August 2014 Features

  • Looking at Your Personal Financial Health; Buzz Law, President of Creative Financial Group

    August 28, 2014

    For Buzz Law, president of Creative Financial Group, it was love at first sight. “I’ve spent my entire 30-year career at Creative Financial Group,” Buzz says. With childhood memories of his father working alongside his own financial planner, and having studied business with a focus on finance at the University of Georgia, Buzz knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life.

  • Hardie Davis: The People’s Mayor

    August 26, 2014

    Senator Hardie Davis’s magic number for himself is eight. He’s spent eight years in the Georgia Legislature, first in the House of Representatives and then in the Senate. He plans to spend eight years in the Augusta mayoral seat. “Everything I do is with the number eight in mind. Eight is the number of new beginnings,” explains Senator Davis.

  • Partridge Inn Holdings, LLC Purchases Hallmark of Southern Hospitality

    August 25, 2014

    An Augusta landmark on Walton Way in the Summerville district, the historic Partridge Inn is under new ownership and receiving a facelift. In June, Partridge Inn Holdings, LLC won the auction with a top bid of $4.25 million. Partridge Inn Holdings took official ownership of the hotel on August 18.

  • Q&A with Gretchen Corbin, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Community Affairs

    August 21, 2014

    On August 1st, Commissioner Corbin celebrated her 1-year anniversary of being at the helm of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. While she feels that a lot was accomplished in her first year, she has no plans of slowing down and is dedicated to making an even bigger splash—with the help of her great team—in year two. We chatted with Ms. Corbin about adjusting to her role and what else she has up her sleeve for Georgia’s economic development.

  • 3 Different Types of Bonus Programs for Your Employees

    August 19, 2014

    Bonus programs are on the rise, a survey by WorldatWork reports. All types of bonus programs - including referral, spot and signing – have risen from 2010 (the last time the survey was conducted). Signing bonuses hit an all-time high of 74 percent, while spot bonuses were used by 60 percent of companies—more than in 2010, 2008 or 2005.

  • How Good-Natured Humor Can Enhance Your Personal Brand

    August 18, 2014

    You should have humor as part of your personal branding – but make sure your humor fits the situation. Choose the right time and place to use suitable, relevant, and brief wittiness. Still, if in doubt, go for it. Good people will be grateful for your attempt to put them at ease.

  • Pellicano Construction Continues Georgia Expansion

    August 14, 2014

    Pellicano Construction recently opened its fourth office location in Macon on June 2nd. Currently, Pellicano is managing projects across the Southeastern and Midwestern United States to a broad base of clients in the retail, hospitality, healthcare, industrial, corporate commercial, restaurant, entertainment, automotive, assisted living, and faith-based market segments.

  • The CSRA Cyber Explosion

    August 13, 2014

    In less than ten years, Augusta and the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) have evolved into a hub of technological research, implementation, discovery, innovation and delivery. Among U.S. cities, Metro Augusta ranks second for high-tech job growth in the last five years.

  • 7 Tips to Get More Customers, More Often

    August 12, 2014

    We all claim to want more customers more often, but are we doing what it takes to get that done? I asked Sarah Reilly Engel, VP of Merchant Success at Belly, a loyalty rewards company for retailers, to share advice with us.

  • Thom Tuckey Projects Fort Gordon's Future & its Powerful Impact on the CSRA

    August 06, 2014

    Larry Miller recently announced that Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired) Thom E. Tuckey, former Fort Gordon Garrison Commander, has graciously agreed to serve as the keynote speaker for the CSRA Home Connections Networking Breakfast and Success Seminar at Be My Guest Catering & Events in Evans on the morning of August 13th.

  • Georgia Native Returns Home as Filmmaking Rises in Savannah & Atlanta

    August 05, 2014

    In the news as of late have been Medient Studios and the dismissal of its founder and CEO, Manu Kumaran, and the legal action he has been taking against the company’s new leadership. There has been the exposure of early mismanagement and the rapid devaluation of the company’s stock and then the reinstatement of trading under Medient’s new leadership.

  • Time of Change and Crisis in the Hospital World

    August 04, 2014

    The financial turmoil rocking Georgia’s hospitals shows no signs of fading. Just this past week, Emory-Adventist Hospital announced it would close by the end of October. By doing so, the Smyrna hospital would become the fifth Georgia hospital to close within the past two years. And unlike the previous four, it is in the affluent Atlanta suburbs, not a struggling rural area.