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A Win-Win for Clients and Agencies

Our Mission

To form and foster an exclusive network of the brightest public relations professionals in the world, each bringing their unique expertise, energy and geography to launch campaigns, amplify messages and solve client problems together.

Our Story

By 2017, the original founders of USPR, Bob & Cora Schiers and Susan Hamburg, had already marketed many of the world’s best-known brands for nearly 50 years. They ran their own communications and media firms but felt ready to launch a new kind of collaboration.

They brought together other successful, independent agencies to offer more brainpower, more boots on the ground in more markets and more pairs of eyes, ears and hands to carry out big plans without the big headaches of balancing multiple agencies in multiple markets and without paying multiple invoices.

Those visionary founders negotiated many first-of-their-kind group plans to give small, independent agencies access to industry tools they couldn’t have afforded otherwise.

Lower overhead. Better value. The model made sense to other agency owners, including Chris Kuban, founder and CEO of Chemistry PR & Multimedia in St. Louis, Missouri. The USPR network grew to an international scale. Sadly, in 2022, co-founder Susan Hamburg passed away. By 2024, USPR CEO Bob Schiers and President Cora Schiers felt they were ready to retire and pass the USPR baton to the next generation.

By then, Kuban had witnessed the results and ROI of the USPR firsthand, so he purchased the network, eager to build on the founders’ legacy with expanded multimedia capabilities for telling clients’ business stories in memorable, visual ways and for protecting and projecting their reputations using new tools.

Since USPR’s founding, member firms have planned and managed world-record-breaking events, coordinated media tours for spokespeople, celebrities and top executives, led national and international marketing campaigns, consistently landing stories for USPR clients in some of the world’s most influential traditional news outlets and promising new channels.