Services

Empower your organization with an intersectional lens

GoFish! is a full-service public relations firm offering a specialized approach by listening and communicating through an intersectional lens.

We will give your organization the knowledge, tools, and resources necessary to create accessible, culturally relevant, and efficient communications, ensuring you are reaching and authentically engaging your key stakeholders.

For clients requiring an expert’s touch and quick turn-around, we provide a full suite of communications products and services, such as drafting strategic communications plans, crafting compelling written content, results-oriented social media management, relationship management, and more.

Specialized Solutions for Not-for-Profits

We have a special focus on the distinctive communication needs and challenges faced by not-for-profits. To help realize our vision of a Nova Scotia where marginalized and vulnerable populations have the tools and resources to amplify their voices and to take their seat at the table, we offer coaching and workshops on a wide variety of communications topics - we don't want to speak on behalf of you. We want to empower you to effectively speak for yourself.

Service Packages to Save You Time and Money

Combine any number of our available services to create a bespoke package that strategically addresses your unique communications needs. The more services you purchase, the less you pay per service.

OUR SERVICES

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Strategic Planning

You have a goal, but do you have the map to reach it? We are capable of delivering comprehensive, strategic communications plans that provide the necessary roadmap.

  • Communications Plans
  • Social Media Plans
  • Crisis Communications Plans
  • Sponsorship/Fundraising Plans
  • Internal Communications Plans
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Social Media Management

From high-quality content to the day-to-day tasks necessary to build your online presence, we offer several social media management services, including:

  • Content Creation
  • Social media scheduling
  • Social media engagement
  • Blog writing
  • Article writing
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Social Media Clinic

We'll audit up to 3 social media profiles during an intensive 1-hour session, offering feedback and specific actions you can take to improve your social media presence on:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
  • Google MyBusiness
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Grant Writing

Grants are essential to the success of any not-for-profit, but preparing applications can take the focus off of an organization's important work - providing programming, services, and support to your clients. We can support you in that work by:

  • Researching grant opportunities
  • Writing compelling applications
  • Preparing reporting and follow-up documents
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Workshops

We offer several comprehensive, hands-on workshops covering a wide variety of communications topics. The content is tailored to your organization's needs and skill level with the topic. Every workshop also includes:

  • Copies of worksheets and templates
  • Hands-on experience and engagement with the ideas, techniques, systems, and tools discussed in the workshop
  • An electronic copy of the presentation for later reference
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Public Relations Writing

Engaging writing that reliably strikes the appropriate tone and amplifies your voice, not just your words, across a wide variety of traditional public relations items:

  • Articles
  • Press releases
  • Media advisories
  • Annual reports
  • Brochures, pamphlets, and other marketing materials
  • Newsletters
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Media Relations

From newsworthy events and programs, to positioning your organization as a subject-matter expert, we can provide several media relations services:

  • Media kit production, distribution, and follow-up
  • Media advisory and press release writing, distribution, and follow-up
  • Media training
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Communications Audits

An in-depth survey and analysis of your communications activities, with as narrow or broad a scope as you require. At the end of our analysis, you will receive a document outlining your strengths and weakness in the area we looked at, as well as suggestions for moving forward to improve or build upon your current success.

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PR Counsel & Expertise

We provide our clients expert advice to organize and accelerate their communications efforts. Whether you need a public relations professional on retainer, require crisis communications services, have a one-off question or concern, or just want a second opinion on a communications issue, we are available on an hourly basis to help you out.

TESTIMONIALS

Amanda is keen and such a quick study. She captures the nature of the task at hand very quickly and delivers on schedule with little or no direction. Her PR and communication skills are on point and it also nice to know that she gives her time and talents to many local charitable causes.

Colette Robicheau – Organize Anything and neatfreak! Spokesperson

Amanda helped launch my new website and also did a contest and promotions on Facebook and Twitter. I was very pleased with her service. Go Amanda and try her company - GoFish!

Marilyn Cummings, RDH, BScHE – All Smiles Dental Hygiene Clinic

OUR PROCESS

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Free Consultation

A totally free one hour consult to discuss your organization's unique communications needs and challenges, and how we can help you achieve your organizational goals and objectives through effective communications.

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No-Pressure Proposal

We'll deliver a proposal containing a number of solutions to meet your communication needs. Combine as many or as few of those solutions to build a bespoke service package that effectively addresses your needs.

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Contract & Deposit

Before work begins, we'll provide you with a comprehensive service contract that clearly sets expectations for the protection and benefit of us both. Work begins once the contract is signed and the deposit is made.

Let's talk about how GoFish! can help empower your communications today!