Burst Marketing CEO Dave Vener was featured on the front page of the Times Union Business section for his role leading the Entrepreneurs’ Organization of Albany.
Read more on the Times Union website.
Burst CEO Featured in Octane
June 26, 2012
In the June 2012 issue of Octane - published monthly by Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO), Burst Marketing CEO Dave Vener writes about the need to diversify your business.
Dave talks about the time to finally “walk the walk” and pursue a diversification strategy. His decision ultimately led to a merger and the creation of Burst Marketing as a major player in the Capital Region.
You can read the article by following this link.
Note: Dave Vener is President of the Albany chapter of EO.
Burst Marketing Wins 10 Communicator Awards
June 4, 2012
Burst Marketing, an Albany, NY based integrated marketing firm, has won a record setting ten Communicator Awards at The 2012 Communicator Awards, held by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. With over 6,000 entries received from prestigious marketing, advertising, corporate communications, and public relations firms across the US and around the world, the Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring the creative excellence for communications professionals.
At the event, Burst Marketing won one Gold Award of Excellence and nine Silver Awards of Distinction amongst ten categories, including six websites, three print campaigns, and one overall marketing campaign. The Communicator Awards are judged and overseen by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), a 550+ member organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Current IAVA membership represents a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms including: Condè Nast, Coach, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, HBO, Monster.com, TV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Victoria’s Secret, Wired, Yahoo!, and many others.
Dave Borland, Burst Marketing’s Chief Marketing Officer, was effusive in his appreciation of Burst’s internal team and Burst’s clients. “I can’t begin to tell you how thankful we are to have such great clients that worked with us towards their goals of higher revenues through marketing and branding, and the internal staff of professionals who made it happen for those clients. Even a few years ago, I couldn’t envision winning so many awards, but now with our team of passionate experts in strategy, design, and development, I’m not surprised that we’ve been able to win so many of these awards this year”.
About Burst Marketing:
Burst Marketing is one of the 10 largest integrated marketing firms in New York’s Capital Region. Burst develops marketing strategy and campaigns for small business, and is among the largest web development and print management agencies in the region, serving over 800 clients.
Burst CMO featured on FOX23 News
April 5, 2012
Burst Chief Marketing Officer Dave Borland was recently featured on FOX23 News.
“There’s a bunch of things that people need to look for on their website and they’ll often find themselves just building sites just to have them,” Borland told FOX23 News anchor Stephanie Grady. “Unfortunately, that’s not a good thing.”
When customers go into a restaurant and see a dirty floor, for example, they’re going to walk out, Borland said. The same is true for websites.
Watch the complete clip below.
The New Burst Marketing – What it means for you.
April 4, 2012
The merger of IntelliSites and ImPress could spell big things for clients.
Burst Marketing – having completed its merger of IntelliSites and ImPress Printing and Graphics – has solidified its position among the leading Marketing firms in the Capital Region. (The Business Review ranks Burst Marketing in the top 10 for three years running.)
That’s’ all well and good, you say, but what does that mean for me and my business?
Fair enough. So here’s the bottom line: It means we’re even better at generating leads, launching new products and making your cash register ring.
The new Burst Marketing offers more marketing services, more focused strategies and creativity and even greater attention to generating returns on your marketing investment. We’ve also added new creative talent and project managers to enhance our ability to deliver great work and outstanding service.
We’re still the best value in the Capital Region for web and traditional marketing services.
In addition to our core strengths in web design and marketing, print management, graphic design, and direct marketing, we’ve added public relations, content development, video and extended our social media and inbound marketing capabilities.
And don’t forget what makes Burst really different from other agencies – strategy development with a laser-focus on achieving your goals. And now, the new Burst Marketing offers marketing plans with Guaranteed Results. (contact us for more information)
Throughout this tough economy, we’ve been fortunate enough to continue to grow while most marketing firms haven’t. Burst offers you the stability you’ll want in a long-term marketing partner.
