Brent Barkin is Second Generation President of Shoe Station
Posted On February 24, 2020
Brent Barkin was working at Shoe Station as a young boy. The store was a concept his father originated and shortly after the first one was open, the second store opened in Pensacola. Today there are nineteen stores throughout the deep south and Brent is now running the show. Each…
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Why advertising can be important for law firms — and their clients
Posted On February 22, 2020
If you drive in Alabama or watch TV or listen to the radio, you have seen or heard an advertisement for a personal injury lawyer. They’re everywhere – on billboards, on the sides of buses, in newspapers and magazines, maybe even embedded beneath the lacquer on the tables in a…
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How our love for pets is changing the veterinary industry
Posted On February 20, 2020
Pets have become an increasingly important part of American life. Pet ownership has grown from 56 percent of the households in this country in 1988 to about two-thirds of them today. More pets means more demand for veterinarians. But those larger numbers of pet owners also have different priorities than…
Categories: What's Working with Cam MarstonBrian Garish leads Banfield Pet Hospital: 1000+ locations, 19,000+ associates, and 3+M pets
Posted On February 17, 2020
Brian Garish leads Banfield Pet Hospitals. One of the Mars family of businesses (think M&Ms), the pet care industry is booming. More pets today than ever before are leading to a major shortage of veterinarians. And the Millennial generation, per Brian, is much more interested in pet preventative health care…
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Keys to the workplace of tomorrow? Flexibility and autonomy
Posted On February 12, 2020
What will the workplace of the future look like? To answer that, perhaps we should look at the trends that have shaped the workplace of today. In the latest episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston,” two members of Mobile Bay Monthly’s “Forty Under Forty” shared their ideas about what’s…
Categories: UncategorizedThe Under 40 Year Old’s View of Today’s Workplace
Posted On February 10, 2020
Corey James is the Director of Operations for Mobile, Alabama’s Innovation PortAL, overseeing startup consulting, community development initiatives, marketing, and communications. Cullen Millsap is a Parter and Vice President of Legal Imaging in Mobile, performing digital forensics and eDiscovery for the legal field. Both are members of Mobile Bay Monthly’s…
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Knowing your customers is important to every business — and that goes double for casinos
Posted On February 6, 2020
Most casinos have similar characteristics. They’re relatively dark, with few or no windows – nothing to distract the paying customers from the lights of the slot machines or the cards on the tables. They’re owned by large companies that run casinos in multiple markets. And they’re typically fairly secretive about…
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Why advertising can be important for law firms — and their clients
Posted On February 5, 2020
If you drive in Alabama or watch TV or listen to the radio, you have seen or heard an advertisement for a personal injury lawyer. They’re everywhere – on billboards, on the sides of buses, in newspapers and magazines, maybe even embedded beneath the lacquer on the tables in a…
Categories: What's Working with Cam Marston
A gift from God? Or a Lucifer?
Posted On February 3, 2020
One of my joys is writing these weekly commentaries for Alabama Public Radio. They make me flex my creativity muscles. I’m very proud of the awards they’ve won and I’m deeply grateful the leadership at APR allows me to do them. I was disappointed when they told me this one…
Categories: Keeping It RealDissecting some Generation X cliches
Posted On February 3, 2020
What does it mean to be Generation X? Are we forever doomed to be the quintessential middle child, overlooked between the Baby Boomers and millennials? Are we the slackers described in the Douglas Coupland book that spawned the name? Are we the Forgotten Generation? Last year, the New York Times…
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