ROOFTOP banter

The team at Keathley has been very nice throughout all of 2009. So good, in fact, that we kind of deserve to have all of our professional dreams come true. We promise not to be naughty for all of 2010. Well, most of it.

We present the following list for your consideration.

Yours truly,
Team Keathley

Julie & Brandi – Copy D.

The best Christmas present ever would be for the copy department to be able to brainstorm cool concepts for awesome projects (viral videos, sweet applications, songs, etc.) all day long. It would also be cool to do that in a lush copy department environment outfitted with the following:

• An assistant who would provide food and drink of any kind, at any time
• Comfy, overstuffed lounge chairs
• Hammocks for recharging
• A pool table, Wii and a huge TV (foosball for Brandi too)
• New laptops & 3Gs’s
• A media library that always has the video, book or magazine for the job
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• A dog named sprocket that talks
• A magic “Yes” button to be used once a year (for each of us) on any concept we want
• A life-sized Zen garden sand box with a golden rake
• A saltwater fish tank large enough to snorkel in

Jesse

A stocking full of filled out time sheets and a box of extended timelines.

Zach

Every interactive department shares their love for one type of present: Gadgets. Lots of them. Digital this. Electronic that. If it requires electricity we like it. An endless supply of gadgets to play with would be super-sweet.

Jackie

Consolidate my three job titles into one super-sweet mega-title.

Jenn

• The greatest best planner/buyer EVER
• Ability to attend the hottest seminars in 2010
• Auto-fill time sheets
• Enough time in the day to accommodate all the invites received by our great media partners
• The opportunity to create and execute the GREATEST media plan in the history of my career that is featured on the cover of Adweek.
• Plan and execute an event that blows everything prior out of the water.
• A big fat raise!

Sara

• Land a certain client in Chicago and I get to work in the satellite office
• A hot new all business suit
• Project Plant-a-Bulb plants itself as a raging success story

Becki

To land a client that was in charge of every fashion week event internationally and be assigned the account to coordinate. This would, of course, involve me meeting every celebrity I’ve ever wanted to meet in order to reserve them seats at the hottest upcoming shows, help cast models, and include all the outrageous free gift bags and giveaways to keep for takeaways! Last but not least, this would require me to travel to at LEAST France, Italy, Greece, England and the Caribbean for pre-event visits and research!

Ralph

My wish is to be recognized on the cover of Time Magazine as 2010’s most Influential Person, being seen as the leading communicator, humanitarian and philanthropist, as well as the wealthiest man in America.

Time will write a 7,000-word piece on my rise to fame from Director of PR at a small advertising and PR agency in America’s gritty, blue collar Midwest to socialite and friend of all to our nation’s needy and poverty stricken.

As 2010’s Most Influential Person, I will be appointed Secretary of Humanitarian Aid to the United States, as well as liaison to foreign countries, including Rwanda, Sudan, Cambodia and many others.

In the end, many of the world’s leaders, including President Obama and several members of the U.N. will call for me to be presented the Nobel Prize as a result of my selfless work.

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I think I can speak for the Keathley crew when I say that we all love our jobs. Sure, there are those days when the snooze button is a bit overused but, for the most part, weekday mornings are a breeze when you’re walking in the office to amusing, gifted people…and in-office espresso. The NorthCoast 99 award simply proved what we’ve all known for a while – Keathley Advertising is one of the 99 best places to work in Northeast Ohio.

This award was bestowed on those companies that demonstrated merit through a grueling application process that involved dozens of questions on culture, innovation, success and training. We stood out in the area of employee growth; Inside Business magazine wrote an article on our own Brandi Hensler, who has carved out the opportunity to shine as our social media maven in her first few years as a copywriter.

Tie that in with agency-paid training, team building retreats, flex hours, and the option to bring your dog to work (oh, have we mentioned the rooftop patio?), and you’ve got a workplace culture that inspires extraordinary ideas every day.

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Supporting charities within our community is an essential part of Keathley culture. In the name of that belief, Keathley is founding the Akron chapter of Mustaches for Kids. The guys in our office will grow their best mustaches this November to raise funds for children’s charities in Akron.

To inspire the mustache growers among us and fuel the excitement of their supporters, our staff has been passing around some stachetacular photos and videos. We can hardly wait to share the chapter’s success (and more shots of our staff rockin’ it stache style).

Where do you find stachesperation?

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Our rooftop conference room is the best feature of our office here at Keathley Advertising. Our staff finds their way to the roof daily to talk shop, debate strategy and find creative inspiration. We’ve definitely had our share of memorable events on the roof over the years that have helped to bond our team. That’s part of the secret of our success – inspire creativity by including amazing views and the awesomeness of rooftops into our daily routines.

Welcome to our rooftop – sign on, sign up and stay tuned!

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We’d like to welcome the newest member of Keathley Advertising, our third consecutive co-ed softball Championship Trophy! He can hang out on the shelf with his cousins, quietly inflating our players’ egos with silent compliments until they need knocked down a few pegs.

There’s no losing in softball!
(We really just play to have fun, but the truth is that winning is pretty cool!)

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Having a successful agency takes a firm dedication to understanding clients’ needs and delivering solutions that offer return on investment. But, to make that happen, it’s critical to foster a culture that’s positive, and at the end of the day, fun. Amazing creativity only comes when people can see the possibilities. That doesn’t happen when they are stuck in a negative space. All work and no play makes Jack uninspired.

In our culture, fun and inspiration come in many forms: roller-skating, rock climbing, ATV adventures, a puzzle hunt pub crawl, birthday parties arranged by award-winning PR event planners, and softball championships, just to name a few.

Download the full story on how our culture translates into big benefits for our clients.

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