Finn Findley/Quest Renewables
Quest Renewables creates high-value commercial solar racking solutions that enable their customers to eliminate waste, increase value, and enter new markets. Quest Renewables is committed to optimizing system design, engineering, and manufacturing, resulting in more satisfied site owners.
Lisa Winton/Winton Machine Company
In 1997, George and Lisa Winton founded Winton Machine Company. Winton Machine designs and builds tube and semi-rigid coax fabricating machinery. Their machines are designed to meet specific production demands and have the highest safety standards for both domestic and global markets. Winton specializes in providing engineered solutions in major industries such as HVAC/Refrigeration, Aerospace, Electronics, Microwave and Military. Winton Machine also works with clients to create custom engineered solutions. Their plant, located in Suwanee, GA, employs over 30 employees plus apprentices and interns.
Noah McNeely/Product QuickStart
Product QuickStart was created out of a passion to meet the product development, prototyping, and manufacturing needs of entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small companies. In their careers, they’ve met way too many inventors and would-be product entrepreneurs that have been taken advantage of in this industry, so they decided to do something about it. There is no shortage of engineers, marketing people, and “submission companies” that will gladly take your money and get you nowhere. That’s not Product QuickStart. Their goal is to be honest operators, and do everything they can to help clients understand what they are getting into and their odds of success.
Don Muntner & Noah McNeely/Product QuickStart
Product QuickStart was created out of a passion to meet the product development, prototyping, and manufacturing needs of entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small companies. In their careers, they’ve met way too many inventors and would-be product entrepreneurs that have been taken advantage of in this industry, so they decided to do something about it. There is no shortage of engineers, marketing people, and “submission companies” that will gladly take your money and get you nowhere. That’s not Product QuickStart. Their goal is to be honest operators, and do everything they can to help clients understand what they are getting into and their odds of success.
Jason Moss and Marjorie Dykes/Georgia Manufacturing Alliance
Serving Georgia manufacturing businesses, the Georgia Manufacturing Alliance provides monthly plant tours, educational sessions and networking opportunities designed to help make profitable business connections for our members. GMA is one of the fastest growing communities of manufacturing professionals in the state.
During most events, each participant is given the opportunity to introduce themselves and their business to all of the members. After the introductions are complete, each member has an opportunity to share business ideas or pose a question to the group. All attendees are also treated to a guest speaker’s helpful presentation and take back with them valuable and useful knowledge.
On this episode of ‘On the Money’, host Joe Moss discusses leadership and music with the CEO of Maier America, and musician, Rob Kuehl
Rob Kuehl/Maier America
As CEO of Maier America, a high quality “made in Germany” manufacturer of rotary union systems for many world class top industries, Rob brings a unique depth and breadth in Sales & Marketing, Product Management, Operations, Research & Development, Commercialization, Manufacturing, and International Cross Organizational Relationships to build the company for growth. Rob has a proven record in driving organizations and products to increased profitability with a customer focus on value creating business partnerships. Rob is multi-lingual with a dual German/American citizenship and provides music and entertainment as a hobby around the globe during his free time for which all proceeds go to children with special needs.
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“On the Money” focuses on topics and issues allowing small businesses to better navigate the financial services minefield, with analysis and opinions from today’s industry experts on banking and loans. “On the Money” also introduces you to some of the top small business leaders in the Atlanta market.
Hosted by Joe Moss, the president of Embassy National Bank, “On the Money” airs live every Wednesday at 3:00 PM EST from the Business RadioX studio in Gwinnett.
Rob Kuehl/Maier America
As CEO of Maier America, a high quality “made in Germany” manufacturer of rotary union systems for many world class top industries, Rob brings a unique depth and breadth in Sales & Marketing, Product Management, Operations, Research & Development, Commercialization, Manufacturing, and International Cross Organizational Relationships to build the company for growth. Rob has a proven record in driving organizations and products to increased profitability with a customer focus on value creating business partnerships. Rob is multi-lingual with a dual German/American citizenship and provides music and entertainment as a hobby around the globe during his free time for which all proceeds go to children with special needs.
Dave Wilkins/Sterling Rose Consulting Corp
Dave Wilkins has over 30 years experience working for companies such as E&Y, Whitridge Associates, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and IBM in business and technology management and consulting. He is currently the Senior Vice President of Sterling Rose Consulting Corp and the Business Unit Manager for the Business Technology Division of Sterling Rose Consulting.
