Next Step Communications Inc.

More great in-person meetings, this time for two days in Miami with our client Globeius and their newly acquired partner Plastixs. We discussed how to best leverage the strengths of both companies as we move forward with marketing plans into 2025 and beyond. Many thanks to the Globeius team for, as always, their amazing hospitality and they even went out of their way to recognize Greg Hannoosh for another year around the sun! #agencylife #advertising #pr Ernesto Sosa Graeme Sands Mickey Blyskal Adriana Sosa Patricia Kattan Smith Peter Hickey David Sosa Mark Malloy

And another recent road trip took us through the Chicagoland area, where Greg Hannoosh and Mark Malloy: ✅ met with Cory Gagnon and David Singer at ACS Group to plan upcoming PR and advertising opportunities ✅visited the new iD Additives, Inc. offices and met with the team including Nick Sotos, Lindsay Hosanna, SHRM-CP, Heather Vitullo, and a special guest - Lorraine Young, daughter of Carolyn Young and Robert Young to plan marketing for 2025 ✅toured the molding facility of a LS Injection Molding Machine North America customer and interviewed the owners to learn more about their business (watch for upcoming story) ✅and Greg Hannoosh abandoned his attempt at healthy eating for a night and treated himself to an Italian beef with hots while waiting for his flight back home from O’Hare 🤤 A great Q4 visiting clients around the country continues! Next up: Miami #agencylife #roadwarriors #advertising #pr

The road trips continue! Q4 has us visiting clients all over the country, every other week from early October through mid-December. On our recent trip through southern Connecticut and New Jersey, Greg Hannoosh and Mark Malloy were joined by their friend and colleague, veteran plastics industry reporter Geoffrey Giordano, to visit clients and do a 'deep dive' into marketing strategies. We: ✅ discussed the converting market over lunch with Goldenrod Corporation CFO, Stephen Pretto ✅ met with Crystal Brocious, Marketing Manager and Jason Long, VP of Sales at WITTMANN USA to discuss PR opportunities for their lines of injection molding machines, robots and material handling equipment (followed by an amazing meal at Tramonti Ristorante with the Wittmann team) ✅ toured the impressive Farrel Pomini facility, walked the factory floor and met with Marketing Manager Lori Sheehan to discuss 2025 marketing plans ✅ met with Thomas Ignatowski, President of Corotec to learn more about the company's latest innovations in surface treating equipment #agencylife #gettingitdone #advertising #pr #marketingstrategy

We were pretty excited to see last week's Mold Makers Ranking issue of Plastics News with the cover story on our client PCS Company! Thank you to Catherine Kavanaugh for taking the time to interview PCS President, Angela Elsey and tour the company's Fraser, Michigan headquarters. Next Step Communications Inc. worked with Cathy and PN to arrange this meeting and provide the key information that led to this cover story. PCS has some big things happening, including an over $3 million USD investment in its mold base and components business #plastics #injectionmolding #moldmaking

Congrats to our good client Globeius and to our good friends, Ernesto Sosa and Mickey Blyskal, two of the good guys’ in this industry!

What a great week in Michigan visiting clients, attending The Battery Show and seeing old friends. We: ✅ discussed machine rebuilds and a new mobile rotor repair service at Bay Plastics Machinery ✅ walked the show and visited client New Era Converting Machinery, Inc. at The Battery Show at Huntington Place in Detroit ✅ learned about an ambitious new expansion of the mold base business at PCS Company (that's PCS President, Angela Elsey standing with one of their new DMG MORI USA machines) ✅ and had dinner with Daniel Morris of Silcotech North America Inc. (that's Dan and Next Step Communications Inc. President, Greg Hannoosh, who go back a long way in front of the Detroit sign)! #agencylife #gettingitdone #advertising #pr #marketingstrategy

This was a fun project we recently completed for Bay Plastics Machinery - some cool new graphics for their van, check out those red pellets! #graphicsthatpop #pelletizing #agencylife

When you have awesome people like Angela Elsey and Christina Galecki of PCS Company, not to mention Dave Denzel of iD Additives, Inc. standing in front of your logo, well, we just have to do a post! Next Step Communications Inc. is a proud sponsor of the PCS Company annual golf tournament, being held today at the Cracklewood Golf Club in Macomb, Michigan. The tournament supports a great cause, Face Addiction Now, a Michigan nonprofit organization dedicated to helping individuals, families and communities affected by substance-use disorder. While we couldn't be there in person today, we are happy to be associated with PCS, they are a company that 'walks the walk' when it comes to giving back to its community #tournamentsponsor #injectionmolding #moldmaking #agencylife #givingback

It's almost the fourth of July – but we're still talking about #NPE2024! Speaking of July 4th, what's more American than baseball, our national pastime? Our client PCS Company went all-in on this theme at NPE, with an awesome display that looked like you were walking into a stadium. Next Step Communications Inc. took the initial booth concept and brought it to life by creating all of the messaging and display graphics. Our graphics designer created the red brick walls and all signage, and we worked closely with PCS to strategically craft the message for all PCS product lines and more.  PCS is a proud company – proud to be American, and proud of its employees. That pride was accentuated throughout the booth with large photos of PCS team members, along with an emphasis on the company's recent Top 100 Workplaces Award from the Detroit Free Press. We've talked a lot about our PR work for our clients at NPE – but PR is only a part of what we do at Next Step. Whether it's advertising, PR, trade show support, e-marketing, social media campaigns and more, turn to us when you want unique and creative marketing campaigns that bring results! #plastics #tradeshows #agencylife #gettingitdone

A great post on our client Cumberland and their Boston-based customer, Save That Stuff, Inc. - real-world plastics recycling in action. Our President, Greg Hannoosh visited recently with Joseph Platek, Andrea Parrillo and Cory Gagnon to see first-hand how the Cumberland team collaborated with Save That Stuff to increase their recycling capabilities - very impressive! #plastics #plasticsrecycling #recyclingisreal