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Kocina Marketing Companies are populated with talented professionals whose sole purpose is to help you reach your customers and teach them to buy your products.

Our staff has a solid academic understanding of marketing and twenty years of project execution to back it up. This allows us to coach you through creating effective marketing strategies, as well as effectively execute the strategies that have been conceived.

Working with Kocina Marketing companies will bring clarity to your marketing and increase your revenue by creating sales rich messages that flow through promotional channels where your target market is actively listening.

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Our Staff

Robin Kocina
President
Kocina is founder and president of Mid-America Events & Expos, Inc. She also is co-owner and CFO of Media Relations, Inc., a pay-per-interview public relations and marketing company, and co-owner of Kocina Marketing Companies, Inc. Kocina serves on the Leadership Board for the National Federation of Independent Business, and was the Chairman of the Board of Directors for WomenVenture. She was honored with the 2005 Luminary Award from the National Association of Women Business Owners, Minnesota Chapter. Kocina holds a bachelors degree in Accounting from Metropolitan State, and attended University of St. Thomas' Executive MBA program.
robin@mediarelations.com

Michelle Roddie
Sponsorship Director
Vice President of Operations
Roddie has been with Mid-America Events & Expos since its inception, and with parent company Kocina Marketing Companies since 1992. Her specialty is in organizing and managing successful corporate events and consumer expos, with an emphasis on exhibitor relations. She is an integral part of the management team that ensures quality service to all clients. Roddie has been instrumental in developing and implementing all of Mid-America's consumer expos. In addition, her corporate clients include Prudential, Cargill, Malt-O-Meal, HB Foundation and World Championship of Fantasy Football. Michelle's responsibilities include event creation and development, project management, and overall event coordination.
mroddie@mediarelations.com
612-798-7203

Heather Champine
Vice President of Media Production
Champine has been with Media Relations, Inc. since 1997. She plays an integral role in strategic media planning, advising on all phases of her clients' campaigns. Her responsibilities include project management, developing new client strategies, and managing a highly successful media team. Champine's expertise lies in marketing consumer products and services so that they are deemed newsworthy by the media.
heather@mediarelations.com
612-798-7220

Robin Miller
Associate Editor
Miller writes, edits and manages the written materials for all of Kocina Marketing Companies. She is responsible for press releases; Web content; proposals; ghostwritten articles and books; and copy for TV, radio and print advertising. She also serves as publisher for Mid-America Events & Expos' four consumer expo magazines.
rmiller@mediarelations.com
612-798-7230

Heather Aarre
Entertainment Coordinator
haarre@mediarelations.com
612-798-7237

Jennifer Fligge
Production Coordination
jfligge@checkerboard.com

Jason Kocina
Art Direction
kocinaj@checkerboard.com

 

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