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New Broker at Sellstate Select Realty Inc.
Bill Albert marked his fifth year as a realtor by joining Sellstate Select Realty Inc.’s Mooresville office. His career started in Wilkesboro, before moving on to Mooresville.
Sellstate, he said, has the technology to make buying and selling a home easier. We offer clients extensive neighborhood reports and excellent marketing when selling a home.
He represents buyers and sellers in a 60-mile radius around Charlotte, including Huntersville, where, he said, real estate business is booming
Bill Albert can be reached by phone at (704) 526-8382, by email at walbert46@gmail.com or online at beactiverealty.com.
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Seeing 2020: Business Cheerleader’s Advice For Success in New Year
Every business needs a cheerleader, and Tisha Hammond has been one for small businesses for the last five years. Her Farmington Hills-based Ascent Small Business Promotion LLC, popularly known as From Launch to Ascent, offers consulting services, online training, inspirational talks, business retreats and more.
While Hammond calls her blog Pep Talk, she’s by no means just a pompom-brandishing cheerleader. She was a badge-and-gun-carrying police officer for 10 years. She spent 21 years working for the government, the last part of that service conducting equal employment opportunity investigations.
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Local Business News Executive Editor Glenn Gilbert discussed LBN’s ’Tis the Season to Shop Local campaign with LBN Publisher Guy Williams.
SBA has Advice for Consumers, Entrepreneurs
Local Business News Executive Editor Glenn Gilbert asked Constance Logan to address issues affecting small businesses. Logan is the district director of the Small Business Administration in Michigan. Here are excerpts from her responses.
GILBERT (LBN): In his announcement of Small Business Week (April 29 to May 5) President Trump said the country’s 30 million small businesses employ nearly 58 million Americans — 48 percent of the labor force, and that each year, small businesses create two-out-of-three net new, private-sector jobs in the United States. Is this a trend that is sustainable and where will this leave us 10 years from now?
Fox and Hounds Pastry Den in Troy Repeats History, Deliciously!
Monica Nacianceno never had a Twinkie in her school lunch for dessert – or a Ding Dong, or a Ho-Ho.
She never had a Whoopie Pie or a Keebler cookie.
But every one of her classmates would have traded Monica their lunches for the treats she did have, and some of them begged to do so.
Troy’s uBreakiFix: One of Five Metro Detroit Locations to Open Since 2016
The uBreakiFix business in Troy is one of five company locations to open in Metro Detroit during the past 15 months. And owners Drew Lessaris and Matthew, Ron and Joyce Harb have plans to expand into Macomb and Wayne counties, Brighton, Ann Arbor and Flint over the next two y
Special Needs Teen Thrilled with Bedroom Makeover
(Nicole McClelland, 16, of Waterford (center) surrounded by (from left) Rory Karpathian, owner of Beds by Design, and Suite Dreams Project's Kay Ponicall, Lauren Tonne and designer Kristin Smith of Jones-Keena and Company, were all involved in the total transformation...
Chicago Chef Now Restaurant Owner
(Interior View of Home Bistro ) By GLENN GILBERT Local Business News Rose Morenz probably didn’t consider herself a trend-setter in 1989 when she made potato pancakes for her 6-year-old grandson Victor. The recipe was a natural for woman of Hungarian descent. But...