After a decade in business, 360PR, the 25-person boutique PR firm based in Boston, has announced the launch of a New York City office led by Rob Bratskeir.

CEO and founder Laura Tomasetti subscribes to the belief that size doesn’t matter. Since 2001, the economy has had a couple of low points and she says the conditions have been “exactly right for boutique agencies.” More important to clients is whether their PR firm “can be entrepreneurial, flexible, and nimble,” she told us in a phone conversation today.

Tomasetti has experience working with both larger firms and large companies and said she always wanted to do “big brand work.” That work is possible with a boutique firm, she says. However, she tells us there are some things that 360PR is doing in order to compete with the bigger agencies.

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