What Powers AMA

321 Coffee prides itself on two key points: great people coffee and great coffee.

321 Coffee is a nonprofit coffee shop and roaster that employs individuals with disabilities. The business is on a mission to model inclusion for other companies to follow. For employees and customers, 321 Coffee is a fun and positive experience.

In addition to its focus on inclusivity, 321 Coffee sources high-quality coffee beans directly from the farmer and uses all compostable products. This focus on the triple bottom line— people, profits and planet—is central to the 321 Coffee business model.

Advance Auto Parts, Inc. is a leading automotive aftermarket parts provider that serves both professional installers and do-it-yourself customers. As of January 2, 2021, Advance operated 4,806 stores and 170 Worldpac branches in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Company also serves 1,277 independently owned Carquest branded stores across these locations in addition to Mexico, Grand Cayman, the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, and the British Virgin Islands. Additional information about Advance, including employment opportunities, customer services, and online shopping for parts, accessories, and other offerings can be found at www.AdvanceAutoParts.com

Blueforest Studios is a video production firm and animation studio based in Raleigh, NC, that works with agencies, brands, and nonprofits to tell their brand story through memorable videos that move people to action.

We create compelling video throughout the Southeast and North Carolina, with video production services in Raleigh, Charlotte, Wilmington, Asheville, and beyond.

Crawford Group is dedicated to elevating the practice of marketing and the people who do it. They specialize in top marketing talent for events, marketing projects, communications and creative services. They help clients in optimizing skills and resources; and marketing experts who are looking for their next exciting project. As a WBNEC-certified woman-owned business, they support many of their client’s diversity initiatives.  This year, they are celebrating 20 years of partnering with small, medium and Fortune 500 companies to provide the exact marketing talent needed while completely dedicated to employee satisfaction and customer success. To learn more, visit crawfordgroup.com.

ColdTowne formed in March of 2005 from members of two Comedy Conservatory student teams in New Orleans, Louisiana. After Hurricane Katrina, a handful of ColdTowne’s original eight members fled to Austin, Texas, building a group mind that bordered on codependence. Bringing decades of performance, teaching, and management experience from the likes of Boom! Chicago – Amsterdam, The Second City (Chicago and Cleveland) and Improv Olympic (Chicago), ColdTowne is: Tauri Laws-Phillips, Rachel Madorsky, Dave Buckman and Justin York, and a staff of some of the most talented, dedicated humans on the planet. ColdTowne Theater teaches, entertains both the public, corporations, and for private events. Our community of performers includes over 2,000 actors, comedians, and writers all over the world.

Drawing InSight can enhance your event with the use of graphic recording. Because most of our long term knowledge is from what we see and do, groups experience much higher retention when graphic recording is used. Participants stay engaged and focused, which leads to more creative thinking. The content of the meeting is visible and accessible during the entire session, and a digital image will be created afterward. This image is ideal for updating other employees with the outcomes, and can be used as a reference by participants.

Go Fish Digital was founded in 2005, and we’ve spent a decade and a half performing Search Engine Optimization, Online Reputation Management, Content Marketing, Website Design & Development, and Paid Advertising services for our amazing clients.

We’re a team of technical marketers and creative thinkers helping companies attract more attention online, build more traffic to websites, improve their reputations, and obtain more conversions. We have offices in both Washington, D.C. and Raleigh, N.C. Though we’re settled on the East Coast, we work with clients around the world.

At Growga, we empower mindfulness and yoga professionals with the tools that they need to keep their classes engaging and growing. Through our evidence based curriculum and technology-enabled platform, our collective of instructors, therapists, social workers, and educators from across the country receive ongoing coaching, curriculum, courses, and community. We also offer organizations the opportunity to post jobs and be matched with these certified instructors to bring our program directly to their community.

Since 2003, small and medium businesses worldwide have achieved significant results by turning to iContact’s best-in-class automation and email marketing solutions and experienced team members. As a part of Cision’s family of brands, iContact serves the needs of high-volume senders, professional marketers, and businesses new to email. iContact’s easy-to-use technology, available in both English and Spanish versions, ensures that every customer has what they need – whenever they need it – to succeed.

Method Savvy is a full-service marketing agency located in Durham, North Carolina that uses data-driven processes to help growth-stage and enterprise-class companies efficiently acquire and retain customers. Our approach is rooted in the belief that proper data collection and analysis informs the creative and strategic process, and in turn helping companies establish a scalable methodology for revenue growth.

At MillsWyck Communications, we believe anyone can master the skill of communicating well. Combining the old-world philosophy of ancient orators with practical modern methods into a proven method for behavior change, we lead executives, business owners, teachers, managers, clergy, sales personnel, and consultants to deliver their messages with clarity, simplicity, and style. Communications matters! What are you saying?

NetActuate provides colocation and network services from a private suite at the CyrusOne datacenter located in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. Featuring an onsite power substation with redundant feeds, this is one of the best equipped datacenters on the East Coast for power delivery and availability.

ResponsePoint provides integrated lead generation solutions to help marketing and sales leaders deliver banner results with unparalleled cost-effectiveness. We do everything from cold-call telemarketing to complex, integrated communications. By managing leads from planning to result, we remove the “pain points” so that increasing sales – while reducing cost-per-lead – has never felt better.

Learn more about SoMo Studios on their website.

We make local businesses big and big brands look local. Spectrum Reach is the most trusted media partner in America with TV advertising, Streaming TV and multi-screen solutions to reach your audience. With over 60 networks and our exclusive SpectrumNews1, our local media experts are ready to help.

The Creative Group (TCG) specializes in placing a range of highly skilled interactive, design, marketing, advertising and public relations professionals with a variety of firms on a project, contract-to-hire and full-time basis. As a division of Robert Half, the world’s first and largest specialized staffing firm, we are backed by a history of excellence. More resources, including online job-hunting services, candidate portfolios and TCG’s blog can be found at creativegroup.com.

The Diversity Movement helps organizations integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies into the core of their businesses. Through our data-driven, technology-enabled, expert solutions, we partner with you to deliver measurable and transformational results. TDM capabilities include comprehensive and engaging eLearning, diversity certifications for executives and practitioners, and customized training, content, and consulting.

Learn more about Weaver Brothers Volvo on their website.

ZenBusiness makes it easy to start, run, and grow your business. We are a small business that is excited about helping other entrepreneurs realize their dreams of creating and growing a successful business. By making business formation easy and affordable, we hope to foster a small business community where owners can connect on a local and national level and help each other grow.