Executive Partner Spotlight: First Horizon Bank
First Horizon Bank has been a part of the Jefferson County community for almost 40 years. In the past few decades, First Horizon has done everything it can to be there for members of the community, from supporting local businesses with loans to volunteering with and...
3 Financial Tips for Mom-and-Pop Shops
It would be an understatement to say that Covid-19 has been hitting businesses hard—especially small businesses and mom-and-pop shops. Thankfully, if your business applied for a PPP loan before March 31st you may have already begun to receive some of the benefits from...
8 Things that Attract the Creative Class to Small Communities
A recent New York Times article on California’s housing crisis has a dire warning for small communities: the remote workers are coming. We have to stop and ask, is this such a bad thing? After all, countless articles and research projects, and even a best-selling book...
Why Joining a Chamber of Commerce is a Game-Changer for Your Business
Owning a business can be a lonely place. You’ve taken the type of risk many can’t or don’t want to take. Taking on the risk of your business succeeding or failing, doing everything yourself from bookkeeping to advertising, and working long hours because the work has...
Executive Member Spotlight: Appalachian Electric Cooperative
For 80 years now, Appalachian Electric Cooperative has been bringing electricity to this part of East Tennessee. With close to 48,000 residential and commercial members in parts of five counties, AEC’s reason for being is to improve the quality of life in the...