# Red Letter Communications

> Red Letter Communications is an independent Cape Girardeau advertising agency that combines audience research, brand strategy, creative production, digital distribution, media planning and sales enablement. Its public case studies show a recurring method: find the inconvenient customer signal, rebuild the story around it and make enough useful assets to carry that story across channels.

- **Founded:** 1981
- **Headquarters:** Cape Girardeau, United States
- **Founders:** James "Jim" Riley (Founder and owner)
- **Products:** Brand strategy and identity, Integrated campaigns, Product marketing and launches, Audience intelligence, Communications and sales enablement
- **Notable:** The STIHL zero-turn teaser reported more than 370,000 reveal-video views, about 14,000 email sign-ups and a 48% reveal-email open rate., The Paducah work reported a 15% increase in foot traffic, a 40% increase in website sessions and $150 million in visitor-spend potential from new audiences., The Festool campaign reported 8.2 million video completions, 1,700 photo assets and 152 delivered videos.

## Products & services

- **Brand strategy and identity** — Research and analysis, brand personality, positioning, visual identity, messaging frameworks and applications.
- **Integrated campaigns** — Goal setting, audience targeting, campaign strategy, asset collection, content production, channel distribution and monitoring.
- **Product marketing and launches** — Market research, product positioning, packaging, launch strategy, feedback loops and UI/UX review from consideration through post-purchase.
- **Audience intelligence** — Market research, data analysis, segmentation, competitor analysis, journey mapping, personas and location-based insights.
- **Communications and sales enablement** — Channel strategy, training and education programs, sales kits, dealer and distributor communications, and enablement tools.
- **Content and production** — Photography, video, websites, social creative, custom asset libraries and multi-channel content systems.

## Achievements

- The STIHL zero-turn teaser reported more than 370,000 reveal-video views, about 14,000 email sign-ups and a 48% reveal-email open rate.
- The Paducah work reported a 15% increase in foot traffic, a 40% increase in website sessions and $150 million in visitor-spend potential from new audiences.
- The Festool campaign reported 8.2 million video completions, 1,700 photo assets and 152 delivered videos.
- The 2025 Made for America production captured approximately 40,000 photos with 17 real professionals during a seven-day shoot.
- Red Letter Communications received the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year Award in 2003.
- Founder Jim Riley received the Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. Award for community impact in 2024 and was named Southeast Missouri State University's 2019 Friend of the University.

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Published an employer-branding guide for construction companies competing for younger skilled-trades talent.
- **2025-09** — Published results from a Paducah geo-targeting campaign around Memphis in May: more than 91,000 impressions and 1,859 clicks.
- **2025-08** — Released the Paducah: The City of Many Ways tourism brand case study and an argument for custom asset libraries as brand infrastructure.
- **2025-07** — Released Surefitters' Consider It Done brand identity evolution.
- **2025-05** — Released STIHL's Made for America campaign built around real firefighters, smokejumpers, loggers, ranchers and arborists.
- **2025-01** — Launched Festool's Built to Outwork Them All positioning campaign, planned as a 2025-2027 platform.

## Links

- Website: https://www.rlci.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/red-letter-communications
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RedLetterCommunications

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Last updated: 2026-09-21