Katy Begemann Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

GMR is an experience agency, built to make stories that become lasting memories. GMR pioneered experience marketing back in 1979, and we’re still leading the way. We embed brands into experiences leveraging shared passions. We create experiences that are founded on data, rooted in science, grounded in strategy, designed meticulously and executed.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Greater Milwaukee Area

• VISIT Milwaukee is an award-winning Convention and Visitors Bureau, which helps to market the Greater Milwaukee area as a destination of choice for conventions, events and leisure travel, thereby increasing the.
• Cultivated relationships with national and international travel writers to secure placements in high-profile media outlets including USA Today, The Washington Post, Midwest Living, Travel & Leisure, CBS National News.
• Coordinated and executed both individual and large-scale press trips to showcase the city of Milwaukee. Worked with VISIT Milwaukee partners to develop new story pitches, plan trips and maximize budgets.
• Worked within the convention sales space to pitch, budget and plan for media conferences and tradeshows considering Milwaukee as a destination. These efforts resulted in a group of 500 female bloggers choosing.
• Attended national and international tradeshows to increase brand awareness, vet new writers and meet and collaborate with other destination marketing organizations.
• Crafted the strategy and content calendars for nine social media platforms and implemented branded promotions surrounding key marketing initiatives to increase followings.

Greater Milwaukee Area

I previously worked with the world's largest manufacturer of commercial laundry equipment, to implement media relations, outreach and public relations activities. My main objective was to secure national and international public relations coverage, spotlighting the company's employees as industry experts. In an attempt to do so, I penned monthly byline.

Greater Milwaukee Area

While at BVK, one the 25 largest independent agencies in the United States, I had the privilege of managing media relations and other integrated communications efforts for over six different clients simultaneously. I worked within budgets to achieve media coverage and helped to plan events for 20 college campuses, each located in different U.S. markets..

Greater Milwaukee Area

I graduated a semester early from Indiana University in an attempt to beat the large number of recent grads who would flood the job market in May. My strategy worked and I started my career at BVK, where I produced and distributed press releases, coordinated press events for large product launches and generated media lists, clip reports and editorial.

As one of my first internships, my position at the American Red Cross taught me a number of lessons and provided me with unparalleled experience. Due to staff changes at the time, I was given additional responsibility; I organized the marketing, public relations and media efforts surrounding the organization's main fundraising event, the Rubber Duck.

Greater Milwaukee Area

While spending my summers back in Milwaukee, I interned at the Great Lakes Hemophilia Foundation, a non-profit organization that continues to dedicate itself to advancing the quality of life of individuals and families affected by hemophilia and other blood disorders. While there, I served as both the graphic design and public relations intern. Due to the.

Many public relations professionals start in the journalism industry. As a freshmen, I first thought that my home was writing news and feature stories for newspapers, which led to my internship at the Peninsula Pulse. While an intern, I researched and authored news, profile, and lifestyle stories in addition to producing a weekly column for the "Green".

Journalism, History, Public Relations, And Advertising

While a student at Indiana University, I was able to participate in a series of classes that helped to expand my experience outside of the.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: "The Word" Student Newspaper, Swim TeamWhile in high school I worked on the student newspaper, eventually.