Showing posts with label Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Tour
Take a tour of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel facilities from the comfort of your own home with this video:
Monday, March 18, 2013
Call Centers Milwaukee
There are many instances where organizations and businesses in the Milwaukee area need to turn to a milwaukee call center to handle increased call volume. The business or organization may not have the staff and other resources necessary to adequately keep up with call volume on its own, and this is where the services of a call center in Milwaukee can come in handy, helping to lift some of that burden off of the business's or organization's staff.
A Milwaukee call center can be utilized for both inbound and outbound calling, and for a wide array of purposes, such as fundraising, generating sales leads, conducting market research, dispatching service technicians, processing customer orders, collecting and providing information pertinent to product recalls, and setting appointments, among a host of other possibilities. It's like hiring additional staff, without all the added expenses and risks associated with taking on so many new hires. Call center staff are thoroughly trained and given ongoing support in order to help carry out the client's objectives and wishes to a tee, so callers often cannot tell the difference.
Organizations and businesses of all sizes and types in the metro Milwaukee area can realize the immense benefit and value in working with a caring, reliable, and professionally-trained milwaukee call center.
About a Milwaukee Call Center
Spectrum Communication Services Inc. ( Spectrum Communications ) is a call center and answering service operating in greater Milwaukee that services clients throughout the United States and takes calls worldwide. With a deep commitment to affordability, client satisfaction, and comprehensive training programs and support for its staff, Spectrum Communications has been recognized repeatedly as a leader in the call center and answering service industry by organizations like the Association of TeleServices International ( ATSI ) and the Better Business Bureau ( BBB ). Locally owned and operated, Spectrum has been named a Future 50 company by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and is celebrating its 30th year in business in 2013.
A Milwaukee call center can be utilized for both inbound and outbound calling, and for a wide array of purposes, such as fundraising, generating sales leads, conducting market research, dispatching service technicians, processing customer orders, collecting and providing information pertinent to product recalls, and setting appointments, among a host of other possibilities. It's like hiring additional staff, without all the added expenses and risks associated with taking on so many new hires. Call center staff are thoroughly trained and given ongoing support in order to help carry out the client's objectives and wishes to a tee, so callers often cannot tell the difference.
Organizations and businesses of all sizes and types in the metro Milwaukee area can realize the immense benefit and value in working with a caring, reliable, and professionally-trained milwaukee call center.
About a Milwaukee Call Center
Spectrum Communication Services Inc. ( Spectrum Communications ) is a call center and answering service operating in greater Milwaukee that services clients throughout the United States and takes calls worldwide. With a deep commitment to affordability, client satisfaction, and comprehensive training programs and support for its staff, Spectrum Communications has been recognized repeatedly as a leader in the call center and answering service industry by organizations like the Association of TeleServices International ( ATSI ) and the Better Business Bureau ( BBB ). Locally owned and operated, Spectrum has been named a Future 50 company by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and is celebrating its 30th year in business in 2013.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Seed Money for Military Veteran-Owned Businesses
In case you missed it, nice little write-up appearing in the Business section of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
this past Monday, May 7, about the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.
putting $150,000 into a fund that will make seed money available for start-up
businesses launched by military veterans.
You can read the article online here.
This is really cool. It's another great way we can thank and honor our veterans for their service. What's particularly neat about this is that, according to the article, Wisconsin is the first state to have a seed fund like this.
--Aaron Robertson, president, Intrepid Innovations Inc.
You can read the article online here.
This is really cool. It's another great way we can thank and honor our veterans for their service. What's particularly neat about this is that, according to the article, Wisconsin is the first state to have a seed fund like this.
--Aaron Robertson, president, Intrepid Innovations Inc.
Monday, May 7, 2012
CarCareKiosk.com
For those of you who may have missed it, a neat article appeared in last Monday's (April 30) Business section of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel profiling a Milwaukee entrepreneur named Hans Angermeier. Angermeier launched the Web site CarCareKiosk.com around five months ago.
Currently featuring over 9,500 how-to-videos and attracting 95,000-100,000 visitors per month, according to the Journal Sentinel article, CarCareKiosk.com is a powerful resource and a long-awaited, welcomed addition to the existing arsenal of do-it-yourself guides on car care. So check it out. You won't be disappointed.
