Job Posting: Client Services Coordinator

AugustineIdeas is a fully integrated marketing and communications agency specializing in and brand strategy, social media, graphic design, media buying and public relations. A fun, fast-paced environment and dynamic team provides an exciting learning environment. We are actively seeking a Client Services Coordinator to provide administrative and project management support to client accounts and client service staff.

This Client Services Coordinator is key to ensuring the execution of deliverables and is a critical piece towards the research and planning of campaigns, events and projects. Coordinator will work with account supervisor on trafficking of client jobs, proposal creations, research, and organization of retail projects. Candidate requires attention to detail, multitasking, communication and strong organizational skills. Position is an excellent opportunity to learn how an agency works while developing critical skill sets including media planning, project management and proposal creation without the pressure and responsibility of selling or recruiting clients.

In a nutshell, coordinator is an integral part of “getting things done” and making AugustineIdeas’ clients raving fans!

Client Services Coordinator Position Description

Job Opening: Senior Digital Project Manager

AugustineIdeas is a fully integrated marketing and communications agency specializing in and brand strategy, social media, graphic design, media buying and public relations. A fun, fast-paced environment and dynamic team provides an exciting learning environment. We are actively seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead the definition, execution, and deployment of digital projects within AugustineIdeas’ digital services.

The Project Manager will drive projects to deliver against predetermined schedules, escalate and resolve technical issues, and communicate project status toward goals among cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced project manager, with prior experience in a heavily client-focused role, who will own the delivery of projects across all client and service teams including website development, digital media, social media and creative development.

Senior Digital Project Manager Position Description

Job Opening: Client Services Internship

AugustineIdeas is a fully integrated marketing and communications agency specializing in and brand strategy, social media, graphic design, media buying and public relations. A fast paced environment and dynamic team provides an exciting learning environment. The intern program offers hands-on experience for students studying marketing, advertising, communications, business administration, journalism or public relations.

Client Services Intern Description

Convoy of Hope

When I was asked to help provide media relations assistance to Sacramento’s Convoy of Hope, I immediately accepted the opportunity. With just nine days to go before the event, it would be a short term commitment, an exciting challenge to overcome and a lot of work.

Although it required long hours (getting up at three and four in the morning a few times), the results were worth it. More than 2,300 volunteers showed up to help more than 13,000 guests get access to free medical care, haircuts, groceries, job placement assistance and more. As a public relations professional, I was even happy with the 1.2 million people that saw our stories on TV. Hundreds of thousands more heard our interviews on radio stations like KFBK and KLOVE or read about the event in The Sacramento Bee and Roseville Patch.

Selected clips are available by clicking on the media outlets below.

KCRA

News 10

CBS 13

Good Day Sacramento

FOX 40

The Sacramento Bee

KFBK

KLOVE

Roseville Patch

I look forward to using some of the relationships I strengthened with local media to assist with other client events in the future and continuing to help community organizations throughout the Sacramento region.

Cassi’s Tips for Inspiration

Sitting in front of a computer for too long can drain the inspiration from even the most inspired among us. In a world of cubicles, budgets and deadlines, it’s important to refresh our perspectives and find ways to keep the inspiration alive. My quick fix? A bit of retail therapy and a good song.

While the nearest mall might not seem the most inventive place, rest assured –it is a branding mecca and can conjure up ideas or simply clear space for new ones! I visit the nearby Anthropologie every few weeks and am continually amazed at how a switch in merchandising and color can revive my creativity, no purchase necessary. In a pinch, try flipping through their online catalogue.

Music is a must, whether you use Spotify, iTunes or Pandora. Try a new platform; it will force you to build new song lists, discover new artists and shift the background of your day-to-day.

AugustineIdeas brings home the bronze!

Drum Roll, Please…

We are proud to announce that AugustineIdeas was awarded a bronze award for Design of the Times at the Path to Purchase Expo (Shopper Marketing Expo) in Chicago last week for our innovative Lunchbox Winners program! This is big news, and we are honored to have received such a great award from a group that we admire and respect. Lunchbox Winners is a program that we designed to offer busy parents unique and healthy lunch ideas that their kids would love.

Shopper marketing is a major area of expertise here at AugustineIdeas. Our shopper marketing team is always looking for new ways to influence consumers during the purchasing process (known in the industry as “path to purchase”), and we can’t wait to come up with the next big idea.

Augustine Ideas Celebrating Excellence

Steve Tsujimoto of Safeway and I pictured at the Fresh Produce & Floral Council luncheon featured in this month's Fresh Digest, an industry publication.

