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Meet Michaela!

Meet Michaela!

Michaela is fun and sassy–and fits right in here at Sassafras! She’s our resident positive thinker and is based in Kansas City. We’re excited to add her to our team as an account manager! Here’s a little bit more about Michaela: What do you like most about working at Sassafras? The people at Sassafras are so easy to mesh with. What I love most is that no idea goes unheard here. No commute earns a dangerously close second. Your hometown postcard—what’s on it? An illustrated ma

Sassafras Employees Rank Top Super Bowl LIV Ads

Sassafras Employees Rank Top Super Bowl LIV Ads

We know the Super Bowl has come and gone and might even be considered old news to some. But when you’re an advertising agency AND based in Kansas City (go Chiefs!), the Super Bowl and its debut commercials will always remain top of mind for us! We just got done celebrating the Chiefs win and thought we’d talk advertising and share some of our top Super Bowl ads. Here are Sassafras’ top five of the best ads: Rocket Mortgage Embracing the perennially-popular trend of having nam

Welcome Our Newest Account Manager Jennifer!

Welcome Our Newest Account Manager Jennifer!

Sassafras is excited to introduce to you our new Account Manager, Jennifer! Jennifer is from the Kansas City area and brings a wealth of knowledge and client management experience from previous roles. It’s always fun getting to welcome new members on board and share them with all of you! Here’s a little more about Jennifer: What do you like most about working at Sassafras? The team. Everyone has been so welcoming, fun and open to answering any questions that I might have. You

Our Fall Team Meeting is Just Around the Corner

Our Fall Team Meeting is Just Around the Corner

It’s hard to believe that summer has finally come to a close and fall is officially here. The autumn season around the Sassafras office not only means cooler temps but also that our annual fall team meeting is near. We talk a lot about our virtual environment on the blog. One of the keys to ensuring we stay connected even though we’re spread across various states is coming together twice a year in Kansas City for team meetings. We typically meet in the spring and fall, Wednes

Welcome our newest Account Director, Tamie!

Welcome our newest Account Director, Tamie!

Sassafras is excited to introduce to you our new Account Director, Tamie! Tamie is from the Kansas City area and brings a wealth of knowledge and client management experience from previous roles. It’s always fun getting to welcome new members on board and share them with all of you! Here’s a little more about Tamie: What do you like most about working at Sassafras? I’ve been here a couple of weeks and everyone has been very welcoming and willing to help. It’s a great team dyn

EVERYTHING IS AWESOME… at the Sassafras Team Meeting

EVERYTHING IS AWESOME… at the Sassafras Team Meeting

If we had any doubt that Everything was Awesome before our team meeting last week, those reservations were put to rest. Let me back up and explain that every Sassafras team meeting has a well thought out theme. And for those of you with younger kids, we’ll give you one guess what this meeting’s theme was about! Anyway, everything actually was awesome in Kansas City when we met last week for our spring team meeting. Twice a year we get our virtual team together in KC where we

Fall Team Meeting Recap

Fall Team Meeting Recap

It’s been a few months since our last team meeting in Kansas City but it’s never too late for a quick recap on what the team did and all of the cool things we learned back in November. In case you’re not familiar with our team meetings, they happen twice a year in Kansas City, usually around May and November. Since Sassafras is a remote company, these meetings give us a chance to get together in person and learn and grow as a team. The agenda for November’s meeting was a litt

Meet Our New Account Manager, Heather!

Meet Our New Account Manager, Heather!

Toward the end of last year, Sassafras welcomed two new account managers to the team and we’re excited to finally introduce them to you! First up is Heather. Heather lives in the KC area and learned about Sassafras from a mutual friend. We’re so glad she came on board with us! With further ado, here’s Heather: What do you like most about working at Sassafras? So far, the people. Everyone has been so helpful and friendly. I enjoy our team meetings where we get together in pe

Our Plans for 2019

Our Plans for 2019

Is it too late to say Happy New Year? Hope we haven’t missed the mark there, but the new year, as it tends to do, has already gotten away from us. Coming out of 2018 we had a lot of big projects in the works and when we came back together on January 2, it was business as usual here at Sassafras. Now don’t get me wrong. The new year always brings with it a sense of excitement and newness. Goals are being set and the past year reflected on. When we look back at 2018 we see some

Sassafras Receives Corporate Volunteer Partner of the Year Award from DSG of Greater Kansas City

Sassafras Receives Corporate Volunteer Partner of the Year Award from DSG of Greater Kansas City

Charity work is near and dear to our hearts here at Sassafras and today we wanted to share a fun award that we recently had the honor of receiving from the Down Syndrome Guild of Greater Kansas City (DSG). Sassafras has supported this organization for a number of years, donating our project management and creative talents to help DSG brand, market, and promote their mission to the Kansas City community. Beyond contributing our services, several of our team members attend DSG

Sassafras Agency Meeting: Spring has Sprung!

