Shelby Woods with his marketing agency, Cranford Johnson Robinson & Woods, became the state’s top tourism marketer, publishing the Arkansas Tour Guide for 50 years and helping rebrand Arkansas as a “Natural State” for visitors. read more >

Arkansas lawmakers, unimpressed with Arkansas Tech's out-of-state choice for marketing, rejected the deal last week when the Legislative Council’s Review Subcommittee declined to “review” the contract. read more >

Arkansas media and public relations professionals fear that negative perceptions of the capital city are reaching a critical mass after the mass shooting at the Power Ultra Lounge downtown. read more >

Bob Sells of Little Rock, a longtime public relations executive, died Monday. He was 84. read more >

Cranford Co. was the big winner again at the recent Little Rock ADDY Awards at Rock Town Distillery, including Best of Show for its Twitter “Social Events” campaign, Best of Print for CARE’s “Paws on the Runway” and Best of Public Service for “Heifer Integrated Campaign.” read more >

Wendy Russell will continue to oversee sales and marketing strategy for the 288-room Doubletree by Hilton in downtown Little Rock as part of the management team of Waterford Hotel Group Inc. of Waterford, Connecticut. read more >

Arkansas advertising executives generally agree morale issues in their industry are real, and several said their agencies are confronting them. read more >

Three new clients have hired the Sells Agency of Little Rock to lead their research and marketing efforts, including two local residential developments and an Indiana bank that is one of the oldest national banks in the United States. read more >

Mike Sells confided that he has two junior partners, Jon Hodges and Drew Finkbeiner, planning to buy him out over the next 11 years. read more >

In helping make a new name for the Little Rock Trojans, former University of Arkansas at Little Rock basketball coach Chris Beard made a big name for himself. read more >

Gocio, a Little Rock native, previously worked as a communications associate with the Clinton Foundation in Little Rock and was a public information coordinator for Arkansas Tech University’s Ozark campus. read more >

A new consumer media report from Little Rock’s Sells Agency outlines the current state of media consumption and details what it calls a proliferation and fragmentation of new media. read more >

Vince Griffin and Hollis Anthony have joined The Sells Agency of Little Rock. read more >

Mike Sells has worked in advertising and marketing since 1985 when he was a marketing assistant at Brooks-Pollard in Little Rock. He has served in various roles in the industry and is now owner and CEO at the Sells Agency. read more >

A survey by the Sells Agency of Little Rock on the banking habits of millennials found they have a "robust" relationship with multiple accounts. read more >

Little Rock’s Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods received many of the top honors, including best in show, at this year’s central Arkansas Addy awards. read more >