Fixed-price offer
Communications audit and recommendations
Recommended starting price: $650
A focused review of current communications with a prioritized set of recommendations for next steps.
See the catalogWho we serve / higher education
Communications support for colleges and universities.
A focused starting point for teams working to make complex priorities, messages, and audience relationships easier to understand and use.
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Start with the communication job in front of you.
Colleges and universities work across many relationships and moments. Cairnwire’s published services provide a way to clarify the audience, message, channel, and next step for a defined piece of communications work.
This page is an audience-specific guide to Cairnwire’s published scope. It does not add institution-specific experience, outcomes, testimonials, or compliance advice.
Published 30-day engagement
The Communications Engine, clearly defined.
The published Communications Engine is a 30-day communications transformation for a clearer message, a usable content system, and practical tools.
Explore the full Communications EngineMessaging strategy
A clear foundation for what you need to say, why it matters, and how the message can travel across your work.
Website messaging
Practical direction and drafted language for making your website easier for the right people to understand and navigate.
A 90-day content plan
A usable editorial structure that connects your priorities to a realistic rhythm of content and outreach.
Impact storytelling tools
Prompts and working tools to help your team gather, shape, and share stories about the work and the people it serves.
Partner and funder language
Clear language for conversations with partners, funders, and other people who need to understand the value of the work.
Communications playbook
A reference your team can use to keep messages, stories, and content decisions connected over time.
Implementation support
Thoughtful working sessions and practical guidance as your team begins applying the system to real communications.
Published project offers
Fixed-price services for a defined communications need.
The catalog below repeats each published offer’s name, scope, and displayed starting price. Cairnwire confirms the final scope and fit before work begins.
Fixed-price offer
90-day communications strategy
Recommended starting price: $1,800
A practical 90-day direction-setting document with priorities, audiences, messages, and an action sequence.
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Comprehensive communications plan
Recommended starting price: $3,500
A fuller communications plan that connects organizational context, audiences, messages, channels, and implementation guidance.
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Messaging framework and audience guide
Recommended starting price: $1,500
A reusable message foundation with audience-specific guidance for consistent, context-aware communication.
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Social media strategy and 30-day content calendar
Recommended starting price: $950
A channel direction and 30-day calendar with content prompts, themes, and practical publishing guidance.
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Campaign development and launch toolkit
Recommended starting price: $2,500
Campaign framing, core messages, audience considerations, and launch-ready communication tools.
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Press release with basic media list
Recommended starting price: $650
One press release draft plus a basic, relevant media list for the story or announcement.
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Feature article or impact story
Recommended starting price: $450
One polished feature or impact story shaped from supplied context, interviews, and supporting materials.
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Website copywriting, up to 5 pages
Recommended starting price: $1,750
Copy for up to five agreed website pages, shaped around the organization, audience, and intended user journey.
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Email nurture sequence, 5 emails
Recommended starting price: $900
Five connected email drafts with a clear sequence, audience context, and suggested calls to action.
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Stakeholder or partner outreach toolkit
Recommended starting price: $1,500
Audience-aware outreach language and reusable tools for communicating with stakeholders or partners.
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Annual report writing and content organization
Recommended starting price: $2,500
Editorial structure, content organization, and writing support for an annual report built from supplied materials.
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Community engagement or outreach strategy
Recommended starting price: $2,750
A context-aware strategy for listening, outreach, participation, and communication across a defined community.
See the catalogPractical starting points
Resources for the next communications conversation.
Use the published guides and working tools to clarify the question, shape the message, or prepare for implementation support.
Higher-education communications: a practical, source-cited guide
A practical guide for colleges and universities to map stakeholders, choose channels and cadence, strengthen internal and crisis listening, measure communications, plan for connectivity, and review accessibility, privacy, and consent.
Read the higher-education communications guideA practical guide to clearer enrollment and stakeholder communications
A planning guide for schools and higher education teams to clarify who they need to reach, what each audience needs to understand, which channel fits, and what appropriate next step to invite.
Read the enrollment communications guideA clearer communications brief for the work that matters.
Use this practical worksheet to help a mission-driven organization or place name who it needs to reach, what it needs to make clear, and where the message should travel.
Open the communications briefBuild a 90-day content calendar your organization can actually use.
Use this client-ready, editable planning sheet to turn your Communications Engine priorities into a 90-day content system. Choose the timing, cadence, and owners that fit your team; the blank rows are yours to shape.
Open the 90-day content calendarPartner and funder language template
A reusable working document for shaping clear, accountable language about an organization’s work, impact, partnership needs, and funding needs.
Open the communications playbookImplementation support planning worksheet
Use this client-ready, editable worksheet to identify the communications assets or priorities your organization wants to work on, and to keep support questions visible as you prepare for a next step.
Open the implementation support worksheetChoose a useful next step
Bring the communications question into focus.
Start with a conversation about the work in front of your team, or review the published fixed-price offers and choose a defined place to begin.