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Due to our writing and PR efforts, many of our clients have increased brand
awareness and experienced major media mentions in targeted venues such as: The Wall Street Journal,
The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press,
Business 2.0, Fast Company, Inc., BusinessWeek,
Entrepreneur, The Associated Press, USA Today, and numerous
others.
In addition, they have appeared on various television and radio programs
including: CNNfn, Business First Television,
Comcast Newsmakers,
Focus Atlanta, eBay Radio, eWomen Network Radio, and much more.
Client Testimonials:
Ann Arbor YMCA
“We hired Melanie to assist us with crisis
communications planning as well as public relations. She has helped us write
press releases and pitch stories to local and national media outlets to
promote our community outreach and fitness programs. Melanie’s efforts and
extensive media contacts have gained us national media coverage for a major
health and fitness program that we are piloting. I enjoy working with her
and highly recommend her for her extensive experience, professionalism and
responsiveness.”
Marcia Luke-van
Dijk, Ann Arbor YMCA Marketing Director
The
first Ann Arbor YMCA was organized by students at the University of Michigan
in 1858. With their new, state-of-the-art facility opened on April 1, 2005,
they provide health and wellness programs that
build strong kids, strong families and strong
communities. Please visit
www.annarborymca.org or call 734-996-9622 for more
information.
Dance
Gallery Foundation
"Dance Gallery Studio and Peter
Sparling Dance Company are so very pleased with the wonderful media
relations work you do on our behalf. Your expertise on building a
relationship with the media, advice on our marketing and sales writing, and
prompt delivery of services has been a huge help. Since our move into a
beautiful, new studio, we’re growing in size and program scope. We couldn’t,
and wouldn’t, be creating Ann Arbor’s only non-profit center for dance
without Rembrandt Communications on board. Thank you for your careful
attention to detail and caring belief in our work."
Carol Thompson, Dance
Gallery/Peter Sparling Dance Company
Executive
Director
Dance Gallery
Foundation was established in 1984 and supports Dance Gallery Studio, the only
non-profit dance center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The studio offers students of
all ages high-quality training in a non-competitive, nurturing environment with
performance opportunities and an intensive pre-professional training program.
The mission of Dance Gallery is to produce, develop, and promote contemporary
dance performance, and provide dance training and educational experiences of the
highest artistic quality.
For more information on Dance Gallery Foundation,
please see
www.dancegallerystudio.org or call 734.747.8885.
The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel Corporation
“Melanie Rembrandt is a responsible professional who worked diligently to get us
the targeted publicity coverage we needed while meeting our tight deadline and
budget. If you are looking for a public relations expert that gets results, look
no further than Rembrandt Communications.” Neal Belitsky, CFM, Detroit & Canada
Tunnel Corporation Executive Vice President and General Manager
The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is the only vehicular international subaqueous border
crossing in the world. It has been recognized as one of the great engineering
wonders of the world and remains one of the busiest crossings between the United
States and Canada. Located between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario,
connecting the US Interstates to Ontario's Highway 401, it is one of the fastest
links between Ontario and the United States. For more information, see
www.dwtunnel.com.
eePulse,
Inc.™
"We've worked with
other PR firms, but we never received the type of personal, professional
attention that Melanie has provided to our organization. She really took the
time to get to know our business, and as a result, even with a very limited
budget and rushed deadlines, Melanie Rembrandt always provides personalized
attention, excellent media placements focused on our target market and valuable,
original content. Melanie is a dedicated, public relations professional and
talented writer who helps her clients meet goals, increase brand awareness and
reach higher levels of success." Theresa Welbourne, eePulse, Inc. Founder and
CEO
eePulse, Inc. provides patent-pending relationship management software using an
ASP business model, copyright-protected research that focuses on the drivers of
firm performance and weekly support to assure usability and success. Measurecom™
(measurement + communication), a Web-based tool, is the result of over 16 years
of experience and research with high-growth, high-change companies by Theresa
Welbourne, Ph.D. An enterprise-wide relationship management tool that tracks
within-person change over time, Measurecom predicts employee performance and
productivity, or "pulse" levels on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis. eePulse,
Inc. provides personalized trend reports, comment data, and a real-time two-way
feedback process at both a group and individual level. Headquartered in Ann
Arbor, MI, please visit
www.eepulse.com or call 734-996-2321 for more information.
