Bill Gerdes
The Modern Sales Force
A blog offering advice about a great sales team likens the process to that of putting together a pro football team: You have to...
Scholar in Orbit, Out of Centerpoint
Christopher Gray landed more than $1.3 million in scholarships and used that expertise to devise an...
Curb Your Enthusiasm?
Joe Sandner III has been around the Alabama commercial real estate business for 35 years and has seen his share of ups and downs...
Crackdown Still Hard on Business
Paul Moore vividly remembers when House Bill 56 was approved. “We lost a lot of good people, ” Moore says. “The ones who...
American-Made Works Big Time at Haleyville's Exxel Outdoors
Barbara Garrison was destined to make sleeping bags, right down to her initials: BAG. And her dedication to her profession, her...
Frontier Days on Main Street
To Alabama’s community banks, Jesse James and his gang would be a minor annoyance compared to the obstacles and issues the banks face...
Merger and the Cost of Compliance
It may not be a marriage made in heaven, but the merger between River Bank and Trust and Keystone Bank — announced last...
New Banks of Different Stripes
Only two new banks have been started in Alabama since the financial crisis of 2008, and each has taken a different approach to...
Legal Advice From on High
When Ken Riley, a Birmingham liability lawyer, goes out to survey an automobile accident scene, he usually takes his camera-equipped drone...
Countdown to Showdown Over Alabama One
The Ides of March could mark the end of a long and bitter feud for control of the Tuscaloosa-based Alabama One Credit Union, ...