{"id":2108,"date":"2014-01-15T22:37:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T22:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elevatorpr.com\/?page_id=2108"},"modified":"2025-05-26T07:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T07:56:53","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.elevatorpr.com\/about","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re an Award-Winning PR Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"g1-grid\"><li class=\"g1-column g1-one-fourth g1-valign-top\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Beyond Talk<\/h2>\n<div id=\"g1-divider-1\" class=\"g1-divider g1-divider--simple g1-divider--noicon \"><\/div>\n<\/li><!-- -->\n<li class=\"g1-column g1-three-fourth g1-valign-top\">\n<p>Frankly, we&#8217;re not like other agencies. We focus on absolute results, not hourly-billing, sluggish PR processes typically offered by firms, which have yet to figure how to get out of their own way.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, we don&#8217;t bill by-phone-call. No surprises here. We&#8217;ve been there, we&#8217;ve done that. In this new Business 2.0 climate, streamlined, agile and extremely efficient is the way to succeed. This has greatly influenced the way we do business. With key PR associates positioned throughout the media grid, Elevator Communications is connected by every 21st Century communications tool and web-driven metric on the planet. We&#8217;re virtual, responsive and highly efficient. And, we get results.<\/p>\n<\/li><!-- --><\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"g1-grid\"><li class=\"g1-column g1-one-fourth g1-valign-top\">\n<h2>More Than Just The News<\/h2>\n<div id=\"g1-divider-2\" class=\"g1-divider g1-divider--simple g1-divider--noicon \"><\/div>\n<\/li><!-- -->\n<li class=\"g1-column g1-three-fourth g1-valign-top\">\n<p>An email comes in from the New York Times. They want to interview our client. They&#8217;ve responded to a creative feature story idea we wrote and sent to the reporter. Odds are, the story isn&#8217;t simply about \u201cnews\u201d. We&#8217;re former journalists, we develop compelling story angles that grab media attention.<\/p>\n<p>From this point we manage the entire process, from setting the client\/reporter interview to submitting photos and visuals with follow up. It&#8217;s all in a days work at Elevator. We&#8217;ve done these thousands of times.<\/p>\n<\/li><!-- --><\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"g1-box-counter-1\" class=\"g1-box g1-box--simple  g1-box--noicon\" ><div class=\"g1-box__inner\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s Who You Know &#8211; And What You Know<\/h2>\n<div id=\"g1-divider-3\" class=\"g1-divider g1-divider--none g1-divider--noicon \"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We know reporters, hundreds of them across the media grid. We work with them all, every week, despite over saturated pitching by others. They know us by name, but, most importantly, by our reputation for creative, relevant stories that help them publish great articles. Trusted, symbiotic media relationships get you the ears and eyes of the media world. And that gets our clients a stronger bottom line.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"g1-grid\"><li class=\"g1-column g1-one-fourth g1-valign-top\">\n<h2>Our Structure<\/h2>\n<div id=\"g1-divider-4\" class=\"g1-divider g1-divider--simple g1-divider--noicon \"><\/div>\n<\/li><!-- -->\n<li class=\"g1-column g1-three-fourth g1-valign-top\">\n<p>Elevator is a modern virtual agency with employees spread across the U.S. and Western Europe. Our leadership and account management teams combines years of PR and journalism experience. You only work with the best people \u2013 no interns.<\/p>\n<\/li><!-- --><\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"g1-grid\"><li class=\"g1-column g1-one-half g1-valign-top\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">John Reed,\u00a0Principal<\/h4>\n<p>John Reed has more than 17 years experience in placing client stories with National Media. John has an outstanding story placement track record &#8212; scoring hits for Technology, Business, Homebuilding, \u201cGreen\u201d, Energy, and Consumer clients with media that include AP (print and radio), Barrons, Investor\u2019s Business Daily, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, USA Today, CNET, LA Times, CBS MarketWatch, San Jose Mercury News, Newsweek, Bloomberg TV, Today Show, KNTV, KGO, KPIX, KRON, KTVU and well over one thousand client stories in other media, both consumer, business and trade publications and Web sites. As Creative Director, he works with the team to research and write compelling client stories that will get press coverage for clients in the media the client has selected to increase visibility and drive sales. He is a former Journalist, newspaper, magazine and Web columnist, author of two books published by Crown\/Random House, TV and radio host and magazine editor.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to forming Elevator Communications, John held 3-Director-level positions at 3 Public Relations agencies, including: Director of Media Relations, National Media Director and Director of Public Relations.<\/p>\n<\/li><!-- -->\n<li class=\"g1-column g1-one-half g1-valign-top\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Reed  pic  sofa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elevatorpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/John-Reed-pic-sofa-1024x819.jpg\" width=\"686\" height=\"548\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li><!-- --><\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elevatorpr.com\/clients\">Clients &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Clients &gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2108","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We&#039;re an Award-Winning PR Agency - Elevator PR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elevatorpr.com\/about\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We&#039;re an Award-Winning PR Agency - Elevator PR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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