So mark your calendars for Tuesday, January 31 @ 6 p.m., but make sure you RSVP at the event page on Facebook because space is limited. The first 65 registrants will have a chance to experience Fleishman-Hillard’s newly renovated space along with complimentary eats, but only the first 25 will receive a special, limited edition T-Shirt. So act fast, and make plans to come see Fleishman-Hillard, and their efforts in Digital Motion!

6PM January 31st
200 N Broadway, 18th floor
Free Parking Provided at Pine Entrance

REBUS pulled a double switch last Tuesday night at Busch Stadium when they hosted the REBUS Quadruple Play Client Panel, an event that allowed young advertising professionals a chance to turn the tables by putting some of St. Louis’ biggest brands on the hotseat. While somewhat of a misnomer, as REBUS chaired five panelists instead of the anticipated four, the Quadruple Play offered participants a rare chance to ask the panelists about their days and ways running big brands.

Hosted just inside the world famous Busch Stadium at the fabulous Cardinals Club, the gathering was more party than event. Delicious gourmet appetizers, wine, and the legendary beers of Anheuser Busch delighted attendees, along with great Cardinals photos and memorabilia throughout the adjoining rooms, including the World Championship Commissioner’s Trophy from the Cardinals historic World Series win over the Brewers in 1982! A few lucky attendees even snuck into the stadium and got a glimpse of the ground crew already hard at work on revamping the field for the Cardinals upcoming season.

It truly was a great opportunity to enjoy an evening in a historic atmosphere normally reserved for Busch Stadium green seat season ticket holders, just one of the many special-event spaces available at Busch. Julia Row, Manager of Special Events for the St. Louis Cardinals was instrumental in setting up the night, and served as a panelist in a lineup that included Stephen Surman-VP of Digital Strategy for Anheuser-Busch, Jessica Simmons-Corporate Marketing Communications Director for Monsanto, Rebecca Saunders-Global Marketing Manager for Stereotaxis, and May Scheve Reardon-Director of The Missouri Lottery.

Jennifer Simler was the MC for the Quadruple Play and kicked off the evening with a first pitch of questions that set the stage for the evening, before bringing in the audience for their questions. A few interesting highlights included the differing approach that the Missouri Lottery and Anheuser Busch take with regard to CRM via social media channels, the globe-trotting lifestyle of brand managers with clients around the world, and Monsanto’s thinking behind the “St. Louis Grown” campaign. Other memorable moments from the night included Stephen Surman’s tale of a previous life in peddling tampons, May Scheve’s distribution of free lottery tickets, and the practically perfect bartending of the crowd-favorite Tina…who ran the helm at the tap all evening long.

Looking ahead, REBUS is taking a holiday break in December, but is extremely excited to be heading to PR giant Fleishman-Hillard in January for a night that promises to continue the recent hot-streak that REBUS has been on. For those of you that attended the Quadruple Play, it was great to see you. For those that didn’t, you’ll have to wait ‘til next year! See you at Fleishman!

College students home for the Thanksgiving holiday will have a rare opportunity on Tuesday, November 22, when Rodgers Townsend hosts their fifth annual Fall Forum.

“We began the event as a way for students to get an inside peek at the agency and learn about the different career paths available in advertising,” said Jennifer Oertli, VP and Director of HR.

This year’s event will feature a lineup of agency speakers including CEO Tim Rodgers, Chief Creative Officer Tom Townsend, and others. Topics covered will include creative, digital, media, account planning, and more.

“We enjoy opening the agency to students, and it’s a great opportunity for them to network,” said Rodgers. Intern Abby Wood adds, “I attended the forum last year and found it really helpful in terms of focusing my career path.

”The event will run from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, November 22. Attendees can learn more and RSVP at the agency’s Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=292194647467388.

Good news! An Account Manager- Branding posistion is available in St. Louis. Details are below.

General Description:

Our client is looking for an experienced account service professional as a result of growth. Think of this opportunity as a marketing position in an agency environment.  We’re looking for that exceptional individual with a strategic marketing mind, and a client service orientation.  This individual should have experience working closely with creatives and understand the creative process.  There are multiple simultaneous complex projects that will demand your ability to handle a wide range of strategy, production, budget and timeline issues.  .  Our ideal candidate will intimately understand branding, brand development, marketing strategy and communication.

 Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage the strategic development process for a specific set of accounts that include: brand architecture, strategy and brand positioning and related deliverables.
• Work with the client to direct the development and execution of marketing programs for assigned agency clients.
• Ensure all strategies, creative and tactics developed support client branding and marketing communication objectives, on time and on budget. Measure and analyze results of work.
• Provide consultation on developing and/or using consumer and market research, at times playing a lead role. Advise the agency teams about client products and target audience insights, providing written briefs.
• Project organization and day-to-day coordination in executional matters overseeing team members internal and external to the agency, including designers, production artists, copywriters, web developers and external vendors, as needed.
• Direct supervision and management of accounts as assigned to develop and maintain strong client relationships through daily contact and continuous feedback on status of jobs and on-going process.

Experience:

We’re looking for candidates with a total of seven to ten years’ experience specifically working with the brand development and strategic marketing, possibly with client side experience.  We need a pro-active, outgoing, organized, smart, confident, strategic and motivated individual who wants to develop significant client relationships and help clients build their brands.  We need experience working across all communication media including direct mail, print ads, broadcast, promotional, new media, etc., with strong written, verbal and presentation skills.  In a word, we want someone with a “passion” for marketing . . . someone who is unable to stop thinking about it, reading about it, noticing it and contributing to it in innovative ways.

Compensation:

The compensation is commensurate with experience.  There is an outstanding comp package including medical for employee (with family options, including dental and vision), 401K with a company match.

About Our Client:

Our client is experiencing consistent growth through referrals and new business wins. They are consistently winning new business, because they are smarter in their strategy and insights, while delivering best in class creative for their clients’ benefit. They are creating a collaborative culture based on smart thinking, the highest quality execution and a company culture that values collaboration and respect for colleagues, clients and family. The diverse client base includes category leaders in entertainment, construction, education, healthcare and non-profits.

 Our client’s leadership team is smart, forward thinking, nimble, entrepreneurial and innovative, always thinking about developing new ways to help their clients communicate their message.  The environment is creative and professional and your colleagues are passionate about high end creative, in support of strategic marketing communications,  EOE.

Please apply through our website www.Bishop-Partners.com.  Please send a separate email to Bob@Bishop-Partners.com with samples of your work and detailing your interest in and qualifications for this position.

Boasting a set of St. Louis brand icons from companies such as Monsanto, The St. Louis Cardinals, Save-A-Lot Foods and Stereotaxis the Quadruple Play will allow attendees to get an insight into the work of senior marketers at some of St. Louis’ most iconic companies. The Q&A panel will be chaired by Jennifer Simler, Account Director at Switch, and will give you a chance to ask these representatives ‘anything and everything’ about working for well-known brands in St. Louis.

Further, for a scant ten-dollar entry fee, you will enjoy an evening of delectable food and drink in the Cardinals Club, one of Busch’s finest spaces that is traditionally seen only by St. Louis Cardinals green-seat season ticket holders.

Unfortunately, attendance and free parking in Parking Lot A next to Paddy O’s is limited to the first seventy-five registrants, so make sure to visit PayPal to reserve your spot today! Check it out now, you don’t want to have to “wait for next year”!

Want to get on the Q&A list before the event? Tweet us @REBUS_STL!

Where: Cardinals Club

When: Tuesday, November 15 6:00-8:00pm

Cost: $10/person

Order tickets online now! Limited to 75 people!

Are you a student looking to save your way through senior year? No more starving on Ramen noodles now, with your chance to win a $1000 Ad Club scholarship.  See details below and get that essay started!

The AAF-Ad Club St. Louis will award two (2) scholarships in the amount of $1,000 for the 2012 academic year to students who meet the criteria here.

ELIGILBILITY CRITERIA

Eligible scholarship applicants must be studying and pursuing an advertising or a marketing degree.  In addition,

 - Be enrolled in an accredited institution of higher learning

- Academic standing of junior or senior

- Have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 (please attach a copy of your most recent report card or transcript)

- Currently enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours

- Signed recommendation letter by a faculty member

- Present a completed application to the Ad Club

- Submit an original typed essay (no more than 3 pages) on one of the topics identified.  Please indicate which topic was chosen.

Essay Topics

1. Why I have selected advertising or marketing as my major and my career?
2. How advertising effects the purchasing behaviors of those between the ages of 18-22?
3. Does advertising influence our lives and perhaps set the agenda?
4. What is your favorite ad or advertising campaign and why?

Completed application, including the application form, report card and/or transcript, letter of recommendation, and essay should be mailed to:

 The AAF-Ad Club Saint Louis

Attn: Scholarship Committee, KT

1141 South 7^th Street

St. Louis,MO 63104

All applications must be received no later than Wednesday, November 30, 2011

No late applications will be accepted.

Check back to the blog soon for details on next month’s event!

Join REBUS at the offices of GROUP360 WORLDWIDE on September 13th to check out their new space and the work of one of St. Louis’ biggest shops.

