The Nashville Business Journal, and its presenting sponsor, Chase, are pleased to announce the first annual Most Admired CEOs and Their Companies Awards program.

Per the description on the nomination:

“Finding a leader who inspires those around him or her is priceless. They hold their employees, products, and services in the highest regard, run their companies with integrity and are shining examples of how all companies should be run and managed. With that in mind we proudly present our first annual Most Admired CEOs and Their Companies Presented by Chase awards and dinner program.”

The final votes will be submitted by mid-August so stay tuned!

“Congratulations to the entire Centresource team on being named a 2012 Top 300 Small Business of the South honoree. Awards like this speak highly of our teams skill and efforts over the past year. We continue to be humbled by the opportunities we are given but still have a long way to go. We will continue to push towards excellence in everything we do.”

Recently Centresource was also named the 46th fastest growing inner city company in America so this award continues with a strong stream of regional and national recognition! Thanks go to all of our customers who give us something to get excited about each day when we wake up!

I consider myself a master planner in all aspects of life, and have decided to share my list of five ways I plan to stay productive the rest of December and, after eating myself into a coma, early January.

1. Keep Scheduling Meetings
I’m at work, and I assume you are too, so let’s get together and talk about the past year and look at next year’s opportunities. There’s no rule that all business has to stop leading up to and right after the Holidays.  Plus, it’s always good to talk to people that don’t have embarrassing childhood stories about you to tell.

2. Make a List (and check it twice)
Santa is on to something with this. It’s been helpful to me to have a list of tasks at work and things to get done after 5 pm.  It allows me to budget my time and make sure that I’m getting everything done.

3.  Set Goals for December
Even though business quiets down, see what tangible measurable goals you can try and still accomplish. Try digging through the “someday” folder and tackle some of those housekeeping tasks that you didn’t have time for in August. Whether it’s updating your company profile on linked in, editing your sales process or mission statement or brainstorming on a new social media communication plan, there’s something somewhere that once upon a time you wish you had the time for. And, now you do!

4.  Plan for 2011
If your clients, prospects or friends are already on vacation, get your notes and thoughts in order to jump start the year, after you wake up from your food-induced slumber of course.  Set your sights high by looking through your lists and determining what can be continued after the new year.

5. Relax
There are many opportunities for stress to creep in, and usually that leads to less productivity at work, or snapping at family members when you get home. Avoid the cookie table at work so you can spend time on numbers 1-4  and get prepared to have a wonderful time with friends and family.

Now that this has made itself to the Centresource blog, I have to keep to my own set of rules. I’ll be back in 2011 to tell you how I’ve done, and share some New Year’s Resolutions.  Happy Holidays!

So, .net Magazine thinks we are cool enough to be nominated for Design Agency of the Year! Our friends from across the pond selected us among 25 finalist, and it is now up to you to help put us over the top! To vote, just visit the awards site, go down to number 8, and pick us!

This is your only chance to help us make the top three in our category. From there, a panel of more than 100 judges will pick the winner. We just know that if we can get in to that top three, the judges are really going to like some of our latest work. Tell your friends on Twitter, too!

We are really excited to announce the launch of a new interactive portal for Coastal Carolina University‘s Athletic Department to help promote football ticket sales. They shared with us this press release they sent out earlier this week about the site.

You can check out the site at www.CoastalTix.com.

CoastalTix.com Interactive Fan Site is Live

The easiest and best way to purchase 2010 Coastal Carolina football tickets at www.CoastalTix.com.

The easiest and best way to purchase 2010 Coastal Carolina football tickets – as well as getting all of your relevant game-day information for the upcoming season – is now live at www.CoastalTix.com.

The site, a supplement to the main athletics site: www.GoCCUSports.com, will explain in detail and give pertinent information for fans to purchase season, and later, single-game football tickets. Also, www.CoastalTix.com will give fans all the information they will need to enjoy the full game-day atmosphere.

Also, the site will give details to a new feature for Coastal Carolina football, the Family Fun Zone. The designated area in the north endzone, next to the newly-built Adkins Field House, allows one adult and three youth or two adults and two youth season tickets for just $99.

Other advantages to the new interactive site include the ability to share the site on social networks and reach the ever-growing, technology-savvy customer.

CoastalTix.com is a collaborative effort between Chanticleer athletics and Centresource Interactive Agency in Nashville with Coastal Carolina being the first university to partner with Centresource in this medium.

“Our partnership with Centresource Interactive gives us the opportunity to not only be dynamic with our ticket sales, but also gives us a hub from which all of our online ticketing can branch out,” said Coastal Carolina athletics director Hunter Yurachek. “Seeing and feeling the game-day experience is an important part of why customers make their decisions. With the expansion of the stadium and the new Family Fun Zone season ticket, we felt it was important to find something that reaches younger families and computer-friendly audiences. This use of technology is the best medium to accomplish our goals.”