Todd’s Convenience store # 2 with Mean Gene’s Restaurant on Sand Bar Ferry Rd. in Beech Island SC has sold it’s store to Sprint Convenience store. There is word that there might be a franchised restaurant going inside .They have already put up temporary Sprint signs, cleared out the old restaurant, and are changing over the lottery etc.
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Ashley Tuten from SOUTHERN LANDSCAPING joins us on the radio version of the BUZZ to talk to Bill and John about just how busy her company is during not only the Holiday season, but during the Winter months.
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Our social networking “guru” was just back from the Midnight showing of the movie “TRON”, in 3-D. Jeremy talks about how publicity for the movie was created using social networking, and how much of it’s popularity can be attributed to that. And how, with his company’s help, your company can see a spike in popularity using social networks.
WRDW 1630AM 12-2PM OR STREAMING LIVE ATWWW.WRDWAM.COM
The boyz are back doubling their efforts. Today’s program will also be rebroadcast NEXT Friday to allow our hosts and guests to enjoy an early start to the Christmas Holiday. We are in full holiday mode talking about using social media for your purchases and talking about holiday plants and fruit baskets to bring to Grandma’s house.
12:20pm - - Jeremy Mace from www.newfiresocialmedia.com joins us for a look at social media in the workplace and how to use it to take care of your shopping list this season.
1230 JOB SHOP JOB OF THE DAY
12:45pm - – ASHLEY TUTEN (Garden Center Manager) from SOUTHERN LANDSCAPING has a HUGE selection of Christmas !!!
4759 Washington Road
Evans
southernlandscaping.net
1:20pm - – KEVIN CIUNCILLI is the franchisee for EDIBLE ARRANGEMENTS. He will chat about the 2 new holiday arrangements they are doing. Their website is www.ediblearrangments.com.
Numbers for the stores are (706) 855-1616 or Aiken (803)226-0034.
1:30pm – GERALD JONES DEALER GROUP
1:45pm - - Business leaders often have more responsibilities than to just their company or employees, sometimes it involves taking care of elderly loved ones. Our experts from RESCARE can help explain what’s involved in providing assistance. For more information, log on to www.rescarehomecare.com
SEAN WILLIAMS owner of “Augusta Professional Auto Detail” is already expanding in his business – since leasing space in March from the Super Lube Oil Change and Repair shop across from Picadilly on Washington Road. He has just opened (last week) a Fort Gordon area location at 4141 Windsor Spring Rd.
Augusta Professional Auto Detail
3102 Washington Rd
Augusta, GA 30907
(706) 504-9800
Courtesy: The News Press\Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida
The Cape Coral-Fort Myers economy was second worst in the country, according to a survey released Wednesday – but there are some tentative signs that things might be turning around.
According to the Washington-based private, nonprofit Brookings Institution, among the top 100 metro areas, Cape Coral Fort Myers:
- Was dead last in change in gross metropolitan product from the peak in the third quarter of 2006: down 15.5 percent.
- Had the highest percentage of homes taken back in foreclosure by lenders: 21.02 per 1,000 mortgageable properties.
- Fared worse overall than any metro area except Boise, Idaho (Augusta, GA, was best).
This area’s bad rating was due in part to a stark 8 percent increase in unemployment in the past four years, but Barbara Hartman, spokeswoman for Southwest Florida Works in Fort Myers, said there’s been a slow, fitful recovery in recent months.
Unemployment peaked at a record 14.2 percent in January, she said, but it’s slowly decreased since then. October, the last month available, had a 12.9 percent rate.
The jobs lost here were a result of the home-building crash that followed the implosion of prices in 2006, Hartman said. “The bottom fell out. That affected every other industry.”
But now the jobs picture isn’t all bleak, she said. “The main industry sector keeping us afloat is health/education, mainly medical. Anything medically related like registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, occupational therapists.”
There have also been signs recently that the leisure and hospitality industry has been starting to come back, too, she added, and small businesses are hiring more.
Dr. Michael Collins, a Fort Myers-based eye surgeon who’s moving into a larger building this month to keep up with an increase in business, said his field is staying strong because “People still have eye problems, still have health problems. Without your health, what do you have?”
As for the big numbers of bank-owned foreclosure properties, there are two ways to look at that, said Jeff Tumbarello, a real estate agent with Steelbridge Realty and director of the Southwest Florida Real Estate Investors Association.
Because of the resulting low home prices, he noted, this is one of the most affordable places in the country to buy a house. “You can buy a house in either Cape Coral or Lehigh Acres if you make $30,000.
Bank-owned homes make up about 40 percent of sales nowadays, with short sales at 15 percent and conventional sales 45 percent, Tumbarello said.
Ironically, he said, the area was seen as having a healthy economy when the boom was inflating prices to an unsustainable level and now “Everybody is hammering a sustainable market.”
New Augusta Metro Chamber Series Starts the 2nd Tuesday in January and continues every 2nd Tuesday of the month. It’s called “Sunrise Survival Seminar Series”, “Eggs and Experts” and features a different early morning topic\presentation each month. It’s sponsored by and held at the offices of Serotta, Maddox, Evans, CPA’s on Greene Street. The accountants will handle all of the tax topics and they have others to talk about topics like:
Leadership Development – Mentoring/Coaching – Information Sharing – Networking – Bridge Buildin
Third Wednesdays
7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Cloud Nine Entertainment Restaurant
3156 Wrightsboro Road (Old Shoney’s restaurant)
You are INVITED to join this new dynamic new group that kicks off our first meeting on
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
‘A Vision for Emerging Leaders’
Our Vision and Focus is to provide:
-Leadership Development
-Mentoring/Coaching
-Information Sharing
-Networking
-Bridge Building
The format of the meetings for Success to Impact @ Breakfast will include:
-Delicious Power Breakfast
-Networking/Introductions
-Sponsor Moment
-Leadership/Empowerment Moment
-Local Political Update
-Diversity Spotlight
Charter Membership: $99 for ONE year
Price is good through December 31, 2010.
(Membership includes breakfast and membership card)
Beginning January 1, 2011 – Membership is $150 year (Membership includes breakfast and membership card)
Non Members: $10 fee per meeting
Primary Target Market:
18 – 45 years old
Secondary Target Market:
45 + (Seasoned professionals, educators, public safety officers, elected officials, community and business leaders, and entrepreneurs who will provide guidance to the emerging leaders, as well as learn from them)
Success to Impact @ Breakfast is Founded/Hosted/Organized by Helen Blocker-Adams. The HBA Group-Intl. P.O. Box 16546, Augusta, Ga. 30919 – www.hbagroup-intl.com – hba@hbagroup-intl.com – 706.267.0579
The Golden Rule Health Care Agency has opened up in West Augusta on the Professional Parkway. They are very similar to Rescare and Right At Home….companion services, cooking, anywhere from 2 hours a day to 24 hours a day.
For more info, www.goldenrulehca.com
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Our “techspert”, Kevin Wade from INTELLISYSTEMS stops by the radio version of the BUZZ for his weekly visit with Bill and John. This week, Kevin talks about his i-Pad, and how useful it was, or wasn’t on his recent trip to New York.