Join O'Dwyer PR's New Business Council

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A $300 membership includes all of these great features:

• Your color logo, 300-word description of your services, top execs and staffers, accounts, and branch offices on odwyerpr.com (see left), PR’s No. 1 news, information and database website. Join 400 PR firms that are marketing themselves locally and nationally to thousands of online viewers each month. Online listing allows as much text as needed to describe the unique attributes of your PR practice. Plus, unlimited updates are allowed (new clients, staff changes, etc.). Add pictures and even embed video. See sample listing below.

• Fortieth annual edition of O’Dwyer’s Directory of PR Firms, just published in late June, a $95 value. The 370-page directory lists 1,700 PR firms, including offices, executives, clients and contact info. See how other firms market them- selves. Make new friends, shop for correspondent firms.

• One-year of access to odwyerpr.com, unequalled for its savvy, daily coverage of PR and media news, opinion from industry leaders, RFPs, professional development and more, backed by 42 years of experience. PR’s No. 1 website and a $150 value, if purchased separately.

• One-year subscription to O’Dwyer’s magazine, PR’s longest-running monthly (23 yrs.). Submit profiles of your specialty practices such as healthcare, tech, financial, food/beverage, beauty/fashion, etc., to be fea- tured among in-depth articles, news, and opinion on the industry.

• Exclusive access as a member to constantly updated files of Requests for Proposals (RFPs) by companies, local, state, federal and foreign governments and travel bureaus, trade associations, professional groups, etc. 86 RFPs are listed this year so far.

Fill out the membership form below. Your firm’s profile will go on odwyerpr.com as soon as we get it.

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O’Dwyer’s rankings of PR firms in specialty practices such as healthcare, tech and financial PR are at or near the top when those subject areas are Googled. O’Dwyer’s is the only media doing specialty rankings. Unranked firms are also listed if they are in the O’Dwyer database.

Other membership benefits include coverage of what tech- niques are bringing in new business; what clients are saying; advice on preparing contracts, and how firms are handling management issues like the rising cost of health insurance.

O’Dwyer’s is your best buy for building your business. The Council of PR Firms, which also helps match clients with PR firms, has a $2,500 minimum fee. The Counselors Academy of PR Society of America costs $225 in annual PRSA dues, $195 in Academy dues and initiation fees of $65 for PRSA and $85 for the Academy for a total of $570.

Sample listing:

Milton Public Relations Strategies
271 Madison Ave., Suite 600, New York, NY 10016 212/679-2471; fax: 212/683-2750 info@miltonpr.com; www.miltonpr.com
Consumer, financial, tech PR. Employees: 12. Founded: 1972.

Agency Statement: Media-oriented Milton PR will give you an extra set of eyes and ears on your competitive environment and win you important recognition in the key media that will reach your customers. Our staffers are in daily contact with a host of general and trade media reporters, checking on word-of-mouth about our clients and their products and getting advance word of opinion-forming articles and features in media.

We’ll bring you a steady stream of ideas to increase the visibility of your company and at low cost compared to print and broadcast advertising. We will bring you an in integrated program that will use all forms of communications. You'll find reporters consider us to be a dependable source of information and help and that they rely on us to bring them good stories.

We’ll help you to put your newsworthy material in a form that will get their attention. Our key staffers have decades of experience in our three specialty areas--consumer, financial and technology.

Give us a chance to visit you and come up with some sample ideas for your business at no charge. Milton PR Strategies operates both nationally and internationally through membership in a worldwide network of major PR firms.

Christine Milton, chair and CEO; Fritz Carlson, executive VP; Ludwig Oppenheimer, George Smith, Brenda Nowling, Lucille Ridge, Hamlet Cohen, Joseph Bloomberg, VPs; Rita Corbin, Henry Holt, Jacob Westmeyer, A/Es

1450 Chittenden Square, London WA5 2DN, U.K 44-171-594-2123; fax: 44-171-449-2003 wbillingsley@miltonpr.com William Billingsley, director

ABC Industries
Cooper Industries
Danielle Hair Dressers
Effable Software
Freight Carriers of Mobile
Georgetown Computers
Hat Makers of Madison
Mental Magic Software
Opulent Securities
Quasar Financial
Tellula Tourism Council
Thomas & Thomas Inc.
Versatile Technology Corp.
Wilson Spaw & Ryder LLC
Youngstown Civic Club
Zanzibarge

Enroll our firm in O’Dwyer PR’s New Business Council which helps bring together clients and PR firms. Our membership includes a listing on odwyerpr.com consisting of display of our color logo, address, telephone, etc., and up to 300 words of copy; the 2010 O’Dwyer’s Directory of PR Firms; one-year of access to odwyerpr.com; one-year subscription to O’Dwyer’s monthly magazine, and access to the exclusive listing of Requests for Proposals by government and private organizations.

Logo and pictures should be sent as color JPGs. Multiple video file formats are supported. Send files to john@odwyerpr.com.

Membership fee: $300 annually; payment is refundable on demand with no questions asked.