Monthly Archives: August 2019

For the 2nd year in a row, The Stick Company, partnered with Triple S Harley Davidson, will be co-hosting the Ride For Children’s Hospital charity ride benefiting WVU Medicine Children’s. The ride will take place on Saturday, August 24, 2019 with registration beginning at Triple S Harley Davidson until noon, and then will venture throughout the region on a scenic tour of the countryside. The ride will include stops at Stone House Restaurant in Farmington, PA, The Green Turtle in Deep Creek, MD and conclude at Tropics in Morgantown.

However, maybe the most impactful stop on the ride is the initial stop on-site at WVU Medicine Children’s. This stop not only sets the tone for the ride in helping our riders understand the impact they have on the hospital, but also demonstrates to the staff and patients of the hospital a new level of support and encouragement as our convoy can be seen (and heard) entering Ruby’s campus.

This year, Ride for Children’s Hospital welcomes a title sponsor for the event, Compass Realty, of Morgantown, WV. Compass Realty is a Morgantown real estate agency dedicated to making the process of selling and buying real estate an easy one, and are committed to providing premier services to all of their clients. You can learn more about Compass Realty, as well as meet their team, on their website www.compass-realtygroup.com.

The ride also welcomes Black Diamond Equipment Rental and ATI Industries as sponsors of the event, in addition to our continued partnership with the Eight Eight Six Foundation and WCLG Rocks. Together, we can make a difference. Be sure to join us for the 2nd annual Ride for Children’s Hospital as we will be raising funds to directly support the expansion of the new WVU Medicine Children’s facility in Morgantown. Our goal is to ensure that the team at Children’s can continue to provide the best care for the women and children of our region.

To learn more about Ride for Children’s Hospital, be sure to check out the event’s website at www.Ride4KidsWV.com.

Interested in getting involved? We got you. Simply download our event brochure and view the various ways you can help make a difference.

While our team’s initial reaction was to instantly become nervous when we saw a call from the dentist, our anxiety quickly turned to excitement at the opportunity to partner with the Monongalia County Health Department on the design, branding and wrapping of their newest division – The Smile Express. Smile Express is a mobile dental office providing excellent dental care throughout the community, while also working to educate and inform our community on the benefits of good dental hygiene. Our team was tasked in creating the overall branding and look for the vehicle, that would ensure that the Smile Express was recognizable throughout the community. Our Senior Designer, Maria Ashenfelder, worked closely with the Smile Express team to create the design concept, logo, and RV wrap design, all reflecting a fun, modern and eye-catching design that allows the mobile dentist office to be appealing to all ages.

Once the design phase was complete, the vehicle was pulled into our garage for the full exterior makeover, which features a custom full vehicle wrap front to back and top to bottom. The installation, which was overseen by our Wrap Division Manager Jarrod Miller, took nearly a week to apply, including over 200ft of vehicle wrap material onto the vehicle, while molding to all of the RV’s unique configurations. The final product is an eye-catching and engaging mobile dental office featuring a full vehicle wrap with custom design.

The Smile Express provides services throughout North Central West Virginia including Morgantown, Fairmont, Bridgeport, Clarksburg and beyond. They focus on school-aged children and adults who need assistance with access to dental care. Their fantastic traveling team consists of a dentist, public health dental hygienist and a dental assistant. To learn more about the Smile Express, be sure to visit their website at https://www.monchd.org/smile-express.html or follow their facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/mchdsmileexpress/.

For over 12 years, The Stick Company has been dedicated to creating and enhancing a company’s brand identity through graphic design, website development and vehicle wraps. Now, our agency is excited to announce the launch of our Digital Division, allowing us to take your brand a step further through the addition of such services as Search Engine Optimization, Social Media and Videography. These services are now a vital tool for our customers to compete in today’s online environment and allow our team to enhance our customer’s digital brand experience.

To help with the expansion, The Stick Company has made some changes and additions to the team to grow this division. Matthew J. Darnell, the agency’s Senior Programmer, has been promoted to the Director of Digital within the agency, combining his years of experience with website development, content and design. Matthew (also known as MJD if you are lucky), will help oversee our digital expansion to ensure our projects are achieving a new level of user experience for our customer’s online and digital brand.

“I’m so glad we’re doing this,” said Darnell. “The expansion of our digital division is going to allow us to better meet our clients’ needs. These are the things they ask for, and now, we’re better able to help them meet their goals. I’m really excited about the team we’ve put together. We’re all excited about the work we do, and it’s important to us to do it well.”

