MIRANDA RSL CLUB & ITS POPULAR IRISH TAVERN) (pending 2008/2009)
CARINGBAH INN (pending 2008/2009)
SUTHERLAND UNITED SERVICES CLUB (pending 2008/2009)
CARINGBAH BIZZOS CLUB (pending 2008/2009)
KEVIN RYAN BAR/CARINGBAH RSL CLUB (pending 2008/2009)
ST GEORGE LEAGUES CLUB (pending 2008/2009)
NEW CLIENT MARIE SHELDON (ABOVE RIGHT) CELEBRATING IMPROVED TURNOVER AND TOASTING FUTURE MARKETING & PR SUCCESS FOR ADAM'S SHED AND ITS MONTHLY WINE TASTING PROMOTIONS EVERY FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH AT LITTLE HARTLEY (JUST DOWN THE GREAT WESTERN HWY FROM MT VICTORIA) WITH REAGAN MURPHY, FOUNDING CHAIRMAN & CEO OF ST GEORGE MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS.
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ADAM'S SHED OWNER-PROPRIETOR ADAM MOSELY WITH WIFE LOUISE. (MARIE IS ADAM'S MUM).
For a complete list of past and present clients please email: info@stgmpr.com.au and a confidential response will be made once we have your contact details. Some are already mentioned elsewhere on this website, under career milestones and testimonials. Case studies and categories can be discussed onapplication.
‘PUTTING ON THE RITZ’ WITH ST GEORGE MPR’s AWARD WINNING AHA PUBLIC RELATIONS (2002)
St George Marketing & Public Relations also project managed a whole new website from scratch in two weeks for the Hurstville Ritz Hotel in association with our online tourism website affiliate, www.getnetted.com.au
We also worked a series of consecutive 24 hour shifts to meet a deadline when called in at extremely short notice to co-ordinate and collate the Ritz Hotel’s AHA Awards submissions in several different categories.
Our research and attention to minute detail in the overall look and feel of the complex submission won two major NSW AHA awards for Steve and Louise Bowden the owners of the Ritz Hotel at Hurstville, announced at Star City’s Grand Ballroom in 2002.
“That was a very exciting night,” Bowden said later. “There is no way we would have made that deadline to get the awards submission in on time and within budget had it not been for Reagan Murphy and St George Marketing & Public Relations,” he said. “And to win not just one major award but TWO … that was tremendous!
“We just didn’t have the time to do it ourselves but realized we had a major investment in everything we had done with the hotel and we were promoting it heavily on 2KY and SKY Channel.
“We were very pleased with the way in which Reagan and his colleagues applied themselves to the task at hand … we’ve known Reagan for 20 years …. This has been Reagan’s favourite pub in Sydney since the days the Ritz was known as Shanneys back in the 1980s.
“When I finally get around to doing a book on my life I’m going to get Reagan to write it for me … it will be called Steve Bowden: My Life Behind Bars.”
The original Hurstville Hotel – on the corner of Forest Road and MacMahon Street – dates back to 1884. It was built by its then owner, Patrick MacMahon, a respected Water Police Court magistrate and wealthy property speculator. MacMahon was an astute businessman who emigrated from County Clare, Ireland, in 1854. Three years later he married the milliner he met on that same voyage aboard “The Caroline” – Dora McDonough at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
MacMahon initially found work as a timber surveyor, having studied land surveying, mathematics and civil engineering in Ireland. He eventually made his fortune importing wine and spirits and, according to The Hurstville Story, introduced Powers Irish Whiskey to Australia. They lived for 15 years in Darlinghurst and then Kirribilli (in a mansion called “Fernhill”).
MacMahon was elected to Sydney City Council and became a member of the Zoological and Geographical societies before paying the extraordinary sum then of 10,000 pounds in 1883 to subdivide a large Hurstville estate – some scrub land in Gannon’s Forest once owned by John Townson upon which now stands the Hurstville Civic Centre. It was here the MacMahons built the magnificent home called either “Dalcassia” or “Moyarta” and when rail lines were laid connecting Hurstville to Central in 1884 there was a property boom of astronomical proportions in and around Hurstville.
It shows scores of beer kegs lined up outside the corner pub as there must not have been a cellar in those days, and, interestingly, a sign promoting a ‘guaranteed 1000 pounds’ to the winner of the next big bare knuckle fight at the Sydney Stadium (Bly v Foreman).
Research courtesy of Reagan Murphy and The Hurstville Story
PUBLICITY CAMPAIGNS & WEEKLY MEDIA RELEASES
(CLUBS, COUNCILS, SMEs)
ST GEORGE Marketing & Public Relations can work with your council, club, telco, GP, MP or hospital to develop or enhance a more effective monthly or quarterly marketing and communications campaign. Better still, we’ll do it for less than you’d expect to pay a full-time publicist. We can share your responsibility (but you get to keep the kudos) for your council’s, club’s, MP’s or hospital’s internal and external communications, including preparation/distribution of news releases on your many, varied activities.
WE can also help you publicise your upcoming events, working harmoniously with your officers to develop literature about your council or club and representing (or adding prestige by being your personal MC) your organization with the demanding and often unpredictable media. St George Marketing & Public Relations has 20 years experience in the effective development and implementation of successful community-minded programs that maintain a positive image of your organization with ratepayers, members, guests, patients, subscribers, constituents and the general public.
AS your de facto publicist and media adviser, St George Marketing & Public Relations will have many responsibilities - too many for one person to carry out alone. There will be times when we call on our aunties and uncles in the city to help us make your special event bigger than ever. But we won’t be charging you the way our richer Aunts and Uncles would be. No sir. Everything we do for you will be transparent and accountable at all times. After all, we’re neighbours in Southern Sydney. We’re just like family. And family means something.
