Cork Tree Creative - Public Relations and Website Design

Team Med Global, a provider of medical consulting services, today announced that it has contracted with Cork Tree Creative for the development of its new website www.teammedglobal.com and for assistance in marketing its services to medical staff professionals throughout the country. 

Specifically, Cork Tree Creative will provide assistance in marketing Team Med Global's educational sessions for Medical Staff Professionals (MSPs) and various consulting services offered to medical staff offices (MSO), Credentials Verification Organizations (CVO) and Managed Care Organizations (MCO), Ambulatory/Outpatient Centers and Specialty/Physician Practice Groups.  Cork Tree Creative will also assist Team Med Global in delivering its message to medical professionals through trade publications and collateral materials as well as optimizing the Team Med Global website for greater exposure on the World Wide Web. 

For more information about Team Med Global and its services, contact Donna Goestenkors at (618) 830-0057 or visit www.teammedglobal.com.

Cork Tree Creative, owned and operated by marketing veterans Jan Carpenter and Laura Reed, is a full-service public relations and marketing firm located on Main Street in downtown Edwardsville.  The company provides public relations, marketing, graphic design, website development and optimization, branding and advertising services to companies throughout the United States and Canada.  For more information about Cork Tree Creative, please call (618) 656-7333 or visit www.corktreecreative.com

Edwardsville-based public relations and graphic design firm, Cork Tree Creative, today announced that it has been selected by The Goddard School located in Edwardsville to provide comprehensive public relations services to the growing school. 

Cork Tree Creative will assist the The Goddard School with media relations, event planning, recruitment strategies and internal and external communications programs.  The Goddard School opened its doors in Edwardsville in February 2009 and now serves more than 120 area families with children ages 0 to 6 years.  Owned by Edwardsville residents, Barbara and Thomas Burrows, The Goddard School is part of the Goddard School franchise, which was recently named #1 Childcare Franchise in the United States by Entrepreneur magazine, for the eighth consecutive year (January 2009) and one of the Top 200 Franchise Systems (in worldwide sales), by Franchise Times, for the second consecutive year (October 2008).  The school is still enrolling for fall 2009. 

Cork Tree Creative, owned and operated by marketing veterans Jan Carpenter and Laura Reed, is a full-service public relations and marketing firm located on Main Street in downtown Edwardsville.  The company provides public relations, marketing, graphic design, website development and optimization, branding and advertising services to companies throughout the United States and Canada.  For more information about Cork Tree Creative, please call (618) 656-7333 or visit www.corktreecreative.com

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On the heels of our first wine cork drive at Whole Foods Market in Town and Country (being held Sat., July 18 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.) Cork Tree Creative is grateful for the advance publicity from the Suburban Journals East, West and North.  Read the full story at http://suburbanjournals.stltoday.com/articles/2009/07/15/west/life/0715food-homeplate000.txtstory#blogcomments

Join us for the cork drive and contribute to our efforts to help divert some of the 15 billion wine corks that end up in landfills each year!  Rewind Your Wine.

Cork Tree Creative, an Edwardsville-based public relations and marketing firm, has added Kerrie Smothers as director of social media outreach.

Smothers has ten years experience in radio as a host/producer at 101.1The River, 104.1 The Mall, and most recently, powerhouse Hot AC Y98. Her experience in radio included heavy doses of social media and the web, both as a user and creator of content.  At Cork Tree Creative, Smothers will design and implement customized social media plans for clients looking to break into this crowded marketplace.  

Social media refers to the use of social networking and online marketing sites such as Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed and more to augment existing marketing and public relations programs.  Cork Tree Creative is adding the services due to an increase in demand for social media marketing services over the course of the last year.

According to Laura Reed, principal and public relations director for Cork Tree Creative, "As tweets, feeds, and status updates become the new language of mass communication, businesses are rushing to figure out how social media can help them increase awareness and sales.  According to market researcher Forrester, companies are expected to increase social media spending 34% over the next 5 years.  And when social media is correctly utilized, those dollars seem to be well-spent."  Reed adds that Cone's 2008 Business in Social Media Study found that more than 55% of social media users feel more connected to and better served by companies with a strong online presence.

Smothers says "Social media is a great way to reach consumers and the press, as well as support a business's traditional marketing and SEO efforts.  But it's not a one-size-fits-all solution.  It's not enough just to be on these channels. You have to understand how to use them in a meaningful way."

Cork Tree Creative, owned and operated by marketing veterans Jan Carpenter and Laura Reed, is a full-service public relations, marketing and website development company located in downtown Edwardsville.  The company provides public relations, marketing, graphic design, website development and optimization, branding and advertising services to companies throughout the United States and Canada.  For more information about Cork Tree Creative, please call (618) 656-7333 or visit www.corktreecreative.com

Check out this story recently in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch where Cork Tree Creative's "Rewind Your Wine" Wine Cork Recycling Program is mentioned among West Coast initiatives. 