Steve and I celebrated winning the 2011 Marketing Excellence Award for our collaborative partnership with Lunchbox Winners, a national campaign that ran in-store at all 1500 Safeway stores.  The campaign featured Olympic athletes like Brandi Chastain, Seth Wescott and Dominique Dawes who encouraged kids to stay active and eat healthy during each month of the school year. Big time winners everyone!

-Margo Robinson

Mixing and Mingling

In this industry, as with most others, networking is vital to the success of our business. Thanks to organizations like Metro EDGE, Social Media Club Sacramento, Tweetups and the Sacramento Public Relations Association, the AugustineIdeas team has a plethora of opportunities to attend networking events.

Last week, PR Specialists Andrew and Jessica headed out on the town to enjoy the company of some of Sacramento’s brightest and best professionals.

A Metro EDGE Mixer was held at Barwest – the newest addition to Sacramento’s bar and restaurant scene – on October 18. The mixer also gave a nod to “Artober” in Sacramento. In addition to mixing and mingling, attendees got to check out the art of an up-and-coming artist, Bryson Webb. At just 18 years old, this artist is a great example of passion and accomplishment.

Social Media Club Sacramento brings together individuals from varying backgrounds with a common interest, learning more about social media. During the last event on October 11, Andrew had the opportunity to listen to PR Manager Lori Bertelli speak about social media horror stories and to network with dozens of others regarding social media.

The Placer Business Tweetup provided our team with an opportunity to meet with local business leaders. A recent event at Legends at Woodcreek on October 19 presented the opportunity to listen to others about what their small businesses do and how PR could help them. PR pros shared what they do for clients and gave some tips to businesses on how to use social media to interact with their customer base.

The Sacramento Public Relations Association mixer brought together PR pros from across the Sacramento region. The mixer, held at Blue Prynt Restaurant and Bar on October 20, helped our team to learn what our industry colleagues are working on and allowed us to connect with new faces (perhaps finding the next AugustineIdeas PR team member).

This week we’re heading to the American Marketing Association: Sacramento Valley and International Association of Business Communicators event at Lounge on 20.

Warding off the Augustine 15

It creeps up on you when you least expect. It waits in the shadows for your focus to shift and your sweet tooth get comfortable calling the shots. That snickers bar doesn’t seem so sinister. Another delivery of Krispy Kreme donuts just arrived? Oh look! There are delicious chocolate, peanut butter, oatmeal cookies in the kitchen again! Just one won’t undo my day. Then, just when your relationship with the gym starts to get a little spotty, it strikes – the dreaded Augustine fifteen!

Well, who says you have to wait for New Year’s Day to declare your resolution? Our team is ready to battle the “Augustine fifteen” here and now! With a few tricks of our own including using a pedometer, rebalancing our relationship with the infamous candy drawer, and trading some of our Kit Kats in for fruits or vegetables, we’re determined to make Halloween the only scary sight this season.

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Free E-book Download: Understanding the New Facebook

On September 22^nd, after massive buzz and speculation, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at the F8 Facebook Developer’s Conference and announced the biggest changes Facebook users had ever seen.  The personal profile would be transformed into the Facebook Timeline, where users could format their social identities to not only introduce themselves, but tell their life stories.

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Thanks To The Trackball, I Can Now “Think Different.”

The Mac Trackball changed lives and I was lucky enough to experience it first hand. You see, the PowerBook 145B was the first computer that I actually owned. The tool allowed me and some friends to start a publishing company and distribute hundreds of photos and thousands of words in print and online—first on UseNet, then the newly-formed world wide web. Those published stories exposed some amazing personalities to the world and even affected the lives of those who consumed them. They led to a successful company, world tours, a book deal, groundbreaking editorial, innovative design, millions of connections, and best of all, to meeting my best friend and wife of 15 years. All thanks to that little lint-collecting Trackball. I’m so lucky Apple came into my life.

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Inspiring Photography

I’m always looking around the web for inspiring creative to get my juices going. Today I came across this amazing photographer whose people shots capture such great moments. Check out her work…you won’t be disappointed.

Fall is Here!

Yep, this is what you think it is. You know, that drink that everyone keeps talking about. Its warm, its pumpkin-y and oh so good. Well wait no more, here is an easy recipe to make them in the comfort of your own home.
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The Importance of Writing

Talking Twitter at #AMASV

After a friend had to go out of town on business at the last minute, I was asked to fill in during today’s American Marketing Association Sacramento Valley luncheon. My topic … Twitter.

Below are a few of the things I told my groups as they came by to talk (each table discussed a different topic). I’ve also included a few of the things I had planned to say, but in 10 minutes didn’t have the chance. I know it’s not an exhaustive list, but my goal was to give a brief introduction on how it could help their business start on Twitter.

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