We’ve final­ly reached that time of year when we can dive into cher­ished fall tra­di­tions like pick­ing Min­neso­ta Grown apples, bundling up to watch soc­cer and foot­ball games under the sta­di­um lights, and vis­it­ing some of our favorite leaf peep­ing spots. But did you know that anoth­er Min­neso­ta fall tra­di­tion was start­ed by a group...Read More

We are excit­ed to offi­cial­ly wel­come Hope Hansen to Bell­mont Part­ners as an Account Coor­di­na­tor! Hope start­ed as an intern in spring of 2023. She dove right in on media rela­tions, social media coor­di­na­tion and con­tent devel­op­ment for a vari­ety of clients. She also brought along her atten­tion to detail, a will­ing­ness to go above...Read More

Peo­ple. When it comes down to what makes Bell­mont Part­ners spe­cial, it’s the peo­ple. Ear­li­er this sum­mer, we were grate­ful have the dis­tinc­tion of being named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Work­places list for the fifth time. Recent­ly, we asked the team to reflect on what they val­ue about work­ing at BP. While some words such...Read More

Our cul­ture has always been a vital­ly impor­tant ele­ment of Bell­mont Part­ners’ DNA, so it’s par­tic­u­lar­ly grat­i­fy­ing to receive nation­al recog­ni­tion for our peo­ple-focused approach. Today, Inc. named our agency to its nation­al list of Best Work­places for the fifth (!) time. We were also named to the list in 2023, 2021, 2020 and 2019. Accord­ing...Read More

Sto­ry­telling is some­thing we help our clients with every day at Bell­mont Part­ners. We know own­ing – and shar­ing – your sto­ry is cru­cial for con­nect­ing with poten­tial cus­tomers and ele­vat­ing your busi­ness and brand. Whether it’s a hot top­ic or a news­wor­thy hap­pen­ing, do you know the process to share your sto­ry effectively? Bell­mont...Read More

Ear­li­er this spring, I had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to attend my first Nation­al Agri-Mar­ket­ing Con­fer­ence. This annu­al event, host­ed by the Nation­al Agri-Mar­ket­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (NAMA), spans mul­ti­ple days and brought togeth­er sev­er­al hun­dred atten­dees from across the nation to con­nect, learn and inspire. And it did just that. With pages of notes and a stack of...Read More

Ear­li­er this month, I attend­ed the Amer­i­can Uro­log­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion Annu­al Meet­ing in San Anto­nio and returned home with a list of com­pelling top­ics our clients can use as thought lead­er­ship angles for bylined arti­cles, social media posts, speak­ing sub­mis­sions and more. Here are some tips for how you can keep thought lead­er­ship top of mind...Read More

In Bell­mont Part­ners’ 28-year his­to­ry, our work­spaces have evolved near­ly as much as our team and the pub­lic rela­tions indus­try as a whole have in that time­frame. From work­ing from home before WFH was a thing, to cre­at­ing an ear­ly office in a for­mer work­out stu­dio in Pri­or Lake, to being pio­neers of hybrid work...Read More

When Bri­an Bell­mont start­ed Bell­mont Part­ners in 1996, he had a clear vision to become a peo­ple-first orga­ni­za­tion, sup­port­ing the clients, col­leagues and com­mu­ni­ties with whom he’d work. Near­ly three decades lat­er, that approach con­tin­ues to dri­ve what we do every day. In count­less ways Bell­mont Part­ners cul­ture means cel­e­brat­ing the whole per­son, meet­ing our team...Read More

It’s been a pro­duc­tive 2024 ses­sion and here at Bell­mont, we’ve had clients across indus­tries advo­cat­ing for change in St. Paul. While the ses­sion hasn’t reached the his­toric lev­els of 2023, it still looks to be pro­duc­tive for a non-bud­get year. Leg­is­la­tors went into 2024 with a focus on keep­ing spend­ing low, pass­ing bond­ing bills and...Read More