PPBH ON GETTING RESULTS

In an industry where life spans are measured in months, it’s almost a fantasy for an ad agency to celebrate its 25th anniversary. In fact, if you were to have told Chuck Penna and John Haynes back in the glory days of Van Halen that PPBH would still be turning heads in 2009, they might have thrown their Apple IIs at you. It’s true, they’ve seen the transformation from face-to-face to Facebook and from bulletins to banner ads. Nevertheless, they maintain the one thing that they promised when they opened their doors and that has kept happy clients walking through them for more than two decades — results.

PPBH owes its success to its clients. Plain and simple. Because of that success, over the years they’ve been able to add PR, interactive, public involvement, and social media departments. They’ve been able to grow from the four founding partners to a full-service agency of more than 40 people. In an economic climate where so many agencies are looking for creative ways to cut costs, PPBH is building space to fit its expanding departments by adding a 3rd floor to its building.

So how does an agency keep pace amid the supersonic advance of communication technologies and the constant ebb of a volatile economy? What should businesses be looking for in a marketing partner? The partners of PPBH take the occasion of their silver anniversary to provide simple solutions and bits of wisdom they never intended to keep secret this long.

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