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Barbara Vaughan-Parks, Broadcast Business Manager

Vaughan-Parks rejoins Barber Martin after leaving the agency in 2007 to pursue a freelance career. She returns with experience freelancing for several clients via local advertising and graphic design companies. Vaughan-Parks is a graduate of John Tyler Community College.

Caroline Marvel, Account Supervisor

Marvel brings to Barber Martin more than six years of advertising and marketing experience managing team projects and maintaining oversight of projects through completion. She has also demonstrated leadership of teams by perfecting communications processes to ensure performance metrics are achieved. Marvel has done work for a broad range of clients. She is a 2003 graduate of the College of William & Mary.

Susan Cook, Account Coordinator

Cook joins Barber Martin with marketing experience from Fellowship Travel International and Marks & Harrison Law Firm. She earned her undergraduate degree in 2008 from James Madison University and is currently working towards achieving a master’s degree in business administration from Virginia Commonwealth University.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote a nice article about how we survived and thrived throughout the Great Recession. You should take a gander here. Some key excerpts:

“We’re trying to get people up and in the door. You have to craft an ad that gets people’s attention. Barber Martin knows how to do that.” – Peter Morrison, director of marketing at Bassett Furniture

“The key for the smaller brands is effective targeting to a segment of the broader market. The big brands are well-known and can afford large-scale promotion campaigns. The smaller brands may not be able to afford the scale of promotion that the bigger brands have, but with good marketing research they can pursue cost-effective promotional strategies for reaching their respective audiences.” - David Urban, professor of marketing and executive associate dean at the VCU School of Business

But the real key to our success? We have several Vatican warlock assassins on staff. Fact.

Read the rest of the article at the Times-Dispatch site.

Do you guys know that we’re working with nTelos now? Well, we are, and we’ve been very, very busy–thus, our blog updates have been rather sporadic.

In any case! Here is the very first commercial we’ve done for them!

After the traditional exchange of high-fives, the newlyweds then proceeded to chest-bump each other, immediately followed by the sacred ceremony of shotgunning PBRs. The best man then proceeded to ice Mr. Gorter, and a glorious bro-down was had by all.

[EDITED TO ADD: Mrs. Gorter nee Ms. Lunsford works here, in case you were wondering.]

You can see it for yourself during the U.S. Open.

Like the one shown here. We’re happy to be back in the furniture biz, and especially thrilled to be working with the fine folks at Bassett. After all, you can’t beat fine American craftsmanship.

Brittney’s originally from Louisville, Kentucky–making her spiritually related to Muhammad Ali, Thomas Edison, Tom Cruise, and Dian Fossey. Speaking of! We’re not entirely convinced yet that’s she’s just not here to quietly observe the rare homo vendus adverticus in its natural habitat. We’ve seen her take pretty extensive notes as she made her initial rounds, studying each of us with the cold, steely gaze of a surgeon, or a farmer.

So! Our brave Ms. Lunsford worked in ad sales in a newspaper for several years, before joining the media department for Sheehy + Associates–the Louisville ad agency that handles the Kroger account. She says that she left her hometown for her significant other, but we’re pretty sure that Sheehy just couldn’t handle the sheer awesome radiating from her office.

But their loss is our gain, as she’s joined our media department here on the ranch. As we’re (as in “us,” as in “I”, as in “the boy who is writing this entry”) part of the creative team, we’ve never been 100% sure what the media department does, except they make things WORK and they occasionally threaten us with bodily harm and they receive all the cool tchotchkes, while we only get artsy over-produced portfolio books and commemorative glasses. But the media department? They get CANDY. And TICKETS. And did we mention the CANDY?

Oh wait. Where were we? Right. Hi Brittney! We’re glad to have you here.