Clients We've Served

This start-up pioneered how complex applications can leverage cluster and grid computing. We drove extensive press in the financial sector, where early adopters soon endorsed ASPEED’s as a critical competitive edge.

We solidified Astea’s (NASDAQ: ATEA) leadership position in the service lifecycle management market. In an outsourced world, we re-shaped the market’s thinking about the critical role of customer service.

(NASDAQ: CMPC) We repositioned this major systems integrator to be a full service solutions provider, based on our channel expertise.

DataCore shook up the storage market when it launched in 2000 – up-ending the ‘hardware-driven’ industry model with a virtualization play. The company raised $100 million. The management team consistently said that its market profile was key to obtaining value.

We're driving the 'next wave' of outsourcing stories - and making China-based IT development the next best practice. In the first 30 days, we delivered interviews in the U.S., China and India. This is our second venture with the executive team.

We defined the importance of extremely rapid response to potential breaches, while allowing the rest of the network to stay up and running. The company was acquired within 12 months of launching PR.

(NASDAQ: FORR) We launched the market research firm’s debut e-commerce practice – a major departure from its core focus on IT. Within months, it was recognized as the go-to resource of Internet strategy and opinion.

We replaced an under-performing agency. Our C-suite campaigns reach advocates and influencers, including HR professionals and the consultants who advise them. This PR program tells a front-of-book story to CFOs - with a story that makes business sense.

We promoted IWS' story through its customers' success -- and helped make IWS the provider of choice for companies and government agencies tackling real-time distribution challenges

iDEFENSE was the lone voice speaking about how organized financial crime is the engine for security breaches. Within 15 months, we helped the company become the authority in the field. It was acquired by VeriSign in 2005.

This federal integration firm had a relatively low public profile when we launched the company. Targeted campaigns focused on deep industry knowledge. MATCOM was acquired by SI International (NASDAQ: SINT) in 2004.

We promoted this systems integration firms advanced engineering expertise into targeted markets, driving substantial new business.

(NYSE: MSV) This feisty start-up shook up the contract manufacturing industry by highlighting service and expertise, instead of commodity pricing. Competitors soon imitated its positioning. The company went public in 2000 and was later acquired by Celestica.

Mediconsult (OTC: MCNS) was one of the first on-line health sites, and was quickly became an authoritative resource, reaching patients, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies. It was acquired in 2002.

We helped reposition this marketing automation company to focus on customer-centric information. It soon owned that market, and was acquired by Metavante in 2004.

We launched one of the first enterprise digital printing company with a full-page feature in Forbes. Then we introduced Staples, a former client, which invested $7 million. Within 100 days of the launch, the company received an acquisition offers from Kinkos.

We helped create the story of optimizing inventory for this start-up, which became the industry’s front-runner. It was recently acquired.

We drove market-shaping coverage at every turn. OpenRatings was acquired by D&B, just 12 months after we began working together. It was our second venture with the executive team.

We replaced a global PR agency. Within a few weeks, delivered marquee coverage in three of Procuri's most important media outlets. This aggressiveness continued through 2007, when Ariba announced it would acquire Procuri.

We set out to create a new market for tracking high-value assets using WiFi and RFID. Within our first 60 days, we established PanGo as the “hot company” at the industry’s major conference. It was acquired 13 months after we began working together.

We launched one of the first successful people-and-business finder – in jut 30 days. Switchboard went public in 2001. As a result of our work with Switchboard, we were asked to take on PR its parent company.

(NASDAQ:SPLS) We launched Staples’ online offering, when the company was third to market. Within 90 days, the company owned the No. 1 position.

This software company global enterprise save tens of millions of dollars yearly on indirect purchases by centralizing reporting and improving procurement practices. First we put the company on the map; we then helped a new executive team become industry leaders. The company was acquired by Emptoris in 2003.

We drove the integrated security, identity and network management story before "NAC" became security's newest buzzword, driving visibility in ever-shrinking IT and vertical-market publications.