Comprehensive Services

Overview

Whether you need one or all of our services, we deliver excellence

It’s easier to have one PR firm handle all your needs, but what if the firm is lacking in certain areas? Not a problem with Merritt. We’re fully staffed with experts ready to provide these comprehensive services:

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Market intelligence

  • Perception audits
  • Customer and market segmentation
  • Customer needs assessments
  • Satisfaction surveys
  • Trend analysis

Strategy and positioning

  • Corporate/product differentiation
  • Positioning strategies
  • Messaging counsel

Public relations programs

  • Communications strategies for press, analysts, investors, other external audiences and employees
  • Traditional media relations, including:
    • National print and broadcast media
    • Business and financial press
    • Consumer media
    • Trade press
    • Vertical outlets in sectors such as government, healthcare, financial services, legal, and education
  • New media relations, including:
    • New media assessment
    • Web 2.0 site and media room implementation
    • Blog relations programs
    • Podcast development
    • Social network presence management
  • Results-driven PR programs:
    • Product reviews
    • Industry analyst relations
    • Executive leadership programs
    • Thought leadership campaigns
    • Crisis communications
    • Tradeshow programs
    • Event planning
    • Speaking programs
    • Awards programs
    • Media and speaker training

Customer advocacy

  • Customer reference programs for media/analyst relations, marketing, investor relations, and sales and product development
  • Case studies, award submissions, events
  • Customer councils

PR Measurement

  • Share of voice
  • Prominence
  • Tone
  • Outlet type
  • Weighted prominence
  • Message pull-through
  • Spokesperson/analyst tracking
  • Circulation reach
  • Blog tracking

What makes our comprehensive services so effective? Discover our deep industry expertise and insight-driven approach.

SPI Dynamics

When SPI Dynamics began its 3 year engagement with Merritt Group, the company had minimal mindshare in the security market as a Web application security vendor. The challenge for Merritt was finding a key differentiator for SPI to set them apart from the competition as an industry leader in their market. Merritt helped SPI "own" the issue of secure software development.

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Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton selected Merritt Group to assist the firm in raising awareness of its technology capabilities among federal IT decision makers. Merritt Group’s award-winning PR campaign has focused on four major objectives which include shaping messaging/positioning; developing strong reporter relationships; positioning executives as industry experts; and coordinating stories to coincide with specific business goals/activities.

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Metastorm

One of Merritt Group's recent PR initiatives with Metastorm, a leading provider of software-based solutions for aligning strategy with execution, involved announcing its acquisition of Proforma Corp., a maker of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Business Process Analysis (BPA) tools. This acquisition redefined Metastorm's position in the market, creating a new category in the enterprise software market.

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Metastorm