Fresh Ink

Whew! Our hard work the past couple weeks have paid off! Last week the Bramlett crew teamed up with Hall of Tattoos here in Norman to host a fundraiser for East Main Place: Inked for the Homeless. We had a blast watching East Main Place supporters come out in numbers to get tattoos and piercings and participate in the raffle ticket drawing!

We are proud to have been a huge part of what made the fundraising event so successful. We used social media to invite the Norman Community to Inked for the Homeless and our Chipotle Benefit Night. We continued to make posts to update our followers about all the exciting ways they could contribute to the benefit, such as buying one of the rockin’ t-shirts we designed or getting a tattoo or piercing the day of the event. We even designed posters and postcards to get the word out on the OU campus and around Norman businesses.

Speaking of Norman businesses, we could not have pulled this off without the generous support of our sponsors from the Norman business community. We would like to thank all of the sponsors who continued to show their support with gift card donations, monetary donations, and even showing up for Inked for the Homeless.

We put so much thought and work into this event and it was all worth it to have been able to help East Main Place. A total of $5,392 was raised through this fundraising effort and all that goes directly to East Main Place! This event was a complete success and we cannot wait to help East Main Place in the future! 

New affordable e-commerce solution

Our web hosting and content management system has released a new component to its already amazing list of services. This new functionality will allow our clients to affordably have the ability to use e-commerce to sell products and services. There are so many cool features to this new tool but here are some of our favorites:

• You can easily sell both digital and physical goods by using a single platform. This will give our clients the flexibility of selling any type of product through one interface.
• There will not be any type of transaction fee for users or stores because all expenses are already included in the business level hosting.
• Tracking capabilities will allow stores and consumers to easily track their orders as well receive follow up e-mails and printable packing slips.
• Our clients will be able to make further contact with each customer because this product is integrated with MailChimp which will allow for e-mail sign ups before checking out.
• Stores will be able to export data available for accounting and spreadsheet tools which will allow for effortless organization.
• Select employees can access and manage inventory within the digital store with use of the permission system feature.

These features are not all! So ask us if you're ready to know more!

Norman Children's Garden

At Bramlett & Associates we think it is important to give back to the Norman community. Recently we helped an amazing group build a website for an upcoming event and we are excited to share it with our Bramlett followers!

Mary Abbott Children's House, along with other event sponsors, were in need of a website to promote an event that could change the lives of many children and families. The Bramlett crew put together a child-inspired website with the help of 14 year-old Norman artist, Danielle Brown. We were eager to help because of the important cause the event serves.

On April 13th, from Noon to 5pm, the first Norman Children's Garden will be at Andrews Park. Norman Children's Garden's purpose is to raise awareness for child abuse prevention and celebrate childhood. They hope to achieve this goal by inviting the community to decorate a garden of pinwheels in the park while enjoying crafts, art and music. This garden will serve as a place of strength, hope and healing for everyone who has experienced or knows someone who has experienced child abuse.

We hope everyone is as excited about this event as we are. Let's all go out and show our support by visiting Norman Children's Garden this spring. For more information about the event, visit www.normanchildrensgarden.com

Sound solutions to sing about

Last week our tech team at Bramlett AV helped out the University of Oklahoma College of Fine Arts just in time for this month's opera production! The Reynolds Performing Arts Center was in desperate need of an update from analog to digital sound and we provided the perfect solution. In order to optimize the performance space with an increase of inputs and lower costs we installed a Soundcraft Si Performer 3 and digital-snake Compact Stage Box. The new setup will provide the OU Renolyds PAC with a whopping 64 channels to mix with dedicated processing on each channel, allowing them to remove their aging analog outboard gear.

For any tech people out there, you know a move from analog to digital can be a huge jump when running a sound console. We spent two hours with the crew from Reynolds Performing Arts training them in how to rethink producing a live performance utilizing the power and features of the Si Performer 3, covering everything from configuration to sound check. In addition to their new board, we brought our demo board so everyone on the team could get hands on training with this cool new technology.

We are excited to have done this just in time for the University Theatre's Falstaff Opera. This year the Opera will run from
March 7th - 10th at the Reynolds Performing Arts Center inside the historic Holmberg Hall on the OU campus.

