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ABOUT - Preston Spire is a modern marketing agency accelerating brand and business growth through the power of Good Wins. We believe it’s only through finding and amplifying the authentic Good in your brand, that you can create a lasting emotional connection. Today, your messages must not only be relevant, but delivered through experiences that are welcome in people’s lives. In a crowded marketplace, people are seeking more meaning in the choices they make and the brands they seek. So, we never forget to reward their time and effort. As a result, Preston Spire has consistently been among the top agencies in the U.S. Effie Effectiveness Index and is a past Ad Age Small Agency of the Year. Visit prestonspire.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

BIG CLIENT PEDIGREE + BOUTIQUE AGENCY SERVICE = UNMATCHED VALUE - Haworth is a strategic, creative marketing + media agency. We’ve been connecting brands with best prospects for over 50 years by staying ahead of the constant changes in our industry. We work with some of the world’s biggest brands, alongside smaller companies that do big things. We’re known for delivering creative-driven media with high-touch service and data-driven insights. With WPP/GroupM as our minority investment partner, we plus-up our services with the power of their scale and world-class resources. Our modern approach to engagement with our clients’ businesses is built on investment integrity at our core. We disrupt the competition with the power of big + the best of small. The role of media within marketing is vital, which is why we aren’t a typical media shop. We use inspiration from cultural and data insights, measurement/performance, and today’s modern tools to deliver media through a marketing lens. Our Insights team digs deep into each client’s business and industry to give us knowledge that makes better informed decisions. Media strategy Our strategists are marketing experts, skilled in developing communication plans to optimize KPIs throughout an increasingly diverse customer journey—while ensuring unified creative and media recommendations. Channel planning Media experts across all channels—including digital video/audio, print and out-of-home content platforms—apply their specialization to deliver media recommendations in sync with the message across holistic communication plans. Investment Our negotiators take a transparent approach to engage our media partners and senior marketplace decision-makers to manage investments that create optimal ROI. We leverage best-in-class ad tech to maximize effectiveness, whether traditional, search, social, programmatic, advanced video or e-commerce. Data + product services With tech and big data front and center, our Data and Product Services team gives us an advantage for optimizing media ROI by guiding informed decisions on media performance through data governance, system integration and automation. Advertising operations Haworth’s Ad Ops ensures flawless execution from ad logistics, digital ad ops and broadcast traffic—guaranteeing investments are fully realized by management of trafficking, measurement, and quality control across all assets. Agency operations The glue that holds us together includes Admin, Finance, HR, Design and IT. They keep us moving in the right direction and accelerating to the future.

ABOUT RKS - RKS is a design and innovation consulting firm delivering human-focused solutions with global impact. Founded in 1980, RKS has utilized design as a strategic tool advancing client’s ability to focus on people’s needs and aspirations while creating sustainable business results and benefits to society. Working domestically and globally and having won over 150 major design awards, RKS credits Maslow and Campbell’s work as the foundation for its systematic and pragmatic set of frameworks, setting the stage for the creation of experiences that motivate and reward audiences.

WE DID CONTENT BEFORE IT WAS COOL - Brandpoint is a content marketing agency that puts over 20 years of creative experience in your back pocket. Our content strategists, writers and designers are wildly creative, data-driven and dangerously talented. As early adopters of the agile marketing movement and strong proponents of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), our team provides our clients with a strong — yet flexible — foundation for content marketing success and integrates seamlessly with your existing team and resources. Our full range of content marketing services help you leverage quality content to provide immense value for your audience, find new customers and reach your most important business goals.

DIFFERENTIATE AND CONNECT - Founded in 2003, the team at Olive & Company has dedicated our existence to a single purpose: providing finely tuned marketing solutions that drive your brand and deliver business results. The tools and tactics have changed over the years, but our collective passion for serving clients remains unaltered. How do we do it? By combining exceptional design and content with robust strategies to deliver creative that engages and influences your customers. From the first meeting to final deliverable, we employ an efficient process that both fosters creativity and ensures exceptional quality. That’s the Olive approach, and we’re confident it will help your company connect with your audience and achieve your marketing goals.

(RE)DEFINE THE POWER OF DESIGN - Modern brands are not built by communicating an image. They are defined by what they do. We are passionate about building authentic brands through design that works on a deeper level to inspire and solve problems. WE BELIEVE IN DESIGN THAT MATTERS. Authentic brands start with inspired, insight-driven design that creates emotional connections. We believe that design is more than aesthetic. For design to achieve business goals, it must matter to those who encounter it. When design matters, it provides utility and impacts communities. It solves problems while expanding the boundaries of the craft. Since 1979, we’ve partnered with companies who understand how design can drive culture (inside and out), ideas and sales. We bring together problem solvers, strategic thinkers and conceptual designers to develop compelling brand stories.

A "NO WALLS CULTURE" - "The Best Small Agency" in the U.S: - As voted by the American Association of Advertising Agencies in October, 2009. We are a grown-up start-up: - We have the talent, experience and infrastructure to support the demands of larger marketers (as evidenced by our roster). We embrace a "no walls culture": - No walls between us and our clients. No walls between us and other partners working for our clients. No walls between people of different disciplines in the agency.

POSITIVE, CONSISTENT, AND MEASURABLE RESULTS - Nina Hale, Inc. is an SEO / SEM and social media agency with an analytical, measured process to growing brand and revenue through online channels.The agency was founded by Nina Hale in 2005, and is a nationally certified woman owned business, WBENC. The NHI team is fully focused on driving revenue for Fortune 500 companies by identifying, reaching, and engaging qualified customers through strategic integration of various tactics. Recognized as a leader in search marketing, Nina Hale, Inc. is the largest Google AdWords certified partner in Minnesota and has 29 employees certified in Google Analytics, as well as a team certified in SiteCatalyst. The drive and constant curiosity of our staff has enabled Nina Hale, Inc. to create exceptionally successful search and social programs for our clients, with positive, consistent, and measurable results. We appreciate working with clients that share our collaborative style, and pride ourselves on the many long term partnerships that Nina forged early on and continues today. We offer our clients exceptional value and believe that starts with retaining top talent and offering a work/life balance. For three consecutive years, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal has named Nina Hale, Inc. one of the “Best Places to Work” in 2011, 2012, and 2013. The agency was also named to the 2013 Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies.