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Halmes Strategic Marketing and PR Reaches 5-Year Milestone

Submitted by: Jo Halmes on Sep 30, 2009 at 8:17 pm Tagged with: Communications, Consulting, Marketing, Public Relations, Small Business Source: Halmes Strategic Marketing & PR

Halmes Strategic Marketing & PR recently celebrated its 5th successful year of business. Led by President Jo Halmes, APR, the company is an independent consulting firm that offers senior-level marketing and public relations services to small businesses and non-profits in the Upstate.

“Reaching this milestone is exciting,” Halmes says. “As a small business owner myself, it’s been extremely rewarding to help other small business owners develop and implement strategies to communicate key messages and get desired results.”

Halmes says that since 2004, the company has provided more than 25 Upstate businesses and organizations with creative, cost-effective communication solutions.

Prior to beginning her own company, Halmes was the marketing and public relations director at Bon Secours St. Francis Health System in Greenville, S.C. She possesses more than 20 years of marketing and PR experience. She earned and maintains the Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) designation from the Universal Accreditation Board, a consortium of nine PR and communication organizations, including the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). She was named 2003 Distinguished PR Practitioner of South Carolina.

Active in a number of professional and community organizations, Halmes has served as the President of the S.C. Chapter of PRSA and of the Cancer Society of Greenville County. She has been a national assembly delegate for PRSA and has served on the Greenville Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Regents. She also is a past member of the Upstate Chapter of the American Red Cross Board of Directors. She is a graduate of Leadership Greenville and currently is a member of its Alumni Association. She also volunteers for the Caine Halter Lungs for Life 5K Run/Walk.

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