Martin & Salinas Public Affairs, Inc.

Martin & Salinas Public Affairs, Inc. primarily provides consulting services for local, state, and national clients doing business in Austin and the Central Texas area. Our services are focused in the following key areas:

Government Relations
We provide consulting, strategy, and lobbying-related services for clients in the Central Texas area to facilitate governmental or public approvals for a wide range of projects and issues. Typical projects include real estate development projects and their related issues; state, county, and city governmental approval issues; addressing neighborhood concerns; organizing public involvement; and developing effective public approval strategies.

Issues Management
We provide strategic consulting to handle specific client challenges and issues. Activities include development of key messages, audience targeting, internal message discipline, media relations, direct mail, opinion leader organization, and the coordination and balance of legal issues with public relations needs. We have also handled a number of public referendums and issue-related campaigns.

Media and Communication Strategies
We provide strategic consulting, planning and execution of communications programs. We use our media relations expertise to help educate the public or officials via the press, solicit support from editorial boards and opinion leaders, and work with the local, state and national media to help ensure accurate stories and to help "manage" news coverage. We also provide crisis communications services including contingency planning, vulnerability audits, spokesperson training, and strategy development and implementation.

Martin & Salinas Public Affairs, Inc.
1221 South MoPac, Suite 115
Austin, Texas 78746