Maryland Public Relations Firm Launched by Veteran Team to Focus on Restaurants, Associations, Transportation

Image One PR Consulting, LLC, is a new firm that provides comprehensive services, including marketing, advertising, graphic design, editorial services and media outreach. Image One PR focuses on restaurants, hospitality, health care and transportation sectors.

FREDERICK, Md. -- A new public relations consulting agency has been launched here that will focus on small business development, transportation, philanthropy and health care.

Public relations veteran Bill Weger formed Image One PR Consulting, LLC, and is joined by a team of senior-level consultants and freelancers who represent more than 60 years of combined experience in the communications, marketing and graphic design fields.

Image One PR Consulting services include strategic communications planning, integrated marketing, writing, editing, publications development, graphic design, media relations and special events planning. The firm has formed a strategic alliance with VillageWorks, a Frederick-based interactive marketing agency that utilizes Internet technologies, to offer web design services.

Image One PR will seek opportunities to work with small businesses, restaurants, trucking companies and support groups, non-profits, associations, health care organizations and government entities.

As principal of Image One PR, Weger has more than 20 years experience in public relations and journalism. He has worked for the American Red Cross, Blue Cross Blue Shield of the National Capital Area, the Truckload Carriers Association, the Maryland Department of Transportation and ICF Consulting. He has led comprehensive communications programs and created national public awareness campaigns covering diverse issues, including highway safety, the digital divide and drunk driving.

He is joined by Barbara Kreisler, who heads Imprint, LLC, which provides communications and marketing branding services to the multifamily housing industry. An award-winning writer, she has authored articles for the National Apartment Association, Urban Land Institute, Affordable Housing Finance, the daily press and others. Kreisler was editor of The Journal Newspapers award-winning Sunday Journal.

Kim Taylor, a freelance designer, also works with Image One PR and has over 16 years experience designing and producing a variety of outreach collateral, conference materials, exhibits, advertisements, presentations, Web sites, and corporate identification systems. Clients include EPA, HUD, DOE, DOT, as well as private-sector companies.

Image One PR Consultings new Web site is at www.imageonepr.com. The firm is kicking off a 2003 marketing and branding campaign, Got a Message. Give it Power.