Our White Paper for Hygia

By FrancisTHE AGENCY, Work

Hygia sterilizes and re-processes low-cost items used in hospitals which were once routinely thrown-away after a single use. They’re unique in the industry, in their exclusive focus on those low-cost items, which they’ve branded as Essential Clinical Commodities. The white paper we developed for them serves as a semi-unbiased Buyer’s Guide for hospitals considering which … Read More

Latest Baggett Project A Real Blast

By FrancisTHE AGENCY, Trucking, Work

Since 1928, the fine folks at Baggett Transportation have been hauling just about every kind of military freight imaginable. With the war efforts overseas gradually ramping down, Baggett’s exploring new opportunities in the private sector. After all, there are plenty of companies with extremely high standards for the carriers they’ll use; companies with cargo requiring … Read More

Our Latest Ad For WTI

By FrancisTHE AGENCY, Trucking, Work

In our original post on WTI, we introduced you to the company, the development of its brand-messaging strategy, and its first two ads.  Naturally, we’d like to think those two ads were part of the reason WTI increased its driver force by nearly 24% in the first two months they were with us. However, by … Read More

Baggett’s Seventh Ad: Fish In A Barrel

By FrancisTHE AGENCY, Trucking, Work

Early this month, Baggett‘s recruiting director Daniel Buckhannan gave us contact info for Scott and and Darlene Carter—the husband-wife driver team he wanted to profile in the company’s new print ad.  Although most of our past ads have focused either directly or indirectly on drivers’ earnings potential with Baggett, with the near-unprecedented level of competition … Read More

New Client. New Campaign.

By FrancisTHE AGENCY, Trucking, Work

In mid-June, we started work with WTI—a flatbed trucking company in Tuscaloosa that needed an overhaul of its driver-recruitment branding and advertising program. To see a typical “pre-Hare” WTI ad, Click Here. DEVELOPING WTI’S BRANDLINE As always, we conducted a lot of background interviews—with everyone from recently-hired drivers to longtime CEO Rendy Taylor. From those … Read More

Baggett’s Sixth Ad: Creative Goes Cross-Country

By FrancisTHE AGENCY, Trucking, Work

The perpetual challenge to producing testimonial ads for Baggett is that so few of their drivers are ever in town. That was certainly the case with Dennis and Abigail Huggins—a couple who had a story that was not only irresistible from a personal perspective, but which also perfectly matched our core brand-messaging strategy. After our … Read More