While it wasn’t a sur­prise to those of us at Bell­mont Part­ners who know him well, we are thrilled own­er and pres­i­dent Bri­an Bell­mont has been named a Twin Cities Busi­ness 2022 Notable Leader in Mar­ket­ing. This hon­or cel­e­brates busi­ness lead­ers who have nav­i­gat­ed the pan­dem­ic, labor and sup­ply chal­lenges, infla­tion, a social jus­tice move­ment...Read More

We live in an era of social media scrolling, and noth­ing can grab your atten­tion bet­ter than a com­pelling pho­to­graph. As a for­mer jour­nal­ist, and for the last 15 years a still pho­tog­ra­ph­er, I’ve learned how impor­tant it is to think strate­gi­cal­ly about pho­tog­ra­phy and how images are used in the mar­ket­ing of your busi­ness....Read More

As the third quar­ter has come to a close, we are grate­ful for the diver­si­ty of clients we get to work with, includ­ing new projects and client rela­tion­ships – and some that are old yet new again. From bev­er­age brands to musi­cal acts, health­care com­pa­nies and more, our team is eager to con­tin­ue part­ner­ing with...Read More

We know we were a bit qui­et this sum­mer – because we were up to big things! Over the past few months, we’ve cel­e­brat­ed award wins and (in-per­son!) client events, gath­ered as a team for pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment, took a trip to Duluth togeth­er and much more! Here is a snap­shot of our sum­mer high­light reel! Strive...Read More

We’re clos­ing out the sec­ond quar­ter with a vari­ety of new clients, each with inspir­ing visions. From an event that is break­ing down health bar­ri­ers in his­tor­i­cal­ly under­rep­re­sent­ed com­mu­ni­ties to an icon­ic fam­i­ly-owned florist, our team is proud to have wel­comed the fol­low­ing new clients in the past few months: Bachman’s is a fam­i­ly-owned flo­ral, home, and gar­den...Read More

In a time when dis­trust is the default, and con­sumers’ BS meters are astute, how can your com­pa­ny build trust? Peo­ple. With lim­it­ed per­son­al inter­ac­tions the past two years, tap­ping into that crav­ing for human con­nec­tion is a way to authen­ti­cal­ly tell your sto­ries while build­ing trust with your con­sumers. And, who bet­ter to speak...Read More

We’re excit­ed to intro­duce the newest mem­ber of the Bell­mont Part­ners team—Angela Seut­ter! Angela is an extreme­ly tal­ent­ed and expe­ri­enced com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­fes­sion­al who, like sev­er­al oth­ers on our team, start­ed her career in jour­nal­ism, work­ing at NBC and MSNBC in New York and Lon­don before mak­ing the switch to PR. For the past sev­er­al years,...Read More

If you’re in the Twin Cities, you’ve prob­a­bly seen inde­fati­ga­ble entre­pre­neur Teto Wil­son on the air­waves, in mag­a­zines, on bill­boards, or at com­mu­ni­ty events. Through every­thing he does he keeps his North Min­neapo­lis neigh­bors cen­ter stage, and he’s affect­ing real change: He hosts town hall events to fos­ter com­mu­ni­ty con­ver­sa­tions around key top­ics at his...Read More

While May is Men­tal Health Aware­ness Month, we know it’s impor­tant to think about men­tal health through­out the whole year. As com­mu­ni­ca­tors and mar­keters, it’s dif­fi­cult to ful­ly step away, as there’s often work right at our fin­ger­tips. This com­bined with all the oth­er stres­sors around us means some­times our men­tal health gets put on...Read More

These past two years have taught us about liv­ing and work­ing dur­ing a glob­al pan­dem­ic and fur­ther­more, how impor­tant pay­ing atten­tion to our men­tal health can be as we nav­i­gate the chal­lenges that come with work­ing from home, hybrid, or mak­ing the return to the office. Now more than ever, peo­ple are find­ing that the...Read More