We do things DIFFERENT.

What We Do.

Strategize

We are experts at creating individualized PR, Brand, and Organic Marketing Strategies that captivate & convert.

Execute

We work hard, fast, and are relentlessly proactive in the pursuit of your success.

Deliver

We don’t stop (won’t stop) until we deliver results that make a true impact on your bottom line.

How We Do It

Brand Positioning
& Messaging

We create unified and effective brand positioning and messaging for company and executive materials and profiles.

Media Relations
& Earned Press Securement

We ideate enticing pitches that land placements across all mediums – Podcasts, Digital, Print, TV, and Radio.

Events, Press Trips & Partnership Curation

We provide strategic event planning & press trip coordination, aligned partner outreach, and newsworthy activation ideation & creation.

Award Discovery & Submission

We discover, submit, manage, and amplify relevant local, industry, national, and global awards and accolades.

Reputation Management

We craft proactive messaging, draft reputation-critical responses, monitor media coverage & trends, and help create key partner communications.

Influencer Campaign Management

We strategize and manage influencer engagement campaigns from start to finish.

Social Media Marketing

We can create content for and manage all company and key executive accounts for LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.

Podcast Production
& Management

Our in-house podcast production team is available to launch and manage client audio and video podcasts. This service is sold in conjunction with other services.

Thought Leader Strategy & Execution

We secure opportunities for key executives, manage assets, create and ghostwrite articles, and coordinate speaking appearances.

About the Founder

Featured in outlets such as Entrepreneur, Business Insider, NASDAQ, Crunchbase, and Create & Cultivate, Lexie Smith is a highly skilled and sought-after public relations expert regarded as one of the best in her field. Over the course of her 13+ year career, Smith has held senior and executive roles in PR agencies, pioneered and ran in-house PR departments, and most recently served as a VP at one of the ‘Fastest Growing Companies in America’ (Inc. Magazine & Financial Times). Additionally, she has been a speaker at conferences and universities worldwide and coached hundreds of entrepreneurs and professionals.

Today, Smith is a 3X entrepreneur and serves as the Founder and CEO of GROWTH MODE Agency where she has intentionally assembled a supporting team of go-getters equally as dedicated to securing client results as she. GROWTH MODE clients have been featured in outlets such as Forbes, GMA, TechCrunch, Wired, Goop, Vogue, Refinery29, Travel & Leisure, Morning Brew, Elle, and Oprah, amongst many others.


Learn About Our
LEVERAGE 7 PR METHODOLOGY

PR is about so much more than just press. It’s so much more than just the “professional maintenance of a favorable public image”.
It’s so much more than just establishing “authority.”

IT’S. SO. MUCH. MORE.

PR focuses on how we interact with the public.

It focuses on how we connect with our customers.

How we foster relationships within our industries.

How we engage within our own communities, and within new communities.

How we collaborate with the media – traditional and emerging.

How we lead and relate to our teams (from the bottom to the top.)

PR, as defined here at GROWTH MODE, “is how we cultivate opportunities through strategic and authentic relationship building and maintenance.”

It’s how we turn on
GROWTH MODE.

  • PUBLIC Relations
  • MEDIA Relations
  • COMMUNITY Relations
  • CLIENT Relations
  • INDUSTRY Relations
  • INVESTOR Relations
  • TEAM Relations
  • PUBLIC Relations
  • MEDIA Relations
  • COMMUNITY Relations
  • CLIENT Relations
  • INDUSTRY Relations
  • INVESTOR Relations
  • TEAM Relations

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