Building Relationships in PR: A Heart to Heart with Kickstand SAE Bodie Lowe
by Nycole Walsh This Valentine’s Day, Kickstand is celebrating the beating heart of the agency: our relationships. The world of public relations (let’s be real, the world in general) has been through a few years of significant upheaval, and the landscape is still pretty much quicksand beneath our feet – marked by massive layoffs within […]
Call it a Comeback: How Business Leaders are Planning for Success in 2024 Report
Calling 2023 a “tough year” would be an understatement. Companies across every industry had to hunker down and push through, resulting in budget cuts, layoffs, and disgruntled employees. To get a pulse check on how business leaders fared in 2023 and how they’re planning to take 2024 in stride, Kickstand surveyed over 600 US-based […]
Celebrating Data Privacy Week: Interview with Nicky Watson of Cassie
By Nora Panahi We live the vast majority of our lives online these days. The way we work, communicate with each other, shop, and so on takes place on any number of digital channels – which means the importance of data privacy isn’t an unfamiliar concept to us. Nobody wants their private information falling into […]
Merry or “Meh?” Exploring 2023’s Impact on Workplace Holiday Celebrations
By Nycole Walsh As 2023 draws to a close, our team here at Kickstand is taking inventory of a pretty tumultuous twelve months. Anyone working in tech PR or marketing can tell you that this has been the year of “doing more with less,” and for us, one of the things this meant was scaling […]
Happy tenth anniversary to Kickstand!
This month, Kickstand is celebrating our tenth anniversary! From our humble beginnings at a kitchen table to supporting some of the world’s most innovative brands, Kickstand has always set ourselves apart from the rest. Our commitment to unparalleled proactivity, supporting working parents, and empathetic leadership has been at the core of what we do since […]
Research from Indeed reveals what “Corporate Pride” should really look like
By Nora Panahi Celebrating Pride in 2023 has been a fraught, bittersweet experience for the queer community. In recent memory, Pride has manifested itself through flashy parades and festivals and a proliferation of rainbow-colored logos from various brands. Many of us who attend Pride celebrations as members of the queer community and/or allies have […]
Closing the Proactivity Gap in PR
By Molly George When I sit down with prospects, the biggest pain point I hear day in and day out about past experiences with PR agency partners is a lack of proactivity. Agencies tend to come in hot and operate with a high sense of urgency to impress new clients right out of the gate. […]
This Mother’s Day: The Truth About Working Moms
By Kristina Kennedy At Kickstand, we are consistently acknowledged for the robust benefits package we offer our working parents. But we are also consistently asked “why” we offer benefits unique to this group. Before we share the somewhat long answer to this question, here’s the short version: Because we should offer these benefits. Because not […]
Be Bold, Dream Big, Sail Far: Kickstanders at She Sails 2023
By Anna Craven and Nora Panahi Whenever Anna and I attend an in-person Kickstand event, we find a way to sneak the fact that we went to high school together into conversation. We’ve known each other for at least a decade at this point, and (I hope) I speak for both of us when I […]
Leadership Lessons from SPARK: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success
By Tiffani Lee With Q1 wrapping up (if you can believe it), Kickstand has hit the ground running in 2023. Between client announcements, in-person conferences and too many media hits to count, a group of Kickstanders has been meeting monthly to read and discuss SPARK: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success. We […]
