MNBloggerBash started several years ago as a part of Hubbard Interactive with the idea to connect businesses to bloggers and influencers. We have hosted many events and the team behind those events decided it was time for a rebranding effort. Over the last 6 months they have built a new website, designed new logos and changed the whole color scheme, and even reframed the events themselves. In this episode we talk with a couple ladies from the MNBloggerBash team about the rebrand and what it will mean going forward.


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Missy Young

Social Media Services Manager

@miss_shredbetty Missy Young

As the Social Media Services Manager for Hubbard Interactive, Missy Young’s position entails working with clients and team members to drive social media strategy and lead initiatives to identify new technologies and digital best practices. She develops customized micro and macro campaigns that drive online interaction, promotes and creates content that enhances the customer experience and creates lead generation for medium to large-scale companies. She regularly speaks at local and national events on a variety of subjects including: social media, PR, analytics and content strategy.


Adriana Velez

Social Media Coordinator

@sincerely_ami Adriana Velez

With a career path that has so far been more confusing than the plot line of a Telenovela, Adriana brings knowledge from multiple areas of digital marketing. She graduated from the University of St. Thomas with a degree in Business Law and was a cheerleader during her time there. As a Social Media Coordinator at Hubbard Interactive, she brings company voices to life through social media content. With multiple HubSpot certifications and knowledge in Inbound Marketing, she knows the importance of lead nurturing. With passion for all things email, she is able to take a hands-off approach to engaging with customers and nurturing leads as they go through the buyer’s journey. When she isn’t geeking out over digital marketing you can find her blogging about mental health, capturing her trendy life living in North Loop, and taking pictures of her dog and cat.


Kaylie Schmitt

@kaylie_schmitt

Kaylie is a graphic designer at Hubbard Interactive and crazy dog mom to Tilly the Toller. When she’s not obsessing over her fur baby, she can be found on the bike trails, playing volleyball or adventuring to the mountains with her husband.


Pat Laeger

Digital Content Specialist

Pat Laeger

Pat has over 10 years of creative production experience and has produced radio shows, video campaigns, podcasts, and other digital content. Pat is an outgoing introvert, a spreadsheet lover, an Oxford comma advocate, and an avid Mountain Dew drinker.


 

FlipPhone Drag Brunches have become a big hit in Minneapolis. Tickets sell out as soon as they go on sale, attendees have a blast, performers make good money, and it all raises money for local non-profits. It’s a win-win-win for everyone! And it’s all coordinated by the owner of FlipPhone Events, Chad Kampe. He is the mastermind behind the drag brunches and the numerous other shows and parties throughout the year. In this episode we sit down with Chad and talk about what it’s like to manage the marketing, social media, event production, and even host some of the events. He really does it all – from Facebook event promotion to video marketing to influencer marketing, and he talks to us about what he’s done to succeed with all these events.


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Missy Young

Social Media Services Manager

@miss_shredbetty Missy Young

As the Social Media Services Manager for Hubbard Interactive, Missy Young’s position entails working with clients and team members to drive social media strategy and lead initiatives to identify new technologies and digital best practices. She develops customized micro and macro campaigns that drive online interaction, promotes and creates content that enhances the customer experience and creates lead generation for medium to large-scale companies. She regularly speaks at local and national events on a variety of subjects including: social media, PR, analytics and content strategy.


Chad Kampe

Owner, FlipPhoneEvents.com

@flipphoneevents @FlipPhone

Chad Kampe is owner of FlipPhoneEvents.com. Flip Produces 10-25 events a month. These events include drag brunches, dance parties, and visits from RuPaul’s Drag Race Queens. Prior to running events, Chad was an elementary school teacher and ran a nonprofit.


Pat Laeger

Digital Content Specialist

Pat Laeger

Pat has over 10 years of creative production experience and has produced radio shows, video campaigns, podcasts, and other digital content. Pat is an outgoing introvert, a spreadsheet lover, an Oxford comma advocate, and an avid Mountain Dew drinker.


 

Facebook makes changes to their platform almost everyday it seems. Between the newsfeed algorithm, advertising rules, new features and user interaction, keeping up with what’s new on Facebook alone can seem like a chore. And that’s only one social media platform. That’s why we brought in Jayna Wilcox for this episode. Jayna travels around the country and keeps all of the Hubbard Radio markets in the loop and up to speed with the latest social media news. In this episode she dishes out the latest for Facebook advertising, Instagram stories & features, and chatbots.