In addition, the agency recently welcomed the talents of two West Virginia University Alum with the addition of Jake Shockley and Allison Stickel. Jake Shockley, a Morgantown native, brings his videography talents and experience to the team, pushing the growth of our video services. Video has become one of the most successful tools in today’s digital environment, allowing you to engage customers, and tell your company’s story quickly and easily. We are dedicated to providing quality brand films, interviews and social media content without an unrealistic price tag. These videos can be used to grow your company’s website content, as well as engage your social media audience.

And that is exactly where Allison Stickel, the agency’s Digital Strategist, can expand your brand to new audiences. Allison, an Ohio Valley native, brings her unique talents and experience to the team, specializing in getting more traffic for your online experience. With a passion for data and analytics (yes, she is human), she takes this information and formulates the best plan for our customers based on their current online goals. Whether our customers are looking for better search engine results, conducting a recruitment campaign, or simply wanting more online traffic, Allison will help create the right plan for you.

“I am excited at the growth and addition of our digital division within the agency, and feel we have the right team and the right services to continue to best serve our client’s needs.” said Damian Ferek, President of The Stick Company. “From day one, we have focused our agency’s services on being a leading branding agency with our design, website and wrapping services. Now, our new digital division will complement these services and allow our customers to reach new audiences and increase their engagement to achieve the best online experience possible. As a branding agency, our goal is to ensure the most people are seeing your identity as possible.”

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The Stick Company, located in Morgantown, West Virginia, is a branding agency like no other, offering a variety of marketing and design services such as brand identity, print design, website design, videography, search engine optimization and social media. The Stick Company also features the region’s most experienced vehicle wrap and interior wrap team, providing quality wrap products such as car wraps, trailer wraps, wall wraps, window wraps, decals, banners, signs and more. And as our Wrap Team motto says — We. Stick. Anything. Contact our team today to learn more about our company and branding services.

The Stick Company was honored to partner with the United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties on the production of the 2020 Campaign Video. In addition to the campaign video, our team helped produce this year’s campaign chairs’ Introduction Video, shown at the United Way’s Community Leaders’ Breakfast hosted at Mon Health Medical Center. This year, the campaign is being organized by seven different bankers from within our community, including our friend Harry Hayes from Clear Mountain Bank, to form ‘Banker’s United — Invest In our Community’.

Our contribution and production of these videos was a great way to showcase the recent growth of our Videography Services, including the addition of Jake Shockley. Jake is an extremely talented Videographer who deserves all the credit for the production and quality of the videos.

“Working with The Stick Co. to do our United Way 2020 Campaign Video was an amazing experience! They were easy to work with and quickly responded to our questions. And the video itself? Wow! It was so professional, and the quality was superb. We debuted it at our Community Leaders’ Breakfast, and the response was so positive, with people telling us it brought on a wave of emotions and how it was the best campaign video in years. Working with Damian and Jake was a dream. Thank you so much!”
– Amanda Posey
Director of Marketing and Communications
United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties

Like any successful project, it required a great team effort to bring this year’s campaign video to fruition, and we appreciate all of the hard work, creativity and dedication from the team at The United Way, Eric Minor – Director of Student Careers and Opportunities at West Virginia University, and all of the Media Embracing the Community support teams.

We look forward to expanding and strengthening our partnership with the United Way moving forward.

The Stick Company would like to recognize the talented and wonderful Ondrea Yoho on the completion of her summer internship. Ondrea hit the ground running, just a few short months ago, and instantly became a valuable member of our team helping with a variety of design and client needs including her contributions to our own internal marketing needs. In addition to her creativity, we certainly utilized her friendly and vibrant personality in being our front line with communication for visitors and customers.

And while we are generally never the type to pick favorites, it was nearly unanimous that Ondrea is officially our team’s All-Time Favorite Intern! The only opposed voice coming from our Wrap Division Manager – Jarrod Miller – who, until recently, had previously (self-proclaimed) that distinct honor from his internship back in 2008. Little does Jarrod know that even his own beloved canine sidekick, Murphy, agreed with Ondrea’s well-deserved distinction.

From all of us at The Stick Company, we wish Ondrea the best of luck in her Junior year at West Virginia University where she is majoring in Design Studies with a Minor in Business Administration. Hopefully her internship with our eclectic team does not have her rethinking her career too much!

Be sure to come back and visit!
(Please bring food.)