It’s not exact­ly break­ing news that the past two years have been tough on the media. And in Min­neso­ta, prob­a­bly no out­let has faced stronger head­winds recent­ly than Upsize Mag­a­zine. When the region­al busi­ness magazine’s co-founder and pub­lish­er Wes Bergstrom died in Spring 2020, the pub­li­ca­tion went on hia­tus, fac­ing an uncer­tain future. Enter Andy Tel­li­john....Read More

With stay-at-home orders, trav­el bans and social dis­tanc­ing guide­lines in place, it’s no sur­prise that the tourism and event indus­try took a hit dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. As we’ve come to see over the last 18 months, the pro­fes­sion­als in this space are noth­ing if not resilient, cre­ative and hard­work­ing. And their efforts are pay­ing off,...Read More

Our Bell­mont Part­ners team will be the first to say that cre­at­ing a roadmap with clear strat­e­gy and thought­ful devel­op­ment is a cru­cial part of hav­ing a suc­cess­ful com­mu­ni­ca­tions plan. And we also will affirm the need for flex­i­bil­i­ty to adapt and take advan­tage of unique, unfore­seen oppor­tu­ni­ties. Whether that means jump­ing to respond to...Read More

Nav­i­gat­ing health­care is com­plex, and per­haps nev­er more intim­i­dat­ing or bur­den­some than the past cou­ple of years. The COVID-19 pan­dem­ic has swept the world with tragedy and immense pres­sure on our health­care sys­tems; men­tal health chal­lenges and ill­ness­es are on the rise; and the cost and com­plex­i­ty of nav­i­gat­ing the many options indi­vid­u­als and fam­i­lies...Read More

When each day is con­stant­ly full of break­ing news, and cir­cum­stances around the world – both big and small – seem to always be in flux, how do you max­i­mize your media rela­tions efforts and cut through the noise? We’ve put togeth­er four ele­ments from our strate­gic approach that help us con­nect with jour­nal­ists, share...Read More

The U.S. Cen­sus Bureau recent­ly released results from the 2020 Cen­sus, high­light­ing new changes and trends in com­mu­ni­ties across the country. While the data will be used to deter­mine leg­isla­tive seats for upcom­ing elec­tions over the next decade, there are plen­ty of insights to be gained from the accom­pa­ny­ing demo­graph­ic data from a com­mu­ni­ca­tions standpoint. As com­mu­ni­ca­tors,...Read More

As the job mar­ket is spring­ing back to life and com­mu­ni­ca­tions tal­ent becomes hard­er to find, now may be the per­fect time to con­sid­er cre­at­ing or max­i­miz­ing a hybrid com­mu­ni­ca­tions team that blends in-house and out­sourced experts to get the job done. The Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Busi­ness Com­mu­ni­ca­tors (IABC) Min­neso­ta chap­ter recent­ly host­ed a pro­fes­sion­al...Read More

It’s a par­tic­u­lar­ly good day at Bell­mont Part­ners: Our agency has been named one of Inc. magazine’s Best Work­places for 2019, one of just sev­en Min­neso­ta com­pa­nies to make the list. We’ve been rec­og­nized for our work­place cul­ture before by local out­lets like Min­neso­ta Busi­ness and Mpls./St. Paul Busi­ness Jour­nal, but this is the first nation­al...Read More

As we get ready to turn the cal­en­dar page, it’s hard to believe 2018 is com­ing to a close. For us, it’s been a year full of excit­ing changes, chal­leng­ing projects and amaz­ing clients and partners. Our work this year has spanned the com­mu­ni­ca­tions and mar­ket­ing realms, serv­ing each of our clients’ unique needs, from cre­at­ing...Read More

Hey, bud­dy – spare some change? If your busi­ness is like most, there’s plen­ty of change to go around – and it’s impact­ing your col­leagues, clients and customers. Change has been proven to have a sig­nif­i­cant effect on employ­ees’ men­tal well-being, and it can man­i­fest itself phys­i­cal­ly, as well. Accord­ing to a study from the Amer­i­can...Read More