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Timothy McFadden, Club President Atlanta for CEOSpace and Gene Hammett, Business Coach with Core Elevation were our guests. Our show today focused on ways business owners can dramatically grow their businesses. Each guest explained powerful strategies you can put to work to dramatically improve your business results.

Timothy McFadden explained CEOSpace is a new form of a trade show where you meet top executives and business owners face to face, developing new customers and making contacts who will refer business to you.

With a blend of local meetings and several national meet-ups each year, CEOSpace provides a blend of high level networking between company owners as well as CE Credits in many industries in every state. It is why the annual meeting attracts hundreds of top business people, educators and governmental leaders including John Kerry and Barack Obama who have spoken at their meetings.

They give back with a program for students in high school and college where 90% of their fee is paid. Imagine the life-altering experience spending a few days meeting with people who are successful business owners, heads of major corporations and top governmental leaders would do for the future of your son or daughter.

CEOSpace’s structured combination of networking, education and deal making fulfills an important function and is something progressive business owners and parents who understand the value of exchanging ideas and meeting other successful business owners and civic leaders will want to learn more about.

You can reach Timothy at 404-775-9606, email tmm@ceospaceatlanta.com or the web www.ceospaceatlanta.com.

Gene Hammett, Business Coach and owner of CORE Elevation, specializes in helping business owners grow their business using a four step process so they see sales grow and their company thrive.

A successful business owner before he turned to coaching, Gene brings the mindset of a former entrepreneur and business owner to coaching and his orientation toward promotion, differentiation, growth through purposeful action and commitment. His unique program is an outgrowth of his experiences in his business… and with having his own business coach. He credits that decision with being one of the major reasons he was doubling sales year over year. Today, he has two coaches working with him because a coach makes even a coach more effective and focused.

Gene has a special focus on the web and digital world of programmers, web developers and creative agencies but has clients in other businesses as well. His focus on the digital sector gives him an understanding of the unique challenges of those companies and the jargon used. In a word, he understands.

If you are serious about changing the results in your business this year, you’ll want to talk with Gene or catch one of his free webinars.  You can reach Gene at 678-242-9957 or email gene@corelevation.com and www.coreelevation.com.

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Web development has come a long way since the early 90’s when sites were hand crafted and developers were designers and coders and sites were carved seemingly in granite, rarely changed and seldom being more than an electronic version of an old business phone directory ad.

Wow, has all that changed! Today sites are dynamic and evolving continually, content is user updateable by almost anyone who can use Word. Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines use  fresh content and social media as part of deciding where your website will rank when people search.

How sites are developed has also matured with free “open source” technology platforms that streamline web development so for a fraction of what things cost back when, your site can have Facebook like features, shopping carts, catalogs, photo and video galleries, event management….

You no longer need to start with a blank sheet of paper to add features and extend capabilities so you reduce risk and increase ROI.  There are well over 10,000 “plug ins” – ready to use code – today that you can use to add features like those for just a few dollars  None the less, it still requires IT professionals who know the technology and who come with the skill to extend or modify how things work to meet business requirements.

Now one of Atlanta’s largest web development companies, if not the largest, 3by400.com was founded by long time IT professional, Brent Laminac and his partners, at the end of GA 400 back in the early 2000’s and hence the 3by400 name. A GA Tech Grad in Physics, Brent teaches continuing education classes for Emory and GA Tech and many owe their careers to him.

3×400 has developed countless sites and applications for some of Atlanta’s top organizations and have a reputation for creating and delivering responsive sites that meet business needs. In fact, Brent says that one of the challenges business owners face is finding a developer who has an in-depth knowledge of business to guide and help them think through what to have on their site, how to make their firm stand out and get viewers to take the step of buying or contacting the company.

Go to the 3×400 website at www.3by400.com or call 678-379-9321 for complete information.

The Royak Group, headquartered in Johns Creek, helps companies, large and small, find skilled technology professionals who are a perfect fit to the culture while possessing the technology background and business skills to do the job.  Direct placement of candidates, retained search, career guidance and a broad range of business oriented services for technology dependent companies set The Royak Group apart from other firms.

Tim Brennan, Latonya Jackson Cecile Francis and Todd Tolford are recruiters for The Royak Group who explain what makes their company consistently get rehired by firms and recommended while candidates tell their friends and colleagues that when the time for a career change is needed, they must work with this company.

