Our Extended Team

At BKV, we offer you not only our experience and expertise, but also that of our respected and hard-working partners. We're proud of our affiliations — and the unique approaches and advantages they bring to any challenge. Learn what our extended team can do for you.

Industry Partnerships

BKV is honored to be an active participant in the business associations that enhance industry use of direct advertising and interactive media. We are proud members of these and other organizations:

DMA — Direct Marketing Association
www.the-dma.org

The Direct Marketing Association is the leading global trade association of business and nonprofit organizations using and supporting direct marketing tools and techniques. DMA advocates industry standards for responsible marketing, promotes relevance as the key to reaching consumers with desirable offers, and provides cutting-edge research, education and networking opportunities to improve results throughout the entire direct marketing process. Founded in 1917, DMA today has more than 3,600 members from the US and 46 other nations, including the majority of companies listed on the Fortune 100.

Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association
www.atlantaima.org

AiMA stimulates new ideas, promotes best practices, helps professional development and provides a forum for discussing the critical issues within the Atlanta Interactive professional community.

ICOM

ICOM, the International Communications Agency Network, is an impressive global alliance of independent agencies with members in more than 98% of the world's advertising markets, with 77 members in 46 countries and offices in more than 90 cities worldwide.

Our ICOM affiliation allows us to utilize ICOM partners for local presence virtually anywhere in the world. For specific assignments, we can utilize the physical locations of ICOM agencies for meetings, research, creative development, special programs and communications support. For more information on ICOM, visit www.icomagencies.com.

BMA

Started in 1922 as the National Industrial Advertising Association, today's Business Marketing Association represents a lifetime of expertise in business-to-business marketing and communications.

For more than 80 years, BMA has earned the respect and loyalty of members by following a simple, three-part strategic vision: Their intent is to: 1. Remain the primary repository of the best in business-to-business marketing information and resources, 2. Attract the best practitioners and 3. Promote the best practices in the industry. visit www.bmakc.org

KCDMA

The Kansas City Direct Marketing Association, or KCDMA, has been supporting the Kansas City business community since it was founded in 1948. The national organization, DMA, is dedicated to helping its member companies increase their effectiveness and profitability.

The DMA delivers the tools and services that members need to succeed, covering the latest in industry knowledge and techniques, education, legislative representation and targeted marketing opportunities.

Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)

PRSA is the world's largest organization for public relations professionals. Its nearly 20,000 members organized into 112 Chapters, including the Greater Kansas City PRSA, represent business and industry, technology, counseling firms, government, associations, hospitals, schools, professional services firms and nonprofit organizations.

With the vision to unify, strengthen and advance the profession of public relations, PRSA has established itself as the pre-eminent organization that builds value, demand and global understanding of public relations. PRSA's primary objectives are to advance the standards of the public relations profession and to provide members with professional development opportunities through continuing educational programs, information exchange forums and research projects conducted on the national and local levels.

Agency Partnerships

At BKV, our partnerships remain one of our strongest assets. So whenever necessary, we tap into the resources of these skilled agency partners to help make your marketing more efficient — and more successful.

ResponseMine
www.responsemine.com

BKV's sister company, ResponseMine, was developed around the revolutionary notion of performance-based advertising — paying only for performance, and nothing else. This is the ultimate direct marketing enterprise: total accountability. Advertising that works — advertising that has to work.