May 2016 Features

  • Communicorp: Simply Manage Your Creative Assets Using OnDemand Technologies

    May 25, 2016

    With all of your graphic design elements in place, you may be wondering how to manage these creative assets throughout your entire organization. Well, technology is a great solution to your dilemma. To help you understand the various solutions that come into play and how they work, let’s walk through a real-world scenario.

  • AT&T Invests More Than $100M Over 3-Year Period to Enhance Local Networks in Augusta Area

    May 23, 2016

    At AT&T, they have invested more than $100 million in our Augusta area wireless and wired networks during 2013-2015. These investments drive upgrades to enhance reliability, coverage, speed and overall performance for residents and businesses. They also enhance critical services that support public safety and first responders.

  • Top Tips for Building Trust With Customers

    May 19, 2016

    In any small business, there are a variety of strategies you can implement to grow your organization over time, including marketing well, having effective sales techniques, and providing products or services that customers really want. However, one thing that can really make a huge difference to your bottom line and help you save costs over the long term, is building your business around the concept of trust.

  • Hull Barrett: So You Are Presented with a Form Contract?

    May 18, 2016

    When you or your company is presented with a form contract prepared by the other side in a transaction, red flags should go up. This is because the other side in the transaction has had its lawyers draft the form contract in order to maximize the interest of that party – that is what lawyers usually do for their clients.

  • Georgia 2030: The Chamber's GPS Device to Reach State's Business and Economic Future

    May 16, 2016

    A hundred years ago, the then-newly formed Georgia Chamber of Commerce wisely initiated a road map with the intention of planning the future of business in the Peach State. Today, one year into the second century of the Chamber, President and CEO, Chris Clark and the Chamber Board are instead utilizing modern GPS tracking and other digital tools to explore and research emerging commerce trends, needs and resources for Georgia’s future. This initiative is entitled “Georgia 2030.”

  • Local Post Offices to “Stamp Out Hunger” with Golden Harvest Food Bank in Annual Food Drive

    May 09, 2016

    Golden Harvest Food Bank is teaming up with Post Offices in the Augusta/Aiken area for the 24th Annual National Letter Carriers Food Drive, “Stamp Out Hunger”.

  • Textron Specialized Vehicles Inc. Acquires the Business of Premier Engineering & Manufacturing Inc.

    May 03, 2016

    Textron Specialized Vehicles Inc., a Textron Inc. company, through its TUG Technologies Corporation subsidiary, has acquired the assets and business of Premier Engineering & Manufacturing Inc. of Marinette, Wis., a leading manufacturer of de-icers for the aviation industry.

  • Hull Barrett: Federal Estate Tax is No Longer the Biggest Concern

    May 02, 2016

    As many of you have heard, recent tax law changes are turning traditional estate planning on its head – causing a shift in attention from an estate tax focus to an income tax focus. Planning techniques long considered wise – e.g., shifting wealth to younger generations while senior family members are still alive or automatically leaving assets to a bypass “credit shelter” trust – may no longer be necessary to save estate tax and could now leave many families paying income tax they would not otherwise owe.