Originally from Michigan, he has a BBA and MBA from the University of Michigan, but he has been a resident of Gwinnett County Georgia for over 20 years. In his 30 years in business and technology, he has worked with clients in multiple business sectors including finance, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and government.
About “Strategic Insights Radio”:
“Strategic Insights Radio” is intended to be an interactive radio show hosted by Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Listeners can Tweet their questions for a live response on the radio to @sterling_rose1 or via @strategicradio. Also, suggestions on business topics that listeners would like to learn more about are welcome. Please send suggestions to info@sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com.
This week I caught up with Eric Jones from Jellyfish, the digital strategy experts. We talked about Pay Per Click Advertising, mistakes that can be made, things to think about when planning your campaign, and why it makes sense to work with experts such as those at Jellyfish to engage in a digital marketing campaign that employs pay per click advertising.
Having tried our hand at DIY Google AdWords campaigns that quickly cost us $$$ while getting us no conversions, our business can surely say there is value to working with experts who can guide you and help you spend wisely. Eric talked about the value of analytics to track the effects of a given campaign, as well as why it’s important to consider the page on your website the ads direct your prospective customers to.
Eric shed some light on how the bidding process works in determining where your ads will rank, ultimately controlling where your ads will be displayed (1st page?, top of 1st page? etc). We talked about how when there is much competition for a given set of keywords the cost per click can rise significantly, so advertisers must be prepared for that.
I also discussed some guests who have been on the show before that our listeners could benefit from getting to know. I’m planning to incorporate some occasional shout-outs to be sure the companies who need their solutions can link up with them. We hope you enjoy our show and subscribe to the podcast. Let us hear from you with feedback, guest recommendations, and where you’re listening from. If you tweet us questions or put them up on Facebook we’ll try to get them on the air and/or follow up with the guests after the fact to get you answers. Thank you for listening to us! Looking forward to 5000 downloads!
Special Guest
Eric Jones VP, Client Strategy with Jellyfish 
Lara O’Connor-Hodgson, CEO of Nowaccount Network Corporation 
HEAR LARA’S FULL INTERVIEW HERE
LeeAnn Maxwell, CEO/Co-Founder of Vixen Vodka 
HEAR LEEANN’S FULL INTERVIEW HERE
Jesus Ricardo (Rick) Tapia, Founder of La Bodega International, LLC and Creator of J.R. Revelry
Ron Herman, CEO of SionicMobile
HEAR RON’S FULL INTERVIEW HERE
Mario Montag, CEO, Co-founder of Predikto Analytics
HEAR MARIO’S FULL INTERVIEW HERE
This week I sat down with Mario Montag, CEO of Predikto Analytics. Numerous industries rely upon critical, high-value assets to operate their enterprises. Predikto solutions harness the power of Predictive Analytics to address operational challenges in Transportation, Oil & Gas, and Manufacturing. We use any data, including equipment sensor and asset maintenance history, and turn it into actionable insights to reduce asset failures, eliminate surprises and improve operational performance. All of these industries collect data across their operations from a wide variety of sensors monitoring their equipment. The challenge for these businesses is the data may be collected and housed in different locations or followed by different departments, preventing the enterprise from seeing it combined into a clear, concise picture that could be used to anticipate equipment failures well in advance of an actual malfunction. Predikto Analytics leverages the expertise of their skilled analytics experts combined with machine-learning algorithms to do just that with a high degree of accuracy (in many cases exceeding 90% accuracy).
“We start with asking, ‘What problems do you have? What piece of equipment or asset class is costing you a lot?”
This means a rail company can limit downtime by having necessary parts to repair a high-value asset available to make a quick repair and prevent a catastrophic failure, saving them from huge expense, possible public (or employee) injury, and property loss. Similarly, a manufacturing company can get early warning of an impending failure with hours, days, or weeks of notice and allow them to be proactive rather then having to shut down an operation for an extended time due to a mechanical failure. Check out this week’s episode to learn how Predikto Analytics came into being and hear more about how they do the interesting and important work they do.
Special Guest:
Mario Montag, CEO, Co-founder of Predikto Analytics
