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PR LEAD GENERATION°

We book qualified PR conversations every week.

Launch Leads puts appointments with VPs of marketing and heads of communications straight on your calendar — companies with a real story and the budget to tell it. You pitch and win the retainer.

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152K+
Qualified appointments delivered
52K+
Sales opportunities created
$5B+
Pipeline revenue influenced
Built for B2B sales leaders since 2009
WalmartSamsungOracleVMwareUS BankVerizon
WHAT AN EMPTY PIPELINE COSTS°

What an empty pipeline really costs a PR agency

Every week without qualified marketing conversations is a week your best account leads burn on the wrong prospects — and a week a competing agency wins the retainer you wanted.

  • Your best hours spent on founders chasing free coverage who were never going to fund a retainer
  • Proposals you turn around fast and never hear back on
  • “Interested” prospects with no real news and no budget owner — dead meetings, not deals
  • A pipeline that dries up the moment outbound stops and referrals slow
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WHAT YOU GET°

Qualified conversations, not names on a list

Communications-fluent SDRs

Our reps know the work — earned media and media relations, thought leadership, launch campaigns, crisis and reputation, the difference between a founder who wants free press and a company with a funded program. No script-readers running a generic dialing play.

Access to the budget owner, past the gatekeepers

We get past the gatekeepers to the VPs of marketing and heads of communications who actually own the budget — not an intern fielding pitches. You stay focused on scoping the program and winning the retainer.

Operates like in-house, not an agency

Your SDRs run your service offering, your qualification standard, your CRM. By the time a meeting reaches your team, it doesn’t feel like an agency hand-off — it feels like internal pipeline.

OUR CAPABILITIES°

Six capabilities. One outbound engine.

No fabricated case studies. Just the PR lead generation services we run for clients every week.

Qualified Appointment Setting →

Ready-to-engage meetings with verified buyers — briefed, exclusive, on your calendar.

Lead Generation Services →

Outbound that owns the top of the funnel — list build, multi-channel cadence, clean hand-off.

Lead Qualification →

Three-point standard: verified need, decision-maker authority, active timeline. Or it doesn’t pass.

Rapid Inbound Lead Response →

Speed-to-lead under five minutes on inbound forms. Most agencies miss this entirely.

Outsourced SDR Services →

Dedicated reps trained on your category. Operate like in-house, not an agency.

Lead Nurturing →

Multi-touch sequences that keep long-cycle prospects warm until they’re sales-ready.

WE BRING THE CONVERSATIONS°

Why teams trust Launch for PR leads

We know how hard it is to run a sharp agency and still spend the week fielding founders who want free coverage — and how fast a quarter slips when the companies with a real story and a budget never pick up. It’s the discipline behind every PR lead generation campaign we run: empathy for the grind, and the track record to end it.

Launch helps us filter and qualify our leads. We didn’t want to build a call center in-house — we’d rather outsource to someone who already has that set up. They’ve helped us focus on more qualified, closeable deals.

ROGER SHUMWAY

VP · Celtic Bank

When a lead comes in through our website, Launch follows up within five minutes — versus the two to five days it was taking us internally. Quarter over quarter, our qualified leads and opportunities have increased.

SHAWN DICKERSON

Director of Marketing · Corda Technologies

Launch goes out and contacts people who need our services but aren’t looking for it. They get foot in the door with decision makers at the companies you’re trying to get in with. They make it easy and they’re flexible to fit within our existing sales structure.

DAVE BASCOM

Founder/CEO · SEO.com

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THE TRACK RECORD°

The track record behind our PR lead generation

152K+

Qualified appointments delivered

52K+

Sales opportunities created

$5B+

Pipeline revenue influenced

16+

Years scaling B2B sales teams

HOW IT WORKS°

Three steps to a full calendar

No long onboarding, no fog — three steps and your calendar starts filling.

01

Book a demo

Tell us your agency model — earned media, corporate comms, consumer, tech PR — and the companies you want to win.

02

We build & scope

We build the target list, train SDRs on your service offering and qualification standard, and integrate your CRM.

03

Dialing starts week one

Qualified marketing conversations hit your calendar. You pitch and close.

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WHO WE SELL FOR°

Our expertise across public relations

We’ve run PR lead generation campaigns across the agency models, client industries, and programs below. Your account team brings the playbook for yours.

AGENCY MODELS
Earned Media & Media Relations
Corporate & Brand Communications
Tech & B2B PR
Consumer & Lifestyle PR
Public Affairs & Advocacy
Crisis & Reputation Management
Investor & Financial Communications
Integrated PR & Digital
CLIENT INDUSTRIES
Technology & SaaS
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Financial Services & Fintech
Consumer Brands & Retail
Professional Services
Nonprofits & Advocacy
Energy & Cleantech
Hospitality & Travel
PROGRAMS RUN
Media Relations & Press
Product & Funding Launches
Thought Leadership & Bylines
Executive Visibility & Profiles
Award & Speaking Programs
Crisis & Issues Response
Analyst & Influencer Relations
Earned-Media Content
THE FULL PICTURE°

PR lead generation, built for how companies actually hire an agency

At Launch Leads, we know you’re the kind of PR agency who’s built a real practice — media relationships, a point of view, campaigns that earn the coverage and stand behind the results. What you need now is companies ready to fund a program.

The problem is that reaching companies with a real story and a budget is hard: most inbound is founders who want free press or one-off release shoppers, and the ones with a funded launch are buried behind gatekeepers — every hour on the wrong ones is an hour you’re not pitching. It shouldn’t take standing up an outbound team you don’t want to run just to keep the pipeline full. We get it — we’ve spent 16+ years building outbound engines for B2B sales teams and delivered 152,000+ qualified appointments doing it.

That’s why our PR lead generation engine puts communications-fluent SDRs on the phones, screening for verified need, decision-maker authority, and an active timeline before anything reaches your calendar. Here’s how it works: book a demo, we build and scope the campaign, and dialing starts week one. Done right, PR lead generation isn’t a list of names — it’s a calendar of marketing leaders ready to hire an agency. Book your free assessment — so you can stop fielding free-coverage requests and start pitching programs.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS°

Common concerns, answered

“Aren’t these just founders chasing free press?”

Every lead clears the three-point standard — verified need, decision-maker authority, and an active timeline. Founders who just want free coverage don’t make the calendar.

“Will the SDRs understand PR, not just marketing?”

They’re communications-fluent and run your service offering — earned media, thought leadership, launches, crisis and reputation — so the conversation opens on the story, not a generic marketing pitch.

“How is this different from a lead database?”

A database gives you names. Our PR lead generation delivers booked conversations with marketing leaders who’ve confirmed a real story and the budget to move it forward.

“How fast do appointments start?”

Outreach starts week one — the list and messaging are built during onboarding, so day one is dialing day.

More answers

How quickly does outreach start producing appointments?

Outreach starts in week one. List build, messaging, and account research finish during onboarding, so day one of the engagement is dialing day — we don’t ramp by quarter. Marketing budgets get set in cycles, but reaching the right decision-maker doesn’t wait; first qualified appointments typically land in the first weeks, with steady cadence building from there. You see meetings on the calendar before most agencies have finished their kickoff deck.

What does "qualified" mean in your model?

Three-point standard, and all three must be met. Verified need — a real news moment or reputation program the company has actually named (a funding launch, a rebrand, a crisis, a category push), not idle interest in coverage. Decision-maker authority — a VP of marketing, head of communications, or CMO who owns the budget, not an intern gathering quotes. Active timeline — a live program with a date attached. Anything short of all three doesn’t make your calendar. Most agencies count any form-fill with a pulse as a “lead.” We don’t.

Do you understand the PR business?

Yes — our reps work your service offering, not a generic script. Earned media and media relations, thought leadership and bylines, product and funding launches, executive visibility, crisis and reputation; the difference between a founder who wants a quick hit and a company with a funded program. We tune the messaging and qualification standard to what you actually do — not a generic “we do marketing” pitch a head of communications tunes out.

What if the prospect only wants a one-off press release?

We screen for it before you ever dial. A prospect shopping for a single press release isn’t a PR meeting — it’s a disqualification. We qualify on program scope, budget ownership, and timeline, so your team only talks to companies with a real story and the budget to tell it — not a one-off buyer comparing quotes across five agencies.

What size PR agencies do you work with?

Boutique firms through national and multi-practice agencies. The common thread isn’t headcount, it’s a selling motion: you need account leads who can run a scoping conversation and win a retainer once qualified meetings hit the calendar. If you’re earlier-stage without that in place, we’ll tell you upfront.

What does onboarding look like, and how do we align on messaging?

Onboarding runs five to ten business days from kickoff. We use that window to build the target account list, map your practice areas and industry focus, train SDRs on your offering, and integrate with your CRM. Most of it compresses into two or three short working sessions, so your time stays minimal. Messaging gets iterated weekly through the first month off real call data — what’s landing, what isn’t. The point is to sound like your team, not another agency reading a script.

Can you target by industry, company stage, or news trigger?

Yes, and targeting goes deeper than industry alone. We layer client industry, company stage and funding, marketing budget and headcount, current agency or in-house team, geography, and the news signals that mean a program is live — a raise, a launch, a leadership change, an award cycle. The output is a tight account list that fits what you do — not a generic company pull from a list vendor. Sloppy targeting is the single biggest reason outbound campaigns underperform. We fix it before week one.

How is pricing structured?

Monthly retainer, scoped to your target volume, program complexity, and the industries you want to hit. Enterprise-brand targets and long sales cycles cost more to engage; straightforward mid-market plays cost less. We don’t publish a rate card because every agency’s offering and client looks different, and a flat price would either overcharge half our clients or undercharge the other half. Book the assessment and you’ll get a written scope and quote within 30 minutes of the call.

GET STARTED°

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Get a written scope and quote in 30 minutes. No pressure, no slide deck — just a working session on your pipeline.

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