July – Innovator
Wade Wiken of Seminole Energy Services is our Innovator client! Seminole Energy uses the latest technology to measure, manage and supply natural gas to its customers. Wade is a leader on the Seminole Retail Energy Services’ Development Team where he manages a professional sales team focused on meeting their customers supply and risk management needs. If you have questions about your energy needs, call Wade at 952.525.2235 or email at wwiken@seminoleenergy.com. Read on to learn more about Wade!
1) What would you like people to know about you and your business? Seminole Energy Services provides an alternative to the utility for their natural gas supply that equates to savings and price control.
2) Where did you get the idea for your business? Seminole Energy Services was not my idea but I wish it had been.
3) What makes your business unique? Seminole Energy Services is offering a secured savings for our customers, off of CenterPoint Energy’s monthly rate, allowing them to know every month that they are beating the utility rate.
4) What is your ‘elevator speech’? Seminole Energy Services allows our customers to control their energy costs through supply and risk management strategies.
5) What are the keys to your success? This is an effort business to get in front of the customers and present to them this option that they, in most cases, did not know was available to them to save money. There just are not enough hours in the day to meet/talk with everyone.
6) What is the one piece of advice you’d like to give to others about running a business? Either know where you are going or just don’t care, when getting behind the wheel of your car. You need a plan and then make it happen.
7) How long have you been at OffiCenters? Which location? I have been with OffiCenters for 18 months now and find that this is the perfect set up for my business. It allows me to focus on growing my business.
8) How has your relationship with OffiCenters changed your business? We are growing and that has a lot to do with the fact that I can focus on my business and leave everything else up to OffiCenters.
9) If you could work from anywhere under the sun, where would you choose? Right where I am.
10) Tweet, Blog, LinkedIn, Facebook? LinkedIn.
11) What piece of technology can you not live without? My computer and telephone.
12) What is one of your favorite quotes? “Let it be said of you that strong ethics guided all your decisions.
13) Who has been an inspiration in your life? My Family, and Friends but most of all, my Wife
14) When you have 30 minutes of free time, how do you use it? I spend it with those in question 13.
15) If you had a long weekend with unlimited funds, where would you go? Skiing.
16) If you could be any fictional character, whom would you choose and why? Captain America, he always lead with integrity and until it is completed.
17) What is your favorite restaurant in Minnesota? The Lemon Wolf in Beaver Bay.
18) What songs are included on the soundtrack to your life? Shining Star – Earth, Wind and Fire; Pick Up the Pieces – Average White Band; Touch – SEAL; I Can Feel It – Third Day.
19) If you could paint a picture what would you paint and why? A Steam Locomotive working its way up a mountain pass. I know I can.
20) What is the best way for people to find out more about you and your business? Call me 952-525-2235, email wwiken@seminoleenergy.com,visit www.seminoleenergy.com connect on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=56690055&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile .
