Community relations, like advertising, is sometimes difficult to assign a dollar value to, and is easily put off for another day. That is, until negative relations with the community threaten to impact your operations. If your company is experiencing poor relations with communities where you operate, or used to operate, Relations Inc. can help you improve the situation. Poor relationships with the community can result in negative press, permit denials, cause costly project delays, and worst of all class action, or toxic tort lawsuits. Many companies have learned the hard way the importance of Community Relations. While we specialize in helping companies with crisis communications, good community relations is a much more rewarding path to pursue.

Whether the community is "up-in-arms," a simmering pot waiting to explode, or, you just want to start doing a better job communicating with the many audiences in your community, Relations Inc. can help you.

The bigger the potential problem the sooner you need to get started improving your community relations, while protecting your reputation and credibility. We will help identify those in the community who could be advocates for your issues. We’ll do an internal assessment as well. Looking at how prepared you are to become proactive with the community. We’ll identify spokespersons and provide them with all the necessary risk communications techniques and media training they will need to carry out their roles in the community.

Relations Inc. has years of experience working with communities, state, local and federal governments and the media. We can design and execute a comprehensive plan to improve communications and relationships with external audiences. We help our clients deal with controversial issues, by implementing the following:

Community Relations: Support from local, well respected individuals is critical. We not only work to neutralize the opposition, but also to create strong, local, proactive allies to carry your messages.

Media Relations can be another element of an overall strategy to build momentum for an issue. We work with the appropriate media to get your message out and build support for your position. Utilizing editorial board visits, on camera interviews, radio talk shows, etc., we get the messages delivered.

Government Relations is another component that is sometimes used to accomplish targeted objectives. Working with government officials, we create strong voices for our clients position.

Environmental Relations is one of our biggest assets. We have experience working with environmental agencies at both the state and federal levels developing creative solutions to difficult problems.