Charlotte PR, Social Media and Marketing Agency

YOU’RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT MAGICAL THOUGHTFUL

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What is a Black Wednesday?

Black Wednesday was created to support brands as they try to build authentic and meaningful conversations and connections with their target audiences.

We offer marketing consultancy, small/medium sized business marketing strategy, organic social media strategy and management, public relations, and branding and design services.

We see you, looking for something different. You are in the right place.

Get the full story Meet the team 9 years of weird vibes

BW in the news

BW mentioned in Travel + Leisure

Charlotte Observer and BW put on Charlotte Influencer Event

BW launches She’s Giving campaign during WHM via WCCB

BW featured in Charlotte Business Journal

BW founder interview with Associated Press

The rise of the instagram bathroom Axios Charlotte piece with BW mention

Support Local Or Else pandemic campaign highlighted in Forbes

BW founder feature in QC Exclusive article about Charlotte influencers

BW work/life balance founder interview with Charlotte Observer

Millennial influencers piece in Charlotte Mag features BW founder

Successful PR execs to watch via Axios Charlotte

BW knows how to throw a party per Creative Loafing

WHAT WE DO

Marketing Consultancy

Building brands from the bottom up, or campaigns from the top down. We work with you to create collaborative and integrated efforts across your platforms to get the most impact out of your marketing. We are here to offer guidance on how to meet your goals, connect with your audience, and make cool stuff happen. From budgeting, to how to leverage your team and partners, to advisement on messaging, we’re ready to dig in and help. Our consulting work is strategic, with context to what’s going on in the global and local landscapes.

Campaign Management

Keeping your brand FRESH can feel incredibly daunting. We encourage brands to come up with NEW stories, things to talk about, ways to connect with their customers/clients. Let us help you enhance the ongoing marketing efforts with the creation and delivery of a creative campaign. Let us help from start to finish: creative design and branding, digital and grassroots infrastructure, execution (social, PR, web, paid spend, partners, all of it!!) and reporting.

Public Relations

Let us help you craft stories and messages that the media care about to help you get more attention and credibility. We will work to make sure your brand is properly, positively and thoughtfully represented out in the community. We can also leverage our PR and relationship building experience to support with sales, team and campaign outreach which may include influencers, businesses or other types of partners.

Grassroots Marketing

Wanna really get out there with boots on the ground and actually get in front of consumers in the wild? Let’s! Whether you’re opening a new restaurant, launching a brand, trying to raise money, or tell a story, we can help you manage your advertising budget to do cool, creative and on-brand activations and programs that get the word out and move the needle.

Branding + Design

We can help you build a brand from scratch or leverage your brand guidelines to produce the design items you need. Don’t have brand guidelines? Let’s build some. We will work with you to create a branded and visual look that will create a consistent image and appeal to your audience. Not sure what you need? We have business experience to understand your context and can help you identify what you need, make some recommendations and do the work. We’re doing good. honest. design.

Social Media

We work with companies to develop strategies, manage their platforms, and continuously evolve programming in order to get the most out of their social media storytelling. We consult based on what and who you’re working with to define how to optimize your organic social media platforms in order to make them work for you. We can help in every area of social, whether it’s in hiring the best person to your team or taking on the work ourselves.

Let’s start the conversation

IT’S ALWAYS WEDNESDAY HERE. IT’S ALWAYS WEDNESDAY HERE.

Our Work

We are hands-on, so the client can be hands-off. Well, in theory. But we ARE pretty self-sufficient. We aren’t the type of agency that sits back and waits. We are proactive.

Our extensive experience allows us to lead and guide, building trust along the way. We work diligently to demonstrate our value and to make sure the job gets done superbly. Some might call it… magic.

We are a 100% referral-built company, which means that every client comes from + word of mouth (and we think that’s pretty rad).

Check out some of our recent work and click on OUR WORK tab to see more case studies.

Funky Fresh

Postino Winecafé

Marina’s Tapas

Truliant Federal Credit Union

University City Partners

Samaritan House

Customshop

Viva Chicken

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

Customshop perspective included in Bon Appetit

Rally featured in Charlotte Observer

Emmy Lou’s featured in Axios Charlotte

University City Partners Juneteenth Event featured on WCCB

Katie Blessing Center featured on WBTV

Rally featured on WCNC

El Puro feature in Charlotte Magazine

Marina’s Tapas featured in The Herald

Customshop mentioned in Charlotte Observer

Emmy Lou’s featured in Tiny Money

Customshop named top 50 restaurant in Charlotte Magazine

Last Minute Club highlighted as new business in 2025 in Axios Charlotte

El Puro featured on WBTV

Blinders featured in Axios Charlotte

Customshop featured in Yahoo!

Marina’s Tapas featured in Tasting Table

Customshop featured in AllRecipes

University City Partners featured in Queen City Metro

Housing Collab featured on WSOCTV

Marina’s featured in Eater Carolinas

Katie Blessing Center featured in BizWomen

Blinders featured in Charlotte Observer

University City Partners featured in Business NC

Marina’s featured in Southern Living

Customshop featured in Charlotte Magazine

Housing Collab featured on AOL

LET’S MAKE MAGIC TOGETHER

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