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The PRSA Tampa Bay Chapter has more than 200 members, and many own and manage independent public relations and communications service firms. This is an advantage for businesses in the bay area looking for help with PR or anything related – including media relations, copywriting, strategic communications or publicity.
The following collection is a list of participating firms and freelance consultants, listed by firm size (number of employees.) To find a PR agency or independent PR practitioner, please click on a category below. PRSA Tampa Bay provides this directory as a service and assumes no warranties or endorsements connected with any information contained herein.
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Independent Practitioners (1 employee)
1887 Creative
Jeremy Rex
Principal
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 813.767.8782
Website: 1887creative.com
1887 Creative is a dynamic creative services agency dedicated to providing strategic solutions in the areas of graphic design, brand identity, website development, and social media management.
Advocate Marketing PR
Karen Mess Frahier, APR, Fellow PRSA
Chief Strategist/CEO
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 813.375.2663
Website: advocatemarketingpr.com
Fractional Chief Marketing Officer | Marketing & PR Strategy, Implementation & Measurement Is your marketing and PR integrated into your business strategy? Is your customer your #1 advocate? Responsive, growing organizations integrate financial, customer, business process and marketing strategies. When that happens, growth and reputation management is funded, done, measured, evaluated, improved and repeated. Give us a call. We'll help you build your bandwagon.
Bakewell Public Relations, LLC
Kevin Bakewell, APR
Owner
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 813.334.2700
Website: www.bakewellpr.com
Bakewell Public Relations LLC (BPR) is owned by Kevin Bakewell, APR, a seasoned public relations executive with more than four decades of experience in public affairs. Kevin most recently served as SVP and Chief Public Affairs Officer for AAA - The Auto Club Group, the second largest AAA club in North America serving 10 million members in 11 states. BPR's top area of focus is strategic communications, helping organizations achieve their goals through impactful and engaging communications. Kevin's core competencies include writing, editing, public speaking and legislative advocacy. Kevin has been a member of PRSA since 1988, was accredited in 1991, and served as President of the Tampa Bay Chapter in 1997.
Breuklander Communications
Bo Breuklander, M.A.
Founder & Principal Consultant
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 918.207.6410
Website: bobreuklander.com
Carlin Communications
Betty S. Carlin, APR
Principal
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 813.727.8782
Website: www.carlincommunications.com
Principal Betty S. Carlin is an accomplished public relations and communications professional with over 25 years of experience in strategic communications, media relations and marketing management in corporate, agency and nonprofit organizations. Throughout her career, Ms. Carlin has excelled in building successful collaborative teams across multiple organizations to accomplish larger organizational or community goals.
Specific areas of expertise include: corporate communications, media relations, crisis communications, public affairs, reputation management, web development, social media, B2B marketing, brand management, integrated marketing, community relations and event management.
HARTLINE Communications
Melinda Hartline
President and CEO
Email: melinda@
Phone: 813.494.7768
Website: www.hartlinecommunications.com
HARTLINE Communications specializes in compelling narratives and securing impactful media placements. With a proven track record in media relations, we excel in elevating brands and fostering meaningful community connections. Drawing on experience, we led successful publicity campaigns that significantly boosted specific live event promotions. Our main goal is to tell great stories and build strong relationships with the media and our clients. Are you ready? We're ready. Let's go!
Image Suite PR | Marketing | Media
Paula MacDonald, APR
Principal
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 813.419.2494
Website: www.imagesuitepr.com
Image Suite is a creative consultancy based in St. Petersburg, Florida, working with clients nationwide in professional services, hospitality, government and technology industries.
We work side-by-side with you to establish a framework for clearly communicating your business story. As a result, you save time and money when it comes to developing your website, marketing materials and public relations campaigns.
Company lead Paula MacDonald is an Accredited Public Relations (APR) professional who brings a filmmaker’s storytelling mindset to business.
Osprey Nest Enterprises, LLC
Lisa Taylor
Founder & CEO
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 703.725.3465
Website: ospreynet.me
Osprey Nest Enterprises LLC is a virtual agency that specializes in comprehensive communications strategies designed to elevate events, companies and brands. Whether it’s promoting an entertainment event, showcasing a hospitality destination, or crafting a unique brand narrative, Osprey Nest employs a personalized approach and taps into its extensive network of industry experts to drive client success.
TC Strategic Communications
Travis Claytor, APR
President/Owner
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 813.951.1822
Website: www.TCStrategic.com
TC Strategic Communications is a strategic communications agency with a passion for strategic solutions to push real business results through communications, storytelling and creating compelling content that engages audiences and drives them to take action. With nearly two decades of experience in creating strategic communications plans, we push boundaries and find innovative ways to build affinity for your brand, product or service, and then move people to take action. For more than 15 years, we have developed and executed national and international integrated strategic communications plans around some of the world’s top brands and media events.
Heather Grzelka, APR
Principal
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 727.209.7175
Website: www.madeirapr.com
Madeira Public Relations offers a diverse mix of outcome-focused communications, social media and content development services along with a rich history of serving both the nonprofit sector and corporate institutions.
