

Welcome to the www.Lobbyist.org blog. From the outset, I want you to understand that we appreciate you visiting our site, and hope to provide you with quality information about Lobbying, Legislative Advocacy and Governmental Relations.
As such, I want you to know upfront that this website is designed to accomplish 3 things.
1) To get people like you, the reader, educated, involved and active in the legislative process.
2) To help support, produce and promote involvement and advocacy tools and devices for lobbyists, voters, and consumers.
Hello!
Welcome to www.Lobbyist.org, the home of the Lobbyist Education Center, MCR Public Affairs & Advocacy, and Michael Ross, Consumer Advocate.
As a service based website, we would like to invite you to get involved and join the growing number of consumers/voters who want to learn how to lobby and influence or shape political actions and decisions.
As you can see from reading our mission statement, we are here for you and your needs, and will do our best to help you.
YOU’VE GOT SOMETHING (NEWS) TO SHARE ... NOW WHAT?
Imagine that for the last couple of weeks, you’ve been keeping a secret that you know the world wants to hear or that you are going to release a new revolutionary product that everyone will want to read about, purchase and use. When you are ready to tell everyone, how do you go about letting the press know, so they can write, publish or produce a story on this “revolutionary news?”
Thanks to an ever growing media system that now includes newspaper, radio, TV and the internet’s billions and billions of websites and their uniquely and focused written blogs, we’re bombarded with a variety of different corporate, governmental, artistic, specialized & personal messages (news) daily.
Welcome to our short tutorial on "How To Hire A Lobbyist."
Lobbying is a very interesting profession, one in which not only provides for a lot of excitement, but also responsibility- not just for the entity hiring the advocate, but because of that advocates impact on the industry, government and general population.
As such, the following has been developed to help anyone hire an Advocate on their behalf.
The information we will be providing you with includes:
1) Does My Firm Need A Lobbyist? (if so, how do we hire one)
2) What Does A Lobbyist Do?
Consumer How To Series: