Premier Partners
Get to know the Council’s Premier Partners: top-tier service providers, long-established and emerging, with deep knowledge of the business of public relations firms operational needs.
Premier partnerships go beyond financial support to the Council. These companies want to help public relations firms grow and prosper. Our partners look forward to sharing their latest proprietary research, battle-tested insights and specialized knowledge through webinars, white papers and programs that members will appreciate and value.
Want to become a Premier Partner? Contact the Council at 877-773-4767.
Click on each Premier Partner to learn more.
| Astute Solutions | Deltek |
| Business Wire | Option A Advisors |
| Davis & Gilbert LLP | |
Astute Solutions
Bryan Haviland
614-508-6113
Astute Solutions is an award-winning pioneer in online technologies that enhance the customer experience. It offers a full suite of solutions and serves hundreds of leading global brands. Its core social product, Astute Social Relationship Management (SRM), is a comprehensive social media monitoring, analysis, engagement and reporting solution. It emphasizes efficiencies in processing only the most relevant social data, enabling better business decisions based on relevant consumer feedback from social channels. Astute SRM provides consulting agencies an affordable model to use its solution for a variety of agency business-building activities.
Business Wire
Tom Mulgrew
800-989-9889
Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global leader in multiplatform press release distribution, providing superior optimization and distribution of your client’s press releases, photos and multimedia to thousands of news media, websites, search engines and wireless devices worldwide. With 31 bureaus around the world, Business Wire offers unparalleled local service, backed by global reach.
Davis & Gilbert
Michael C. Lasky
212-468-4849
The Public Relations Law Group serves as advisors, advocates and thought leaders to the public relations industry and represents numerous small boutiques and mid-size independent firms, as well as subsidiaries of public companies. The group provides a range of services, including helping firms adopt polices and procedures to attract and retain key employees, working on agency client agreements and marketing law issues to protect the agency and its client from potential liability, to strategic corporate matters such as handling all aspects of a firm’s joint ventures, alliances, acquisition or sale.
Deltek
Drew West
617-528-2331
Wouldn’t you like to make every client, every engagement as profitable as possible? Wouldn’t you like to know, at any point, everyone’s current and planned workload? What would it mean to client retention if you had easy access to the entire history of work you’ve done, and who did the work? Turn to Deltek to improve your firm’s performance– just like the 600+ professional services organizations which rely on Deltek to improve all areas of the firm’s operations– from business development and planning through to service delivery and financial accounting. Deltek brings PR firms a complete view of upcoming business, current engagements, available talent, and billable work. Count on Deltek to help your firm maximize its resources, delight your clients, and profit consistently.
Read Deltek’s white paper Connecting the Dots: Unifying Information to Transform Your PR Firm
Read Deltek’s release on their State of the Marketing Industry Study
Option A Advisors
Merrill Rose, Principal
P: 212-627-2707
C: 917-545-8149
Option A Advisors is a management consulting and advisory firm that enables communications agency leaders to acheive their ambitions by identifying and pursuing their best options for realizing the full value of their assets. Our principals have shepherded the growth and evolution of firms ranging from specialized agencies to some of the world’s largest and most diversified public relations firms.