With its roots steeped in developing communication strategies that affect change on Capitol Hill, improve public health and safeguard the environment, the firm enjoys a reputation of professional excellence and social responsibility.
Noelle Anderson, APR
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 727.726.3000
Website: www.truebluecommunications.com
Businesses that want to connect with those who matter, better tell their stories and motivate people to act can rely on True Blue Communications to bring their PR and marketing to the next level. We approach everything we do with an intense focus on strategy and achieving results that support our clients' business goals. Our services include: strategic communications planning, copywriting, media relations, internal communications, event planning and promotion, online marketing and collateral material development. We work with a variety of clients, but our specialties include healthcare, commercial real estate, insurance and finance, and nonprofit public relations and marketing.
Missy MacFarlane, APR
Principal
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 727.895.5030 x103
Website: www.b2communications.com
B2 Communications helps clients communicate with those important to their organizations. We create and execute professional communications programs that are anchored in thorough, deliberate strategy and helpful, high-quality content. Each communications plan is tailored to the client’s goals, and may include such services as media relations, marketing consulting, content development, community/industry/government relations, social media, and message coaching. B2 also assists organizations with crisis communications plans and response. With experience on the front lines of national-level crises, B2’s principals have the experience and knowledge to respond – and to prepare anticipatory plans that can help your organization quickly and appropriately respond.
Lynnette J. Werning, APR
President
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 800.975.3212
Website: www.bluewatercommunications.biz
Where Great Ideas Run Deep - That’s more than just a saying. For us, it’s a mindset – and has been since we opened our doors in 2006. We believe that it’s the great ideas that begin the dialogue, which in turn grows into long-standing, rewarding partnerships and relationships. There are no entry-level people on the Blue Water team; each of us brings more than 10 years of experience. Museums make up 2/3 of our business including: Toledo Museum of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Columbus Museum of Art.
Jennifer Dunn
Director of Public Relations
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (813) 579-2157
Website: www.conversaco.com
At Conversa, we practice a research-based approach to integrated communication, advocacy, multicultural marketing, and design. We’ve helped Fortune 500 clients, national non-profits, and small businesses define messages, protect interests, influence opinion leaders, and create the conditions necessary for social change. Our services are priced affordably because the work is often its own kind of reward, and our minority-owned certified status makes partnership an attractive option. We strive to provide unmatched service to our clients; in fact, our partners work every account delivering the expertise and access expected. Our brand promise is uncomplicated, but effective – build relationships, execute tailored tactics, and deliver results.
Firms with 10 or more employees
Jason Mudd
CEO
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 888-773-4768
Website: www.axiapr.com
Forbes Magazine named Axia Public Relations as one of America’s Best PR Agencies. That's because America’s most admired and fastest-growing organizations trust Axia as their public relations agency of record. Axia helps organizations share stories that matter to their critical audiences. Axia offers news, social media, and web strategies, services, and measurement programs.
Michelle Griffith
Vice President
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 813-534-5251
Website: www.boardroompr.com
Founded in 1989, BoardroomPR is a full-service public relations and marketing firm focusing on media relations, social media and online marketing, SEO, branding, public affairs, crisis communications and integrated marketing services. BoardroomPR has consistently been ranked in the top 10 largest of all South Florida PR agencies by the South Florida Business Journal and 111th by O’Dwyer’s in its listing of the nation’s top public relations firms. Offices in Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Naples, Miami and West Palm Beach.
Christine Turner
Principal
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 813.281.0088
Website: www.chappellroberts.com
For more than three decades, ChappellRoberts has helped clients create positive change that drives their businesses forward. ChappellRoberts is a true hybrid in the communications business. We put seasoned marketing, advertising and accredited public relations experts at the same table, working together to find the best solutions for our clients’ marketing objectives. This approach allows us to create targeted campaigns that are implemented across multiple mediums, transcending various business-to-business and business-to-consumer industries.
Chrisie Yabu, APR
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 310.804.9250
Website: kps3.com
Chrisie Yabu, APR resides in Tampa Bay, with nearly 30 years of experience in PR and marketing communications. She is supported by a team of PR practitioners, designers, developers, content creators and performance marketing experts in locations across the country, with KPS3’s main office in Nevada. PR services include strategic communications/counsel, media relations, leadership positioning and crisis communications. KPS3 was founded in 1991 and is a full-service marketing agency.
Bill Carlson
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (813) 228-0652 ext. 109
Website: www.tuckerhall.com
For more than 25 years, businesses, individuals and organizations of all kinds have turned to Tucker/Hall to help them grow their business, manage a crisis situation, or advance a particular agenda. Tucker/Hall’s clients receive innovative ideas and world class services – all provided by seasoned veterans who can help you hit the target others don’t see.
Brian Butler
President
Email: [email protected]
Phone:(813) 961-4700
Website: www.ConsultVistra.com
Vistra Communications is a full service Communications Strategy | Professional Solutions agency providing Public Relations, Marketing and Management Consulting Solutions to corporate, government and nonprofit organizations. We focus on brand and reputation management, media relations, crisis communications, executive media training and all aspects of strategic and corporate communications. Vistra Communications is SBA 8(a), FDOT-DBE certified, Florida MBE registered and a Certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).
