[ Terri Harof ] | [ Tammy Allen ] | [ Wendy Alpine ] | [ Jennie Duncan ]
About Terri Harof
A 16 year public relations and marketing professional, Ms. Harof is one of the leading media relations directors and publicists in the marketing industry. With experience in the agency side as well as on the client side, Ms. Harof and her team have an unparalleled track record of delivering strategic, results-oriented campaigns in the following categories: the visual, performing and culinary arts and food and wine festivals, CD releases and music festivals, corporate, non-profit organizations, sports and entertainment marketing, fashion, healthcare and fitness. Ms. Harof possesses long-standing relationships with journalists at major print and broadcast media outlets, trade publications, wire services and on-line news organizations.
Ms. Harof launched her full service public relations, advertising, marketing and events practice to help companies and organizations grow through strategic and uniquely creative methods. Her diverse client list has included: Evander Holyfield, Head Sportswear, NiteSweatz, The Summer Jazz Series at Villa Christina, Golden Dolphin Villas, The Broadway Company, Tail of the Whale Caribbean Properties, Renaissance Hotels, The 755 Club at Turner Field, Rue de Leon Antiques, Wilcom America, Spa Sydell, Evergreen Resort and Conference Center, eTeam Telecom and more.
Before starting C3 Marketing Group, Ms. Harof was the area director for American Fitness Centers for 5 years. Her duties included over seeing Management, Marketing and Public Relations. After AFC was purchased by Bally’s Fitness Centers, Ms. Harof was the Senior Account Manager for US Marketing Group. While there, she specialized in the sports and entertainment marketing division for the firm. She directed all media relations for the organization’s clients and served as the entertainment industry liaison for the agency. Ms. Harof also was active in new business development. One client that she brought to USM was Heavy Weight Champion of the World, Evander Holyfield. She pursued opportunities for Holyfield and signed him to an endorsement deal with Head Footwear and Apparel. She then secured Head Footwear and Apparel as a client and USM handled media relations for their roster of athletes as well as the planning of events that promoted their athletes.
Ms. Harof graduated from Georgia State University with a BA in Business and a minor in Journalism. She is married to Doug and they have three beautiful boys, named Chase, Carson and Cole, hence the name C3 Marketing Group.
About Tammy Allen
Tammy Allen has been a professional in the entertainment industry for 17 years. She studied in LA before touring the US with her group Tammy Allen and RSVP.
She opened Tammy Allen’s Big House Studio’s in 2002.
Big House Studio’s is a full service studio specializing in Voice Training and Artist Development.
Ms. Allen is the producer of the Future of Jazz Competition. To date their have been five competitions held in partnership with The Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, NARRAS and The Atlantis Music Conference. Tammy has organized and moderated professional industry panels for career guidance for The GRAMMY’S and The Atlantis Music Conference in 2005,
A Future of Jazz Compilation CD has been recorded and produced and received great reviews.
Proceeds are donated to The Jazz festival to fund future performance opportunities for Atlanta based artists.
In May of 2005, Tammy Allen received a certificate of Special Recognition signed by Mayor Shirley Franklin in recognition of her work.
Tammy Allen continues to grow as an artist as well. She has written and produced 4 CD’s .She has built a reputation as one of Atlanta’s finest performers.
Tammy Allen’s experience in performance, production and in producing events gives her a wonderful perspective to launch an agency. She understands the performers needs as well as the attention to detail required to produce a successful event.
About Wendy Alpine
Media and Public Relations Strategist
An award-winning public relations professional, Wendy Alpine has 20 years of public relations experience, with an expertise in creating effective promotional programs for businesses and organizations. She has been involved in all aspects of public relations, including media relations, strategic consultation, planning and implementation of communications campaigns and special events coordination.
Her clients range from small and large businesses to non-profit organizations for which she has provided local, regional and national media relations, as well as writing services. Among her current clients is the Atlanta 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer, for which she has attained over 1 million local and national media impressions, including the Today Show, ABC World News with Charlie Gibson, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and all local affiliates of national television stations. For her longtime business client, Lathem Time Corp. of Atlanta, she has garnered major hits in local and national media, including Inc. magazine, USA Today, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Business Chronicle and NBC Nightly News.
Among her past experience, Wendy developed and executed national public relations campaigns for the food industry, resulting in high-profile national media placements such as The View, CNN Headline News, the Wayne Brady Show, and Hollywood Squares, as well as over 30 million print impressions.
Wendy also consulted for top public relations firms, including Manning, Selvage & Lee and the GCI Group. She began her career as a newspaper reporter for the Staten Island Advance and Jamestown Post-Journal, both daily newspapers in New York, as well as a freelance writer for The New York Times and American Baby.
Wendy is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, Georgia Chapter, and served on the board of the Association for Women in Communications, Atlanta Chapter. She also served on the public relations committee of the Alzheimer’s Association of Georgia, helping promote its annual Memory Walk, and was a volunteer for SafePath Children’s Advocacy Center in Marietta, Ga.
This year, she received the prestigious Phoenix Award from the Public Relations Society of America, Georgia Chapter, for her media relations accomplishments for the Atlanta 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer.
She received her bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Albany, where she studied journalism and French.
About Jennie Duncan
Ms. Duncan has been a wordsmith her whole life, ever since she learned to read and write. She is a prolific freelance writer who currently pens many press releases and websites for C3 Marketing Group. She has written for Villa Christina, NiteSweatz, Workout Anytime, The 755 Club at Turner Field, Atlanta Workshop Players, The Broadway Company, Utopia Martina & Tapas Bar, Rue de Leon Antiques, and others. Jennie also writes educational features for The Forsyth Herald Newspaper and has published features in Atlanta Parent Magazine in the past.
Before turning to writing, Ms. Duncan spent five years as a reference librarian for the Gwinnett County Public Library system. Reader’s advisory, print and electronic research assistance, and children’s literature were primary duties.
Her experience in the travel industry as an agent led Ms. Duncan into extensive travel in Europe, including several experiences working abroad in London and Killarney, Ireland. Ms Duncan speaks fluent French and spent a summer as an exchange student in Paris during college. An intrepid explorer, she also backpacked around Europe with her best friend the summer after college graduation.
Ms. Duncan graduated from the University of Georgia with double majors in English and French. She lives in Alpharetta with her two young sons, Sage and Liam.