Also, come learn a little bit about ready+willing, a premier nonprofit that provides pro bono marketing and advertising assistance to other nonprofits in the St. Louis metropolitan area, made possible by the volunteerism of industry professionals.

Leading up to the event, ready+willing is running a ReTweet campaign to award a randomly selected winner a $125 membership. To enter, just tweet:

I’m ready+willing. Are you? Find out Sept 13th at @REBUS_STL and @rw_org hosted by @GROUP360WW (please ReTweet) #rwREBUS

RSVP On Facebook now!

How much does it cost?
Free for paid Ad Club members • Non-members $10 at the door
Must be 21 years of age or older

The St. Louis MCA (that’s Media Communications Association for those wondering) is hosting what appears to be a pretty awesome event next week that covers all things digital marketing.  With speakers from Switch, happyMedium, and Allied, it can’t hurt to attend.  If you’re not too worn out from the REBUS event on the 13th, we’ll see you here on the 14th. Details are below.

DATE: Wedesday, September 14, 2011
TIME: Networking begins at 6:30pm and meeting starts at 7pm
PLACE: Switch Studio, 6600 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, MO 63139
PRESENTERS:  Pete Maniscalco (Allied-THA), Noah Rosenberg (Happy Medium), Terry Hobbs and John Nickels (Switch)
COST:  Free for members of the MCA / $10 for non-member
 
About the Meeting
Wanting to make the digital jump or made the first jump and ready for more?  Join us at the September MCA meeting, grab some grub and learn more about digital advertising/social media and action and how it can make a difference for your business?  We’ll introduce Pete, John, Terry and Noah, four experts in the digital arena. You’ll learn about their companies and watch them in action as they do a madmen digital makeover for a non-expert.
 
Pete Maniscalco – Allied-THA
Pete Maniscalco is Director of Publicity and Promotions for Allied-THA. Allied-THA is a full service agency that provides clients with creative campaign ideas with national scale plus local market activation, integrated programs that deliver maximum promotional exposure, strategies to enhance existing traditional media as well as social media and social action. Prior to working for Allied-THA, he worked with KSJ Entertainment, Universal Pictures in their Kansas City field office and HNOW Agency. He oversees the St. Louis office.  
 
Noah Rosenberg – happyMedium
Noah Rosenberg is co-founder of happyMedium, a socially responsible consulting firm that helps conscious companies create marketing they can live with.  Noah is an award-winning advertising creative director, influential blogger and public speaker.  Prior to launching happyMedium, Noah developed interactive, integrated marketing for many of the world’s top brands including Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, IBM, Kodak, and Lenovo. His brand experience stretches across almost all product and service categories and includes integrated direct response, print, and interactive advertising. Noah has received over twenty national awards and had work appear in major publications including Luerzer’s Archive, The One Club and Communications Arts Magazines.  He studied Fine Art at University of Wisconsin, lives in St. Louis, blogs at adsaint.org and tweets @nrose.
 
Terry Hobbs – Switch
Terry Hobbs is the Senior Vice President of Production for Switch. Terry manages several key product groups including Displays and Environments, Grassroots Brand Sampling Programs, Meetings and Events, Motion Graphics/Video and Mobile Marketing Operations encompassing a staff of 60 Designers, Project Managers, Producers and over 900 field based full time sampling staff. Before joining Switch, Terry was a member of the senior management team at Maritz Communications, where he was responsible for the Central Regions Communications Division. He also has extensive experience in sports marketing. 
 
John Nickels – Switch
John Nickels is President of Switch.  He oversees experiential operations including project management and all in-house production services. His formative years track back to being a lighting designer, meeting and events producer for dozens of major corporations.  John brings a 35+ year track record of experience in almost every phase of creative development, production, production management and operations. John is a St. Louis philanthropist and big believer in giving back to the community.  He is on committees for Arts & Education, Christmas in St. Louis, Variety the Children’s Charity, Junior Achievement, Webster University, amongst others.

Join REBUS at the offices of GROUP360 WORLDWIDE on September 13th to check out their new space and the work of one of St. Louis’ biggest shops.

Also, come learn a little bit about ready+willing, a premier nonprofit that provides pro bono marketing and advertising assistance to other nonprofits in the St. Louis metropolitan area, made possible by the volunteerism of industry professionals.

Leading up to the event, ready+willing is running a ReTweet campaign to award a randomly selected winner a $125 membership. To enter, just tweet:

I’m ready+willing. Are you? Find out Sept 13th at @REBUS_STL and @rw_org hosted by @GROUP360WW (please ReTweet) #rwREBUS

RSVP On Facebook now!

How much does it cost?
Free for paid Ad Club members • Non-members $10 at the door
Must be 21 years of age or older