Sassafras Agency Meeting: Spring has Sprung!

Sassafras Marketing had our annual spring meeting a few weeks ago in Kansas City. These meetings are essential to our agency’s growth and our team’s morale since we are a virtual agency with employees in seemingly every neck of the woods! Each year we get together for three days in the spring and fall to learn, grow, and have a little (a lot of) fun! We were in KC May 9-11 and the meeting was loads of fun and an excellent creative recharge! Meeting Day 1: We started our meeti

Sassafras Team Prepares to Spring Into KC!

Sassafras Team Prepares to Spring Into KC!

Spring is upon us and the folks at Sassafras Marketing are gearing up for our next team retreat and meeting in Kansas City! Since our team is virtual, we really value and look forward to our team meetings. (Read more about our virtual agency here.) These meetings are a great opportunity for the team to put our heads together and collaborate on new and innovative marketing and storytelling solutions. It’s also time to review the state of the agency and plan for the future. AND

Sassafras Recognizes World Down Syndrome Day 2018

Sassafras Recognizes World Down Syndrome Day 2018

March 21 has been designated World Down Syndrome Day, to be observed every year beginning in 2012. A bit of history: The date of the 21st day of the 3rd month was selected to signify the uniqueness of the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st chromosome which causes Down Syndrome. Sassafras Marketing is proud to observe World Down Syndrome Day. We do this by raising public awareness and helping create a single global voice for advocacy, inclusion and well being of people with Do

Our Agency is Virtually Everywhere!

Our Agency is Virtually Everywhere!

If you’ve followed our blog or know about our agency, you’re well aware that we are a virtual agency and efficiently utilize an online workplace! It enables us to maintain a fun, family-friendly dynamic for all employees, wherever they may be! CEO and founder Jenny Holton has put some things into place that help us foster innovation and spur creativity. So how do we function as a successful unit while being in different physical locations? Why we are a virtual agency Kansas C

Meet Our Winter Intern, Megan

Meet Our Winter Intern, Megan

This past December – January, Sassafras welcomed Megan Bartolac, a University of Missouri student who interned with us over the winter break. Megan split her time supporting our different account teams with various tasks and did a fantastic job. One thing we really took away from her internship was being able to tap into Megan’s millennial side and hear from a different perspective. That’s always refreshing! We really enjoyed having Megan join our team over the winter break a

Sassafras Agency Meeting: Keep the Bus Moving!

Sassafras Agency Meeting: Keep the Bus Moving!

Sassafras Marketing had our annual fall meeting last week in Kansas City. These meetings are essential to our agency’s growth and our team’s morale since we are a virtual agency with employees in Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Florida, and Georgia. Each year we get together for three days in the spring and fall to learn, grow, and have a little fun! And was there ever precedent for having fun…we only need look back to our last full agency get-together in May! Piggybacking

Halloween 2017…Sassafras Style!

Halloween 2017…Sassafras Style!

We hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Halloween celebrating with their boys and ghouls! And if you’re like us, then you had a stellar breakfast this morning of Twix, Snickers and double espressos! Hello, November! We’ve spent the morning sharing photos from last night (and last weekend for some of our party people!) and thought we’d let you in on the fun! Looks like our Sassafras teammates and their families had a blast– all the way from Kansas City to Jacksonville and points

Sassafras Marketing Named to Ingram’s Corporate Report 100

Sassafras Marketing Named to Ingram’s Corporate Report 100

Last week, Ingram’s announced that Sassafras Marketing earned a position in Ingram’s 2017 Corporate Report 100 ranking of the fastest-growing companies headquartered in the greater Kansas City area. As you can see, Sassafras finds itself in good company! We are honored to be included in this prestigious ranking. The Corporate Report 100 is Ingram’s annual ranking of the fastest-growing companies in the region. Sassafras founder Jenny Holton had this to say about the honor: “L

10 Things You Never Knew About Sassafras Marketing

10 Things You Never Knew About Sassafras Marketing

We’re often asked about the unique name of our company—Sassafras Marketing—and if there’s a back story or some reason how that name came to be. So we got to thinking…there are other shareable tidbits that you may or may not know about us. We present… 10 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Sassafras Marketing (in no particular order) So…about that name, what’s the story there? Legend has it that Sassafras founder Jenny Holton was looking to music CDs and song lyrics for co

Sassafras Agency Meeting: All Aboard the Energy Bus!

Sassafras Agency Meeting: All Aboard the Energy Bus!

As many of you know, twice a year Sassafras gets the whole team together in Kansas City for a few days of meetings, team building, learning, and fun. These meetings are essential to our agency’s growth and to our team’s morale since our company is virtual. Yes, we love to see each other every morning on our video call, but there’s nothing like being together in person, especially now that we have a few more new team members who’ve recently joined the gang. Last week was our f

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