2018 SBDC GrowSMART Augusta

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Need a step-by-step evaluation of your business and markets?  Need tools to build your business now and in the future? GrowSmart™ is for you…coming in September 2018 to Augusta.  Application and acceptance required. Combined with long term one-on-one consulting with SBDC professionals, learn to apply course principles and build a business for today’s challenging […]

5 Strategic Planning Moves to Position for Success

By Mark Collier, Business Consultant As we move into the fourth quarter of 2019, savvy business owners are looking ahead to their business prospects for the year 2020. Now is the time to begin looking at strategic planning for the upcoming year. Here are five simple yet strategically sound steps to help plan for a […]

Thoughts on Small Business and Response and Recovery During COVID-19

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Napoleon Hill, author of multiple books, including Think and Grow Rich and The Master Key to Riches, once said, “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” Though it can be hard for some of us to consider a benefit or opportunity right now, in the […]

GrowSmart® Brings The Business Long View To An Atlanta Production Company

Wendy Eley Jackson possesses the creative credentials eagerly sought by film and television production companies. She developed her artistry while working at TriStar, Sony and TBS. After a while in the industry, though, 60-hour weeks and a desire for a balanced lifestyle led her to form her own company, Golden Street Entertainment, in 1999. She had […]

Updated Financials, Better Data Land Loan for Valdosta Wake Compound

Valdosta State University students Luke Tilt and Quinn Silvernale competed together on the university’s wake boarding team. Tilt was required for his business class to develop a plan for an imaginary new company. So he wrote a plan modeled after the cable parks they had visited in Europe and Florida. Wake boarding, for the uninitiated, […]