When it comes to the business world, there are certain segments of the population that are starting out behind the eight ball. Nielle Bush took a look at the community in the town of Lake Providence, Louisiana, and decided she was going to do everything she could to turn the town’s fortunes around. Bush opened Avercom Virtual Solutions call center in Lake Providence recently, and hired 23 members of the town with the hopes of adding many more over the next few months.
This is hardly the first time that a businessperson has started a business like a call center in a place that isn’t exactly conducive to successful operations. Despite the fact that Lake Providence isn’t the home of great business success, Bush says she hopes to create more than 300 jobs at the call center. She also hopes that the call center will eventually have an annual payroll that exceeds $6 million.
The call center is currently being run out of the town’s community center, but Lake Providence officials have promised Bush more room as the company expands. “I know that opening Avercom Customer Contact Center in the heart of Lake Providence will not only provide jobs that pay a working wage but also foster skills that are marketable in any field of employment,” Bush told the Louisiana News Star in a recent interview.
The goal of Avercom and Bush is to turn Lake Providence into a kind of haven for businesses like call centers in the very near future. Other towns have managed to turn their fortunes around by actually being a place where call centers want to be located. Tulsa, Oklahoma, is one such town that has built itself an economy using call centers.
If Bush can be successful in her endeavors to bring the same kind of success to Lake Providence, then the town can rebuild itself. Jobs like this can build up a town quickly and that’s what the town leaders are hoping happens to their community.