Oh, we got trou­ble. Or at least we have for the past two years as COVID has impact­ed near­ly every aspect of all our lives. But as always, a sil­ver lin­ing is start­ing to become clear. Or in this case, I guess, a brass lin­ing – com­plete with 76 trom­bones lead­ing the big parade, with 110...Read More

Fea­tured Pho­to Cour­tesy Becky Church Photography As COVID restric­tions are lift­ed and peo­ple begin to gath­er again, we want­ed to reflect on the whirl­wind of the past 16 months – specif­i­cal­ly when it comes to events. What did we learn? How will this affect events mov­ing forward? We posed those ques­tions and more to three of...Read More

The speed at which things have changed in the past 13 months has kept many pro­fes­sion­als on their toes –which cer­tain­ly includes mar­ket­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­fes­sion­als. We work with some incred­i­ble lead­ers, and it’s been inspir­ing to see them embrace changes, nav­i­gate chal­lenges and take dif­fer­ent approach­es than they set out to take before every­thing...Read More

We’ve spent the last year help­ing our clients spot­light all the ways they’ve piv­ot­ed their oper­a­tions and inno­vat­ed to meet the needs of our new world. One client that has been rec­og­nized for the many ways they’ve sup­port­ed the indus­try and local and glob­al com­mu­ni­ty this past year has been Digi-Key Elec­tron­ics. Right away when...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

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