PerkettPR
Wins Two Awards for Excellence in Public Relations
The Publicity Club of New England Delivers Honors at Bell Ringer Awards Ceremony
Boston – June 10, 2003 – PerkettPR, Inc., provider of results-based communications solutions for today’s value conscious companies, received two prestigious awards at the 34th Annual Bell Ringer Awards ceremony held in Boston on June 3. The event is sponsored by The Publicity Club of New England, the region’s oldest professional organization for public relations, communications, special events, and marketing professionals. PerkettPR won the Bell Ringer Award for excellence in Television News Placement and a Merit Award for an outstanding Consumer Publicity Campaign. The competition, a symbol of outstanding achievement for New England public relations and communications professionals since 1969, draws hundreds of entries each year.
PerkettPR was awarded the Bell Ringer Award for TV News Placement for the agency’s placement of 8minuteDating.com on NBC’s Today Show. 8minuteDating.com was featured earlier this year on the show’s two-month long “Dating Game” series. PerkettPR secured three consecutive feature spots for 8minutedating.com and its founder and CEO, Tom Jaffe, and convinced producers to commit Katie Couric to participate in an 8minutedating.com event. PerkettPR’s Merit Award was presented for the agency’s six week promotion of 8minuteDating.com’s Cupid Parties, in which PerkettPR secured more than 100 pieces of coverage, including 67 broadcast hits on popular shows such as CNN, Dr. Phil, Fox News, National Public Radio and more. Such coverage helped drive a 20 percent increase in registrations, and sent 2,800 participants on more than 11,000 dates in one night.
“These awards further substantiate PerkettPR’s ability
to deliver ROI-focused communications strategies that support our
client’s broader business objectives,” said Christine
Perkett, founder and president of PerkettPR. "We are honored
to be recognized as a leading provider of communications and public
relations in New England.”
About PerkettPR
PerkettPR, Inc., founded in 1998, is dedicated to generating affordable,
creative and effective communications solutions for national and
international clients such as 8minuteDating.com, Juniper Networks
(Nasdaq: JNPR), nCipher (LSE: NCH) and Salesnet. PerkettPR provides
clients with exclusively senior-level strategic counsel and execution
of public relations, as well as the foresight and planning to stay
ahead of a rapidly evolving market.
Working smarter for today’s value-conscious businesses, PerkettPR
has established itself as a leading provider of Next Generation
Communications to help clients achieve their overarching business
goals. PerkettPR currently represents primary companies in these
market segments: corporate services, customer relationship management,
encryption, information security and privacy, online dating, post-production,
and telecom networking. For more information, visit www.perkettpr.com.
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Contact: Michelle Chase
303.355.5104
michelle@perkettpr.com