Op-Ed Archives - UPSTATE BUSINESS JOURNAL

June 4, 2020

By Amanda Long, senior account director, Hughes Agency In the time of COVID-19, every business has had to change how they operate and communicate with their consumers. One way that…

Lessons From the Trenches: Budgeting and strategic planning are essential

Do you do an annual budget and strategic plan for your business?

How is the CRE office market faring right now?

by Blaine Hart Throughout 2019 and heading into the first quarter of 2020, the Upstate office market was trekking along at a record-setting pace. The market total, from a vacancy…

What’s going on in the CRE industrial market right now?

by John Montgomery It would be an understatement to say that we are experiencing unprecedented times in our lives. Businesses are closed, people are forced to work from home and…

Pandemic pivoting: Surviving through creative resourcefulness

Successful pivoting holds at least one key to opening up revenue streams that may take root and be fruitful long after the pandemic wanes.

Lessons from the Trenches: Keeping cash flowing in tough times

Jim Sobeck is CEO of New South Construction Supply, a building products distributor based in Greenville with nine locations in the Carolinas and Georgia.

The times that PR (both good and bad) reshaped the Upstate

Here are some of the classic public relations stories that have changed the region.

PR for uncertain times

Here's some advice Taryn Scher of TK Public Relations offers for you to implement over the course of the next several weeks as things remain uncertain.

Representing the Upstate at CES

By Marc Metcalf, senior business recruitment officer, Upstate SC Alliance The Consumer Technology Association’s annual Consumer Electronics Show, held the second week of January, historically has been a launchpad for…

A well-informed jury is a well-functioning democracy

By Jael Gilreath Gilreath is a senior assistant public defender for the 11th Judicial Circuit in Lexington I was told by a co-worker during my first week as a public…