Monthly Archives: January 2018

We are both excited and humbled at The Stick Company to have been selected as one of the 2018 Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce business award winners. Recipients were recognized for various achievements and community involvement throughout the year, as well as their overall commitment to the Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce. 

In addition to being selected as the Medium Size Business of the Year, our agency was also contracted to do this year’s award videos. We had a lot of fun working with each company, highlight some of the areas most influential and inspirational stories. We are excited to share our video here:

To see all of the award videos from the 2018 Annual Dinner, please visit the Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce website here. 

When visiting the chamber website, be sure to experience the new homepage recently designed and implemented by our team. While the site is ultimately controlled and powered by a program called ChamberMaster, which is an internal tool that runs the Chamber’s membership and database, our team did have the ability to update the homepage to make it more engaging in informative for the members. 

Since 2007, The Stick Company has been a long-standing member of the Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce. Recently, in 2017, owner Damian Ferek was nominated for a position on the chamber’s Board of Directors, also serving as the chair of the marketing in membership committee.

From all of us at The Stick Company, we would like to thank our family, friends, colleagues, customers and business partners, as well as, the Morgantown area Chamber of Commerce for this fantastic recognition. 

Producers Supply Company (PSC), one of our agency’s tenured clients, is among the national leaders in oilfield supply. With two national locations in Waynesburg, PA and Oklahoma City, OK, they are conveniently located to service a number of natural gas shale plays. To help ensure the online sales and marketing efforts continue to match the level of sales and support of the company, a new website was created to help better serve the online needs of the customers.

The new website was assigned a few goals in the process, one of which being to ensure a strong emphasis on the products and manufacturers the company represents. Backed by the best brands and products in the industry, the new site was to reflect those same standards, and ensure that users are able to, quickly and easily, access the various manufacturers within each product category. Taking this an added step further, each manufacturer now has a product specific landing page that will allow the team at PSC to tailor the specific products and details on the website.

Another goal of the website was to feature the team at Producers Supply Company throughout the site. Ensuring customers understand that the PSC team is a key to their success, our team wanted to ensure the website reflected this same belief. To accomplish this, the site utilizes custom photography to capture the human element of the company. These visuals also showcase the PSC trucks and fleet, as one of the most distinguishable aspects of Producers Supply Company. The high-end pictures were captured by photography icon John Jackson, of Not Stock Photography.

In addition to the custom photography, The Stick Company helped produce a 60 second brand film that helps capture the various details of the company. For anyone who is familiar with Producers Supply, also knows their attention to detail is unrivaled. To best demonstrate this, we created an upbeat video for use on the website and social media that features the team, products and trucks of the company. The video also features some drone video of a delivery to a natural gas jobsite.

The design remained consistent with the PSC brand emphasizing the easily recognizable orange color scheme and dark colored backgrounds. The new website features a responsive layout to ensure best accessibility on any device, as well as a fully accessible content management system for easy maintenance and updates.

To view the Producers Supply Website, please visit www.P-S-C.com

January has been an exceptionally busy month here at The Stick Company – especially for custom truck wraps. From full truck wraps to partial truck wraps, we have seen a variety of truck sizes coming through the garage already in 2018.

Excalibur Specialty Services, a specialty, inspection & technical provider, is a new company based in Clarksburg, West Virginia. The Stick Company worked with Excalibur to create a custom company logo and new business cards, as well as a new truck wrap design for the fleet. Tasked with the creative concept for a bold and extremely visible design, our team created the custom character of the warrior to accompany the vibrant textured sound waves to give the vehicle its visual appeal. 

Another fun custom truck wrap was for Morgantown‘s newest food franchise, the Philly Pretzel Factory. Located in Suncrest Towne Centre, this delicious new restaurant needed a partial truck wrap to help gain attention for their newest location. The custom-tailored design mirrored existing vehicle wraps from other national locations. However, our team was given the flexibility of creating something unique for this location’s specific vehicle. The newly-wrapped GMC Sierra will also serve as a food truck for when the company goes on-location for various events and catering. For more info on Philly Pretzel Factory, visit their Morgantown Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ppfmorgantownWV/.

A third featured truck wrap is for Gerrick Electric Company, a construction and electrical contractor in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Stick Company has been fortunate to work with Gerrick on previous truck wraps over the years, and was excited to see this industrial electric company adding a new truck wrap to their growing fleet. For more on this fantastic company, visit their website at www.gerrickelectric.com.

