Key Offerings

By combining deep-rooted economic development and site selection knowledge with a keen understanding of the political landscape, Advocus Partners is uniquely positioned to help clients navigate complex challenges and achieve their goals. The firm’s integrated approach ensures seamless execution and maximizes the potential for success by securing incentives and engaging with the community. Key service offerings include:

Strategic Planning and Market Analysis: Developing tailored strategies and conducting in-depth market research to identify optimal locations and opportunities.

Workforce Development: Addressing talent needs through strategic workforce analysis and development incentives.

Incentive Negotiation and Site Selection: Securing competitive comprehensive incentive packages and identifying ideal locations based on client-specific criteria.

Policy Advocacy and Community Engagement: Building strong relationships with stakeholders and advocating for policies that support economic growth.

The world – and the world of Washington –is complicated and ever-evolving. Advocus helps our clients manage the impacts of these changing dynamics, leverage new opportunities, and shape the policies and trends that impact their business and interests.

Effective strategies flow from insight and accurate information. That’s why Advocus team members can separate the useful from the merely available – a trait that distinguishes us from other consultancies.

Advocus Corporate Advisors offers C-suite executives bespoke analysis, insight, and predictions on topics ranging from health, defense policy, elections, and communication techniques. Our clients rely on the breadth and depth of our combined expertise to help them navigate the changing political dynamics that impact critical business decisions. We help clients understand the investor environment and help them navigate the changing politics around key issues of the day. We are also well positioned to advise clients on how to manage Corporate Social Responsibility objectives and Environmental Social, and Governance standards.

With senior-level experience in the White House, Congress, the Executive Branch, and state legislatures coupled with uncommon strategic vision, policy expertise and close working relationships with decision-makers around the world, Advocus team members are prepared to help you navigate challenges in states, the nation’s capital and around the globe. Whether you seek new legislation, need to modify regulation, or want to put a stop to adverse legislation, we have the skills to achieve results under the most difficult circumstances.

Through tailored advocacy strategies, Advocus helps clients build reputational and brand awareness with key decision-makers, successfully navigate complex regulatory environments, negotiate incentives, advantage business development efforts, pass and defeat legislation, as well as activate state and local support to drive federal advocacy efforts. And today, it’s not just who you know, but what you know. Advocus possesses a deep bench of policy expertise to help clients navigate complex regulatory and legislative challenges – at all levels of government.

With team members located across the country and in key state capitals including Sacramento, Austin, Atlanta, and Tallahassee, the Advocus team has unparalleled experience in state and local advocacy. We are also deeply connected to policymakers at the local level in key states. Our professionals know the issues, the people, and the politics and can help you navigate it all. We offer tailored advocacy strategies that will help you achieve success.

Our offerings include state legislative and executive lobbying aimed at both passing and defeating legislation, negotiating state and local incentives, issue monitoring and policy analysis, local coalition development and lobbyist management, and political intelligence and fundraising strategies. We are also skilled at identifying and activating state and local support to drive federal advocacy efforts. The Advocus team is poised to help you impact the issues and the people that matter at all levels of government.

Advocus team members have years of experience that help us tell our clients’ stories in compelling fashion – and gets results – across all media platforms. We apply rigorous research and analytics to create bespoke, integrated strategies for traditional and digital platforms. Advocus identifies key audiences and takes your message directly to them through targeted engagement and custom content. Tactics are important and clients have more tactics available to them today than ever before. We make them work for you.

The Advocus team excels at building both short-term and sustained advocacy campaigns, targeting key media members and influencers across all relevant platforms. We apply state-of-the-art media monitoring and analytics to manage the many elements of a modern campaign from survey research to media outreach and from op-ed drafting to targeted online advertising. We identify the stakeholders that matter to you and make sure they hear your messages in a clear and compelling way.

Finding allies and working with them in an organized fashion is central to influencing legislation and regulation. Democracy moves when large numbers of people combine to make the case together. Advocus understands this well and has developed an expertise in coalition management. When managing campaigns, Advocus relies on lessons learned in our political and lobbying work. We believe in planning, research, and pro-active messaging.

From taxation to transportation, Advocus team members have led the government affairs and communications efforts of large groups of companies and trade associations. United for common purpose and with clear joint communications and advocacy, Advocus-run coalitions have been models of efficiency and effectiveness. Large enterprises need steady hands at the helm. The potent combination of Advocus team members provides that to coalitions of all sizes.

