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July 28, 2015
in Blog, Social PR News, Interesting Things, Tell Your Story News
by Nicole Benzer

Tell Your Story Founder George Rafeedie Shares His Story on Bootstrapping in America

As a marketing agency that focuses on developing compelling and valuable stories for its clients, it’s not everyday that we get an opportunity to share our own story.   Tell Your Story’s Founder, George Rafeedie, was a recent guest on Bootstrapping in America, a live online segment produced by the Tastytrade network that highlights entrepreneurs and their paths to success.   George discussed why effective story telling is crucial for an organization’s marketing efforts, in addition to a primary factor in overall business success and growth.   Hear how he’s applied his experience as a corporate marketer to build a small business that’s rooted in creating and sharing great stories through social PR.   ...

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June 27, 2014
in Blog, Interesting Things, Tell Your Story News
by Annie Beard

A Word from our Intern

Hi, everyone, Annie Beard here! I am a Senior Strategic Communication major at Ohio University, and I am interning with Tell Your Story this summer.  I met George while he was spending time at Ohio U. as the Visiting Professional of Public Relations at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. After a few weeks of follow-up emails and calls, I found myself in Chicago working alongside the amazing Tell Your Story team!   It has been great so far, and I have already learned so much from these PR Pros. I have gotten a lot of hands-on experience with social media, blog writing, competitive audits, press releases and writing content for newsletters—basically everything that a PR nerd, like myself, could hope for!  I have also been working closely with George on CoWorkers, the co-working space he co-founded. (That’s a lot of co’s).  It has been a lot of fun getting to know...

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June 27, 2014
in Blog, Interesting Things, Tell Your Story News
by Annie Beard

Tell Your Story Staffing Up to Tell More Stories

  In recent months, Tell Your Story has welcomed two new team members - Ellen DePodesta and Erin Neal. We can’t be more excited to have their expertise complement what we’re up to at Tell Your Story. And our clients agree.   Ellen DePodesta    Ellen has more than 20 years of experience in the B2B PR and marketing world with agencies in Chicago, Los Angeles and Cincinnati.From this experience and her work with heaps of clients, she has plenty to show for it. She has placed client stories in dozens of top-tier media outlets and news websites, and her clients have presented at national and global conferences and received honors and awards in workplace environment, business ethics, marketing campaigns and product innovation. Ellen has earned APR professional accreditation from the Public Relations Society of America, following in her parents’ footsteps, both accredited members of PRSA. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism...

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January 17, 2014
in Blog, Interesting Things, Tell Your Story News
by Ellen DePodesta

The Tell Your Story family is growing!

We're talking about our very own Amanda Pollard, who's expecting her first child in February.   If you know Tell Your Story, you know Amanda. She was the agency's first full-time employee and is an award-winning marketing and social media powerhouse who plans and executes some of our most visible and successful client campaigns. As she prepares for her pending arrival, the Tell Your Story team threw her a surprise baby shower to send her off in style. And speaking of style, you should see the adorable nursery she and her husband Ben designed and furnished in anticipation of their coming arrival.   Please join us in wishing Amanda and her family the very best during this exciting time!...

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February 18, 2013
in Blog, Social PR News, Tell Your Story News
by George Rafeedie

People News at Tell Your Story!

I am happy announce that Tell Your Story has added to our full-time team and now have THREE full time team members. As you may know, we are lean, nimble and flexible. But growing. We still want to stay lean and mean, and that means using a combination of full-time and dedicated contractor resources to help tell the great stories of the clients we serve.   [caption id="attachment_1362" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Laura's welcome committee - Max & Alex.[/caption]   Joining us today is Laura Cunningham, who has worked with Tell Your Story almost since our inception and worked with me back to my days at Baxter Healthcare and HSR Business to Business (now gyro). More on Laura later, but we welcome her to the full-time team. She joins us as a Senior Account Manager.   I am also very proud to announce the promotion of Amanda Pollard to Senior Public Relations & Social Media Manager. Amanda has...

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