Summary
Do you LOVE exciting stories about manufacturing?
Check this out… Chicago-based LED manufacturer, Louvers International is Lighting It Up with IMEC Illinois!
Brothers Devin Wall(President) and Derek Wall (CEO) of Louvers International are two relentless entrepreneurs hitting the market hard.
On their quest to aggressively expand, Louvers International is stepping up their Digital Transformation game. First by bringing on Digital Marketing Manager, Marcia H. who is a ROCK STAR (and has an amazing singing voice!)
Louvers then teamed up with IMEC for the “Grow Your Future” program which helped over 125 manufacturers in Illinois this year with massive results.
That is where Michelle Fossett, Project Manager at IMEC stepped in. Michelle is Igniting Illinois Manufacturing Excellence & Global Competitiveness at IMEC – Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)
Fired Up to learn more?
See the entire presentation here.
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Presentation Transcription
Curt Anderson 00:00
could take home, your experience expectations, your thoughts of going through work and your experience of working with IMEC and going through this program.
Devin Wall 00:10
Well, these guys are like the best employee, you don’t have to pay, they actually pay you. So looking at looking at all the things that they offer, and even if they don’t offer that service, they’re going to line you up with the people that do handle it with like the US government, small business, and then they’ll they’ll follow up for you, on your behalf while you’re still engaged on these people saying, Hey, we don’t handle the out of country trade shows, but this guy over here, he’ll do it for you, Oh, you want to find another grant, well then help pull down and get someone lined up with you to access funds to help pay for some of these things overseas, or there. There’s just so much out there that these guys can help manufacturers like us better themselves without like, really the only thing you got invested your time, and how important is your business to you very important to us. So that’s what we’re taking the time and working on this stuff after hours. So it doesn’t pull through our daily activities, but still chipping away and working on getting all this stuff accomplished to not only better ourselves, but provide a better atmosphere for our employees, co workers and customers and everything that it touches from here to when it gets installed into the ceiling. And it just kind of fun that these resources like, Man, how long have been doing this, and we’ve just started getting engaged like this year, it’s like, man, we’ve been wasting a lot of time not getting these guys engaged. So it’s, you know, it’s like, Man, I wish we would have found out about it sooner, or just that there. But like Derek said, Get engaged, sign up for their email list. And just ask them because they’re here to help everyone outlets like us, help us out. And, you know, that’s kind of the fun thing is, and they love seeing that too. And they get excited, you get excited. And you know, there is work to be done. But that stuff is only going to make you better in the future. And currently, you’re going to learn to grow yourself how to better yourself in what things are going, you know, some of this stuff I didn’t know. But now I you know, learning more about it and how it gets done. I appreciate Marsha’s work, because I’m like, well, it would have taken me forever to kind of help figure this out. So you know, that’s why we call it the digital marketing goddess, because she makes us look really good online with when I get these ideas in my head and say, We gotta do this and make it look like that. And here we go. And like, I don’t know how it’s gonna look like, but I know you’re gonna make it look pretty. So it’s just a lot of fun. And, yeah, I mean, the IMEC in groups like them that out there that they work with, and they don’t handle it, they’re also bound to help us out because that’s what the our taxpayer dollars are at work. So I guess we do kind of pay for the taxpayers hands. But you know, you got to take advantage of it because it’s here and they’re here to help you out. And, you know, we felt nothing but great success coming out here and getting lined up with Kurt and, you know, helping us better ourselves and, you know, being more reachable on the top hits on Google and all this backend work you got to do you know just to make it appear better online to all these guys and the tips and tricks that we’ve learned. You know, just keep on keep that playbook and you just keep on updating, you know, as you breath in your products and services and whatever else