We invite you to review our expanded menu of services. Then call us to talk about growing your business.
If you have any other questions about the merger, please contact one of us. Our emails are listed below.
Dave Vener, Chief Executive Officer, dvener@burstmarketing.net
Dave Borland, Chief Marketing Officer, dborland@burstmarketing.net
Sharon Lawless, Chief Operating Office, slawless@burstmarketing.net
Burst Marketing Receives Four ADDY Awards at Albany Ad Club Event
March 21, 2012
Burst Marketing was recently awarded four prestigious ADDY awards—having been nominated for seven—for several of our clients’ marketing projects. The ADDY Awards are hosted by the Albany Ad Club, as part of the American Advertising Federation’s local, regional and national competition for creative excellence. The awards are given only to the very best marketers, and are chosen by a panel of nationally recognized advertising leaders. We’re so proud because you’ve allowed us to create such work. Burst Marketing will move on to compete at the national level for two of the award-winning projects.
Burst received the following ADDY awards:
- Mixed Direct Campaign, B-to-B or Consumer
Client: Andrea Langford Designs, Andrea Langford Direct Mailer
- Website, B-to-B HTML, Products
Client: Adkad Technologies, Adkad Technologies Website
- Website, B-to-B HTML, Services
Client: Take Shape Inc., Take Shape Website
- Website, Consumer HTML, Services
Client: Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission, Albany Pine Bush Preserve Website
Our CEO David Vener states, “We feel honored to receive these prestigious awards for our work. We are most thankful to our clients whom we work with as a team to achieve results by creating websites and print materials of this nature. In each case our work begins by creating a “blueprint” that identifies the road map to accomplish our client’s goals.”
A big thank you to our clients who push to make us better!
South Kent School gets national attention in wake of Apple announcement
January 20, 2012
South Kent School received national attention Thursday in the wake of Apple’s big digital textbook announcement.
The school, in South Kent, CT, launched its iPad program this past fall and boasts a 92 percent digital adoption rate with etextbooks across all grade levels.
Gonzalo Garcia, their director of technology, marketing and communications, is rising as the answers-man for the country’s top private boarding schools since his school’s program is so far ahead of others.
Garcia was interviewed by reporters from the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.
Read the Wall Street Journal story.
Read the USA Today story here.
South Kent works with Classbook.com as their etextbook provider. View an interview with Classbook.com CEO Tony Pfister about digital textbooks.
Burst Marketing helps St. Peter’s Hospital with unique iPad ad
November 23, 2011
St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany had a need: create a unique and interactive iPad-specific ad for the launch of the Times Union’s app.
Enter Burst Marketing and the IntelliSites web design team.
Using Adobe® Edge, which is currently in development, our team designed ad functionality using JavaScript and CSS to replicate an interactive Flash ad, but without Flash.
We also hand-coded, using CSS, the images so they display properly whether you’re holding the iPad horizontally or vertically.
Vertical View (click to view larger image):
Horizontal View (click to view larger image):
Help a charity by ‘liking’ us on Facebook
November 17, 2011
Dear friends,
Thanksgiving is a time for coming together and reflecting on what we’re thankful for.
This holiday season, Burst Marketing will give thanks by donating one dollar to a local charity every time someone likes us on Facebook, up to $1,000, until Thanksgiving.
Click the button below:
Please tell your family, friends and employees.
Write on our wall and tell us what you are thankful for this Thanksgiving.
Here’s wishing you a happy and healthy holiday season.
Sincerely,
The Burst Marketing Team
Burst Marketing Helps PEF to AMA Mark of Excellence Award
June 28, 2010
IntelliSites and Burst Marketing recently helped the PEF Membership Benefits Program towards a nomination for an American Marketing Association Mark of Excellence award.
The award was given for PEF’s Unique Double Enrollment email marketing campaign. PEF is one of ten finalists out of one of the largest and most competitive fields in the history of the awards.
The awards will be held at the Albany Crowne Plaza on October 6th, 2010.
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