Getaway and Launch Your Business FAST!
Do you have a business idea you'd like to get off the ground? We can help you do it! Come stay with us for a few days, enjoy yourself AND let us help you launch your business!
Marnie has been helping people launch businesses and do online marketing since 1996. She has the tech skills and consulting experience necessary to get your business going online. Dave's helped everyone from entrepreneurs like beauty shop owners and chiropractors with their local search and online marketing ... to major corporations like T-Mobile, ATT, Boeing, Microsoft, etc. with their training and development and marketing.
Together we'll help you take your business idea from inception to implementation. We can help you figure out your branding, articulate your message, plan and implement your marketing, get your web site up, set up your social media presence, and integrate the buy buttons and sales functions so you're ready to start taking orders by the time you leave our home.
What People Are Saying...
"I had the great pleasure of spending time with Marnie and Dave Kuhns in their home in Georgia. I had an idea for a business I wanted to start with a skill that I have, but no idea how to go about it. Amidst delicious food and fun entertainment, Marnie and Dave pinned me down with probing questions about what I do, how I do it, and the impact that my work has on others. Through the thorough questioning, I came to a clear understanding of what my skill set is and then Marnie proceeded to take everything they had pulled out of me and built me a website that fully reflected me. They were also incredibly gifted at helping me work through the fears I had about moving forward.
Wow, wow, wow. I really never expected to go home with a website ready to launch with all of the pay and calendaring functions set up and ready to go. Marnie and Dave are amazing and what began as a vague idea of a business is now a reality and it took only 3 days that were interspersed with sightseeing and fun. It's a little unbelievable to me and I thank them with all my heart!!" - Rebecca T., Utah
Fun things to do while you're here
- Do you sing? want to do karaoke?
- Do you enjoy nature? Want to go for long walks, sit by the creek, walk a wildflower spiral or even kayak?
- Are you into history? If so, weather permitting, we can take a little excursion to the Chickamauga Battlefield.
Special Features of the Property
- 6 acres of land with a garden and corn field
- healthy meals straight from the garden
- a creek to sit by
- front porch to talk / sing / whatever...
- woods to walk through
- a wildflower spiral and cedar circle to meditate in
- the historic Chickamauga Battlefield National Park to explore
- watercolors of various kinds (pencils, tubes, etc.) and sketching/drawing supplies to create with
- we have musical instruments to play
- anything else you want to do? Please ask!
If Interested, Let Us Know Soon.
If you're interested, please contact Marnie asap at marnie@marniekuhns.com or hop on her calendar here to discuss your goals and scheduling a retreat that fits your needs, time and budget.

Accommodations
Whether it will just be you or you and a spouse, or you and your team, we have the accommodations to fit up to 5 people. We have 3 bedrooms. One has a queen size bed, another has a full size bed, and the third larger bedroom has 3 twins. Please note that all bedrooms require climbing a flight of stairs. They are on the second floor. We can carry your bags up, but you'll need to be able to climb stairs. The rooms share a bathroom.
About Your Retreat Instructors/Hosts

Marnie Pehrson Kuhns is a best-selling author of 30+ fiction and non-fiction titles who has been helping people market and promote themselves online since 1996. She has coached dozens of authors through writing and publishing their own best-selling books. From conceptualization to web development to online marketing and advertising, Marnie helps people launch careers online around their expertise and passions. As a Certified SimplyALIGN MethodTM Practitioner, Marnie is also able to help you eliminate and navigate around the emotional and mental blocks standing in the way of your success.
Her husband David Kuhns is an author, editor, curriculum developer, copywriter, creative writer and poet. With years in training and curriculum development for companies like AT&T, Boeing, Microsoft, T-Mobile and others, he has a knack for distilling your expertise into marketing materials, web content, online courses, and information products. Dave's fun personality and zest for nature ensures you'll have a wonderful time in this relaxed rural setting.
Together Marnie and Dave are here to support you in conceptualizing, branding, launching and marketing your own business.
Airports
1- Chattanooga (20 minutes from us)
2- Atlanta (2 hours) GroomeTransportation.com has shuttles to Chattanooga
3- Nashville (2.5 hour drive ... Nashville is CT and we're ET). Again, Groome has shuttles
We can pick you up either at the Chattanooga airport if you fly in there or Groome Transportation's Chattanooga office on Ringgold Rd., TN



Queen Size Bed

Full Size Bed

Three Twins Room



