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Ignite’s Philosophy

  • To apply our passionate, assertive, results-oriented approach on behalf of all of our clients
  • To build confidence, trust and long lasting relationships with our clients
  • To continually raise the bar on the quality of our work, value delivered and service we provide
Core Competencies
Expertise in Market Education, Evangelism, and Category Creation
Ignite has a built a solid track record working with clients to successfully undertake market education, technology evangelism, and category creation. We approach each client’s situation in a unique way, developing market awareness and building momentum via innovative strategies and aggressive execution.

Media Outreach Know-how
Ignite works closely with clients to ensure that key messages differentiate the company from its competition, but also communicate a clear, compelling value proposition to a highly focused target market. We are adept at successfully communicating complex technologies that resonate with a broad national audience as well as very specific vertical markets. This expertise has enabled us to successfully secure coverage for clients in all of the major newspaper and national news weekly publications, including Time Magazine, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Notably, we are skilled at securing news coverage, not just around formal launches or major announcements, but when PR is more challenging for our clients — during slower, quieter periods.

Highly Creative
The agency has exceptional capabilities in leveraging our clients’ resources and expertise and can adeptly identify and package “company assets” into topical angles that will resonate well with the press. As part of our ability to perceive, package and creatively promote news, we also develop unique programs that help our clients meet a variety of their marketing objectives.

What sets Ignite apart from others?
Focused
Ignite has maintained its longstanding focus on the enterprise sector and works primarily with early stage companies. We have extensive experience working with a broad array of enterprise-level technologies that includes: supply chain, infrastructure and network management, business performance management, security, voice recognition, CRM, ERP, portal software, and strategic sourcing to name a few. In addition to tapping our ever-growing network of opinion leaders in this arena, we can leverage our intellectual capital about the enterprise market right out-of-the-gate. We dedicate ourselves to ongoing learning about our clients' markets, their competition, customers, trends, and emerging issues.

Quantifiable Deliverables
With today’s focus on quantifiable ROI, Ignite holds itself accountable for concrete measurement and evaluation. With our unique, results-based model, our clients pay only a portion of the PR budget up-front, with the remainder due when Ignite has met its aggressive, predefined goals.

Client Referencability
We have near 100% referencability with our clients, both past and present, and we encourage our prospects to ask for and speak to previous client references. At Ignite, we work hard to earn the trust and confidence of our clients and are proud of our lasting relationships with them.

What can you expect
  • At Ignite, you’ll work with objective counselors, not “yes people,” so while we are highly responsive, proactive, and passionate, we’re also willing to tell you the good, the bad, and the ugly.
  • We consistently focus on quality and make efficient use of your time.
  • The work performed is done by a staff of seasoned PR professionals, and we never put junior personnel on your account.
  1. Our PR pros balance strategy with tactics and then focus on execution.
  • We aim high and always strive to surpass your expectations.

OUR CLIENTS IN THE NEWS
  • Pabst uncaps first mobile campaign to promote Lone Star Beer (Mobile Marketer)
  • Can Appcelerator Change the Face of Apps? 3000 Developers Think So (ReadWriteWeb)
  • Cool Tools for Road Trippers (MSNBC)
  • LongJump puts PaaS On-Premise (ZDNet)
  • VCs Put Money in Open Source Management Software (Network World)
  • Twitter Scaling Solution Earns Reductive Labs $2 Million (ReadWriteWeb)
  • Digital Storage Options for Workers on the Go (New York Times)
  • Coming & Going: A Day's Outing (Washington Post)
  • LongJump Puts SaaS Inside IT Shops (CIO.com)
  • App Review: Mundu IM (Android Guys)
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TESTIMONIALS
"I started looking at PR boutiques which could really understand our (technical) product really quickly. I heard good things about Ignite, hired them and fast forward to the day of our launch: easily one of the most successful launches I've ever witnessed. They're really well organized, know what they're talking about, and most of all, they don't over promise -- they just over deliver. I can't recommend them enough."
Ilan Abehassera
Founder & CEO
Producteev
"I hired Ignite PR to help out with an early-stage technology business and needed smart, attentive help that I couldn't get from a big firm. Carmen and her colleagues came up-to-speed on my business quite quickly, and suggested a few out-of-the-box ideas that proved fruitful. During our work together, she and Ignite produced some wonderful results. If or when I'm in the same situation again, I would absolutely give them a call."
Ken Oestreich
Former Vice President of Marketing
Egenera
"Having worked with much larger PR agencies, we appreciate Ignite's clever strategies and aggressive execution. Ignite has been integral to helping Appcelerator leapfrog to its next level of growth."
Scott Schwarzhoff
VP of Marketing
Appcelerator
"Building a trusted brand via PR is paramount to our success. Ignite proved to be a terrific resource, resulting in Zicasso's coverage in venerable publications such as NYT, WSJ and Travel + Leisure. Ignite is an outstanding partner -- they think strategically and execute tirelessly to get results, at a competitive price. They totally get start-up culture, teamwork, and most importantly, delivering results."
Brian Tan
CEO Zicasso
"Ignite goes to great lengths to understand our business objectives and plot a course to help us meet them. Their advice is solid and their experience is deep. We've gotten more strategic advice and insight from Ignite than I ever would have expected from a PR agency."
Anne Patterson
Vice President
FreeFlow
"The Ignite team was instrumental in getting us a lot of news coverage very quickly. They are an agile team that can move rapidly to create and capitalize on media opportunities."
Samir Patel
Founder
SearchForce
"I've hired Carmen and her team to work with at least 7 of the companies I have worked at, founded or been involved with. When it comes to PR, Ignite is the agency of choice! I cannot say enough good things about them."
Oliver Muoto
Co-founder/VP Biz Dev
vFlyer
"From day one, the Ignite team made things happen. They proved to be a quick study and were able to regularly engage our spokespeople with opinion leaders on key industry issues, demonstrating the company's expertise and thought-leadership. Ignite provided excellent direction for launches and news announcements, identifying the influencers in our field and securing meetings and consistent coverage."
Tom Fry
Former Director of Marketing
Reasoning
"Team Ignite provides relentless support, responsive service and reliable advice when it comes to our strategies around PR. They are truly a seamless extension of the LongJump team."
Pankaj Malviya
CEO
LongJump

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