure support, and staff augmentation. Using proven, structured methodologies to ensure outstanding deliverables, SolTech provides a quality alternative to high-priced consulting firms. Their promise to their staff and clients: to be honest about their capabilities, to stay focused on core services, and to remain committed to delivering quality results. To find out more about how SolTech can turn your company’s ideas into reality now and as you grow, visit their website. The company is a Microsoft Gold Partner, Sitecore Partner and a Java certified developer.

Drew Erickson, Digital Sales Manager for WSB-TV and Cox Media Group. He consults with clients to develop a strategy for digital marketing, advertising, audience insights and lead generation programs. He’s been with Cox Media Group for over 10 years, all in digital marketing and advertising. Their staff, comprised of a team of highly-experienced digital marketing experts, work closely with their clients to determine what their goals are. They review what they have been doing to date to grow awareness of their brand, how effective those measures have been, and come up with a comprehensive set of recommendations that encompasses the variety of media types at their disposal to create a campaign that gives the greatest likelihood the brand gets its message in front of their target customers. Cox Digital Solutions takes full advantage of today’s mobile technology, enabling their customers to display ads to prospective customers based on geo-location, allowing their clients to be very specific about where and when their message is displayed. Cox Digial Solutions also leverages their role as a Google Premier Partner to take advantage of the wealth of analytics data available to them to place Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Pay Per Click (PPC) text and display ads that much more effectively. They combine these tactics with recommendations for improvements to their clients’ websites to insure the landing page for displayed ads provides the highest likelihood of conversion once a prospective client visits the website. As someone who has worked with the team at Cox Digital Solutions I can tell you it will quickly become apparent they are invested in your success as an advertiser investing money with them to grow your business.

Matt Anthony is the VP of Marketing for Pindrop Security. I was fortunate to link up with them via Twitter and looked into what they do. Prior to that I knew phone fraud occurs but I didn’t realize that it’s not only still going strong, it is as Matt put it, “a growth industry”. Thieves have become experts at “social engineering”, meaning they are adept at personifying an authentic customer in an effort to obtain sensitive data from a helpful call center agent. This puts any business that possesses sensitive information at risk for significant financial loss. Pindrop Security has developed technologies that enable their client businesses to determine with a high degree of accuracy that a given call to their call center is likely a fraudulent attempt to breach their system. The process of evaluating voice, originating device, and geographic location happens as quickly as 20 seconds into the call. This means Pindrop Security customers are able to terminate those calls or lock down the account that the caller is attempting to access to prevent the theft before it happens. This means that Pindrop Security clients are able to avoid significant financial losses and potential legal issues that arise when their systems are breached, allowing sensitive data to be stolen.

Special Guests:

Mellissah Smith, Managing Director/Founder of Marketing Eye

Founder/Owner, Insomnia Marketing and Communication
Founder, Marketing Eye Magazine
Author, “108 Ways to Market Your Small Business”
#2 Marketer to follow on Twitter, >47,000 followers on Twitter, >11,000 connections on LinkedIn
Hundreds of thousands of readers follow her blog

Veeanne Smith, Vice President/Founder of SolTech

Former VP, Computer Management Services/Computer Associates
Former Professional Services Manager, Computer Task Group/ctg
CS Advisory Board Member, Kennesaw State University
BS, Computer Science, Illinois State University

Drew Erickson, Digital Solutions Manager, Cox Digital Solutions/ WSB-TV

Former Owner, Drew Erickson Productions and Marketing
Former Sales Account Manager, Cox Radio
Former Digital Web Master, Cox Radio
IAB Digital Media Sales Certification, Interactive Advertising Bureau

Specialties

Custom Software Development, Technical Recruiting & Staffing, Mobile Application Development, Hosting & Hardware Support, Strategic Consulting

USING SOCIAL MEDIA: John Lehmberg with Make It Loud and Pat Stansbury with the National Foundation of Patriotism

June 4, 2014 by Mike

On the Money

USING SOCIAL MEDIA: John Lehmberg with Make It Loud and Pat Stansbury with the National Foundation of Patriotism

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John Lehmbery with Make It Loud and Pat Stansbury with the National Foundation of Patriotism join Joe Moss to discuss the importance of social media and how it affects your business.

