Is Your Marketing Giving You Results?
Work with marketing experts that know what it takes to grow your business.
Is Your Marketing Giving You Results?
Work with marketing experts that know what it takes to grow your business.
Your Full Service St. Louis Marketing Agency
Media Planning & Execution
Our media plans are research-driven and results-oriented. This means we execute every campaign across the most efficient traditional and digital media platforms.
Strategic Marketing Plans
BAM works with clients’ management teams to determine and carry out the best short and long-term strategies to support their growth initiatives and improve brand recognition.
Traditional Media
BAM utilizes TV, radio, print, out-of-home, and direct mail to reach clients’ marketing objectives. We work with media on a local and national scale and negotiate the best rates for our clients.
Digital Marketing
Our dynamic team works together to develop cohesive digital strategies guaranteed to cut through online clutter and bring our clients results. These strategies blend technology and content to create engaging user experiences.
Social Media Management
We develop innovative ways to promote our clients across social media channels while focusing on pragmatic objectives. Successful social media management serves as an effective tool for businesses of any size.
Creative Development
BAM runs on developing unique solutions for our clients’ problems and needs. Our creative department develops cutting-edge campaigns that are guided by strategy and fueled by ingenuity.
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At BAM, we pride ourselves on truly being a full-service marketing management company, a one-of-a-kind agency in our market. We have the expertise and the resources to take your company through the strategizing process, determine an effective budget, branding and creative services, media planning and execution, and direct your grass roots efforts.
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Testimonials
BAM brings the expertise to elevate brands through excellent creative, and then utilizes their unique strategy toward purchasing media to take that brand elevation to the next level. Deciding to work with BAM was the best decision we could have possibly made.
BAM is very professional and are true partners in sharing our mission, vision, and values. They are a pleasure to work with and do a wonderful job with a powerful impact.
BAM’s team of experts are hardworking, very responsive and truly act as an extension to our internal marketing team. With their extensive knowledge in media buying, BAM strives to get us the best deal possible to make our media dollars go further.
The team at BAM is absolutely incredible to work with. They genuinely care about my business and me personally. BAM has elevated our brand and helped us reach our growth goals since we started working with them in late 2021. With a 65% increase in website traffic, a 104% increase in social media reach and over $35,000 in earned (free) media–including several TV segments–we couldn’t be happier with the partnership we have formed.
Our Team
Bonni Burns President & Chief Executive Officer
With over 35 years of experience in the marketing and broadcasting industries, Bonni brings an invaluable and universal knowledge of both business marketing and media strategy. In addition to the daily demands of agency leadership, she remains tirelessly invested in the development of each client’s annual marketing strategy, and leads BAM’s senior account management team in the implementation of every marketing plan.
Robin Reece-Hlava Chief Growth Officer
As the Chief Growth Officer at BAM, Robin is an expert at identifying and implementing additional services that add value for existing clients, as well as building new client and partnership opportunities; concentrating on performance, strategy and alignment of the organization’s revenue growth while delivering an excellent client experience. She also oversees our revenue pipeline and leads, capitalizing on resources to align with current market trends, creating sustainable growth and innovation for BAM and our clients.
Veronica Ambuehl VP & Executive Director of Client Services
Veronica acts as a vital support system to everything BAM does. She oversees all client work and develops strategies for our clients, while leading our teams through the execution phases of our strategic plans. She also lends her expertise and management on video production and coordinates special events.
Jordan Longhi Executive Director of Digital Marketing
Jordan works alongside the digital marketing team on vision, strategy execution and optimization to create successful digital campaigns. On a day-to-day basis, he monitors various online platforms to make sure advertisements and social media tactics are performing as expected while proactively presenting new opportunities to our clients, helping to optimize their digital efforts.
Courtney Longhi Executive Director of Media
As the head of BAM’s traditional media team, Courtney directs all functions of the department from strategic development and evaluation through implementation, while often managing multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns. Leaning on her seasoned experience and hundreds of well-established relationships with the nation’s leading media outlets, Courtney brings a modern approach to media targeting and buying few others can replicate.
Ryan McMichael Executive Director of Creative Services
Ryan brings more than two decades of agency experience as a creative leader and award-winning copywriter for numerous iconic brands. At BAM, he leads our talented team and creative process, directing efforts across all clients.
Sue Strubhart Director of Agency Operations
With over 30 years of experience in account, production and project management Sue uses her expertise to take care of all the internal details of our business. Sue oversees BAM’s financials including accounts payable and receivables. She manages our human resources and facilitates our employee benefits. Liking to keep a foot in production, Sue also supports BAM’s account managers with direct marketing projects and oversees print management for our clients.
Jessica Williams Director of Public Relations
As BAM’s Public Relations Director, Jessica leads all of our client’s earned media and strategic communications efforts. As an expert at generating positive free media exposure for our clients, her goal is to find strategic and creative ways to help clients communicate their messages clearly.
Julio Velazquez Account Director
As an Account Director, Julio helps oversee strategy and creative direction for BAM’s clients. He enjoys collaborating with clients and the BAM team to ensure the successful execution of their strategic, integrated marketing campaigns.