For more information about this performance visit http://www.ou.edu/finearts/calendar.

WE ARE MOVING

We are taking spring cleaning to a new extreme, and spring MOVING instead! Bramlett & Associates is officially moving to a new office located at 215 West Main Street in downtown Norman. As we continue to grow, it only seems fitting that we move to a bigger and brighter location that has plenty of room for our creative minds to explore. The office will be accessible from Main Street and has plenty of parking for visiting clients. We invite you to stop by if you are in the area to tour our new location. The office will be up and running by mid-March. Check back for more pictures once the move is complete! Please call us if you have any questions or need directions.

BEST OF THE BEST WINNERS

We were excited to announce that ten of our clients were nominated in the Best of the Best contest with the Norman Transcript, and we are ecstatic to announce that ALL of them received either first or second place! The CLEVELAND COUNTY FAMILY YMCA, Cindy Zumwalt with First American Bank, Abbey Road, Ultimate Realm of Serenity, Cain & Cain, Cayman's and Mister Robert were all given first place in their categories. We are so proud to represent all of these clients and in our book, they are ALL THE BEST OF THE BEST!

NAYDO

It's award season and we are happy to announce one of our clients was named a NAYDO Communications Award Winner! The NAYDO Council awarded the CLEVELAND COUNTY FAMILY YMCA in the category of "Media Campaign and PSAs with a facility budget of $2 - $10 million." This news is especially exciting for Bramlett & Associates because we produced the Y's Public Service Announcements in 2012. The PSAs included videos featuring Y members talking about the life-changing opportunities CLEVELAND COUNTY FAMILY YMCA can provide for the Norman community. We are extremely proud to have the opportunity to work with and represent such an amazing nonprofit organization and sincerely congratulate the YMCA on this impressive award.

NATIONAL WEAR RED DAY

February is here and it's time to show your true colors! This month of love and romance is also about loving your heart and wearing red to show you do. If you didn't know, today is National Wear Red Day, a day to stand up and speak out for women's heart health. We're proud to say that this is our fifth year to work with Oklahoma City's Go Red For Women campaign which works year round to spread the word about the number one killer of women in American: heart disease. It's our privilege to work with our local American Heart Association staff to design ads, take photos and create awareness in the media of the importance of women's heart health. So whether you're wearing red today or not, we challenge you to think about your heart every day this month and take a step towards making it beat a little healthier.

BEST OF THE BEST

We are ecstatic to announce that TEN of our clients have been nominated in the Best of the Best contest with the Norman Transcript! The nominees are:

• The Y
  -Best Gym

• First American Bank
  -Best Bank
  -Best Banker (Cindy Zumwalt)
  -Best Loan Officer (Cindy Zumwalt)
  -Best Teller (Sharon McCoy)

• HeyDay
  -Best Family Entertainment
  -Best Place to Have a Kid's Party

• Cain & Cain
  -Best Law Firm

• Ultimate Realm of Serenity
  -Best Spa

• Abbey Road
  -Best Caterer

• Embassy Suites
  -Best Place to Host an Event

• NCED Conference Center
  -Best Place to Host an Event

• Mister Robert
  -Best Furniture Store
  -Best Home Decor
  
  
• Cayman's
  -Best Women's Clothing
  
  Voting is FREE and going on now through February 1st on The Norman Transcript website! Cast your vote today for the Best of the Best businesses in Norman!

MAKE RESOLUTIONS REALITY

As January comes to an end, dedication to New Year’s resolutions might be starting to dwindle. We recently created a campaign for one of our clients, the CLEVELAND COUNTY FAMILY YMCA, to help encourage people to team up with the Y to keep their health and wellness resolutions on track! The Make Resolutions Reality campaign is made up of an ad for Norman Magazine, radio spots, a Healthy Living Journal, a web page, and a direct mail piece that includes a QR code. This campaign consists of three steps that guide members of the community to a healthier lifestyle through Y membership. The third step, and your gift from the Y, includes the Healthy Living Journal that is comprised of tips, information, resources and inspiration to support members through their journey to health. If you are interested in finding out more about this campaign, please visit YMCANorman.org/Step1.