The Royak Group takes on the task of finding top performers who are technically solid so firms see great matches, even in a highly competitive hiring market like today and candidates go on interviews that result in offers.

The recruiters say their secret is their company’s disciplined, person and client centric and data driven approach that puts people and culture front and center. This helps create a perfect fit between employer and candidate.  Helping find those hidden technology wizards is the firm’s detailed database of people they have interviewed and placed, all available to fill positions or to recommend people who are a great fit.

Working with candidates and the hiring companies, there is a strong focus on ensuring there is cultural, personal and career fit before anyone ever interviews. They do that through a 19 point process that includes fact to face interviews and screening of candidates so no one wastes time running to interviews or sorting through stacks of electronic applications.

In other words, The Royak Group delivers time-efficient, comprehensive solutions for both clients and candidates. Following up with them and helping put people where they can excel.

Beyond recruiting, The Royak Group has a solutions consulting group who can bring teams of technologists together on a project basis to help firms take on critical projects on an as needed basis.

You can find the full story and reach The Royak Group at www.theroyakgroup.com or call 770-772-5111.

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Our guests today all focus on helping people. One helps PTSD traumatized Veterans who have put their lives on the line for us and our way of live. Another  works with individuals, helping them improve and find new answers to dealing with today’s challenges. The third helps firms use innovation and imagination in advertising to get attention and grow their companies.

Our first guest, Joe LaBranche, is Vice President / Director of Warrior2Citizen, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping returning Veterans deal with the effects of PTSD and combat stress.The program targets troops during that critical transition period in the weeks after returning home by providing high quality, focused psychological and spiritual counseling for the warrior and their family in a peaceful setting that will nurture the healing process without outside distractions.  This is accomplished with one-month long residential programs filled with counseling sessions, interactive family activities and outdoor exercise in beautiful surroundings.

Joe discusses the unique challenges faced by today’s soldier and how their program is changing lives of not just the warrior but also their family.  Contact Joe if you need help at joe.w2c@gmail.com or if you wish to contribute to this worthy cause, visit the organizations website at www.warrior2citizen.org.

Adrian Queenan is the founder and President of ExpandaBrand, an innovator in branding impact, product introduction, attracting attention at trade shows and high impact point of sale marketing. He is responsible for many of the signage innovations commonly used today.  His approach to customer service is a big differentiator he says. By ensuring clients get solutions, not just marketing materials is key. Even where those solutions may range from a simple banner to working with the client to integrate trade show builders, I&D services, and event planning, ExpandaBrand will go the extra mile for clients. Adrians’s approach to business brings not just an incredibly talented team in on the project but also a mindset that delivers fresh, attention-arresting signage approaches to his customers. Get in touch with Adrian a 678-597-4265 and visit their website at www.expandabrand.com.

Tiffany Massie, Hypnotherapist and Success Coach, has been helping Fortune 500 executives, entrepreneurs, attorneys, physicians and individuals achieve greater personal and professional success by helping them eliminate subconscious barriers since 1985. She has authored two books and has proven time and again her approach works because it changes beliefs. Once beliefs are changed, making the changes you need to make to achieve grater personal and professional success is easy.

Contact Tiffany at 770-956-0554 and visit her website at www.marianmassie.com

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Wayne Carrel, Director, of the Johns Creek Foundation explains how this non-profit organization started, how it helps non-profit organizations in Johns Creek fund their activities through direct grants and discusses how a unique partnership of private donors, businesses and government has made Johns Creek one of the cities in the Atlanta region with a robust arts council, symphony and school outreach programs. As a non profit organization, learn how you can apply for grants and businesses and individuals discover how you can help by getting involved and contributing.

Wayne Baughman is the Music Director of the acclaimed Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra that puts on fantastic events in the Johns Creek area where our own version of the Boston Pops delivers great music that has people dancing in the isles.  Their school programs expose students to music and give them a way to connect with an aspect of the arts that otherwise may be missed. It’s been very well received and more events are planned. With some 100 musicians to draw from, the Symphony can produce large and small events tailored to different events in the Johns Creek area and puts on many free programs for those who want to listen to great music by a fantastically talented group of professionals.  A beneficiary of grants from the Johns Creek Foundation, the Symphony is growing and thriving at a time so many areas are having to disband their orchestras and end music in schools.