We had the pleasure of judging the 26-100 employee and 101-500 employee categories of the Nashville Business Journal's 2008 Best in Business Awards and of selecting the following finalists (winners are in bold):

26 to 100 employee category

C3 Consulting [www.c3-consult.com]

CareHere!, LLC [www.carehere.com]

Cavalry Transportation [www.cavalrylogistics.com]

cj Advertising [www.cjadvertising.com]

Solomon Builders [www.solomonbuilders.com]

Tennessee Bun Company [www.buncompany.com]


101 to 500 employees

Horizon Wine and Spirits [www.horizonwineandspirits.com]

KraftCPAs, PLLC [www.kraftcpas.com]

Loews Vanderbilt Hotel [www.loewshotels.com]

Passport Health Communications [www.passporthealth.com]

PureSafety [www.puresafety.com]

Travelink American Express [www.travelinkonline.com]



We had the pleasure of judging the 26-100 Employee category of the Nashville Business Journal 's 2007 Best in Business Awards and selecting these winners (bold) and nominees:

echomusic —CEO Mark Montgomery, Entrepreneur of the Year
www.echomusic.com

Delta Dental (tie)
www.deltadentaltn.com

John Maher Builders (tie)
www.johnmaherbuilders.com

Bristol Development
www.bristoldevelopment.com

Cybera
www.cybera.net

Tennessee Commerce Bank
www.tncommercebank.com


Elementary Lessons in Entrepreneurship (click here to download PDF)

Columns from the Nashville Business Journal
Troubleshooting workplace communication problems (with Debra Fish, Psy.D.)
http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2006/04/24/focus4.html


Business and Sales Forecasting

http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2006/03/27/smallb3.html

Customer satisfaction
http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2004/12/13/smallb6.html

Guerrilla marketing
www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2004/10/11/smallb6.html

Business viability (with Shane Messer) http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2005/10/17/smallb2.html

Business viability (with Shane Messer) http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2006/03/06/smallb3.html

In the news
From “Be Super in 2006: 10 steps to have a banner year,” published by the
Nashville Business Journal and featured on MSNBC.com

Know your numbers
http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2006/01/02/story1.html?page=1, continued at http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2006/01/02/story1.html?page=2

Track your competition
http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2006/01/02/story1.html?page=4, continued at
http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2006/01/02/story1.html?page=5