Laughlin Constable wins Gold Healthcare Advertising Award

Posted: June 27, 2011 by Mark Drewek Filed under: News

We’re very happy to announce that Laughlin Constable won a Gold Award for Total Advertising Campaign (without Television) for the University of Illinois Medical Center in the 28th Healthcare Advertising Awards. The awards are the oldest and most prestigious healthcare marketing awards in the nation.

The winning work was for the Changing Medicine. For Good. campaign, which involved in-life, print and digital pieces. Check out some of the work from the campaign.

Bus Shelter for UIMC campaign by Laughlin Constable

The Gold Award is the highest honor attainable, and Total Advertising Campaign is one of the toughest categories. Moreover, we faced some tough competition. Congratulations to everyone who was involved!

The Healthcare Advertising Awards are sponsored by Healthcare Marketing Report. You can see all the winners on their website.

Laughlin Constable has been working with UIMC since 2009. Beyond our success with UIMC, we have worked in healthcare marketing for years, developing brands, campaigns and websites for Delnor Hospital, Skin Cancer Foundation, Aurora Health Care, HealthHub and Nuture by Steelcase.

Laughlin Constable wins three PRSA Paragon Awards

Posted: May 20, 2011 by Matthew Waller Filed under: Agency Life, Marketing, PR, Social Media

It’s not the Oscars, the Grammys or even the Emmys, but to us, it may as well be: The PRSA 2011 Paragon Communications Awards. Ever hear of them? Well, chances are if you’re reading this blog, you’re interested in the world of marketing so the name may sound familiar. If not, well, StumbleUpon must have incorrectly guided you here. Either way, this is worth a read.

The Paragon Awards recognize outstanding work in public relations campaigns. Similar to the Oscars, these are the type of campaigns that make you laugh, make you cry, or in the marketing world, make you buy in.

Laughlin Constable is thrilled to have brought home not one, not two but three of these awards last night.

An award of merit was given for work on the Wisconsin Department of Tourism iPhone app launch. An advanced look at the app by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and well-planned distribution of a news release to select media helped make the release of the app a great success. Coverage in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and The Associated Press resulted in hits in ABCNews.com, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Times-Picayune and many more. The immediate result was more than 80 million impressions, $3 million in publicity and more than 2,000 downloads.

LC also snagged an award of merit for the 2010 Department of Tourism’s press kit. The team used sound media relations, creative ideas and strategic planning to develop a kit that generated significant awareness of all the unique events, activities and attractions in Wisconsin and ultimately, caught the attention of the media. Not to mention, it looked pretty cool (our designers rock). The team met with more than 25 different media outlets in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis and Milwaukee and also mailed or dropped off press kits to 30 more outlets. Many of the reporters complimented the team for having designed such a useful and easy-to-navigate press kit and supplementary USB flash drive.

And finally, there was an award of merit for the social media successes for the Department of Tourism. When the Facebook page, Twitter account and blog were initially launched, consumers flocked to the pages within minutes (okay, not minutes, but quickly). The 2010 summer campaign character Miles Feldspar was introduced on these platforms, and unique content, trivia questions, and giveaways followed. From its launch, the Facebook page has grown to over 24,400 fans, with the Twitter account at just over 2,000 followers. The blog has received over 64,181 views since its launch and is consistently a top 10 content section on TravelWisconsin.com.

All and all, it was a great night. While these are public relations awards, the effort on all three of these campaigns was agency-wide. Our hard work and dedication to our clients really paid off. So now, after a night of celebrating, where’s the afternoon coffee?

Laughlin Constable Wins 4 Graphis Awards

Posted: February 3, 2010 by Dave Hanneken Filed under: Advertising, News

Precious Medals

We’re proud to announce that Laughlin Constable recently won four Gold Awards in the International Graphis Awards for advertising. Regarded by many in the industry as one of the most prestigious competitions, LC bested many shops from all over the world to be featured in this gorgeous hard-cover book. Our best showing to date was three golds last year, which we surpassed this year, winning four golds.

The winning work was produced for: Kimberly-Clark (Cottonelle), St. Paul’s Fish Market, The Hank Aaron Trail and the Eisner American Museum of Advertising & Design.

Big credit goes out to Chad Nauta, Kirk Ruhnke, David Hanneken and Gina Ferise.

Our very own Dan LaVigne is also featured in the book for a campaign he did last year while working at Freight Train. Great work, Dan!

Check out the winners:

We Won At The Milwaukee 99 Advertising Awards!

Posted: September 23, 2009 by Dave Hanneken Filed under: News

Laughlin Constable had a strong showing last Thursday during the 2009 Milwaukee 99 Advertising Awards show.

LC walked away with 13 merits and four metals during the presentation which honored the best 99 pieces of communication produced last year. The Milwaukee 99 showcases the most outstanding work by various ad agencies, design firms, digital houses and in-house departments from around Southeastern Wisconsin. In all there were over 500 entries and the 99 finalists were chosen this past July by a panel of five creative directors who came into town from such cities as Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Chicago.

