Five Tips to Create a Winning Employer Brand
Today’s competitive talent market requires businesses to up their game to become and stay an employer of choice.
Krusinski Construction Company Expands Into New Markets
For nearly 50 years, Krusinski Construction Company has built trust and confidence nationwide. The family-owned and operated company is known for tackling complex projects in a variety of industries, while maintaining strong personal relationships with customers, vendors, employees, and the community.
Building Wings Reaches New Heights
Red Caffeine brought Building Wings to market nearly instantaneously, allowing it to stay active during the buying cycle. First, we created a brand story, including a differentiated positioning statement, value proposition, elevator pitch, audience profile, and product overview.
100-Year-Old University Gets Complete Brand Makeover
Oak Point University offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs for today's nursing and radiography students. With an average student age of 29, Oak Point helps its students achieve their fullest potential by redefining what healthcare education looks like in the 21st Century with more relevant degree specializations, flexible learning models and advanced technology and tools.
Forging Company Shocks Electric Vehicles Market
Anchor Harvey is a data-driven, full-service forging company with a century-long legacy in precision manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain management.
Going Above and “Beyond Business Friendly” to Bring New Businesses to Elk Grove Village
We are just a few months into the campaign, but Elk Grove Village has already experienced significant results. Within the first month, the click-through rate (CTR) on their paid media ads soared to 3.8%, nearly twice the industry average.
The Growth Method – Building A Growth Mindset In Your Organization
In our webinar with Women and Manufacturing (WiM), we explored the concept of how an employee can advance their career as part of organizational growth initiatives or innovation investment. Our three panelists shared their career journeys and how they took on projects both inside and outside of their companies to develop new skill sets or build expertise. The Center for Creative Leadership's research studies on executive growth and development confirmed that experience is the best teacher. In these studies, they found that various leadership challenges contribute to a managers' becoming experienced. But learning was not automatic. It was possible to have the knowledge but miss the meaning.
How Small Business Owners Thrive During Tough Times with Alternative Learning
Next Level Northwest has helped a number of small- to mid-size businesses in northwest Chicagoland create jobs, expand facilities and grow revenue through entrepreneurial education.
Turning Uncertainty Into Off-The-Charts Customer Satisfaction
A net promoter score measures customer experience and helps predict business growth. It can be a challenging obstacle to overcome. The consultancy who created it, Bain & Company, sets the bar even higher for B2B companies—anything less than 60 percent is considered a red flag. That's why it was pretty big news for Bales, a metal surface solution company, to learn that their NPS has gone up four points from 2019 to 77 percent and maintained the high level throughout the pandemic. The average NPS score in manufacturing is a meager 53 percent—but why does all of that matter at all? Because companies with a high NPS score tend to grow four to eight percentage points above their market's annual growth.
In the Mighty-Mid Market, the Future Looks Bright
There are nearly 200,000 middle-market businesses representing one-third of the U.S. economy. While definitions of this group vary, the National Center for the Middle Market categorizes it as businesses with top-line revenue between 10 Million and 1 Billion. These companies are private and public, family-owned, geographically diverse, employ approximately 48 million people and span across all industries.
