July 30, 2010

Communication consulting

Get expert advice on launching or revitalizing your communication vehicles

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“Ann helped us elevate the professionalism and quality of our materials and communications that our investors find both relevant and appealing.”
— Roberta J. Laughlin, vice president, Mutual Funds Marketing, Northern Trust
Find out what others say about Ann Wylie’s consulting services

Do you need to create a communication vehicle that brings in new clients? Communicates corporate messages? Helps your organization achieve its goals and objectives?

If so, Wylie Communications can help — from critiquing your Website to launching a newsletter from scratch. Let us help you:

  • Get an extra pair of hands — or four. We provide a virtual staff to write and edit newsletters and magazines for Saint Luke’s, Northern Trust, State Street/Kansas City and Sprint Corp. Let us pick up the slack in your department, too.
  • Revitalize a flagship piece. We revamped Saint Luke’s Health into a more effective, attractive, popular magazine — for the same budget as its less-appealing predecessor. We’d love to help you reboot an old favorite, as well.
  • Make communications more effective. We gave FedEx a blueprint for transforming its management magazine into a strategic tool for the organization’s success. Bring us in to help you align your communications to your organization’s goals.
  • Stop reinventing the wheel. We gave General Dynamics C4 Systems a proposal template with a fill-in-the-blanks executive summary, guidelines and a before-and-after example to model. Let us create formulas, checklists and templates to make your  communications more effective and less time-consuming.
  • Outmaneuver the competition. We benchmarked a Motorola company’s press releases against those of its competitors, then delivered guidelines to help the company set the standards for media relations writing in the industry. Let us help make your communications best-of-class, too.
  • And more. See a fuller list of consulting projects.

Why Wylie Communications?

  • When Ann Wylie served as editor of Hallmark Cards’ employee magazine, CROWN, the publication was named the best of its kind in the world by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and the best of its kind in the nation by Women In Communications.
  • In all, Ann’s communications have earned more than 60 awards, including two IABC Gold Quills.
  • During Ann’s editorship of Ingram’s, the regional business magazine’s editorial and design earned dozens of awards for excellence, its circulation increased by 35 percent and its ad sales soared by one-third.
  • No wonder IABC called on Ann to write the book on publication planning. The resulting manual, Planning Powerful Publications, has been called “the bible” of corporate publications.
  • Since then, we’ve helped dozens of companies launch or revitalize their communication vehicles.

Wylie Communications can help you, too, improve your social media vehicles, publications or Websites.

Put yourself in good company

These organizations have already improved their communications with our consulting services:

  • Accenture
  • American Business Women’s Association (ABWA)
  • American Century Investors
  • Burns & McDonnell
  • EDS (now HP Enterprise Services)
  • FedEx
  • General Dynamics
  • Hallmark Cards Inc.
  • Motorola
  • New Letters
  • Northern Trust
  • The Principal
  • PSI (Public Strategies Inc.)
  • Saint Luke’s Hospital Foundation
  • Saint Luke’s Health System
  • Sprint PCS
  • State Street/Kansas City

Are you ready to take the next step to make your communications more effective?

Ready to refresh your communications?

Let Wylie Communications help you transform your communications from boring to best of class.

To discuss your project, contact Ann Wylie. We’ll help you breathe new life into your publication or Web site.