--Aaron Robertson, president, Intrepid Innovations Inc.
Currently featuring over 9,500 how-to-videos and attracting 95,000-100,000 visitors per month, according to the Journal Sentinel article, CarCareKiosk.com is a powerful resource and a long-awaited, welcomed addition to the existing arsenal of do-it-yourself guides on car care. So check it out. You won't be disappointed.
--Aaron Robertson, president, Intrepid Innovations Inc.
Wisconsin's Tourism Spending Up 8%
In case you missed it this past weekend, great little write-up in Saturday's (May 5) Business section of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on tourism spending in Wisconsin. Read the article here.
The article goes on to state that visitors to Wisconsin spent $10 billion last year, 2011. According to the article, that amount is an 8% increase from 2010, and it supports over 128,000 jobs here in Wisconsin directly.
This is very inspiring news, and I really can't wait to see what 2012's figures will hold in store. When you think about it, we as a state have so many neat attractions to offer, for both business and leisure travelers: Green Bay, home of our beloved Green Bay Packers; the beautiful wineries, resorts, and camping in Door County; the fun of the Wisconsin Dells, which never disappoints; Milwaukee, home of our great Milwaukee Brewers, plenty of first-class hotels and conference centers, and lots to eat, see, and do; and so many, many more points of interest in between. We really are a great state. And we should be very proud of these numbers.
Again, check out the full article on the Journal Sentinel Web site here.
--Aaron Robertson, president, Intrepid Innovations Inc.
The article goes on to state that visitors to Wisconsin spent $10 billion last year, 2011. According to the article, that amount is an 8% increase from 2010, and it supports over 128,000 jobs here in Wisconsin directly.
This is very inspiring news, and I really can't wait to see what 2012's figures will hold in store. When you think about it, we as a state have so many neat attractions to offer, for both business and leisure travelers: Green Bay, home of our beloved Green Bay Packers; the beautiful wineries, resorts, and camping in Door County; the fun of the Wisconsin Dells, which never disappoints; Milwaukee, home of our great Milwaukee Brewers, plenty of first-class hotels and conference centers, and lots to eat, see, and do; and so many, many more points of interest in between. We really are a great state. And we should be very proud of these numbers.
Again, check out the full article on the Journal Sentinel Web site here.
--Aaron Robertson, president, Intrepid Innovations Inc.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Wisconsin's Manufacturing Sector May Receive a Nice, Much-Needed Boost Here
A great article appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Business section yesterday by John Schmid entitled, "New law puts jobless in training for manufacturing jobs" (click here to read the article online).
In a nutshell, the article addresses a pilot program called W3 (for Wisconsin Workers Win) currently in the works that will help those currently receiving unemployment compensation acquire training and skills to transition into the manufacturing industry. By June of this year, the article states, the program will be operating in Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Walworth, and Rock counties. The state's Department of Workforce Development (DWD) would team up with various manufacturers to provide these training opportunities. Those enrolled in this program could still receive their unemployment compensation while in training, and those who are eligible will also receive a, "...$75 weekly stipend to defray child care, transportation or steel-toed boots or other safety necessities." The article notes that training cannot exceed six weeks. But read the full article, as I am simplifying here.
This sounds likes a really neat opportunity, and I wish it much success. Being involved in various business networking organizations, I often hear a lot of concern expressed by leaders of Wisconsin's manufacturing community about a skills gap that currently exists, in which there simply are no longer enough young adults interested in learning a trade or entering manufacturing, and where bachelor's degrees have become the norm.
As a 29-year-old, I can attest to all of this. Growing up, my father and other relatives and family friends who are in manufacturing always told us not to go into manufacturing. "Manufacturing is dead", they'd warn us. "Everything is going either down to Mexico or overseas." So, like many other young adults in my generation, I went off to a university. And that has been the norm being instilled in the generations younger than mine.
