CONNECTIONS · KANSAS CITY
Who to know in Kansas City.
This is the thing people actually hire us for, and the thing that does not fit in a proposal. An introduction to the right person, made by someone both of you already trust.
You cannot buy it, you cannot rush it, and a media database is not a substitute for it. It took twenty years and it is the whole business.
What an introduction actually does.
It skips the cold open.
A cold pitch starts at zero and has to earn attention. A warm introduction starts with borrowed trust. Same ask, completely different odds.
It reaches people who do not take meetings.
Editors, developers, council offices, chamber boards, team executives. These people are not hard to find. They are hard to get a yes from, and that is a relationship problem, not a contact problem.
It works in both directions.
We are as useful to the reporter looking for a source as to the client looking for coverage. That is why the calls keep getting returned, and it is why we will not burn a relationship on a weak story.
It compounds.
One good introduction becomes three. A client who shows up well in the room we put them in gets invited to the next one without us. That is the point.
The rooms we are already in.
Access claims are cheap. These are specific. Our founder chairs the Kansas City Kansas Chamber of Commerce. We sit on nonprofit boards, show up to the civic breakfasts, and are at the soft opens whether or not a client is paying us to be there that week.
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Need a door opened?
Name the person, the outlet or the room. We will tell you honestly whether we can get you in front of it, and roughly how long it takes.
