Trends in Talent Acquisition
Small business is on the rise, taking shape a new generation of entrepreneurs. The Small Business Administration (SBA) reported that an estimated 27.5 million small businesses operated in the US in...
View ArticleJunction Creative Solutions (Junction) Heeds Its Own Advice To React, Adapt,...
ATLANTA, GA: December 09, 2010 – Junction Creative Solutions (Junction), an Atlanta based strategic firm, faced the economic challenges head on to not only survive, but flourish. By employing the same...
View ArticleJ Mark Cropp Joins Junction to Manage Pennsylvania Office
Junction Creative Solutions (Junction), an Atlanta-based strategy firm, expands its team to include J. Mark Cropp, Executive Director, Business Development & Partnerships NE. Mark, a veteran sales...
View ArticleAtlanta Shows Strong Support for Local Startups and Growing Businesses
With news that hiring had slowed, preventing unemployment levels from dropping as predicted, 2011 began with an inauspicious economic outlook. Georgia in particular entered the year seeking to end a...
View ArticleMarketing Spend: Maximize. Optimize. Measure.
Companies have shifted focus from growth to sustainability as the economy rebounds and recovers. As seen with the financial giants, even the largest and most powerful companies are searching for...
View ArticleJunction Creative Solutions and Realtime Media Collaborate and Sponsor...
Atlanta-based Junction Creative Solutions (Junction) and Philadelphia-based Realtime Media (Realtime) co-sponsor a networking cruise aboard the Freedom Yacht, a sister ship to the Presidential Yacht...
View ArticleAtlanta Based AcuteCare Telemedicine Launches New Online Presence
AcuteCare Telemedicine (AcuteCare), led by 4 expert neurologists, launches its new online presence. AcuteCare, an emerging telemedicine provider, offers hospitals 24/7 high quality neurological...
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Junction Creative Solutions Making Waves in the Northeast
Further extending its reach into the northeastern United States, Atlanta-based Junction Creative Solutions (Junction) hosted a series of networking events aboard Freedom Yacht, sister ship to the...
View ArticleDon’t Be Content with Bad Content
In the digital age, where competition for consumer’s attention is high, reinforcing existing brand value and establishing loyalties is vital to the success of any brand. The creation and distribution...
View ArticleJunction Sponsors LAUNCHfn’s Fast Pitch Workshop and Networking Event
September 13, 2011 – ATLANTA, GA: Junction Creative Solutions (Junction), an Atlanta based strategic firm, actively supports organizations focused on advancing opportunities for entrepreneurs in the...
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LAUNCHfn’s Fast Pitch Event Brings Atlanta Entrepreneurs and the Investment...
On Tuesday, September 13th, Launch Funding Network, Inc. (LAUNCHfn) hosted an elevator pitch workshop for entrepreneurs at The Hub in Atlanta, GA. The day-long session included a number of activities...
View ArticleJunction CEO Shares Insights into Strategy, Impact on Blog Talk Radio
Julie Gareleck, CEO & Managing Partner, Junction Creative Solutions (Junction), appeared earlier this afternoon on The Compassionate Capitalist on Blog Talk Radio, broadcasted on the web to...
View ArticleGive a Little, Make a Lot
In a time where inhibited growth and revenue decline are the norm, it is hard to envision a segment that manages to derive value from a trying economic climate. Social entrepreneurship – involving...
View ArticleBrain Scans to Board Rooms
The role of medical practitioner is evolving from clinician/academician to business owner/entrepreneur. Doctors are known for rapid decision making, analytical skills, and independent thinking, all...
View ArticleSerenity Now
As an entrepreneur, stress levels are typically high. On any given day, it could be launching a new website, product, or marketing campaign; dealing with customers, reconciling financials, or hiring...
View ArticleDon’t Feed the Trolls
Startup and entrepreneurial businesses face plenty of obstacles and pitfalls along the path to sustainability and success. Besides dealing with the obvious challenges, such as earning funding, building...
View ArticleWhere the Rubber Meets the Road
The slow economy of recent years has forced the reconsideration of budgeting for people from all walks of life. For many, the downturn has meant drastically reduced spending. Much more severe than...
View ArticleIntroducing the JXN Executive Roundtable
In 2012, businesses face the challenge of reacting to major shifts in consumer behaviors within the financial constraints of a less than favorable economy. Many owners and CEOs find themselves looking...
View ArticleWord Out on the Town
Reputation has always carried heavy importance for businesses across industry. Throughout the last century, customer loyalty was primarily forged through personal interactions that involved a high...
View ArticleLooking Towards the Stars
Picture this: a group of eccentric billionaires and former NASA scientists are gathered around a conference table, discussing plans to significantly shape the world economy. Their plan is to mine...
View ArticleWhat the Work Really Costs
Earlier this year, Donny Deutsch on a segment of the Today Show, advised millions of aspiring entrepreneurs watching at home how easy it was to commission a “neighborhood hipster” to build a website...
