July 2015 Features

  • How Business and Personal Credit Cards Are Different

    July 30, 2015

  • Why Your Company Needs a Wellness Program

    July 30, 2015

    If one of your company’s top players decides to defect to the competition due to a unique benefit offering, the result can be catastrophic. Not only could your business experience a decline in productivity, the costs associated with finding new talent and trying to fill the void in the meantime could be incalculable. One way to stay competitive in this increasingly aggressive job market is to invest in a sound wellness program.

  • Wright Symposium Features National Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs

    July 28, 2015

    The inaugural Bob Wright Symposium on Business Empowerment will feature corporate leaders and executives sharing their business insights, knowledge, and experience.

  • 5 Tax Related Changes for Your Healthcare in 2016

    July 28, 2015

  • Columbus State Continuing Education’s 2015 Open House Promises You Will Learn Something New

    July 24, 2015

    Fall will soon be here and so will the creative and energizing courses offered by Continuing Education at Columbus State University. Get ready to focus your mind where you will benefit the most... on your personal and professional growth.

  • Atlanta Braves EVP, Mike Plant, Well-Trained for Olympian Task of Moving Team to Cobb County

    July 23, 2015

    The first sporting event at the Atlanta Braves’ Turner Field in June of 1996 was not a baseball game, but, rather, the venue for the U.S Olympic Track and Field Trials, followed the next month by the actual Olympic Games. That irony is not lost on Atlanta Braves’ Executive Vice-President, Mike Plant, an Olympian speed skater and member of several Olympic committees, who has taken on overall responsibility for the 2017 move of the team to SunTrust Park in Cobb County.

  • How to Pick the Best Business Partner for You

    July 21, 2015

    Having the perfect business partner can help you take your business to another level even faster than you could take it on your own. But just like any relationship, you need to date first and test the relationship, so that you don’t make an expensive mistake.

  • Overhead Door Of Columbus Announces 2nd Annual Garage Door Contest

    July 15, 2015

    Once Again, Overhead Door Of Columbus is out to find the Ugliest Door in The Valley.

  • What it Takes to Build a Strong Company Culture

    July 13, 2015

    Company culture is the accumulation of the attitudes and behaviors of everyone in your company — starting with you as the owner. If companies had personalities, your culture would be the personality of your company.

  • Chattahoochee Valley Region Battles to Stabilize Fort Benning

    July 10, 2015

    “The fight to preserve the strength and integrity of Fort Benning has only just begun,” Brian Anderson, C.E.O of the Columbus Georgia Chamber of Commerce. “It is important that our Regional community – which includes Columbus, Phenix City, our Metropolitan Support Area and the post itself – remain armed with the most current information regarding Sequestration; maintain vigilance in showing their dedication to Fort Benning; and let those in political power know that we and they must protect our post. We have Benning’s back, because Benning has always had ours.”

  • Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson Tapped as Chair of Sweet Briar College's New Board of Directors

    July 08, 2015

    The Sweet Briar College Board of Directors held its first face-to-face meeting today on the Sweet Briar College campus, electing leaders, adopting a formal policy of inclusiveness and transparency and beginning work to establish board governance policies and a committee structure. Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson, a 1987 graduate of Sweet Briar, was elected chairwoman of the board.

  • 6 Helpful Tips for Training Small Business Employees

    July 06, 2015

    When you tell your employees it’s time for the weekly training meeting, you can almost see their groans. Training is generally not anyone’s favorite hour of the day and it can be expensive, especially for small business startups.