The COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and result­ing media fur­loughs have forced many orga­ni­za­tions to rethink their earned media strate­gies over the last few months – cre­at­ing the oppor­tu­ni­ty to review exist­ing strate­gies and tac­tics. As Bell­mont Part­ners’ Data + Insights Lead, I would love to sug­gest using this time to ana­lyze and update how your orga­ni­za­tion is...Read More

We remark sev­er­al times a day (pinch our­selves, even) about how incred­i­bly grate­ful we are to have such a sharp, ded­i­cat­ed group of peo­ple on our team and work­ing tire­less­ly in pur­suit of our clients’ busi­ness goals. We know they’re amaz­ing. We try to make sure they know they’re amaz­ing. This news – that our...Read More

One of the most press­ing ques­tions we’re all ask­ing our­selves right now in our com­mu­ni­ca­tions roles (not to men­tion in life) is, “When?”. Tim­ing that used to be clear and plans that used to be set, are no longer so. We’re see­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­als across indus­tries quick­ly adapt their mes­sag­ing, con­tent and PR strate­gies, align­ing...Read More

Since the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic began to impact busi­ness­es across the coun­try, the Bell­mont Part­ners team has mobi­lized around numer­ous cri­sis com­mu­ni­ca­tions and non-cri­sis projects, most address­ing the unique chal­lenges the coro­n­avirus out­break has sparked, and span­ning near­ly every com­mu­ni­ca­tions discipline. We’ve been work­ing close­ly with sev­er­al com­pa­nies on the front lines of the pan­dem­ic with a...Read More

Suf­fice it to say the nov­el coro­n­avirus has impact­ed every aspect of all of our lives, and it’s just get­ting started. Like many of you, we’ve can­celed our spring break trips, embraced social dis­tanc­ing and are set­tling into at-home time with our fam­i­lies. We’ve been work­ing remote­ly since last week to do our part in pre­vent­ing...Read More

I’m fond of quot­ing not­ed 20th-cen­tu­ry philoso­pher Fer­ris Bueller: “Life moves pret­ty fast. If you don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you could miss it.” Last week, our team gave our agency’s part­ners – Jen Bell­mont, Shel­li Lis­sick and me – a refresh­er course in just how impor­tant, and how effec­tive, it...Read More

Any­one who’s met Bell­mont Part­ners COO Jen Bell­mont knows how com­mit­ted she is to her clients, col­leagues and com­mu­ni­ty – and now our indus­try has made it offi­cial. Ragan’s and PR Dai­ly have announced that Jen is one of this year’s Top Women in Communications. Accord­ing to Ragan’s and PR Dai­ly, the awards hon­or “those...Read More

As I enter my 14th year work­ing in the pub­lic rela­tions indus­try (my eighth with Bell­mont Part­ners), I took some time to reflect on why I do what I do, and why even after a decade and a half, I can’t imag­ine doing any­thing besides pub­lic relations. I’m a news junkie. Ever since ele­men­tary school, I...Read More

I’ve only been part of The Min­neso­ta Health Strat­e­gy and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Net­work (MHSCN) board of direc­tors for a few months and it’s already been an incred­i­bly pos­i­tive expe­ri­ence. I’m excit­ed to play a role in exe­cut­ing on the organization’s strate­gic direc­tion mov­ing for­ward – with the goals of expand­ing the offer­ings in edu­ca­tion, net­work­ing, pro­fes­sion­al...Read More

Over the past 25 years, piano-play­ing broth­ers Tim and Ryan O’Neill have sold more than 10 mil­lion copies of their songs; had their music streamed online more than one bil­lion (!) times; hit the Bill­board charts; and pro­vid­ed music for movies, NBC, CBS, HBO, PBS and more. On Nov. 1, their more-than-two-decade career hit anoth­er...Read More