We closed out a fantastic 2008 with a very nice commendation from the PR industry’s main trade publication, PR Week. We have been named a finalist for PR Agency of the Year award in the boutique agency category. Winners will be announced at the PRWeek Awards dinner in New York City on March 5. Wish [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Chocolate and Beer at LaunchSquad
January 20, 2009 – 12:55 pm
December was a pretty big LaunchSquad bonding month; here’s a slightly belated addition to our roster of fabulous holiday events: the LaunchSquad Chocobeer Party. And what is a chocobeer? It is, quite simply, a potentially (but not necessarily) delicious pairing of chocolate and beer. After leading all sorts of chocolate parties for various clients over [...]
Digital Marketing for Good
January 19, 2009 – 7:00 am
We’re excited about something really good that’s been brewing this month at LaunchSquad. Along with other leading Bay Area public relations agencies, we’re helping to organize the conference, “Thriving and Surviving in Uncertain Times: Practical Digital Marketing Techniques for Nonprofits”. The conference is part of a series of national workshops being thrown for the ten-year [...]
InsideView Gets New Round to Fuel Sales 2.0 Growth
January 16, 2009 – 7:05 am
It’s official: LaunchSquad client, InsideView, had a great 2008. Today, the company announced the closing of a $6.5 million round of funding led by current investors Emergence Capital and Rembrandt Venture Partners. This announcement caps a very strong year for the company, which included record sales and revenue growth as well as key CRM partnerships [...]
Evernote Rocks the Crunchies
January 12, 2009 – 12:02 pm
Our client Evernote is off to a blazing start in 2009. Last week, the company announced the closing of a $4.5 million round of funding from Troika Dialog. The great news was followed on Friday with a win at the second annual Crunchies Awards for Best Mobile Startup — all this on the heels of [...]
LaunchSquad Featured in PR Week’s Critical Hit
January 7, 2009 – 1:54 pm
A couple of months ago, we posted about a campaign we coordinated with client Networked Insights around their first “Measuring the Social” report. PR Week’s David Ward took a closer look this week at the program, focusing on one of the great stories the team generated out of that campaign by James Erik Abels of [...]