Patrick Werrlein and his Team Won Business Alabama Magazine's Best Places to Work in Alabama
Jan 26, 2023
Patrick Werrlein said his company could not have won this award six years ago. The company culture needed a big overhaul. He's president and owner of a Swagelok sales and service center in Birmingham, Alabama. Once he got the right team together and became clear about "who we are and what we do," he went to work on the...
Mel Washington And I Discuss What It Takes to Start Well and Survive as a Small Business
Jan 23, 2023
Mel Washington is Regional Director of the Small Business Development Center at the University of South Alabama. He coaches and consults and guides small businesses as they work to become stable, viable businesses. He and I discuss what it takes to get started and where many errors are made by small business owners. If...
Buddy Persons Runs a Multi-Faceted Commercial Construction and Disaster Recovery Business That Started Long Ago as a Plumbing Company
Jan 16, 2023
Buddy Persons has never seen as much property damage from a hurricane than what he saw in south Florida after Hurrican Ian. He was there representing the disaster recovery division of Persons Services Corp, of the several divisions of his company. Buddy's background includes such work in Haiti, Albania and Hondurus to...
Cam a Guest on Tony Truitt's News Radio
Jan 15, 2023
It's a fun experience being on the other side of the mic early Saturday morning for Tony Truitt's News Radio show out of Birmingham. It was a quick chat in which he asked me to tell a bit of the story of my show.
Tulane Freeman School of Business Economist and Professor Peter Ricchiuti Tells Us What the Year Will Bring
Jan 9, 2023
All the talk of recession pushed me to reach out to friend of the show Peter Ricchiuti to get his take on things. Always a very entertaining guest, Peter gives us a sense of what to focus on, what "tea leaves" he's reading, and perhaps most importantly, he tells us what the businesses he and his students study do when...