Our national network of organizers gives us the ability to find supporters across the country, and our experience as campaign managers helps us bring together stakeholders and merge their competing agendas into a winning campaign. We build coalitions that impact debates. Even in the age of the Internet and social media, Advocus has found that letters, phone calls and personal communications from prominent constituents remain one of the most effective ways to persuade undecided lawmakers and their senior staff.

As part of its grasstops practice, Advocus recruits influential validators in targeted communities and mobilize them to share their story. Grasstops is one way to ensure your likely and unlikely allies are speaking on the big issues before Congress and the states. Advocus provides customized – not cookie cutter – campaigns to help you achieve your intended outcome.

Every winning campaign is built on a foundation of accurate data and strategic insight into target audiences. Effective messages are based on research. Advocus helps you know your world by utilizing cutting edge research tools that help you achieve your goals by providing research findings that are “actionable.” Evaluating issues and situations is taken one step further by using research data to develop a core set of recommendations for each project. Advocus can provide live interview polling, daily tracking services with instant overnight reporting and analysis, online quantitative research, live or digital focus groups, and IVR/automated polling. We also provide strategic relationship mapping, opposition research, and social listening services to ensure you have all the data you need to succeed.

Government spending and investment in infrastructure and technology systems is at an all-time high, fueling rapid growth in private sector areas for government contracting with hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and grants. Governments depend on a wide array of private contractors to provide the program management, hardware, software, manpower, technology, and solutions needed to deliver on their mission.

Unfortunately, the government procurement and grant process is infinitely complex, presenting challenges to even the most sophisticated vendors. Few government affairs and consulting firms understand this landscape as well as Advocus. We come from government – we helped run these agencies and systems that fund and administer billions of dollars of federal, state, and local programs. We know the people, the process, and the pitfalls. We can help you navigate the byzantine process – and often the politics – of government procurement.

The Advocus team helps clients navigate the complex business, government, think tank, media, and public policy environment in Washington and helps American and international clients develop and execute strategies for success in key foreign markets. Our success in international politics and business stems from our longstanding relationships with key government and business decisionmakers in Washington and in capitals around the world, augmented by our understanding of the complexities – political, economic, security, cultural, and historical – that shape their decisions.

We help clients understand and engage with the U.S. government, including Congress; the Departments of State, Defense, Treasury, and Commerce; the U.S. Development Finance Corporation and Export-Import Bank; and state and local government leaders and agencies, and help C-suites develop and execute successful international strategies.

Advocus can design and execute government relations strategies and represent our clients’ interests in Washington, with targeted and coordinated outreach to U.S. government agencies, Capitol Hill, thought leaders, and businesses. We advise clients on the implications of foreign policy and Washington decision-making. In addition to creating and executing both targeted and nationwide public relations campaigns, we liaise with multilateral organizations and think tanks, and we advise and executive strategies on potential business transactions.

With deep connections in the intelligence and security communities and a strong media relations team comprised of former reporters and intelligence researchers, Advocus can help you build your case and share it where it will have the most impact. Advocus works across traditional and digital channels to make sure your story is told. We offer full-service, cutting-edge litigation support and reputation management for clients who have pending or active legal proceedings. We are a resource for – and are often hired directly by – law firms. Advocus can help build a successful strategy, create positive content, and craft a narrative that prominently elevates your story in online searches and builds your Google page one. We work in all phases of litigation – before, during and after formal proceedings — and help with rehabilitation and long-term reputation management.

With a team of both seasoned campaign and communications professionals and former journalists, Advocus Partners excels at creating public affairs campaigns that reach the targets that matter to you. We direct your messages to media members and influencers across all relevant platforms. Through the deployment of state-of-the-art media monitoring and analytics, we work to identify where our clients stand in the media landscape and what their strengths and weaknesses are. We then apply and manage the many elements of a modern campaign from survey research to media outreach and from op-ed drafting to targeted online advertising and text messaging.

Our offerings include targeted messaging development, media engagement, website development, digital strategies and engagement, crisis communications, content creation, search engine optimization, and media monitoring and analytics.

Advocus Partners are highly experienced in digital advocacy. From web development to day-to-day operations, we can help you achieve measurable results and help our clients manage their online presence. We produce every variation of online and social media content: videos, photographs, email newsletters, podcasts, and informational graphics — the bumper stickers of our time. We reach exactly who you want when you want to reach them through careful targeting and customized messaging.

We also create and target digital advertising to priority audiences. We know what works – and what doesn’t – and help clients develop the best messages to meet their goals. We provide the data needed to reach these audiences and to demonstrate our impact on your behalf. Our background in campaigns informs our efforts and drives our success.