Our staff includes individuals with superior writing and editing skills, and our network of subcontractors includes graphic designers, photographers, producers, printers and mail houses. We prepare spokespersons for news conferences, media interviews, editorial board visits, speeches, presentations and testimony. We also offer a day-long workshop to improve media interview skills and to develop effective messages. We have conducted media training workshops for clients with wide-ranging interests, including ARCO Products Company, Washington State Department of Ecology, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Weyerhaeuser and Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. Databases Creating and managing large electronic databases is a specialty.
Clients use our databases for highly targeted direct mail communication and special events.
Our experience on political and public issue campaigns provides us with insight into organizing effective grassroots support and devising public involvement programs to minimize opposition. Services include developing strategy, creating databases, organizing letter-writing campaigns and telephone banks, holding community meetings and forums, and arranging for testimony. Many clients need assistance in developing a public presence and image. We understand how to identify the best way to establish relationships within a community, how to develop a strong understanding of a community and how to be creative and accomplish this with limited resources. We have developed opinion leader mailing and calling lists, developed political profiles of target communities, introduced key managers to other community leaders, and assisted companies with corporate giving and image building activities.