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Highland Brewing-Oscar Wong

If you mention beer in the mountains of western North Carolina, you’ll be likely hear one name – Oscar Wong. He is known as the “Godfather” of the modern beer movement here, after opening the first craft brewery back in 1994. (Fox News)

Oscar Wong as described on the Highland Brewing website
Founder, Owner, President, Chief Peddler, Schmoozing and Cleanup Guy
Highland founder, Oscar Wong, was born in Jamaica in 1940. At 18, he left the island to attend the University of Notre Dame, where he completed his masters in Civil/Structural Engineering. After retiring early from a successful engineering career that took him all over the country, Oscar landed in Asheville in 1994 and started Highland Brewing “as a hobby” in the 3,500 square foot basement of Barley’s Taproom in downtown Asheville.
He is an active member of the Rotary Club and other community-minded volunteer endeavors. He was awarded Small Business of the Year in 2007/2008 and the William A. V. Cecil Award for Leadership in Hospitality in 2011, both by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. (Highlandbrewing.com, 11/2013)

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Lenton Harding is the owner of Wireless Place located in Clinton, MS. You can find information about Wireless Place on Facebook at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/WirelessPlaceMS.

Mr. Harding has a great start with his business especially focusing on customer service. In my opinion, no matter what your product is it will not sell as well if your customer service is horrible. The transcript of the interview is shown below. I will be referred to as CM and Mr. Harding, LH.

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I had the pleasure of talking with Angela Mattson whose business helps other business owners stay organized. She has more than 50 “how-to” videos on You Tube.  Take a look at this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU40qlr6fYs

What is it that you do?

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Interview by Justin Rhodes

When I met Morgan Carver, she was in an undergraduate program to bring news to our peers at Western Carolina University. Now she is the Promotions Coordinator of Greater Media Charlotte. She works as a marketer for WBT-AM/FM and WLNK-FM. These radio stations have an expansive audience in Charlotte North Carolina which is the 24th largest market in the United States.

Morgan has a very sweet demeanor but knows when to lose the charm and get work done. She was gracious enough to allow me to interview her about her work with GMC.
The marketing profession is a very dog-eat-dog world. There is a lot of turnover and when companies make cut backs, marketing professionals are some of the first to go. Especially in the radio world, jobs are hard to keep. She attributes her career stability to the simple fact that she takes on all the responsibility that they can throw at her. This not only allows her to become more valuable, but she also looks at it as a learning experience to strengthen her skill sets.

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