"IT TAKES A VILLAGE," Hillary Clinton says. And if that means bringing communities together for the sake of making significantly less mark-up, then if the village wins, so be it. And whatever modest profits we might have left over after a job well done, we’d still like to dig deep and hand over 15% of those pennies and donate them to local charities of the Southern Sydney village. Let's all report the street's first broken window.
IN time, we’ll earn your respect and you’ll take us into your heart – as we have already in your case – and together we will create an awesome Southern Sydney community, turning it into an economic powerhouse to rival the likes of Malaysia and Singapore! More than anything, we’re passionate about YOUR SUCCESS. Because if you’re successful, we’re successful (only you get to keep the kudos). And if, heaven forbid, anything goes awry, then we’ll step up to the plate and take the rap for our boo-boos. We want your ratepayers, members, guests, constituents, patients to become your raving fans. It takes time. It takes a village. It takes St George Marketing & Public Relations.
HOW WE INVOICE ST George Marketing & PR invoices fortnightly to allow clients to closely monitor expenditure. Invoices detail the consultant, date and exact work undertaken for each client or project, as well as itemised disbursements incurred in the billing period.
We conduct in-house budget tracking linked to our time billing system, which records consultants’ work on a 15-minute basis.
Fee rates
As of February 1, 2007, St George Marketing & PR’s hourly consultancy fees are as follows:
·Media Director - $77
·Creative & Account Director - $77
·Creative Director - $77
·Account Director - $44
·Account Coordinator - $33
·Senior Graphic Designer - $66
·Junior Graphic Designer - $33
·Professional Photography - $66
·Basic Digital Photography - $33
To find out more about St George Marketing & PR and how we can help you with your marketing, advertising or public relations, please call 0450 187 838 or e-mail: stgmpr@yahoo.com.au
And now for a trip down MEMORY LANE ... remember this one?
NEW STAND AT JUBILEE
By Reagan Murphy St. George Leader April 1988
Kogarah Council has approved the controversial development application for the construction of a $3 million grandstand on the western side of Jubilee Oval. At a rowdy meeting on Monday night, the council took less than two hours to reach a 6-5 verdict, which included the casting vote of the Mayor, Alderman Fred Cavanagh.
About 120 St.George rugby league supporters who filled the front of the gallery interjected repeatedly during the debate, booing and yelling at the five alderman attempting to oppose the motion. The council met as a committee to consider granting its consent to the erection of a grandstand at Jubilee Oval, Kogarah, subject to 12 conditions.
These included height and width reduction, emergency parking, additional public use of KogarahPark, improved angle parking on the eastern side of Park Street, additional landscaping and graffiti/vandal-resistant exterior materials.
Those supporting the motion were Alderman Cavanagh (Ind), Susan Gainsford (ALP), Ross Green (IND), Jean Devine, Les Jarman (LIB) and Tom Lind (LIB). Those against were Alderman Peter Burgess (ALP), Frank Baker (Progress), Leonie Bodell (LIB), Laurie Seidl (Progress) and Michael Green (ALP). Alderman John Tynan (IND) was absent, but it is believed he would have supported the motion. The Mayor entered the debate twice and brought a rowdy public gallery to order on four occasions.
St.George Rugby League Club secretary, John Fleming who attended the committee meeting, said : "We were very pleased. It's not up to us to address the council meeting, although some statements were not quiet right. The football club's return to Jubilee Oval was initiated by Kogarah Council and until it goes to its next stage (the May 2 council meeting), we have no commitment to play anywhere else in 1989 but Jubilee"
Mr.Fleming said that it was difficult to make a written commitment regarding investment in a project before Kogarah Council appointed a tenderer. Costs could then be looked at in their right perspective.
He said there was no chance that St.George would not renew its lease in 1991. The State Government's position remains neutral. On Tuesday afternoon, the Minister for Sport, recreation, Racing and Tourism, Robert Rowland Smith told the Leader: "It is now up to the council and the Leagues Club to confirm in writing their commitment. When this has been received the Government will look closely at the proposal."
The former Labor Government promised $1 million to the Leagues Club, half by grant and half on loan at 5 per cent over 12 years. Informed sources are confident the Greiner Government will honour this commitment. Kogarah Council has already committed itself for $300,000, and it was financial arrangements which dominated the council discussion on Monday night. The Minister for Natural Resources, Ian Causley, has the final say on the project once Kogarah Council approves the all-important building application. Deputy mayor Ald Ross Green (IND) was the main speaker for the motion, and received a standing ovation when he concluded the meeting.
"We have satisfied the objectors' wants with reduced shadow effects, and now it's time to bite the bullet and satisfy the St. George supporters," he said. "The motion should be approved, if only to put pressure on the Government for its promised favourable consideration to honour the previous commitment."
Labor Alderman Peter Burgess suggested the club use the $1.7 million to buy some new forwards. "They (the club) left. We didn't ask them to leave and nowthey want a new grandstand," Ald Burgess said, opposing the motion.
After the meeting, the spokesman for the combined residents of Park Street, Pat Ellsmore, said his association feared that ratepayers might be slugged in the event of any fund shortfall. "Current tenders surely suggest the cost of this grandstand could be much higher than $3 million, and I don't think it's unreasonable for the Leagues Club to suggest a figure to which they would go," Mr Ellsmore said after the meeting.
"There's going to be a gap, and I feel the ratepayers could be asked for more than the $300,000. We are proud of the North ward aldermen for putting up such a good fight."
