About

Trust expert Scott Baradell is CEO and founder of Idea Grove. Idea Grove helps its clients secure trust at scale through its unique Grow With TRUST approach. Scott is an established authority on trust and editor of the online publication Trust Signals, as well as author of the upcoming book Trust Signals: Brand Building in a Post-Truth World.

Idea Grove celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2020, earning honors including the 2020 Pegasus Award for Small Agency of the Year, being named a Top 200 B2B service provider by Clutch, and ranking in the top 25 tech agencies in the U.S. by O'Dwyer's. Scott has an Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) from the Public Relations Society of America and speaks on PR and marketing topics at industry events nationwide.

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  • My first work of nonfiction was a recipe for a liver loaf sandwich scrawled on an index card.
  • I became a Miami Dolphins fan when they won their last Super Bowl in 1974 and have been suffering ever since.
  • During a visit to Japan, my tour bus was attacked by snow monkeys but I somehow made it out alive.

Trust Signals

Trust Signals is a long-term project by Scott Baradell, CEO of the unified PR and marketing agency Idea Grove, one of the top 25 technology PR firms in the United States.

For more than 15 years, Scott has been a thought leader on the future of public relations. He created one of the original PR blogs, Media Orchard, which at one time had a larger audience than PRWeek. His focus in recent years has been on growing his agency by helping his technology clients grow.

In 2020, Scott began writing Trust Signals: Brand Building in a Post-Truth World, outlining a new framework for the practice of public relations, now available from LionCrest Publishing. 

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