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Missy Young

Social Media Services Manager

@miss_shredbetty Missy Young

As the Social Media Services Manager for Hubbard Interactive, Missy Young’s position entails working with clients and team members to drive social media strategy and lead initiatives to identify new technologies and digital best practices. She develops customized micro and macro campaigns that drive online interaction, promotes and creates content that enhances the customer experience and creates lead generation for medium to large-scale companies. She regularly speaks at local and national events on a variety of subjects including: social media, PR, analytics and content strategy.


Jayna Wilcox

Senior Digital Sales Strategist

@jaynaanderson_

Jayna Wilcox is the Senior Digital Sales Strategist at 2060 Digital. Along with a degree in Strategic Communication, she studied Fashion at the University of Minnesota, which makes her an avid trend seeker across a variety of industries. She is able to see the importance of digital media converting into sales and has an understanding of both a big and small brand standpoint, as she did social media for Mall of America, prior to joining the Hubbard Interactive team. Always interested in the latest and upcoming trends in social & digital media, fashion, and health, Jayna has a very futuristic mindset and is always seeking “what’s next” to improve her clients’ needs. Jayna is a Hubbard NextGen, a group that was selected within the company to come up with ideas for the future.


Pat Laeger

Digital Content Specialist

Pat Laeger

Pat has over 10 years of creative production experience and has produced radio shows, video campaigns, podcasts, and other digital content. Pat is an outgoing introvert, a spreadsheet lover, an Oxford comma advocate, and an avid Mountain Dew drinker.


 

Our team went to SXSW in Austin, TX to learn the latest in digital marketing, podcasting, social media and more. It was a week of informative sessions and crazy experiential events that got our minds spinning with ideas. In this episode, we recap our seven day excursion and dish the highlights from SXSW.


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Missy Young

Social Media Services Manager

@miss_shredbetty Missy Young

As the Social Media Services Manager for Hubbard Interactive, Missy Young’s position entails working with clients and team members to drive social media strategy and lead initiatives to identify new technologies and digital best practices. She develops customized micro and macro campaigns that drive online interaction, promotes and creates content that enhances the customer experience and creates lead generation for medium to large-scale companies. She regularly speaks at local and national events on a variety of subjects including: social media, PR, analytics and content strategy.


William White

Senior Developer, Hubbard Radio

@williamekwhite @williamekwhite

William is the Senior Developer for Hubbard Radio. William leads the development team for Hubbard Radio corporate, creating and maintaining a variety of websites and applications used throughout the entire company and by the public. Focusing on mostly open source technologies, his team creates platforms for Web and Mobile App usage and they have been an early adopter of smart speaker customization development. When not focusing on technology at work, he is often found installing and geeking out on the latest IoT device in his home.


Wheeler Morris

Manager, Corporate Podcasting Strategy

@wheelerjmorris

Wheeler oversees all podcasting within Hubbard Radio across the company’s eight markets.


Jesse Bewley

Digital Media Director

@jabewley @jabewley

Jesse fronts the digital efforts for Hubbard Minneapolis-St. Paul’s local radio group which comprises of KS95, myTalk 107.1 and SKOR North. He leads a team of 10 amazingly creative Graphic Designers, Developers, Videographers, Social Media Managers and more that help bring Hubbard’s Twin Cities digital presence to life.


Pat Laeger

Digital Content Specialist

Pat Laeger

Pat has over 10 years of creative production experience and has produced radio shows, video campaigns, podcasts, and other digital content. Pat is an outgoing introvert, a spreadsheet lover, an Oxford comma advocate, and an avid Mountain Dew drinker.


 

Netflix and Hulu both recently released documentaries on the same subject: Fyre Festival and its creator, Billy McFarland. They each tell the story differently and are fascinating to watch. Fyre Festival was marketed so well with video and flashy photos along with big-name social media influencers and models like Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski and more. People bought tickets to this one-of-a-kind music festival and expected to have the time of their lives. But in the end the whole thing fell apart and was a big, public flop.

In this episode we talk about the marketing of Fyre Festival and how they were able to make the marketing a success and build such a buzz around the event. We also discuss what went wrong and try to take a few lessons away on community management and influencer marketing.


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Missy Young

Social Media Services Manager

@miss_shredbetty Missy Young

As the Social Media Services Manager for Hubbard Interactive, Missy Young’s position entails working with clients and team members to drive social media strategy and lead initiatives to identify new technologies and digital best practices. She develops customized micro and macro campaigns that drive online interaction, promotes and creates content that enhances the customer experience and creates lead generation for medium to large-scale companies. She regularly speaks at local and national events on a variety of subjects including: social media, PR, analytics and content strategy.