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/columnists.nsf/winespirits/story/4C9210DD1DDC3B6D862575A50068F909?OpenDocument

Cork Tree Creative, an Edwardsville, Ill.-based public relations and marketing firm, kicked off a St. Louis-wide initiative this week in recognition of Earth Day to recycle corks used in wine and champagne bottles.  This is the first organized, regional effort to collect corks from retailers, grocers and wine consumers.  Known as “Rewind your Wine,” organizers of the program have taken on this initiative with hopes that recycling wine corks will eventually be as simple as recycling paper and plastics. 

To kick start the effort, Cork Tree Creative is asking that any retailers, restaurants, wineries and grocers in the St. Louis area join in this region-wide, eco-initiative.  “Wine corks are natural, biodegradable, renewable products that have the potential of being recycled into other usable materials.  We hope to gain enough momentum through this program to help minimize the carbon footprint created by the St. Louis region’s disposal of wine corks,” said Laura Reed, principal of Cork Tree Creative.  “Now that there is an easy method of collection in the St. Louis region, we can help divert some of the 15 billion wine corks that currently end up in landfills.”

Cork Tree Creative will collect wine corks from participating retailers in the region and make periodic deliveries to a Midwestern company, Yemm&Hart;, that recycles wine corks into LEED Certified building materials such as cork tiles and partitions. By being the sole transporter of the corks, Cork Tree Creative hopes to reduce the amount of transportation required in the recycling process.

 “We are pleased in the preliminary stages of this program to already have the participation of Erato on Main in Edwardsville and St. Louis-based Ionia Atlantic Imports.  These two participants will help pioneer this effort and serve as responsible leaders in the cork recycling effort.  We commend them for their progressive thinking and participation,” added Reed.

Nathan Woodhouse, partner in Ionia Atlantic Imports, says “It’s common practice in Europe and Australia to recycle corks.  As an importer of Italian wine and someone who often attends large wine tastings and special events featuring wine, I see the amount of waste that can be generated from just corks alone.  Why not just recycle them like we do glass wine bottles?  I support this effort and whole-heartedly hope that it results in a comprehensive, regional effort.”

Wine retailers large and small, grocers throughout the St. Louis area and bars and restaurants that would like to participate in the program are encouraged to call Laura Reed at Cork Tree Creative at (618) 656-7333 for more information.  All participants in the program will be recognized as a PIONEER in the Rewind your Wine initiative.  Cork Tree Creative will begin the collection of corks at participating locations in June. 

Cork Tree Creative, owned and operated by marketing veterans Jan Carpenter and Laura Reed, is a full-service public relations, marketing and website development company located in downtown Edwardsville.  The company provides public relations, marketing, graphic design, website development and optimization, branding and advertising services to companies throughout the United States and Canada.  For more information about Cork Tree Creative, please call (618) 656-7333 or visit www.corktreecreative.com

THE ALLIANCE OF EDWARDSVILLE&GLEN; CARBON TAPS CORK TREE CREATIVE FOR NEW BRANDING EFFORT

Cork Tree Creative, an Edwardsville-based public relations and marketing firm, today announced that it has been selected to provide marketing and public relations services surrounding The Alliance of Edwardsville&Glen Carbon’s new branding effort.  Known as place branding, Cork Tree Creative will assist The Alliance in the development and promotion of a new brand to position the communities of Edwardsville and Glen Carbon as prime development locations. 

The Alliance of Edwardsville and Glen Carbon is a not-for-profit organization that works with each community in marketing and promoting the area for new business investments, job creation, economic growth and development.  For more information about The Alliance, please call (618) 656-7601 or visit the website at www.edglenalliance.com. 

Cork Tree Creative, owned and operated by marketing veterans Jan Carpenter and Laura Reed, is a full-service public relations, marketing and website development company located in downtown Edwardsville.  The company provides public relations, marketing, graphic design, website development and optimization, branding and advertising services to companies throughout the United States and Canada.  For more information about Cork Tree Creative, please call (618) 656-7333 or visit www.corktreecreative.com

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Adding to our recent blog about the amount of news coverage we have received about our new venture, Cork Tree Creative, more headlines have been found on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's website, foreheaders.com and webcorp.com  Search for Cork Tree Creative and check us out.  Or, you can always visit our website at www.corktreecreative.com

The announcement of our new venture, Cork Tree Creative, is making headlines in the St. Louis area.  We have been featured in the Edwardsville Intelligencer, Alton Telegraph, St. Louis Business Journal and most recently on www.examiner.com and in the Belleville News Democrat - www.bnd.com/news/local/story/   

Thanks so much to our friends, collegues, clients and fellow merchant-cirlce members for the many great wishes following the announcement of our partnership.  Your thoughts and wishes give us greater confidence as we work to build our business, offer quality services and have fun creatively fulfilling our clients' marketing and public relations needs.  It's a work in progress, but please check out our website at www.corktreecreative.com and give us your thoughts. Thanks again

Laura and Jan