When disasters occur, officials focus primarily on the safety and well-being of human life, ensuring the most basic necessities of survival are met through their emergency preparedness plans. Post-disaster, communities are mobilizing to rapidly return essential businesses to operation. Corporations with resiliency plans have protocols in place that ensure this can happen quickly and efficiently, […]Read More
Businesses across North America have signed a pledge to incorporate pets into the workplace as part of the National Pet Day Off movement spearheaded by Vetster.com, a veterinary telehealth platform that connects pets to licensed veterinarians and encourages companies to include pet guardians in their culture, benefits packages and flexible work solutions. According to Vetster’s […]Read More
With a growing number of pet-friendly supermarkets and restaurants to specially-themed businesses such as Good Times Dog Bar in Flagler Beach that caters specifically to dog owners and their four-legged friends, it goes without saying that a growing number of businesses have adapted to modern times – times when pet owners may be enticed to […]Read More
Welcome to 2023: New Year, New Ideas for Business! If you are like us, then 2023 seems like the first opportunity since 2020 for a full-year “post-pandemic” opportunity for business growth and expansion. For us at TouchPoint, we know that we must build a future based on where we are today, not focused on where […]Read More
The Bike Men of Flagler County started in 2014, helping one charity, Christmas Come True, build bicycles for their December event. Since then, Bike Men have worked with them every year, preparing 250-275 bikes for Christmas. In June of 2017, the Bike Men started repairing donated used bikes for The Sheltering Tree, aka Flagler County […]Read More
The founders of Persimmon Hollow Brewing Co. remember a time when their first batches of beer tasted nothing like a beer they would drink, let alone sell. Long before the wild success of their brewery, Andy Sistrunk and Robbie Carelli slogged away to craft a delicious local beer they could be proud of sipping and […]Read More
Clay Cass knew his coffee was good when customers were walking through dirt mounds to get into his coffee shop in historic downtown DeLand. Within two years of opening his Trilogy Coffee Cafe in 2015, the city began construction right outside the cafe. With sidewalks torn up, dirt piles everywhere and construction equipment blocking entry, […]Read More
Building a thriving local economy is a lot like baking a cake. It takes the proper mix of ingredients, attention to detail and the right conditions to make it work. In a roundtable discussion with John Guthrie, editor of EVOLVE Magazine’s Greater Daytona Region edition, DeLand economic development manager Nick Conte and West Volusia Tourism […]Read More
Head west on State Road 40 and you’ll get a glimpse of some of the more rural communities in Volusia County. Take just a few blinks and you might miss the town of Astor. The River’s Keepers Welcoming visitors to the community nestled along the St. Johns River, the Powell family has been building businesses […]Read More
West Volusia continues to grow, first on an economy and lifestyle centered around agriculture that the rich farmlands provided and now through economic development. Perhaps no city in the area showcases that surge more than Deltona. It began as a planned residential community called Deltona Lakes in 1962 and was primarily a commuter town to […]Read More