Anna Johnson

Social Media Coordinator

@the_butterflypath Anna Johnson

A recent college grad (University of Wisconsin-River Falls) in marketing communications with a minor in business communications, Anna Johnson started her own brand called Just Anna. She also branded her non-profit, The Butterfly Path, that launch this past November where she helps others in her community with mental health. If Anna’s not at work, talking social media, or helping others brand their business, she can be found drinking endless cups of coffee or shopping at local businesses.


Pat Laeger

Digital Content Specialist

Pat Laeger

Pat has over 10 years of creative production experience and has produced radio shows, video campaigns, podcasts, and other digital content. Pat is an outgoing introvert, a spreadsheet lover, an Oxford comma advocate, and an avid Mountain Dew drinker.


 

How does a marketing agency market themselves? On this podcast we talk to a variety of business owners and marketers, and offer advice and hear what works and doesn’t work for them. But in this episode we reveal what we at Hubbard Interactive do for marketing our own products. We are gearing up for our next Hubbard Digital Academy and are putting a lot of thought and effort into that promotion, so this episode is all about the tactics we are utilizing to get the word out about our conference in June.


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On This Episode

Missy Young

Social Media Services Manager

@miss_shredbetty Missy Young

As the Social Media Services Manager for Hubbard Interactive, Missy Young’s position entails working with clients and team members to drive social media strategy and lead initiatives to identify new technologies and digital best practices. She develops customized micro and macro campaigns that drive online interaction, promotes and creates content that enhances the customer experience and creates lead generation for medium to large-scale companies. She regularly speaks at local and national events on a variety of subjects including: social media, PR, analytics and content strategy.


Sam O’Byrne

Digital Brand Strategist

@im_just_sam

Sam O’Byrne is a Digital Brand Strategist at Hubbard Interactive. Since finishing school at the University of Minnesota, Sam has become an experienced digital strategist with over 10 years of planning, creating, and executing digital solutions. Sam has extensive experience working with businesses, government organizations, public health initiatives and non-profits from fortune 500s to tiny mom and pop bakeries. Sam holds certifications from Google in AdWords and analytics as well as various other certifications from Bing, Microsoft and Hubspot.


Pat Laeger

Digital Content Specialist

Pat Laeger

Pat has over 10 years of creative production experience and has produced radio shows, video campaigns, podcasts, and other digital content. Pat is an outgoing introvert, a spreadsheet lover, an Oxford comma advocate, and an avid Mountain Dew drinker.


 

When you start a business from scratch, everything seems daunting and social media and digital marketing is no exception. In this episode we talk to Kelsey from CBD Health about some of the things she has worked on with her bosses in the few short months since they opened CBD Health. Kelsey talks about how they use social media and email marketing and even text messaging to communicate and educate customers and potential customers.


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Missy Young

Social Media Services Manager

@miss_shredbetty Missy Young

As the Social Media Services Manager for Hubbard Interactive, Missy Young’s position entails working with clients and team members to drive social media strategy and lead initiatives to identify new technologies and digital best practices. She develops customized micro and macro campaigns that drive online interaction, promotes and creates content that enhances the customer experience and creates lead generation for medium to large-scale companies. She regularly speaks at local and national events on a variety of subjects including: social media, PR, analytics and content strategy.


Pat Laeger

Digital Content Specialist

Pat Laeger

Pat has over 10 years of creative production experience and has produced radio shows, video campaigns, podcasts, and other digital content. Pat is an outgoing introvert, a spreadsheet lover, an Oxford comma advocate, and an avid Mountain Dew drinker.


 

Generation Z is the newest generation to be named and were born between 1995 and 2015. They are currently between 3-23 years old, and there are nearly 74 million of them in the U.S.

In this episode we went to the University of Minnesota to the Student Advertising Summit to talk with several members of Gen Z about their social media habits as well as how they view and interact with brands on social media.


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Missy Young

Social Media Services Manager

@miss_shredbetty Missy Young

As the Social Media Services Manager for Hubbard Interactive, Missy Young’s position entails working with clients and team members to drive social media strategy and lead initiatives to identify new technologies and digital best practices. She develops customized micro and macro campaigns that drive online interaction, promotes and creates content that enhances the customer experience and creates lead generation for medium to large-scale companies. She regularly speaks at local and national events on a variety of subjects including: social media, PR, analytics and content strategy.


Pat Laeger

Digital Content Specialist

Pat Laeger

Pat has over 10 years of creative production experience and has produced radio shows, video campaigns, podcasts, and other digital content. Pat is an outgoing introvert, a spreadsheet lover, an Oxford comma advocate, and an avid Mountain Dew drinker.


