PerkettPR Receives Two Awards For Outstanding Public Relations
Publicity Club of New England Recognizes Boston-Based Agency For Communications Excellence
BOSTON - June 7, 2006 - PerkettPR, a provider of results-based public relations and strategic marketing communications, today announced it received two prestigious awards of excellence at the 37th Annual Bell Ringer Awards ceremony, held last night at the Copley Marriott in Boston. The agency has been recognized year after year for public relations excellence by the Publicity Club of New England, the region's oldest professional organization for public relations, communications, special events, and marketing professionals.
PerkettPR won its first Bell Ringer Award of the night for excellence in the category of National Print Feature or Commentary Placement. PerkettPR received this award for a feature article secured for Chitika, which hired PerkettPR to help brand and promote Chitika's flagship product eMiniMalls -- the industry's first and only intelligent and interactive product-merchandising service. During the campaign, which was executed within just weeks, PerkettPR not only developed a compelling brand identity, tradeshow theme and slogan, but also executed a media tour during which the firm secured a feature article in The New York Times, complete with an accompanying photo of the client's CEO and product.
PerkettPR also won a Bell award in the category of Response to Breaking News for a campaign for WebEx. When the New York City mass transit strike occurred in late 2005, PerkettPR realized it was the perfect opportunity for WebEx to promote the benefits of its online collaboration tools that allow corporate teams to work together from anywhere in the world. During the transit strike, when many people could not get into New York City, WebEx offered the perfect tool for businesses that wanted to remain fully-functional. Within just 24 hours, PerkettPR scheduled six top tier interviews and obtained 16 pieces of coverage in online media and in broadcast outlets, most notably CBS Network Radio; local New York newscasts CBS-TV Channel 2 and ABC-TV Channel 7; and full coverage on the CBS national and ABC-TV local news websites.
"We're thrilled that our work has again been recognized with such an accredited award as the Bell Ringer Awards," said Chris Perkett, PerkettPR's president and founder. "The awards reflect our mission to provide the most creative PR campaigns in the industry, delivering the highest return-on-investment possible to our clients. The key to our success is our brilliant, talented and exclusively senior-level team that delivers strategic campaigns specifically tailored to support our clients' overall business goals and objectives. Because of this, we continue to gain recognition in the industry for our amazing and consistent results and superior customer service."
About PerkettPR
PerkettPR, Inc. is an award-winning public relations firm dedicated to generating creative and effective communications programs for technology, business and consumer companies worldwide. Since 1998, PerkettPR has provided exclusively senior-level strategic counsel and preeminent execution of public relations programs that clearly and consistently deliver return on investment. Our selective client roster spans the globe from the U.S. to Ireland, Australia to London - and has included private, entrepreneurial companies such as Brainshark, Genius Inc., MeeVee, StreamBase and Salesnet (now RightNow (NASDAQ: RNOW), as well as global, public enterprises such as WebEx (NASDAQ: WEBX). Our expertise varies from consumer tech to enterprise software and hardware, including on-demand CRM, human capital management and incentives, VoIP, online collaboration, unified communications, video on demand, personalized video entertainment search and more.
With the foresight to rapidly adapt and stay ahead of an ever-evolving market, we help clients achieve their business goals. With presence in Boston, Detroit and San Francisco, PerkettPR has been nationally recognized for exceptional client results, business leadership and innovative human resources initiatives. For more information, visit www.perkettpr.com.
Media Contact: Lisa Dilg
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