For Immediate Release
October 24, 2000
Contact: Ed Barks
(540) 955-0600
ebarks@barkscomm.com

Free Check Up Augments Trainings;
Clients Choose How to Exercise Added Benefit

Barks Communications has added another benefit for its clients - a free check up following every communications training workshop.

"This important benefit will provide our clients with yet another edge designed to maximize the results of their training workshop," said company President Edward J. Barks. "It represents one more aspect of our commitment to ensuring a premier communications training experience for every client."

Every Barks client who participates in a full day or half-day media, presentation skills, legislative testimony, or webcast training workshop is eligible for the check up. They can take advantage of the 30 minute telephone follow up any time within two weeks of their workshop.

Clients can opt to use their free check up for a wide range of purposes. For example, they can use it as a debriefing session after a key media interview, as a final rehearsal for an upcoming speech, or to help resolve questions that arise during an internal strategy session on pending legislative testimony.

"I am confident our clients will make good use of the enhanced flexibility offered by their free check up," Barks continued. "Some clients will want to use it tighten their message; others will want to employ it as a mini-training workshop. The main point is, the client is the one who decides how to make use of this valuable benefit."

"This check up formalizes a practice we have offered informally all along," he noted. "Now we put it in writing."

Barks Communications specializes in media, presentation skills, legislative and regulatory testimony, and webcast training for business, association, government, and non-profit leaders. The firm also operates Barkscomm.com, the Internet's Communications Training Resource, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week at www.barkscomm.com.