Communication That Cuts Through

At Bates & Mills, we help you shape your message and find the right audience to hear it. We apply our expertise across a wide range of projects with varying scopes, from directing entire advocacy and political campaigns to tackling individual issues. You tell us your goal and we’ll work with you to ensure that you achieve it.

Strategic Communications

We'll help you determine your audience, hone your message, and then execute the most efficient and cost-effective communications strategy to reach them. The communications plans we develop are based on solid research, and they enable organizations and candidates to build public support and mobilize others into taking action.

Targeting

Whether you need to reach a broad swath of people or a narrow group, to be effective, your message has to reach the right people. Using techniques that have been the basis of many successful campaigns, we will help you determine the right audience. We’re known leaders in this field.

Mail & Media

The professionals at Bates & Mills Consulting have been producing winning communications plans for more than 30 years. We use sound strategy to shape our mail programs, and our creative team has produced numerous award-winning mail pieces. We also have more than a decade of experience working directly in the media and know how to catch an editor’s eye to get your message in the newspaper or on TV. We pitch your message through press releases, meetings with reporters, editors and policy makers, and through the web and social media, giving you the opportunity to broadcast your message in the medium that is most likely to reach your audience. We’ll get people talking.

See samples of our work here.