What We Do

Contacting Press:
Nothing is as important as the initial approach to a member of the press. Who do you contact? How do you contact them? What is your "pitch" that gets their attention? What are YOU going to do >>

Keeping Press/Relationship Building:
Okay, your initial approach to a media outlet was successful and you got a decent hit in their publication or station. Now what? >>

Crisis Management:
When things are good, products work, the CEO is dynamic and customers are happy, getting press coverage can be a fairly easy and fun process. Many times, THEY will come to you and the story will be positive in nature. >>

Handling Interviews for Management:
Every spokesperson thinks they are the best at getting out the company message. CMM will show you a videotape of some of those people giving television interviews and newspaper clippings of interviews. >>

Executive and Personal Development:
Remember, at CMM, we don’t "train," we develop. C-level executives have a great deal on their minds, we all know that. Most of them think they can come right out of a meeting, breeze into the interview room and knock out a killer 30 minutes with a reporter. >>

Public Speaking:
55% of public speaking is the visual, or what people see. Believe it or not, only seven percent is what you say! >>

Panel Appearances:
Participating on a panel is quite different than being the lone speaker to a group. Listening, timing and comfort that you know your message are the three keys to leaving that lasting impression as people walk out the door. >>

Interview Techniques, A Three-Step Program:
Would you go into battle without any weapons against a wise and powerful opponent? Of course not, because the results would be obvious (and deadly).>>

Relationship Building:
Many top executives are so preoccupied with running their companies that they forget what got them to that level in the first place, building strong relationships.>>

Internal
How many times has an employee said: "Why did I have to find out about this in the newspaper and not from my boss?" Or this: "Why is our message not being communicated consistently across regions?" >>

External
Inconsistent external communications can also weaken a company. Are your spokespeople delivering the SAME message? Is your message being translated consistently across all regions? >>

"What’s the ROI?" How many times have PR managers heard that question from their bosses when trying to justify dollars for public relations? Measuring PR success, or return on investment, is not an exact science and, to date, there are no quantitative programs that achieve this goal. That is until now.>>