Doug Ankersen’s Isle Dauphine Oysters Feature the Waters in Which They’re Raised, Lots of Hard Work, and Doug’s Engineering Sensibilities
Posted On October 7, 2024
The Isle Dauphine Oyster Company was born out of Doug’s passion for process, the coastal waters, and Doug’s fondness for oysters. A trained engineer, Doug has now created a predictable product that’s ready for the big time. That’s a part of his pitch when he enters restaurants in Nashville, Birmingham, Atlanta, and New Orleans – they can count on his oysters tasting good all the time and always being available. He’s not worried about storms, about too much fresh water, about any of the variables that smaller, less sophisticated farmed oysters companies struggle with. Doug is now spreading the word… Read More
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Maymay made a business out of a YouTube channel, and you can too
Posted On October 7, 2024
Businesses can start from all sorts of places and situations. For Maymay Helms, her business started with a house fire. “In 2011, we lost everything we owned in a fire in our home,” she said. “I had been kind of a fan of YouTube. I’d been watching paper crafters and artists and things that I loved. And I remember saying to my husband: ‘I think I could do this.’” Helms did just that, starting a YouTube paper crafting channel out of a 4×6 closet that now has more than 380,000 subscribers. Our guest in a recent episode of “What’s Working… Read More
Categories: Blog, Entrepreneurship, What's Working with Cam MarstonInfantilized
Posted On October 2, 2024
On this week’s Keeping It Real, Cam Marston reacts to a book review about society and how we’re raising kids. It’s not the kids fault, Cam says, it’s definitely the parents. —– The Economist magazine reviewed a book called Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood. The author, Keith Hayward, argues that western society is keeping kids less mature than previous generations. He tells of a young lady who insisted on spelling the word hamster with a P. When corrected repeatedly, she called her mom and put her on speakerphone to tell her boss not to be so mean. That’s laughable,… Read More
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How will new realtor commission rules affect the homebuying process?
Posted On October 1, 2024
There are new rules for realtors’ commissions when you’re looking to buy a house. How will they affect you? Our guest in a recent episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston” had the answer. Alabama Gulf Coast realtor Angelo DePaola, the Coastal Connection, has done a lot of work researching how the new rule will affect realtors and homebuyers. Once upon a time, if you wanted to buy a house you went to the realtor who listed that house – the seller’s agent. But in order to ensure that the best interests of the buyer were represented, buyer’s agents became… Read More
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