Nearly 100 years of experience helping clients be successful in reaching their goals.
Tel: 270-579-1053
Meet The T. Hursts Team
We don't have a big team because we have two of the hardest working partners in the business and a huge and great selection of associates.
Tim Hurst
Founder & Sr. Partner
Tim wrote his first newspaper story in 7th grade for his elementary school newspaper which was produced on a hand-cranked mimeograph machine. He did photography for his high school yearbook and college newspaper while also freelancing for the Louisville Courier Journal.
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Tim worked in news, creative services and sales for WBKO-TV in Bowling Green, Kentucky, as Director of Marketing for an automotive group, GSM for a group of radio stations, president and publisher for a group of small newspapers, VP Operations for a large newspaper, and more.
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Somewhere in there he started T. Hursts & Associates as a one-time project management company for a friend. That was nearly 40 years ago and he's still trying to figure out what happened.
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Tim prides himself and the company on always putting the client's needs first and always honesty. As he once told a client... "You don't pay me enough to lie to you... even if it isn't what you want to hear."
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The goal of T. Hursts & Associates is to make clients feel like family and that they have a marketing person on staff.
Twila Hurst
Art Director/Designer/Partner
The story goes that Tim & Twila (known by most as TnT) met at a newspaper in Western Kentucky where Twila's media career had started. Most newspapers that size had a three- or four-person design team... Twila was the newspaper's entire design team. The group owner would often send Twila around to assist other papers in the group to try to improve their productivity. It might not have been love at first, sight but it was close and soon they were married and also business partners.
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In the newspaper business, Twila's ad designs won so many awards her newspapers quit hanging them on the walls because of space problems.
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It wasn't long before T. Hursts & Associates had grown to the point that Twila had to quit her "real job" and run the agency. For the next 25 years she continued to improve her design skills while learning about video production, media planning and all those other fun things that clients need. But the one thing that has never changed... TnT make sure their clients' needs come first.
The Associates
Everything that TnT can't do
One of the great things about being in the media/marketing business as long as Tim & Twila have been is all the great friends and professional connections they have made along the way.
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Instead of having a bunch of brilliant folks on the payroll, they have a contact list full of the best folks who are freelancers and staff members at other media properties who also consult.
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This often allows quicker response with lower rates and a wider variety of opinions and options, helping clients reach their goals in the best way.