MedTech Mas­ters Q&A is baaaaaack! And we couldn’t be more excit­ed to kick off our fall series with medtech mover and shak­er Kylle Jor­dan, busi­ness devel­op­ment man­ag­er at Des­ti­na­tion Med­ical Cen­ter. Her 15-year career is packed with expe­ri­ence lead­ing inter­na­tion­al affairs and eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment ini­tia­tives in the medtech indus­try. This year, Min­neapo­lis-St. Paul Busi­ness Jour­nal...Read More

As you’re cre­at­ing con­tent and eval­u­at­ing your exist­ing con­tent for this new AI-focused search envi­ron­ment, do you know what you’re focus­ing on to influ­ence AI search results in your favor? In my last post, I dug into all the ways that brand mes­sag­ing has changed in our AI-dom­i­nat­ed world. The three big fac­tors, or “notes,”...Read More

Imag­ine for a sec­ond that you’re in a crowd­ed con­cert hall with hun­dreds of musi­cians all play­ing dif­fer­ent songs simultaneously—the noise is over­whelm­ing, and no sin­gle melody stands out above the chaos. A brand with­out con­sis­tent mes­sag­ing is like a musi­cian who keeps switch­ing instru­ments and gen­res in the mid­dle of their per­for­mance, con­fus­ing the...Read More

Over the past few years, our team has wit­nessed a renewed invest­ment in out­door green spaces, with the hor­ti­cul­ture indus­try expe­ri­enc­ing a notable boom. Trade shows are gain­ing momen­tum across the board, and the ener­gy is already build­ing toward a big year in 2026.  We recent­ly sat down with Kath­leen Hen­nessy, Vice Pres­i­dent at Bell­mont...Read More

Octo­ber is Man­u­fac­tur­ing Month in Min­neso­ta, a time to cel­e­brate the peo­ple, com­pa­nies and inno­va­tions that pow­er one of the state’s most vital indus­tries. From pre­ci­sion machin­ing and food pro­duc­tion to advanced tech­nolo­gies and med­ical devices, man­u­fac­tur­ing plays a crit­i­cal role in our econ­o­my and com­mu­ni­ties.  At Bell­mont Part­ners, we’re proud to sup­port the Cen­tral...Read More

When it comes to des­ti­na­tions and attrac­tions, there are more options for poten­tial vis­i­tors than ever before. There’s also a strong con­sumer appetite, with 91% of Amer­i­can leisure trav­el­ers plan­ning to trav­el with­in the next six months, accord­ing to a recent Long­woods Inter­na­tion­al study. With prospec­tive cus­tomers care­ful­ly con­sid­er­ing where they want to go and...Read More