 

Southwest of the Twin Cities in the small town of Red Wing, Minnesota lives Billy the Bun Man – a larger-than-life personality who thrives on Facebook promoting the local bakery, Hanisch Bakery. Bill Hanisch is the owner of the bakery and has built an audience of over 18,000 fans on Facebook with his social media alter ego, Billy the Bun Man.

In this episode we talk to Bill about that persona. He talks about the work that it takes to run a successful bakery and keep up his Billy the Bun Man identity (for which he has a costume and everything), and how he has used social media to build business for his bakery as well as other businesses in Red Wing.


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Missy Young

Social Media Services Manager

@miss_shredbetty Missy Young

As the Social Media Services Manager for Hubbard Interactive, Missy Young’s position entails working with clients and team members to drive social media strategy and lead initiatives to identify new technologies and digital best practices. She develops customized micro and macro campaigns that drive online interaction, promotes and creates content that enhances the customer experience and creates lead generation for medium to large-scale companies. She regularly speaks at local and national events on a variety of subjects including: social media, PR, analytics and content strategy.


Bill Hanisch

Chief Manager/Owner - Hanisch Bakery and Coffee Shop

@hanischbakery

Bill Hanisch is 1998 Graduate of Red Wing High School and a 2000 Graduate of Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied Baking and Pastry Arts and Basics of Hotel and Restaurant Management. The bakery career for him started at 16 years old at Braschler’s Bakery and Coffee shop in Red Wing, Minnesota. Starting as a cleaning kid and moving his way through the ranks of the bakery before finally landing as the head night baker. In 2007 Bill and his then wife Robyn had the opportunity to purchase Braschler’s Bakery and make the transition into Hanisch Bakery and Coffee Shop. For 11 years the bakery has grown and prospered with the help of a strong social media presence. Self taught in most of the social media avenues Bill has created an online persona know as Billy The Bunman, a nickname given to him by a local radio Dj. Now with a strong following on Facebook, he is looking on how to grow and adapt the bakery in all the avenues on social media, as well as expanding the bakery itself.


Chad Peterson

Digital Project Manager

Chad Peterson is a digital project manager at Hubbard Interactive. A Wisconsin native, Chad moved to Minnesota to attend school at the University of Minnesota – Duluth, finishing his degree at Full Sail University, where he fell in love with developing brands on social media. Chad started in radio as a promotion specialist, and has sense worked in the motorcycle industry for a globally recognized distributor as a media buyer and social media manager – leading community development, influencer management, content strategy and creation, and social ad buys.


 

Recently SKOR North in the Twin Cities went through a major rebrand – new name, new logo, new website, new social media channels, new platforms, new everything. It was a process that took months to plan and implement because they changed their whole business model. Before they were an AM sports talk radio station with it’s toes in the digital marketing world, but now as SKOR North, they are a investing heavily in digital content distribution while still maintaining their AM radio presence, which has been around for almost 100 years.

In this episode, we talk with Derek Wetmore and Seth Auger from SKOR North about the whole process of rebranding and what they are excited about going forward with a completely different brand mentality and focus.


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Missy Young

Social Media Services Manager

@miss_shredbetty Missy Young

As the Social Media Services Manager for Hubbard Interactive, Missy Young’s position entails working with clients and team members to drive social media strategy and lead initiatives to identify new technologies and digital best practices. She develops customized micro and macro campaigns that drive online interaction, promotes and creates content that enhances the customer experience and creates lead generation for medium to large-scale companies. She regularly speaks at local and national events on a variety of subjects including: social media, PR, analytics and content strategy.


Derek Wetmore

Assistant Content Director - SKOR North

Derek Wetmore

Derek Wetmore is the assistant director of content & distribution for SKOR North, a Twin Cities sports media company by Hubbard Broadcasting. He also covers the Minnesota Twins and Major League Baseball for SKORNorth.com, and hosts Touch ‘Em All, a show about the Twins.


Seth Auger

Social Media Brand Manager - SKOR North

Seth Auger

Seth Auger is the Social Media Brand Manager for SKOR North. Coming over from the Minnesota Timberwolves, Seth is in charge of leading the social media strategy efforts for the SKOR North brand and creating unique, engaging content and voice.


Pat Laeger

Digital Content Specialist

Pat Laeger

Pat has over 10 years of creative production experience and has produced radio shows, video campaigns, podcasts, and other digital content. Pat is an outgoing introvert, a spreadsheet lover, an Oxford comma advocate, and an avid Mountain Dew drinker.