At Insight Consulting Services, we help your organization achieve its policy, business and political objectives. We give voice to your concerns by executing carefully planned advocacy programs. Our initiatives maximize your impact on the decision makers in government. These client-tailored programs often involve several of the following elements:

LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY SERVICES
With an eye on the success of your particular project or business, Insight Consulting Services intercedes on your behalf at local, state and federal levels of government. By broadening your network of contacts, we provide you with the foundation to impact proposed legislation, secure state appropriations or just assure that your voice is heard throughout the legislative process.

REGULATORY AFFAIRS
If your organization's fate is in the hands of regulatory agencies, we are prepared to protect your interests and advance your goals. We can provide counsel on a wide range of regulatory concerns, participate in the rulemaking process; intercede and mediate in regulatory enforcement actions; promote interagency cooperation to advance your priorities; and, inform and educate regulators.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING
Federal, state and local governments offer financial incentives for the development and retention of business in a variety of forms - grants, loans, tax abatements, to name a few. Determining the program that is right and navigating the process to a successful conclusion can be insurmountable to many businesses. ICS understands the business and regulatory environment in New Jersey well. Let us take the burden off your shoulders and work with you to obtain incentives that can help you sustain and grow your business. We locate funding sources appropriate for your needs and serve as the liaison between you and appropriate governmental entities.

RESULTS-BASED PUBLIC RELATIONS
Public Relations success in New Jersey often requires the coordination of media relations, coalition building, and grassroots activities to support a client's lobbying effort. Properly targeted government activities can lend greatly to a successful public relations endeavor. Insight Consulting Services can assist in the crafting, executing and managing of one, or all of these activities to achieve your legislative, regulatory or policy objectives. Purposeful strategic messaging is key to successful lobbying and advocacy. Organizing and drafting testimony for public hearings, letters to decision makers, comments to agencies and utilizing position papers and research decisively must be part of your routine operation.

LOBBY DAY SERVICES
An essential aspect of any successful government relations program is the organization of different types of meetings and events. One of the most important events for an association is the "Advocacy Day." There is no better way to have your views and concerns heard in Trenton then by having legislators hear first-hand from their constituents. These events need to be closely managed in order to ensure that the meetings are productive and achieve the association's goals and objectives. Lobby-day services can include meeting scheduling; researching and providing summary sheets about the lawmakers to be visited; and preparing and summarizing scorecards from the visits.

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS STRATEGIC PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
We can identify factors that enhance or impede competitiveness; create well-defined action plans that advance your initiatives and employ tools such as PAC counseling, coalition-building, issue profiling and third-party support. Assessing the political climate in order to project what is going on before it does and who may be involved can make a significant difference in results and business decision making. Information that may seem unrelated to your issues and goals can often help or hinder your success. ICS offers this intuitive intelligence and analysis for its clients.

ISSUE FORUMS
Educating the public and decision makers can be the first step in solving a complex business or policy problem. Relying on our meeting planning experience, ICS can provide visibility to your business and your issues by coordinating, developing, and implementing issue forums. Everything from soup to nuts.