Well, the problem is that manufacturing is now returning to the United States, and in a major way. Growing up in the mid 1990s-early 2000s, the adults in our lives were correct in saying that manufacturing was dead. Manufacturing's future, at least here in the United States, looked pretty dismal. Thousands upon thousands of jobs were lost to other countries because of lower labor costs. But many U.S.-based companies have now realized that lower labor costs do not necessarily translate into a better bottom line. So they're bringing jobs back. The challenge now is to reverse all the psychology we've exposed ourselves to over the last 10-15 years about manufacturing. We must tell our children and young adults that manufacturing is returning, that there are plenty of in-demand jobs right now in that sector, and that there are alternatives to the four-year university.
What are your thoughts on manufacturing's future, either here in Wisconsin or just in general across the United States? What do you think about this new program in the works, Wisconsin Workers Win (W3)? Share your thoughts, insights, and experiences in the comments below.
--Aaron Robertson, president, Intrepid Innovations Inc.
In a nutshell, the article addresses a pilot program called W3 (for Wisconsin Workers Win) currently in the works that will help those currently receiving unemployment compensation acquire training and skills to transition into the manufacturing industry. By June of this year, the article states, the program will be operating in Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Walworth, and Rock counties. The state's Department of Workforce Development (DWD) would team up with various manufacturers to provide these training opportunities. Those enrolled in this program could still receive their unemployment compensation while in training, and those who are eligible will also receive a, "...$75 weekly stipend to defray child care, transportation or steel-toed boots or other safety necessities." The article notes that training cannot exceed six weeks. But read the full article, as I am simplifying here.
This sounds likes a really neat opportunity, and I wish it much success. Being involved in various business networking organizations, I often hear a lot of concern expressed by leaders of Wisconsin's manufacturing community about a skills gap that currently exists, in which there simply are no longer enough young adults interested in learning a trade or entering manufacturing, and where bachelor's degrees have become the norm.
As a 29-year-old, I can attest to all of this. Growing up, my father and other relatives and family friends who are in manufacturing always told us not to go into manufacturing. "Manufacturing is dead", they'd warn us. "Everything is going either down to Mexico or overseas." So, like many other young adults in my generation, I went off to a university. And that has been the norm being instilled in the generations younger than mine.
Well, the problem is that manufacturing is now returning to the United States, and in a major way. Growing up in the mid 1990s-early 2000s, the adults in our lives were correct in saying that manufacturing was dead. Manufacturing's future, at least here in the United States, looked pretty dismal. Thousands upon thousands of jobs were lost to other countries because of lower labor costs. But many U.S.-based companies have now realized that lower labor costs do not necessarily translate into a better bottom line. So they're bringing jobs back. The challenge now is to reverse all the psychology we've exposed ourselves to over the last 10-15 years about manufacturing. We must tell our children and young adults that manufacturing is returning, that there are plenty of in-demand jobs right now in that sector, and that there are alternatives to the four-year university.
What are your thoughts on manufacturing's future, either here in Wisconsin or just in general across the United States? What do you think about this new program in the works, Wisconsin Workers Win (W3)? Share your thoughts, insights, and experiences in the comments below.
--Aaron Robertson, president, Intrepid Innovations Inc.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Osborn Misses the Mark on Lake Park Proposal
By Aaron S. Robertson
In her assessment of what has been taking place here in Muskego regarding the proposed lake park development, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Community Columnist Louise Osborn gravely skewed the facts (“Muskego residents ignored,” 1/27/12).
Osborn claims that some-400 residents packed a Common Council meeting this past Tuesday, 1/24, and that, in her view, 90% were against it, 10% for.
First off, a number of estimates place attendance around the 250-300 mark. Chairs were set up for 250 people. While a number of attendees stood throughout the meeting, there were also a number of empty chairs. Secondly, whatever the attendance number was, not all registered an opinion. Far, far, far from it. And when it comes to her percentages for and against, she appears to have those numbers backwards. According to the written minutes for the 12/13/11 Common Council meeting, 90% of those who spoke favored the plan, while 10% opposed it (9-1).
The majority of speakers also favored the plan during the 9/12/11 Parks and Rec. Board meeting (6-5) and the 9/27/11 Common Council meeting (8-5). Between those who spoke and those who wished to simply record their position on paper during the 1/10/12 Common Council meeting, those who favored the proposal dominated 10-4.
