Slow and steady doesn’t win the race for Jason Brown, but steady growth is the preferred way he wants to grow his business,
PublicCity PR.
The Southfield-based company has recorded double-digit revenue gains in the last year, allowing it to hire one person. It now has a staff of four employees and the occasional intern.
“It has been steady growth,”
Brown says. “It’s up 15-20 percent. It’s been great.”
Brown started
PublicCity PR five years ago in October. The veteran journalist and Michigan State University graduate has grown the business from his kitchen table to big enough for its own office last year. The firm has mainly worked with small businesses from Metro Detroit, taking on more clients through word-of-mouth referrals.
However, PublicCity PR is starting to grow outside of that norm. For instance, Dan Clark (Nitro from American Gladiators) reached out to PublicCity PR earlier this summer to promote his
Gladiator Rock n’ Run in Metro Detroit earlier this summer.
“This random guy in California does his own research and finds us,” Brown says. “There are dozens of PR companies in Metro Detroit and he chose us.”
Source: Jason Brown, principal of PublicCity PR
Writer: Jon Zemke
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