Employment Wizard/CareerSite™
"Working independently on an
extremely limited budged, Melanie quickly implemented a successful public
relations program and aggressively pursued all potential media opportunities."
Ed Farrell Past CareerSite Vice President, Marketing and Co-Founder
CareerSite's powerful Affiliate Solution gives affiliates everything they need
to build, grow and maintain a successful career center and capture their share
of the billion dollar e-recruiting market. This includes software, hosting,
customer, billing and merchant services, e-mail marketing, job content,
integrated access to a marketplace of leading solutions, and distribution. In
addition, the Recruiter Desktop, a Web-based application, seamlessly connects
users with a one-stop marketplace of the best job sites - right from their
desktop. CareerSite currently powers over 150 e-recruiting sites comprising over
30,000 registered recruiters, over 750,000 candidates and 500,000 unique
visitors per month. In a matter of days, affiliates can increase their online
content value, site traffic and revenues. Headquartered in San Ramon,
California, the company is privately held and funded by individual and media
company investors.
Griffin Restaurant Group
“I was very satisfied with the results and would not hesitate to
recommend you to business associates of mine or a potential client of yours. As
with any service, I asked myself whether the benefit outweighed the cost. The
only way to answer this question was to give you the chance to demonstrate that
benefit. You have clearly shown value to me, and should you want to pass on my
name to future, potential clients, I would be happy to talk to them about what
you did for me.” Gordon Matthews, Griffin Restaurant Group Vice President
Griffin Restaurant Group, a division of Griffin Properties, is
headquartered in Southfield, Michigan. There reputation for excellence is built
on a foundation of superior resources, results, and the experience and integrity
of their professional staff. Griffin Restaurant Group was actually formed after
Griffin Properties had already earned recognition as the #1 broker of
restaurants and this move allowed them to focus their energy and resources
exclusively on restaurant real estate.
Since the establishment of their company more than 20 years ago,
service has been their mandate. They believe that personalized service is more
important than any other single element in their formula for success. For more
information, please visit
www.griffinproperties.com.
InterSight Technologies, Inc.™
"The power of getting media
visibility for your company is invaluable, but it is an extremely difficult
process. Melanie Rembrandt, publicity expert and published writer, is one of the
best we’ve found. Not only has she been able to take highly technical
information and make it accessible to the mainstream, she has the character
qualities that are necessary to successfully obtain media hits; namely
commitment, pride and professionalism. As an outsourced expert, Melanie has been
a tremendous value to us." John Siverling, InterSight Technologies, Inc. Chief
Financial Officer
InterSight Technologies is a leading provider of Customer Information and
Intelligence for the enhancement of direct marketing strategies and impact
communications at point of purchase. Our product suite is centered on
proprietary communication & analytic technology with unique capabilities to
track and analyze customer behavior and attitude. Whether your business customer
is a consumer or another business, our product suite along with our outsourced
consulting and contact center support, provide for the most effective method of
increased relationships, revenue, and knowledge on how your customer interfaces
with, and thinks about, your company and your products / brands. Our mission is
straightforward - "Generate Customer Advocates and Revenue through Intelligence
based direct interaction." Our focus is on our clients' ROI. For more
information, please visit
www.intersighttechnologies.com,
e-mail
Info@intersighttechnologies.com,
or call 888.843.6935 ext 484.
Logokinesis
Publishing
"Melanie Rembrandt is a
professional, highly personable author and editor. 48 hours after she put her
editing touch on my article, it was sold to the magazine of my choice.
Unbelievable!" Nicola Conraths-Lange, Logokinesis Publishing Co-founder
Logokinesis Publishing was founded in 2003 by Nicola Conraths-Lange (an author
and national, Pilates and dance expert) and Jens Lange. An independent publisher
focusing on the interests and needs of the Pilates and Dance community,
Logokinesis self-finances all of their publishing projects and has control over
every step of the process: writing, research, layout, printing and marketing.
For more information, please visit
www.logokinesis.com.
Michael Bellomo,
Author
“Melanie’s PR
work is both professional and personal. When my book on how to pass the Law
School Admissions Test was published, she helped get me published in newspapers
seen directly by my core audience – college students seeking an "edge" in law
school admissions. I highly recommend her as an excellent choice for authors or
entrepreneurs who want to break into mainstream or alternative media.”
