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

We are proud to share that Bell­mont Part­ners took home a win at the Min­neso­ta PRSA Clas­sics Awards last night in the Inte­grat­ed Pro­grams cat­e­go­ry for our work with long­time client Sec­ond Har­vest Heart­land for “Pitch In for the Kitchen,” a cam­paign for Min­neso­ta Cen­tral Kitchen. Min­neso­ta Cen­tral Kitchen was quick­ly formed in the ear­ly...Read More

As Bell­mont Part­ners con­tin­ues to grow, our team mem­bers are as well, and we’re hap­py to announce that Julie Goulette has been pro­mot­ed to Assis­tant Account Exec­u­tive. Julie joined the Bell­mont Part­ners team in 2019, and she’s been a big con­trib­u­tor ever since. In the wake of the pan­dem­ic, her focus on agency oper­a­tions and...Read More

As a for­mer jour­nal­ist, Brid­get Nel­son Mon­roe is all about build­ing con­nec­tions between col­leagues, clients and the com­mu­ni­ty. This pas­sion, paired with her strate­gic com­mu­ni­ca­tions tal­ent and exper­tise, made her an obvi­ous choice for recog­ni­tion by Ragan and PR Dai­ly. We’re thrilled to share Brid­get has been named one of this year’s Top Women in...Read More

Bob Pilz has a pas­sion so deep for exot­ic ani­mals that he had to share it with oth­ers. Thus, Sus­tain­able Safari was cre­at­ed in 2019 as an inter­ac­tive ani­mal expe­ri­ence in Maple­wood Mall, fea­tur­ing more than 25 unique species such as emus, lemurs, armadil­los, greater gri­son and red kan­ga­roos. Safari Bob, along with his wife,...Read More

As we approach Earth Day, our team has a lot we could and want to say about sus­tain­abil­i­ty. But we had to check our­selves recent­ly, as we often do with our clients, ask­ing things like: What is our role in this con­ver­sa­tion? What’s appro­pri­ate for us to say? Why would our audi­ence care to hear...Read More