View ArticleEverything is a Remix
With emergent technology and new consumer behaviors driving the marketplace, CIOs and other business leaders are recognizing the increasing need for innovation to support growth. Disruption has become...
View ArticleDiscussing Personal Brand at Empower Concepts Series
Junction Executive Director of Business Development & Partnerships Mark Cropp recently joined Sherry Heyl, CEO of Concept Hub Inc. and Julie Squires, CEO of Softscribe Inc. as featured speakers on...
View ArticleGet Your Game Face On
The rise of Generation X as a dominating consumer group has brought some changing attitudes towards the role of many new and innovative niches of the marketing ecosystem. Throughout 2012, social...
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The Context of My Experience: Necker Island & Meeting Sir Richard Branson
As a CEO and entrepreneur, I look to great leaders for inspiration and guidance as I mitigate challenges or validate my own business strategies. Sir Richard Branson has long since been one of those...
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The Context of My Experience: Big Ideas to Inspire Change
(Read about Day 1’s events here.) As we waited for the iSpeed to arrive on day 2, a group of us recapped the previous day’s events, commenting on the how incredible we found the island, the people,...
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The Context of My Experience: The End of the World
(Read previous entries about Days 1 and 2: Day 1, Day 2 ) The final day of Necker Cup was an explosion. After the tennis matches were complete and the Necker Cup was awarded, the tennis players and...
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A Year in Review
A Snapshot of our Blog in 2012 2012 was truly a year worthy of conversation. Facebook’s IPO opened the world’s eyes to a new understanding of social media, mobile technology continued to grow and...
View ArticleHonest Abe
Directed by Steven Spielberg and featuring a cast of acclaimed actors headlined by the venerable Daniel Day Lewis, the recently released film Lincoln was destined to be a big hit at the box office....
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Lessons from the CEOs – Culture
In this series, we will explore some less-frequently discussed ideas about running a successful business utilizing the experiences of real CEOs. In this first installment, we find some wisdom from...
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The Human Billboard
How much would someone have to pay you to legally change your name to something new? At the end of 2012, a unique online auction closed for a final bid of $45,500, resulting in iwearyourshirt.com...
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Junction Client Saffire Vapor Achieves Notable Growth in Year 1
Saffire Vapor, an ecommerce seller and retailer of “high-powered” electronic cigarettes and accessories, achieves notable growth in 2012 and continues to hit growth milestones in Q1 2013. In less than...
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Entrepreneurship: A Dream or a Myth
The dream of business ownership captures the imagination of aspiring entrepreneurs of every generation, who envision a journey of self-reliance, independence, personal fulfillment and a future limited...
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Move Over Santa, Here Comes The Great Pumpkin!
Once reserved for the single last day in October, Halloween was a time when younger children donned costumes and set out throughout the neighborhoods of America, knocking on suspecting home dwellers...
View ArticleThe Glamourous, Sexy World of Entrepreneurship?
At a time when nearly half of the workforce is struggling to land a full time career with a company that values commitment to long-term employees, the temptation to jump the corporate ship and seek...
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Price Is No Longer Enough to Motivate Consumers to Act
It is a debate among marketers that has raged since the word “Discount” first found its way into consumer’s vocabulary. Add descriptors like “Sale”, “Reduced”, “Low price leader”, “Special”, “We sell...
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Getting the E-commerce Experience Right Has Never Been More Important
As more and more consumers turn to the Web for their holiday shopping, performance of e-merchants online experience is becoming increasingly important to the bottom line. A recent Harris Poll...
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Is Today Your Day to Answer the Call?
The following you will read two stories of accomplished women, who when faced with the opportunity, combined their passion and embrace for the entrepreneurial spirit to achieve new visions of personal...
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It is as Good a Time as Ever to Make it Happen
Starting a new business venture is always fraught with challenges and risks, even in the best of economic times. The process of performing a thorough evaluation of all things to do with strategy,...
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Financing the Dream
If enthusiasm and visions of grand scale success were forms of legal tender funding that great business idea would be easy and efforts to launch it and grow its future would be assured. But an...
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A Well-Defined Marketing Strategy Focuses on Return on Investment
Developing a long-term plan to achieve an objective is not a ground breaking initiative by any stretch of imagination and any first year business student or budding entrepreneur will attest to being...
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How Much of Your Advertising Spend Is Getting Blocked?
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted,” Philadelphia department store magnate John Wanamaker was famously quoted as saying. “The trouble is I don’t know which half.” And while the markets,...
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One Entrepreneur’s Seven Year Journey
Ask just about any successful person what life-lessons contributed the most to their progression up the career ladder and more times than not the answer will take you back to a time when they first...
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The Pathway to Achieving Success
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” So said Jim Rohn, an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker, but a few simple disciplines, practiced or...
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Feedback: An Opportunity to Initiate Growth
It was one of those moments we have all experienced in some form or at some time in our daily lives. The moment when we realize that our world, that space in which we conduct the veritable business of...
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What’s Your American Dream?
The phrase “The American Dream” is rooted in the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence and propagates that “each person’s desire to pursue happiness was not just self-indulgence,...
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