Curiously, I do not see Osborn listed as being present during any of these other meetings, at least not in the role of a speaker or one who registered an opinion on paper. I also do not recall the “huge crowds of concerned citizens” present at these other meetings.
And while I acknowledge here that the opposition out-spoke proponents 31-19 at Tuesday’s meeting, that number is far from the 90-10% Osborn would have us believe. Furthermore, I simply ask: where were all of these angry residents for the previous four public-input opportunities on this matter? Many of them claim they simply didn’t know about any of this. I find that hard to believe. This process has been going on in full public view for over five months, since August.
Osborn also fails to mention that the $25,000 each of these residents will receive for moving expenses is mandated by the state.
Finally, the city is in great financial shape. Its debt is structured to be paid-off-in-full within the next few years, and it has a Moody’s rating of Aa(2) for outstanding obligation debt. This is the result of both fiscally-responsible Common Councils and department heads through the years. Together, working as a team, they have made tough sacrifices, have wisely invested in opportunities that foster economic growth, and have ensured that the quality city services we have come to expect and appreciate do not have to be cut or scaled down.
All of these facts speak for themselves.
In her assessment of what has been taking place here in Muskego regarding the proposed lake park development, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Community Columnist Louise Osborn gravely skewed the facts (“Muskego residents ignored,” 1/27/12).
Osborn claims that some-400 residents packed a Common Council meeting this past Tuesday, 1/24, and that, in her view, 90% were against it, 10% for.
First off, a number of estimates place attendance around the 250-300 mark. Chairs were set up for 250 people. While a number of attendees stood throughout the meeting, there were also a number of empty chairs. Secondly, whatever the attendance number was, not all registered an opinion. Far, far, far from it. And when it comes to her percentages for and against, she appears to have those numbers backwards. According to the written minutes for the 12/13/11 Common Council meeting, 90% of those who spoke favored the plan, while 10% opposed it (9-1).
The majority of speakers also favored the plan during the 9/12/11 Parks and Rec. Board meeting (6-5) and the 9/27/11 Common Council meeting (8-5). Between those who spoke and those who wished to simply record their position on paper during the 1/10/12 Common Council meeting, those who favored the proposal dominated 10-4.
Curiously, I do not see Osborn listed as being present during any of these other meetings, at least not in the role of a speaker or one who registered an opinion on paper. I also do not recall the “huge crowds of concerned citizens” present at these other meetings.
And while I acknowledge here that the opposition out-spoke proponents 31-19 at Tuesday’s meeting, that number is far from the 90-10% Osborn would have us believe. Furthermore, I simply ask: where were all of these angry residents for the previous four public-input opportunities on this matter? Many of them claim they simply didn’t know about any of this. I find that hard to believe. This process has been going on in full public view for over five months, since August.
Osborn also fails to mention that the $25,000 each of these residents will receive for moving expenses is mandated by the state.
Finally, the city is in great financial shape. Its debt is structured to be paid-off-in-full within the next few years, and it has a Moody’s rating of Aa(2) for outstanding obligation debt. This is the result of both fiscally-responsible Common Councils and department heads through the years. Together, working as a team, they have made tough sacrifices, have wisely invested in opportunities that foster economic growth, and have ensured that the quality city services we have come to expect and appreciate do not have to be cut or scaled down.
All of these facts speak for themselves.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Health care Costs in Milwaukee
In case you missed it in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Medical College of Wisconsin, UW-Milwaukee, Marquette University, Froedtert Health, and Children's Hospital and Health System are teaming up in a joint collaborative effort to tackle the rising cost of health care.
It's an interesting article. If you missed it, you can check it out online.
I'm a strong proponent of further collaboration between the major academic powerhouses in the Milwaukee area, so I find this development to be exciting and inspiring.
--Aaron Robertson, president, Intrepid Innovations Inc.
It's an interesting article. If you missed it, you can check it out online.
I'm a strong proponent of further collaboration between the major academic powerhouses in the Milwaukee area, so I find this development to be exciting and inspiring.
--Aaron Robertson, president, Intrepid Innovations Inc.
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