Team JoTo PR

JoTo PR is a public relations agency of PR professionals that help our clients’ companies translate their business stories and technical innovation into market advantage. Leveraging the power of the media, JoTo PR campaigns allow our clients to have a fighting chance in a marketplace beset with competition.

In a media-driven world, JoTo PR grasps what clients want and creates media opportunities for them that will advance their business objectives. We know our clients need predictability in their PR.

Boutique PR Firm

Our PR clients all want one thing – they need a team that understands how to get their company well-known and well thought using all the new opportunities that have cropped up out of the New Economy.

At JoTo we know how to get you results in 5 key areas:

1. Lowering your cost per lead
2. Increasing your ROI (Return On Investment) for your marketing dollars
3. Establishing you as the expert in your industry
4. Increasing your company’s credibility for brand awareness
5. Making your Sales easier and faster to close

JoTo was started in the peak of the recession. Throughout the challenges we have used our resourceful and tenacity to build a steadily growing PR firm using the minds of some very smart PR and business pros to make a lean, mean productive PR machine that gets results for our clients.

• Our management team has been in key positions or at the helm of very successful companies and organizations.

JoTo knows Business PR 

At JoTo, we are all entrepreneurs using our initiative and resourcefulness to make you look good so you do well.

JoTo’s team of PR professionals includes market research pros, strategists, writers, media relations and social media specialists, account reps and project managers. Not everyone can be shown here, but our clients know they have top-notch PR professionals working on their campaigns.

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  Karla Jo Helms is the CEO and is the visionary behind JoTo PR. Prior to founding JoTo, Helms developed a proprietary PR strategy for taking any virtually unknown company and by using the power of PR in a strategic way could help them attain critical mass.

  During those development years, Helms codified how to hone in on the best use of PR to increase marketing ROI. The end-result is always a wider sphere of influence and the invaluable commodity of goodwill garnered on a broad basis for her clients.

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  KARLA JO HELMS

  Karla Jo is the JoTo CEO and is the visionary behind JoTo PR. Helms’ is astute in recognizing patterns in the industry, codifying and utilizing these patterns to create PR campaigns steeped in proven traditional and new media methods… for one and one purpose only: to increase the market reach of our clients year after year.

  As the Senior PR Strategist, Karla Jo oversees all JoTo PR campaigns to ensure they follow their tailored strategic communications plans. Courageous and tenacious, KJ is dedicated to taking her clients, and JoTo, to the next level… all the time. (Hover over her bio.)

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  A graduate of the University of Georgia, Diane D. Stein uses her “bulldog” determination to win the day. She knows what creates true rapport between companies and customers and has made it her mission to constantly seek out the newest, fastest and most effective lines of communication to targeted groups of individuals that become driving force behind big movements. During her early PR career in Atlanta, she tested her findings of creating grass-roots communities, which naturally migrated into her specialty of Online PR and Social Media Branding.

  Diane understands that social media is about creating a sense of place in a virtual and otherwise cold world, using only the most reliable tools to create Online PR campaigns that can increase page rankings, web traffic and make you and your business well known and most importantly well thought of.

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  DIANE D. STEIN, President

  Diane is the President and co-owner of JoTo. Diane’s forte is the execution of JoTo’s vision – overseeing all tactical plans and programs to ensure they come to fruition. Diane’s ingenuity in ensuring that JoTo’s business processes are fast and efficient is tantamount to all PR strategies we create, so that our clients (and employees) realize their business goals and dreams.

  Diane is also the Senior Crisis Management PR Strategist, which again depends on the JoTo’s organizational backbone being superb. (Hover over her bio.)

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  Paul Stein comes to JoTo with 22 years of experience as a sales consultant. With a degree in computer science and extensive training in business management, Paul Stein brings to the table a systematic approach in helping his clients succeed.

  Lured away from his own consulting company by an opportunity to take on the task of establishing the sales division for a national consulting firm, Paul moved his entire family to Florida from Georgia in 2003 where he did indeed help build up what became one of the fastest growing companies of its kind.

  But as exciting as that venture was, Paul realized that he was an entrepreneur at heart and saw the opportunity at JoTo PR to help small to companies take control of their business destiny by increasing their market share through the power of Public Relations.

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  PAUL STEIN, VP Client Relations

  Over all JoTo Client Accounts, Paul ensures that the JoTo Sales and Delivery teams stay coordinated. It’s our belief that Communications Pros should stay in communication with all personnel involved in client campaigns! Paul runs the sales-delivery teams with a long-time successful track record in business administration – which is no small reason why our clients’ campaigns get results and outdistance their competition. We’re in it with our clients for the long-haul and Paul epitomizes that purpose. (Hover over his bio.)

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  Alyssa Kaplan comes to JoTo with a background in Public Relations and Marketing. Having interned at a prestigious publishing company in NYC, working in the publicity department, she gained the knowledge and experience to further strengthen and develop her professional career. Alyssa brings professional experience, knowledge and creativity to JoTo. Alyssa has a BS from Towson University and had the opportunity to study PR and International Marketing in Spain.

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  ALYSSA KAPLAN, PR Project Manager

  Alyssa Kaplan is the JoTo PR Project Manager responsible for herding the entire creative and delivery teams of JoTo. Market Researchers, Writers, Editors and Media Relations Specialists. Alyssa has been dubbed the “Honey Badger of Project Managers” due to her determination of ensuring JoTo clients get high-quality and successful PR campaigns delivered with speed, accuracy and on time that match our clients’ goals and exceed their expectations. (Hover over her bio.)

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  Grey Kitty is the resident bad-ass cat. He’s earned that title from his 16 years as an outside cat, trolling the wilds of Florida, getting into all kinds of scrapes and mishaps – even a wolf’s mouth – has earned him the nickname Gangsta’ Kitty. But don’t let that outside demeanor fool you. GK is and has always been a lover, and will snuggle up to the instant he meets you. Purrrrrrrrr….

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  GREY KITTY, JoTo Greeter

  Grey Kitty comes to JoTo from an already 16-year career as the perfect greeter and snuggler. He takes his semi-retirement job seriously and greets everyone that comes into JoTo, winning them over until they too are as wrapped around his paw as we are! Grey Kitty is commonly referred to by his favorite monikers of GK and Gangsta’ Kitty, has been featured in the news and now has his own blog. Meow…(Hover over her bio.)

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  KOLTEN KITTY, JoTo Employee Morale Officer

  Kolten Kitty was rescued and arrived at JoTo one cold winter night (not really, but it sounded good!) He really was a rescue kitty and when he arrived at JoTo his immediate response was, “Can I play with all the people…please!!??” From that point on, Kolten Kitty has proceeded to grace every desk at JoTo with his cute little orange furry body causing coos and purrs from “the people.” We too are as wrapped around his paw as we are GK’s – mew, mew! (NOTE: He’s too young for his own bio yet.)