Chris Rarick Account Director
Chris Rarick serves as an accomplished Account Director at BAM, leveraging over two decades of experience in the St. Louis area. His role entails a deep immersion into clients’ businesses and industries, allowing him to tackle communication challenges adeptly.
Brett Halbe Account Manager
As an account manager, Brett works with BAM’s clients and the BAM team to organize and implement results-driven marketing plans at every stage – from strategy to execution.
Kaci Beatty Account Manager & Digital Strategy Specialist
Kaci strives to create and implement successful, creative marketing strategies for our clients with a specialty in digital strategy. She loves that she can combine her writing skills, creativity and strategic thinking while building digital marketing campaigns.
Adam Chatman Digital Manager
Adam’s journey at BAM started as an intern for two summers before joining the team full time in June of 2016 as an Account Coordinator. From there, he joined the digital team and became BAM’s Social Media Manager, overseeing all BAM clients’ paid and organic social media strategies, and in 2021, he became a Digital Marketing Strategist—expanding his role in the digital space.
Colleen Humphrey Business Manager
Colleen provides integral support to BAM’s account managers all while running the operations of the office and serving as our poet laureate. She processes all media invoices for BAM’s clients and manages the accounts payable and receivables for all advertising campaigns.
Christy Bockler Media Manager
Christy brings over 30 years of experience planning and buying media for national, regional and local clients across diverse industries.
Jana Stone Media Coordinator
Jana is our do-it-all Media Coordinator who uses her prior banking operations experience to integrate our Media and Account teams into a best-in-class offering.
Owen Gusewelle Digital Marketing Coordinator
As a part of our digital team, Owen helps develop and execute strategic social media plans, focusing on both paid and organic posts that maximize efficiency and success for any budget or goals our clients have.
Stephanie LaChance Public Relations Assistant
Stephanie is a part of our public relations team and assists our clients with all of their PR needs. Before joining our team, Stephanie spent 5 years working in newsrooms.
Shelly Stone Copywriter
As a copywriter who creates various forms of content across all our accounts, Shelly works with all the teams to create compelling copy and pitch in wherever she is needed.
Elsie Heckel Project Manager & Production Assistant
Elsie Heckel is our all-in-one project manager. She is a real triple threat – managing print, projects, and production. Plus, she’s our resident event planner with extensive experience planning corporate events, weddings, and group trips.
Jessica Kinnard Creative Director
Jessica’s role as creative director at BAM is to provide clients with visual and creative solutions to their marketing needs. She is always challenging herself and never fears diving into something new. Her skills include conceptualizing ad campaigns, website design, layout of anything from small ads to corporate annual reports, environmental graphics, logo design and much more.
Dustin Kent Associate Art Director
Dustin joined BAM in the summer of 2018 as a full-time graphic designer after interning with BAM. He creates effective and inventive designs for print, digital, video graphics and logos to best suit BAM’s clients’ needs. Dustin brings in a lifelong passion for graphic arts and years of custom graphics experience.
Robb Blackwell Senior Production Artist
Robb is a designer, retoucher, typographer and copy editor with 20 years of agency experience. Robb has a wealth of experience producing a variety of marketing materials from brochures to direct mail to print ads to outdoor to retail signage.
Tim Patek Senior Graphic Designer
Tim’s experience in graphic design has taught him that client’s needs are the priority, and creating visual content to communicate their message is key. With a Creative Director background, Tim received recognition for the design of various award-winning point of sale programs as well as interior and exterior exhibit displays for the Budweiser brand. Tim feels fortunate to have also directed various photo shoots while working closely with the Budweiser Clydesdales and the Bud Racing Teams.
Frankie Horan Media Consultant
With 40 years of experience in media, Frankie brings a lot of knowledge and help to the BAM team when it comes to media buying, trafficking, and consulting.
Megan St. Peters Digital Marketing Coordinator
Megan is part of our Digital Marketing team and assists with developing and implementing strategies for social media, focusing on both paid and organic strategy so that we can help our clients achieve their goals and budgets.
Simonne Kimble Marketing Specialist
As a key player on BAM’s Account Services team, Simonne assists with tasks and managing relationships on multiple accounts.
Katy Sutton Senior Media Buyer
Katy assists the team in working directly with media vendors, negotiating and placing buys, developing effective media strategies, executing media plans and optimizing the results of media campaigns—all with the best possible results for clients top of mind.
Devory Newsome Video Production
Devory collaborates with BAM’s writers, designers, and project managers to develop and produce video and motion graphic content for BAM’s clients.
Kent Schuette Human Resources
Kent is BAM’s Human Resources Director and motivational speaker. Kent takes care of all of the BAM employees by setting them up with the proper insurance, making sure everything in the office is up-to-date, and lifts up each individual employee with his great attitude.
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BAM Marketing Agency
1000 Clark Avenue, 2nd Floor
St. Louis, MO 63102
Phone: 314.309.7992