John Lehmberg/Make It Loud

Make It Loud is a marketing company specializing in digital marketing. They provide web design, search engine optimization, social media, email marketing, printing and other marketing services, primarily for small and medium sized businesses. Make It Loud is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and recently won the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce’s Pinnacle Award and the Small Business of the Year award.

Pat Stansbury/National Foundation of Patriotism

The National Foundation of Patriotism is dedicated to raising awareness about the history and future of patriotism in America and its relevance in the daily lives of its citizens.

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On the Money focuses on topics and issues allowing small businesses to better navigate the financial services minefield, with analysis and opinions from today’s industry experts on banking and loans. On the Money also introduces you to some of the top small business leaders in the Atlanta market. Hosted by Joe Moss, the president of Embassy National Bank, On the Money airs live every Wednesday at 3:00 PM EST from the Business RadioX studio in Gwinnett.

John Lehmberg with Make It Loud and Marques Burnett with The Sports Utility Vehicle

May 1, 2014 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

John Lehmberg with Make It Loud and Marques Burnett with The Sports Utility Vehicle

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Mike Sammond, Marques Burnett, John Lehmberg, Steven Julian

John Lehmberg/Make It Loud

Make It Loud is a marketing company specializing in digital marketing. They provide web design, search engine optimization, social media, email marketing, printing, and other marketing services, primarily for small and medium sized businesses. Make It Loud is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and recently won the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce’s Pinnacle Award and the Small Business of the Year award.

Marques Burnett/The Sports Utility Vehicle

The SUV fuses live webcasts, sponsorship development and special projects to drive results for teams, events and brands in the world of sports. They pride themselves on doing things big and small to maximize the results of each group’s experience when it comes to sports content, its consumption, and the audience involved.

Elizabeth Gordon interviews Desiree Scales, CEO of Bella Web Design

February 9, 2010 by angishields

Chic Perspectives

Elizabeth Gordon interviews Desiree Scales, CEO of Bella Web Design

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Today on the Chic Perspectives Show I got to chat with Desiree Scales, CEO of Bella Web Design.

Bella Web Design has helped over 200 companies realize their success in Atlanta and more than 35 states nationwide for more than 10 years. Her company provides web design, web hosting, search engine submission and optimization, print design, email marketing, social media coaching, blogging and general web marketing consultation.

Desiree accredits their success to her teamâ€™s creative talent, integrity, and friendly service that draws loyal clients.

Desireeâ€™s expertise and experience has evolved into a passion to educate both businesses and organizations on internet technology that ignites their success.

She has been a featured speaker at companies, conferences and seminars across Atlanta and regularly provides classes on blogging, web design, branding, Internet marketing, Web 2.0 strategies and social media.

She additionally offers personal Social Media Coaching to business owners who want to apply the online buzz to their customer relationships and bottom line.

Desiree is an authority on all things web. Â Her expert advice:

If you donâ€™t think your site is professional enough, itâ€™s not. Hire a pro.
Donâ€™t skimp on your social media budget, itâ€™s the most important item in it.
Blogging is the best way to start using social media.
Find one medium that fits your personality and stick with it.
Be flexible and follow others who provide a good example.
Helping others is the best way to establish your expertise.
Make sure you look at your overall strategy and your goals before starting.

Check out Bella Web Design @Â www.bellawebdesign.com

And listen to the Bella Buzz every week, an awesome podcast with all the latest ideas and must do’s when it comes to social media and web strategy.

www.thebellabuzz.com podcast/blog

And don’t forget to Follow, Friend and Link as well…

twitter.com/desireescales

Facebook: companies.to/bellawebdesign

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/bellawebdesign

Thanks again for coming on Desiree. Â It was so great to see you again.