By Courtney Lindberg, ArborBrook Advisors
Goals are good.
Plans are better.
Relationships are best.
January has faded and, unfortunately, but statistically accurate, most of our goals and resolutions set not so long ago. There are many books, many gurus, videos, etc. out there discussing how to achieve all your dreams, some of them...
By Matthew Vanderford
Usually this column is meant to discuss insurance-related themes and the occasional life topic that comes to mind. But this time I wanted to send a different message as this area has been exposed yet again to another set of disasters. First, Hurricane Michael came to devastate...
By Lori Leath Smith
What is a Destinite? According to Destinites.com Owner and Destinites Facebook (locals only) group creator Patricia Lee, it’s someone with a vested interest in the Destin community—residents, business or property owners and even those who work or do business here. “Those are the people who care...
By Randy Locklier, President of Gulf Financial
Don’t we all love smore’s? I do! On a recent mountain trip, we enjoyed them by the firepit. Melting chocolate and marshmallow oozing over a warm graham cracker is so delicious. Could you resist?
In 1972, an experiment was conducted at Stanford University. Children...
The Northwest Florida Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association (FPRA) recently announced the winners of the 2020 FPRA Image Awards. Conducted annually, the Image Awards competition provides PR practitioners a platform to be recognized in their local markets for their outstanding public relations strategies, programs and campaigns. The...
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Beach Properties Appoints Marketing/Operations Supervisor and Marketing Manager
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Beach Properties of Florida has promoted Katie Crowe to marketing/operations supervisor and Karina Caraballo to marketing manager for the brokerage headquartered in WaterColor.
Since joining the agency in 2021 as an operations coordinator, Crowe has been...
By Shane Moody, President and CEO, Destin Chamber of Commerce
There has been some negativity about the Florida legislature looking to pass a bill to require online shopping retailers to charge and remit to Florida sales tax on their purchases. The tax dollars generated from the online sales tax would...
By Matthew Vanderford, Claimology
Imagine you were given a task. Imagine this task is to travel across space to find a new home for your family, because the home you have is being threatened with extinction. Now imagine climbing into the rocket ship, blasting off and punching your way into...
By Gina Weidie
Have you been considering solar options for your home, but didn’t know where to begin?
Let me help.
Now’s a great time because U.S. solar installation cost decreased by roughly 70% during the past 10 years. In this past year alone, the residential market saw a 5% percent decrease...
By Matthew Vanderford, Claimology
The last thing I wanted to do was start writing an article about COVID-19. I mean everywhere we turn it’s an article about COVID-19, another conversation about COVID-19, more chatter, more worry, more uncertainty, more misinformation and worse yet, sometimes the information that’s legit isn’t helping,...
