Small Business Matters

When he was just a boy, Trace Blackmore often went to work with his father. Decades later, Trace combined the skills his father taught him with the business knowledge he’d gained over the years to start his own water treatment business. Today, Trace is not only the President of Blackmore Enterprises, he is also the host of Scaling Up! H2O, the popular podcast for water treatment professionals with...

Rick Mayo founded a personal training business, Alloy Personal Training Center, in 1992. In the past decade, he and his team began helping major brands and independent gyms, health clubs, and fitness businesses around the world deploy personal training systems through a licensing model under the Alloy brand. A subject matter expert on health and fitness, Rick is also a featured conference speaker,...

Bryan Gray became an entrepreneur at the ripe old age of 14 and later led two companies onto the Inc. 500 List. Today, Bryan serves as Chief Executive Officer & Neuro Selling Practice Leader for the Revenue Path Group (RPG). He is also President of MediaSauce, a contributing member of RPG, and leads the business development and strategic direction of both the organization as well as client work. S...

Eric CoryelI helps organizations identify their strategic position, move accountability down into the organization, and most of all create accountable teams that deliver results. To support these efforts, he also helps individuals and teams establish meaningful metrics, problem solve, deal with their real issues by having difficult conversations, and become accountable to each other. A graduate of...

President of Home Town Mortgage in Alpharetta, GA, Steve Beecham is also an author and popular keynote, Vistage, and motivational speaker in greater Atlanta. Never afraid to take a chance in business, Steve began his entrepreneurial career in retail as the owner of a men's and women's clothing store. Over the years, Steve honed his personal skills in the areas of sales, client relations, and busin...

Radio disk jockey turned business owner and Vistage Founder, Bud Carter has had a successful and colorful career. Arriving in Atlanta during the 80s, Bud was the owner and general manager of a corporate outplacement company. He was also the founder of Vistage (known then as Tech) and became the first Vistage Chair in Atlanta in 1987. Thirty years later, Bud still chairs his two original Vistage gr...

John Fenton leveraged the leadership skills he learned as a collegiate athlete to build a successful career in finance, ultimately serving as a managing partner with BDO USA's Atlanta office. A member of the Forbes Coaching Council and a Certified Brain Management Consultant, today John helps entrepreneurs and executives improve their leadership skills with confidence, clarity, and awareness. John...

Cindy Miller, CEO of Cindy Miller Communications, discusses the importance of a crisis communication plan as well as best-practices for small business communications, marketing and public relations.

With a passion for plants and horticulture, Josh Rutter launched Tropics North, a nursery farm in South Florida, with little experience in business. A couple decades later, Tropics North generated tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue with clients stretching across Florida and the Caribbean. Josh sits down with small business matters to talk about how he started Tropics North, some of the...

Dez Thornton is a Communications Expert who helps Thought Leaders say the right words in the right way when they matter most. An idea enthusiast with a knack for transforming the complex into the simple, Dez has an uncanny ability to inspire action through story. Dez was professionally trained at the University of South Carolina and Dale Carnegie and was the 2014 President of the Georgia Chapter o...

Alicia Butler Pierre is CEO of Equilibria, Inc. and is dedicated to designing business infrastructures for fast-growing companies serious about scaling in a sustainable and profitable manner. This business infrastructure links their people, processes and tools into a cohesive system so that work flows seamlessly and customers, vendors and employees remain satisfied. In this episode of the Small Bu...

Small Business Matters sits down with Mike Iverson, Principal at Trillium Financial, to talk about the role of the CFO, common financial management mistakes in business and Mike's favorite key performance indicators(KPIs). We also discuss: How Mike got started with Trillium. The roles and responsibilities of an interim CFO. Examples of a typical interim CFO engagement. Examples of mistakes that Mi...

Bernie Meineke spent more than 20 years working at Small Business Development Centers across the state of Georgia as a consultant and director. In this episode of the Small Business Matters podcast, we discuss the benefits that a Small Business Development Center can bring to entrepreneurs as well as common challenges and issues facing small businesses. Bernie shares insights he gained working wit...

Chris Hanks is the Founder & Executive Director at Kennesaw State University's Robin and Doug Shore Entrepreneurship Center. In this episode of the Small Business Matters podcast, we discuss Chris' entrepreneurial journey, life as a small business coach and consultant and why small business is so important to our economy and communities.

Welcome to the first episode of the Small Business Matters podcast! I'm pleased to have my son, Taylor Fulton, join me to discuss small business marketing, buyer personas, content marketing and inbound marketing strategies.