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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Dacula Group Using Word of Mouth to Grow Business

Business Network International meets each week in Dacula. Their philosophy is "Givers gain."

Each Thursday, a group of local business people meet at the Hamilton Mill Clubhouse to help build each other's business. Business Network International (BNI), explained member David Lawler, uses word of mouth advertising to get referral business for its members.  "Our members meet every week to exchange our referrals and to strengthen our relationships so that when I make a referral to somebody in the group, they merely have to close it," he said. "I've done the pre-sale. They make the call, the deal is done." Scott Williams, BNI director for the Hamilton Mill chapter, said the philosophy of the group is "Givers gain." "If I give business to you, you'll give business back to me," he explained. According to Williams, BNI has over 30 …

Monday, February 25, 2013

Broun: Sequestration Will Really Cut Expenditures

The majority of those in attendance at Rep. Paul Broun's Feb. 19 town hall meeting in Dacula indicated they want the cuts to take place.

On March 1, a series of automatic spending cuts, called the sequester, are scheduled to go into effect. At a Feb. 19 town hall meeting in Dacula, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA-10) -- whose district encompasses southern Clarke County, all of Oconee, Barrow and Walton, and part of Gwinnett including Dacula -- explained sequestration. "Sequestration is ... it's a plan Barack Obama gave us, part of the budget control act," Broun said. "It said that we are going to cut $85 billion this year - half out of the military, half out of the rest of discretionary spending, across the board cuts." The cuts -- though small relatively speaking -- are real, he explained. "It will really cut the expenditures," Broun added. With the United States national debt now …

Kay Woodruff

7:58 am on Sunday, March 3, 2013

If Obama and congress. Would cut the waste from the government agencies there would be no need to cut essentials---elaborate private bathrooms for congressmen, 85 different agencies to address education, finding for robotic monkeys, elaborate conferences costing millions for each of the separate government agencies some of which enjoy more than one per year, decrease in number of government …   more ›

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