April 2013 Features

  • Commentary: Does Obamacare Have A Death Panel?

    April 29, 2013

    Bloomberg Businessweek’s January article entitled “Wanted: Obamacare Death Panelists” corrects misperceptions of the law, but also highlights serious challenges in fighting fraud and rising health care costs. This references the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), which was created to slow the growth in Medicare spending when President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

  • Has Your Sales Team Met Their New Best Friend?

    April 25, 2013

    This month local sales trainer and author Doug Robinson talks about asking questions and how “You will question your way into many more sales than you will ever talk yourself into.”

  • Drawdy Roofing Turns its CEO’s Interest into a New Business Venture

    April 24, 2013

    Drawdy Roofing and Vinyl Siding has been an integral part of South Georgia for more than 40 years. Fifteen years ago, Ken Drawdy took over the family business and two years ago acquired Albany Sheet Metal, a sheet metal fabrication business serving industrial, residential, and commercial customers.

  • Daniel Titus on When to Upgrade Your Website

    April 22, 2013

    You upgrade your cellphone every two years, your workout routine every three months, and you wish you could upgrade your kids almost daily. How do you know when its time to upgrade your website? Daniel Titus of DanielTitus.com shares instances when you need an upgrade.

  • Scott Hunter on How Changing Interest Rates May Affect Your Investments

    April 18, 2013

    Even if you didn’t take Economics 101 in college, just navigating through the past several years has given you hands-on experience with one of the course’s most valuable lessons: The rise and fall of interest rates is one of the biggest factors influencing global economies, financial markets, and our daily lives. Wells Fargo Financial Advisor Scott Hunter shares why it is important to have a basic understanding of how interest rate changes could affect not only your wallet but also your investment portfolio.

  • Georgia Credit Unions Continue to Add Members

    April 17, 2013

    Credit union membership and deposits in Georgia grew in 2012, continuing a national trend that began with Bank Transfer Day in the fall of 2011. In a exclusive interview with Albany CEO, President/CEO of the Georgia Credit Union Affiliates Mike Mercer speaks as to why credit unions across the state have encountered such growth.

  • Commentary: Will Health Care Reform Hit A Snag?

    April 15, 2013

    Reports are that a key target of the Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in 2010 appears ambivalent about buying health insurance. Specifically, the young and healthy have so far not been interested in buying health insurance. However, it is still early and none of the insurance exchanges have been set up. Plus, it is possible that they are waiting until the last minute before having to pay a fee for not being insured.

  • MillerCoors, P&G, Mars Chocolate Win Albany EDC Industry Awards

    April 11, 2013

    The Albany-Dougherty Economic Development Commission announced today the winners of its 2013 Industry Awards, an annual event highlighting the community’s roster of industries and their successes. Honorees for economic impact, excellence in innovation, and community citizenship were all recognized.

  • MSA Offers New Approach to Pain Management

    April 09, 2013

    Business is growing at Musculoskeletal Associates (MSA), a primary-care orthopedic practice with an emphasis on spine and interventional pain management procedures and diagnostics. It offers physical therapy, imaging services such as MRIs and CTs, neurodiagostics; and it has an ambulatory surgery center. With a full spectrum of services, MSA can in many cases enable patients to receive the treatment they need without going to a hospital.

  • Do You Trust Your Employees to Work Remotely?

    April 08, 2013

    Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer unleashed a firestorm of commentary throughout the business world with her recent announcement that remote working was off the table for the tech company’s staffers, who will now be expected to show up in the office every day. If you’ve still got a nagging feeling that letting employees work at home means paying them to watch Cartoon Network in their jammies all day, how can you get over it?

  • Commentary: Immigration Enhances Local Economies

    April 04, 2013

    Immigration is a divisive topic. Whenever a new segment of workers enter the market, it causes apprehension and distrust. While Arizona, Georgia, and Alabama are passing laws to restrict immigration, cities like St. Louis are openly courting immigrants in order to stem a steady loss of population.

  • Prince Automotive Group Closes Purchase of Albany's Tri-State Peterbilt

    April 03, 2013

    On March 28, Prince Automotive Group completed its purchase of Tri-State Peterbilt in Albany. Tri-State Peterbilt, which has been in business for about 38 years, sells heavy-duty Class 8 trucks, which are any trucks with a gross vehicle weight over 33,000 lbs. and all tractor-trailers.

  • Former Albany Chamber Executive Deborah Bowie Joining Gainesville Chamber as VP of Chamber Development

    April 01, 2013

    In an exclusive interview with Albany CEO, former Senior Director of Public Policy & Communications for the Albany Chamber Deborah Bowie announces her move to join the Gainesville Chamber in Gainesville, Florida.