Timothy Communications Inc.
Public Relations & Video Marketing Established 1985 Chicago/Palos Hills, Illinois 708-974-3152
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Our Governing Principle
Timothy Communications was founded in 1985 by John LeGear to provide professional, high quality public relations and marketing communications services to national organizations that could not otherwise afford them. The rewards of developing programs for noble but (then) underfunded professions--with heavy emphasis in our early days on the National Athletic Trainers' Association--have molded our no-nonsense "nuts and bolts" approach to the fundamental principle of conveying clear and concise messages to specific target audiences.
During the past 25 years, we've been privileged to represent dozens of organizations, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to lone entrepreneurs, and along the way we've maintained one credo: a quality marketing communications program must never cost our clients more than it's worth to them.
TimComm Introduction
Professional, Innovative, Affordable
The quality of our work compares to that of any of the largest public relations agencies in the U.S. Our recommended strategies and tactics have proven over and over again to be effective; our writing is focused and succinct; our photography illuminates stories; our PowerPoint presentations convey the essential messages; and our videos animate the products and services offered by our clients.
We don't talk much about what we're planning to do, or how we've done what we've done. We just roll up our sleeves and complete our tasks and let our work speak for itself.
And we don't save the pricing punchline for the end of our capabilities pitch. Timothy Communications bills at a flat rate of $100 per hour, about one-third the average hourly rate of public relations agencies in the tall buildings. We don't begrudge our better dressed colleagues. It's just that we don't want to run out of our clients' money before we get their job done. When our clients succeed and grow, they often take us along for the ride, and that's reward enough.
Respecting Editors' Time, Clients' Budgets
1) Far too many marketing dollars are wasted on news releases that have no news value and, as such, no realistic chance of being seen or heard.
2) Print editors and broadcast news directors cannot be manipulated by even the most polished and sophisticated "public relations specialists," and efforts to do so often do more harm than good.
We realize publicity is vitally important, and we encourage our clients to make it a budget priority. Favorable publicity is singularly the best dollar-for-dollar return on any organization's marketing investment. But until Timothy Communications' clients have something truly newsworthy to share, we encourage the companies and not-for-profit organizations we work with to build a well-rounded marketing communications program, using a sensible combination of some of the services we can provide, as listed on this page.
Decades of journalism, public relations and marketing experience have led us to two realities about the ongoing quest for publicity, or what some people view as "free advertising" (which it is not):
2) Print editors and broadcast news directors cannot be manipulated by even the most polished and sophisticated "public relations specialists," and efforts to do so often do more harm than good.
We realize publicity is vitally important, and we encourage our clients to make it a budget priority. Favorable publicity is singularly the best dollar-for-dollar return on any organization's marketing investment. But until Timothy Communications' clients have something truly newsworthy to share, we encourage the companies and not-for-profit organizations we work with to build a well-rounded marketing communications program, using a sensible combination of some of the services we can provide, as listed on this page.
