To kick off 2021, we’re reflecting on our first 15 years in celebration of PR Return’s anniversary. Today, we check in on the first clients to ever hire PR Return with great pride in all they’ve accomplished.
In early 2006, PR Return launched with a small roster of clients that spanned healthcare, marketing, commercial real estate and technology. Industry leaders and tech startups alike from Chicago to the coasts, many of these businesses went on to achieve great things. A few of our earliest success stories include:
Care Communications celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2006, with a rich history of addressing the medical coder shortage and other critical health information challenges for hospitals around the country. Head and shoulders above all its much smaller competitors, Care Communications hired PR Return to promote the firm’s expertise and ensure U.S. hospital networks knew where to turn to solve some of their most urgent clinical, operational and financial backlogs. The company was acquired by IOD Incorporated in 2015 and merged with two other companies to form CIOX Health in 2016.
CME Inc./CME LLC had long been a well-established U.S. provider of continuing medical education programs when it began working with Kraig and later hired PR Return to promote its expertise and education programs to healthcare professionals who attended its educational programs and the organizations that sponsored them. The company was acquired by the North American Center for Continuing Medical Education in 2012.
Performics, now a leading global performance marketing agency in the Publicis Groupe network, got started as a technology provider offering innovative marketing solutions to catalogers (remember them?) and retailers. One of the original Big Three affiliate marketing networks and arguably the first automated solution for paid search advertising, Kraig supported Performics’ PR efforts for three years prior to launching PR Return, and the company became an inaugural PR Return client in 2006. Founder Jamie Crouthamel led the sale of Performics to Doubleclick in 2004. Google bought Doubleclick in 2007 and sold Performics to Publicis Groupe in 2008. PR Return was honored to work with Performics for three more years under Publicis Groupe ownership.
Performics, circa 2006
At PR Return, we’ve had the luxury of working with many great clients with many great stories to tell over the years. While we’re proud of our role promoting them and helping them grow their businesses, most have been tremendously collaborative, providing the expertise, insights, data and resourcefulness we need to do our best work on their behalf.
We’ve been helping clients grow their businesses for more than 15 years now. Contact us today to find out how a winning PR strategy can accelerate your success.