AptStart Services
Advocacy and Government Relations
Governments can have a major impact on your business. Changes in legislation and regulations, public policy ideas, grants and tenders, parliamentary committees and election commitments can all affect how your business will operate into the future.
Having an effective government and parliamentary relations strategy in place can ensure you remain aware of existing and proposed regulations, changes in government programs, opportunities to partner with governments and access to influence decision making.
If you need support to understand, influence or engage with the Federal, State or Local Governments, we can help:
Government Relations Strategy
Developing your government relations plan, outlining key issues, stakeholders and engagement plans, and political tactics.
Advocacy & Lobbying
Directly engaging politicians, staff and public service leaders to advocate for public policy change.
Political Awareness
Keeping you up-to-date with policy, regulation and legislation changes, and helping you understand the impact on your business.
Crisis Management
Handling the advocacy around any crises which may arise to inform, educate and engage stakeholders.
Public Policy
Drafting your public policy position statements and election platforms.
Compliance Review
Helping you understand legislation and your business’s compliance.
Grant & Tender Submissions
Drafting your grant or tender submissions to partner with government.
Inquiry Submissions
Writing submissions to government inquiries to ensure your voice is heard on relevant issues.
Inquiry Coaching
Training and coaching you for appearances you may need to make before committees.
Communications, Media and Public Affairs
Reaching and influencing your audience is critical. Whether it’s internal or external, your communication materials need to hit the right note to achieve results.
From planning, management and execution through to feedback and evaluation, we can lift your comms to the next level:
Communications Planning
Developing a plan to manage your communication activities and goals.
Campaign Management
Designing, managing and evaluating your one-off project or long-term communications campaigns across bought, owned, earned and shared mediums.
National Spokesperson
Acting as media and social media spokesperson for your organisation.
Crisis Management
Handling a one-off, urgent PR crisis to help you respond to media and social media queries, and customer related comms to minimise the impact of bad PR.
Media & Social Media Management
Managing your media inquiries, monitoring and engagement to boost your positive PR and minimise or eliminate your bad PR, and developing a social media strategy, content and engagement plan.
Media Training & Public Speaking Training
Teaching you how to respond to media and building your public speaking skills.
Content Creation
Creating blog posts, scripts, feature articles, ad campaigns, opinion pieces, social media posts to put out to the public.
Stakeholder Engagement
Helping you build local networks to promote your business and build your brand.
Event Coordination
Managing and planning your events and business showcases or conferences.
Master of Ceremonies
Acting as MC at your events, conferences and dinners to ensure they flow smoothly and professionally.
Business Planning
Putting the details on paper to help you stay focused and working towards your goals.
Company Secretarial
Coordinating meetings, handling minutes, managing paperwork with government agencies, reviewing constitutions and governance.
Policy Development
Developing new policies and reviewing existing policies to make sure they align with your business’s needs.
Website Design & Setup
Every business needs a good website and we can build yours for you and, if required, manage it going forward.
Change Management
Planning and executing change management planning and strategies, including stakeholder and staff engagement and communication.
Creative Writing
If you’re looking for a film to develop, ghosting writing services, creative collaborations or content, you’ve come to the right place.
Screenplay Rights
I currently have four screenplays The Meditation Room, While Noah Slept, Possessive and Shaw Vengeance which are available for production. Future screenplays will also be made available here. Check them out on the Projects page.
Novel Rights
My published novels and future works are available for adaptation and further publication. Check them out on the Projects page.
Ghostwriting
Writing your memoirs or biography, helping you finish your novel or creating content on your behalf.
Co-Writing and Collaboration
Working together to create, finish, publish and/or sell a fiction or non-fiction project.
Adaptations
Converting your work into a novel or screenplay.
Content Creation
Creating blog posts, scripts, feature articles, ad campaigns, opinion pieces, social media posts and more to put out to the public.
This isn’t an exhaustive list and we’re happy to work with you to consider your specific requirements.
If there is something on the list or something missing which you need, please get in touch and we can discuss a bespoke package to meet your advocacy, communications or creative writing needs.