Chartwell Agency Wins AAF Northern Illinois 2019 ADDYs Best of Show

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Firm Also Wins Six Additional Awards for Marketing Excellence  Chartwell Agency recently garnered the Best of Show at the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Northern Illinois’s 2019 American Advertising Awards, the ADDYs, for advertising…

Top Takeaways for Winning Marketing Plays

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The Super Bowl is always a hot topic here at Chartwell. Not for what did or did not happen during the game but for the commercials. We’ll save the discussion of the halftime show for another time. We all have our favorites and the ones that…

Corporate Activism in Marketing – Civic Responsibility or Big Gamble?

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There’s no doubt that brands today leverage an amazing amount of power. Their willingness to spend big dollars for the opportunity to present the public with their messages means they eat up a lot of our impression bandwidth. We click on…

Press Releases Need Style – and Thought

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When your organization has news to share or an announcement to make, a press release is the natural way – and still a useful way – to do that.
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Ride the Digital Wave in 2019

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There is a lot to be excited about in the world of communications as we head into 2019. Like any other industry, the marketing and PR field saw lots of exciting trends in 2018 and even more strategies fueled by our friend (and sometimes foe)…
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Top Marketing Trends in 2018

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At Chartwell Agency, we have the awesome privilege of working with some pretty amazing clients. And the clients we partnered with in 2018 are no exception. From healthcare to financial and education to professional services, we’ve been able…
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Target Audience: Make Sure You’re Hitting the Bullseye

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When marketing your organization, it’s important to have a strategy for your marketing audience – both who they are and where they’re located. The best approach is to have a multi-platform strategy that reaches your target audience on…
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The Awesome Adventure of Planning for the Year Ahead

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Some of us relish this time of the year: strategic planning time. Like children anticipating and hoping for what may be under the tree on Christmas morning, we entrepreneurs look forward to the endless possibilities of the year ahead. For us,…
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Don’t silence your differentiators

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It’s not often a commercial makes me laugh, rewind and encourage others to watch. That’s exactly what happened when I saw this ad for the Google Pixel 3, the company’s latest phone model. The ad features several shots of people trying…
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Logo a-go-go

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Do you have a new company or product, or is your current brand looking a little less than stellar? We have clients that come to us for a variety of design needs and often it is to develop or “fix” their brand image. Too often, a brand is…