Michael
Bellomo is a bestselling author who holds an MBA from UC Irvine, a Juris Doctor
in Law from the University of California, San Francisco, and a Black Belt
certification in Six Sigma project management. Michael has written 16 books on
science, law and business, including LSAT Exam Cram, eBay Your
Business, Itanium Rising, and Microbe: Are We Ready For The Next Plague?, a
mainstream non-fiction work on spotting outbreaks of exotic diseases and
stopping bioterrorists.
Peter
Sparling Dance Company
Founded in 1993, the Peter Sparling Dance Company (PSDC)
is the third consecutive non-profit professional modern dance company to be
supported by the umbrella 501©3 organization. Peter Sparling, a prolific and
internationally-respected dancer and choreographer, serves as artistic director,
creating, premiering and touring works off original choreography annually with
his seven-member company. A former principal dancer with the legendary Martha
Graham and José Limón companies, Sparling has over thirty years of professional
dance and choreography experience. He is also a tenured professor of dance at
the University of Michigan and a leader in the area’s arts and cultural
community. For more information on PSDC, please see
www.dancegallerystudio.org or call 734.747.8885.
SmartCollector™
"Melanie's efforts in
disseminating our message truly helped SmartCollector broaden our reach,
increase our website traffic, and grow our community. I really appreciated the
professional and thorough manner in which Melanie helped SmartCollector achieve
our communication goals." Chuck Fuller, SmartCollector Marketing and Business
Development Manager
SmartCollector’s new online services help buyers and sellers of collectible
items better assess what items are worth, learn key market trends and give the
collector the ability to manage a complete collection portfolio online. Storing
information about a collection has never been easier as collectors can store
photos, assign item grades and categorize their collection. Collectors can now
also value every item in their portfolio with SmartCollector’s daily value
reports, based on three years of historical eBay auction data, rather than
having to rely on outdated price reference guides. For more information, visit
www.smartcollector.com.
StartupNation®
"We hired Melanie
Rembrandt to work on an original newsletter and create some publicity for our
budding company, StartupNation. Just as we expected, she turned out to be a
superstar writer and publicist!
Through
her hard work and dedication, Melanie created an overall public relations plan
and secured articles for us in targeted publications including: The New York
Times, The Detroit Free Press, The Chicago Tribune,
Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise, Hispanic Trends and many
others. She also scheduled television and radio interviews for us during our
“Success in the U.S. Tour” on CNNfn, First Business, Focus:
Atlanta, Sunday Morning, Comcast Newsmakers, Channel 7 News,
The Bob Christopher Show, WEBY, WIOD, eWomen Network
and a host of other media venues nationwide.
Due in
part to her efforts, we were successful in establishing business relationships
with Fortune Small Business, Home Business Magazine, Worthwhile
Magazine, Biz Best Media, Invent That in the U.K.,
Junior Achievement, numerous chambers of commerce and other influential
organizations. Melanie was able to set important meetings for us on a monthly
basis depending on which region we were traveling to at a particular time.
While
completing her public relations duties, Melanie also found time to ghostwrite
successful articles, books, online content and marketing materials for us under
a tight deadline. In addition, she helped train our interns, assisted with
events, wrote winning award entries, fixed website errors, prepared marketing
presentations and provided media training." Jeff and Rich Sloan, StartupNation
Co-founders, StartupNation Radio Co-hosts and entrepreneurial business experts
Founded by Jeff and
Rich Sloan, StartupNation (www.startupnation.com),
a multimedia content company that provides business smarts for entrepreneurs via
an entertaining multimedia platform – including a nationally-syndicated radio
show and weekly online seminars. As small business experts, the Sloan brothers
have been featured in media such as The New York Times, Wall Street
Journal and Entrepreneur Magazine as well as on CNN and FOX News.
StartupNation also teams up with companies which want to further enhance their
small business focus, such as Seattle-based Washington Mutual Bank, which is
title sponsor of the weekly StartupNation Radio show and has integrated
StartupNation business content into its small business banking program.
Techstreet™
Techstreet provides mission-critical information resources and information
management tools for technical professionals. Through our web site, customers
can find and purchase from over 500,000 technical information titles including
one of the world's largest collections of industry standards and specifications.
Learn more about Techstreet at
http://www.techstreet.com.
Testimonial from IHRIM.link Magazine Editor
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