Commercial Insurance, Cold Calling, and Brian Tanner - Explanations on Rate Increases and Old School Sales
Sep 18, 2023
If you buy commercial insurance you've certainly noticed the rate increases. Brian Tanner is Managing Principal at EPIC Insurance's Birmingham, Alabama office and is our monthly Business Alabama magazine deep dive interview. He explains why rates are up, how AI is making creative crooks more clever, and why the art of...
Expertly Keeping Employees in Historically High Turnover Jobs - Panini Pete & Cheryl Blohme of PP Hospitality Group
Sep 11, 2023
Foodservice is typically full of high turnover. Unless you work for PP Hospitality Group. Panini Pete and his sister, Cheryl Blohme, have created a rapidly growing organizaiton due, in part, by their ability to find and keep good people in jobs typified by high turnover. Pete and Cheryl and their leadership team have...
Revealing Insights into the Labor Market - Elizabeth Crofoot, an Economist with Lightcast, and I Dig Deep
Sep 4, 2023
There is a big difference between a skills shortage and a labor shortage. Employers used to worry about lack of applicable skills. Today employers just need people with some of the skills demanded. Elizabeth Crofoot is an economist with Lightcast. Based in DC, Elizabeth knows how to mine the data our Federal Government...
Inside Out Marketing - The Basics Of Marketing Your Business with Gayle Rogers of The Atomic Agency
Aug 28, 2023
There are basics to marketing your business. Before business owners get into the weeds of fancy marketing tactics, they need to make sure the basics are covered. Gayle Rogers of The Atomic Agency works with owners of new businesses as well as business veterans to make sure the fundamentals are well taken care of before...
Sports Tourism is Big Business. Joel Lamp is the Sports Manager for the Huntsville CVB.
Aug 21, 2023
Sports Tourism draws athletes and their families from hundreds of miles to destinations where they can compete. Joel Lamp is the Sports Manager for the Huntsville Convention and Visitors Bureau and is responsible for filling the statiums, stands, fields, rinks, pools, and courts around Huntsville with these athelets....