It’s been just over six months since Bell­mont Part­ners shift­ed to a ful­ly remote oper­a­tion, and every day that goes by it’s becom­ing more clear how impor­tant our team has been to our agency’s sur­vival and suc­cess dur­ing the COVID-19 pandemic. Each of us has played a crit­i­cal, dis­tinct role, from pro­vid­ing fast-turn, inno­v­a­tive sup­port for...Read More

When it comes to peo­ple who know how to bring out the best in oth­ers, co-own­er and COO Jen Bell­mont is near the top of the list. Over the past 19 years, Jen has been the dri­ving force behind mul­ti­ple ini­tia­tives designed to build Bell­mont Part­ners into one of Minnesota’s top pub­lic rela­tions agen­cies. She...Read More

For the past 30 years, Mau­reen Cahill has built her rep­u­ta­tion as one of the top pub­lic rela­tions prac­ti­tion­ers in the Twin Cities. She’s estab­lished her­self as a trust­ed go-to resource for media rela­tions, cri­sis com­mu­ni­ca­tions, events, and strate­gic plan­ning and video pro­duc­ing. She’s built excep­tion­al­ly strong rela­tion­ships with local and nation­al jour­nal­ists. And now,...Read More

Like so many in the Twin Cities and around the world, our team at Bell­mont Part­ners has com­mit­ted to doing bet­ter as indi­vid­u­als and as an agency to con­front racism and inequities. After George Floyd’s death, we’ve been tak­ing a dif­fi­cult, long-over­due look at our­selves. We know we have a long way to go, but...Read More

Stay­ing con­nect­ed has nev­er been more impor­tant. But not just in our social cir­cles. With so many of us work­ing from home, it can be hard to keep the morale and cre­ativ­i­ty up with­in a com­pa­ny or team. Sure, we can move meet­ings and calls to a vir­tu­al plat­form like Zoom, but what about the...Read More

When Min­neso­ta start­ed shut­ting down in March due to COVID-19, clo­sures and can­cel­la­tions seemed to be com­ing in every minute, and the Loft Lit­er­ary Center’s sec­ond annu­al Word­play book fes­ti­val was in lim­bo. But instead of can­cel­ing or post­pon­ing the May 9 event, the orga­niz­ers real­ized that going vir­tu­al could be an option – as...Read More

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