The metal winners were:

GOLD:
Kimberly-Clark’s Kleenex Anti-Viral Tissue “Sleepy Baby Webisode” in the Interactive Viral category

SILVER:
Red Cross T-Shirt “Band-Aid” in the Guerrilla/Ambient category

BRONZE:
Kimberly-Clark’s Kleenex Anti-Viral Tissue “Sleepy Baby“, “Rodeo“, & “Ice Skater“ Webisodes in the Interactive Viral Campaign category
Kimberly-Clark’s Kleenex Anti-Viral Tissue in the Integrated Campaign

Congratulations to all our clients and the many staffers who worked on these projects. Now let’s get going on more great work for next year!

Working For Our Employees

Posted: September 4, 2009 by Joyce O'Brien Filed under: Agency Life

At Laughlin Constable, we look for the best talent available to the agency. Always have. Always will. We owe it to ourselves and we owe it to our clients.

But that quest for the best talent works both ways. Job seekers are also looking for the best places to work. Always have. Always will.

So, to stand out amongst the masses in a competitive world, it is imperative to be innovative and forward-thinking, and have a flexible workplace.

We believe our agency meets those criteria with programs and policies in place that meet the needs of busy, on-the-go employees.

That belief was verified recently.

We couldn’t be happier to say that Laughlin Constable was awarded two workplace awards for 2009: the annual MetroParent Family Friendly Award and the prestigious National Alfred P. Sloan Award – presented by FUEL Milwaukee – for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility.

The MetroParent Family Friendly Award recognizes companies in the Milwaukee-area that have family-friendly practices in place that go above and beyond the norm.

The National Alfred P. Sloan Award honors employers of all sizes and types that are using workplace flexibility as a strategy to increase workplace effectiveness, yield positive business results, and attract and retain top talent.

It is a core belief at Laughlin Constable to be, and remain, flexible and family-friendly. It works for the agency and more importantly, works for our employees.

It Takes A Village

Posted: August 25, 2009 by Anna Zeck Filed under: Agency Life

I started at LC in (gasp) 1992… at that time, I was in my mid-twenties and all I cared about was that LC had the reputation as the “it” place to be in advertising.

At that time, kids were the furthest thing from my mind. But, as the years went by, I met my husband (at the agency!), was blessed with a son, then a daughter and then, at the ripe old age of 39, yet another daughter. And, my parents aged. Life changes things.

But fortunately for me, the agency was way ahead of me with family-friendly policies and flexibility. At the VP level, my job was reconfigured to allow me to focus on one major piece of PR business, just on part-time schedule. With a super dedicated team, attention to the client never suffered, budgets grew and today – 17 years later – my client is one of our longest standing pieces of agency business. Everyone is happy… but mostly me because I’m able to enjoy the fleeting days of my children’s childhood while keeping my career going strong.

metroparent's family friendly award So, it’s with more gratitude than I can put in words, that I congratulate LC on the MetroParent and Sloan awards for workplace flexibility. I didn’t go looking for a family-friendly employer way back when, but I honestly can’t imagine what a royal mess my life would be without one.

Even though the days of happy hours downtown after work are gone for me, I’ll gather my kids around me tonight and we’ll raise our juice boxes and organic milk in cheers to LC for well-deserved recognition!

Congrats again, from Hank, Ellie and Mary Jane’s Mom.

Allow Me to Indulge

Posted: June 11, 2009 by Matthew Waller Filed under: News

As a PR consultant, it is my job to tell my clients’ stories and garner publicity by getting them in the news. I enjoy it. And I think my clients appreciate my work.

From time to time though, there are situations that require “tooting my own horn.” This is one of those times. But not just my horn. I’m going to toot Laughlin Constable PR’s horn in this space. A recent event calls for it.

Hey, if we do great PR work for clients shouldn’t we do it for ourselves, too?

Outstanding work done for Laughlin Constable clients Wolverine, McDonald’s and Café Manna has recently earned our agency three Paragon Awards from the Public Relations Society of America. We feel pretty good about that. So we thought we’d share.

So, how did we treat such good news?

A: Snuck on to the Miller Park field after the awards ceremony and ran the bases before being tackled by the Brat, Polish and Italian. Not sure what happened to the Chorizo and Hot Dog. They were asleep at the wheel on security detail apparently.
B: Took the red-eye to Vegas, checked-in at the Palms and gambled the day away. All the while carrying our awards around everywhere we went.
C: Went straight home and got the mandatory eight hours of sleep, and were up early the next day ready to work.
D: Took the Amtrak Hiawatha to Chicago, hit Rush Street ‘til 4 a.m. and worked out of our Chicago office the following day.
E: Drafted a press release touting our achievements and hit the local pubs (that’s short for publications). Although we have been known to hit a pub or two.

The answer? We’re not saying. But if you chose “C” you don’t know us very well.

Now that I’m done tooting, you can read the release here.

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