In addition to these three specific truck wraps, our team has also been busy installing a few truck wraps for longtime customers iLease Equipment Rental of Clarksburg, WV and Black Diamond Equipment Rental of Morgantown, WV.

All of these custom truck wraps were designed, printed, and installed by our team at The Stick Company. We enjoy not only designing and creating custom vehicle wrap designs, but also seeing the project from start to finish and delivering a truly unique custom vehicle wrap for our customers. 

Stay tuned as we continue to showcase the variety of vehicle wraps that our team does on a regular basis!

The Stick Company was awarded the contract by the Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce to create the business award videos for their 2018 Annual Dinner. Each of the seven videos featured five minutes of testimonials and highlights, as well as featured all of each company’s strengths and unique characteristics. The videos aired at the Annual Awards Dinner in front of nearly 600 chamber members throughout the Morgantown area.

One of the greatest aspects of this project was the ability to, not only film and edit the actual videos, but also, work directly with each company and their representatives to tell their story. At The Stick Company, we feel video production helps emphasize your brand’s image, and our team worked tirelessly to ensure each video did just that.

There were a total of seven business award videos for 2018 including Small, Medium and Large Business of the Year, New Business of the Year, Milan Puskar Entrepreneur of the Year, Non Profit of the Year and the Earl L. Core Award. While all having slightly different award specifics, the awards highlight companies within the Morgantown region that display outstanding corporate citizenship, community involvement, and commitment to the Chamber.

One of the awards, The Earl L. Core Award, is the Chamber’s most prestigious award given to an individual or individuals, who display outstanding community service for a minimum of 5 years as a resident of Monongalia County. This year’s recipient was our good friend – Jamie Summerlin, As if running across the United States for Veterans wasn’t enough (read more on this at www.FreedomRunUSA.com), Jamie has gone on to help found Operation Welcome Home, The Morgantown Marathon, now coordinates and overseesMountainFest, as well as countless other community contributions.  Congratulations Jamie, a well-earned and deserved recognition!

Another award that has significant impact in not only the Morgantown area, but West Virginia overall, is the 2018 Non-Profit of the Year. This year – this was awarded to the Monongalia County Board of Education. We had the pleasure of working with a number of great individuals during this video testimonial to help shed light on all of the aspects that the Board of Education encompasses. From the number of teachers, students and staff members – to healthcare, food and transportation providers, the Board of Education is one of the largest employers in the state. The video below is just a sample highlight of the accomplishments of the organization:

In addition to these two award winners, other winners included Cunningham, Powell, Alexander, A.C. as Small Business of the Year. The Stick Company, (yes, us!) as Medium Size Business of the Year, Potesta & Associates as Large Business of the Year, Courtyard by Marriott Morgantown as New Business of the Year, and FEOH Realty/Jason Donahue as the Milan Puskar Entrepreneur of the Year. To watch all of the award videos, be sure to visit the Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce’s website at www.MorgantownChamber.org.

The Stick Company is excited to announce the launch of a new website for Fairchance Construction located in Southwest Pennsylvania. With over 100 years of experience, the team at Fairchance Construction was looking for a new online presence that showcased, not only the history of the company, but also the modern services and full capabilities of the company today.

To help accomplish this, our team created a design that allowed for modern projects and photography, as well as, demonstrating historic values and beliefs, while still showcased in a clear and easy to use design theme. The homepage features a variety of drone footage captured from each jobsite.

One of the main goals of the website redesign was to demonstrate and showcase the variety of services the company can offer. Niche services like Design+Build, ICF Construction and Environmental Construction are just some of the services we helped feature. The goal was to ensure the potential customers were able to quickly identify that Fairchance Construction was a fully capable Design and Turnkey Construction Company, but also one that can do a number of build-outs and remodels.

Another goal for the Fairchance Construction website design was to ensure a clear and concise message for their various industries. Working with a range of customers throughout the automotive, healthcare and industrial industries, we created specific landing pages for each industry to ensure added keywords and capabilities were conveyed.

The project features details and photography of some of Fairchance Construction’s latest projects including a number of dealership construction projects for the Freedom Automotive group. The site also features a section on Butler Buildings and the values that their steel buildings can bring to their clients. Fairchance Construction is an Authorized Butler Builder.

The site was designed as a responsive theme with a full content management system for ease in updates and maintenance. A new set of business cards was also designed to help correspond with the site launch.

To access the new website, be sure to visit www.FairchanceConstruction.com.