Fly-in Solutions
Fly-ins are a critical tool to energize and expand your advocacy base while giving your legislative issues attention from the Hill. However, these events are extremely taxing on staff, require a specialized knowledge to accomplish many of the tasks, and often require organizations to send staff from headquarters to the very expensive DC-metro area.
Sage Solutions has a suite of services that we can provide to reduce the burden felt by staff and by budgets.
Pre-Conference Services
Fly-in Strategy
Do you need to re-imagine your fly-in, increase attendance or start a fly-in program from scratch? Rely on Sage Solutions years of fly-in experience to make your next conference a success!
“Know Before You Go” Training
Sage Solutions offers a series of virtual advocacy 101 trainings for your attendees to attend. We can even record a series of videos for you to provide your attendees so that they can learn on their own time.
Material Production
Sage Solutions can draft, design and produce your materials.
- Advocacy Briefing Books
- One Pagers
- Walk-in Slides
- Agendas
- Speaker Bios
Sage Solutions can also work on your behalf with National Journal to shepherd your design process for you.
Was it the night before your fly-in when your legislative ask changed? Send us your updated documents and we’ll make sure they’re at the hotel on time!
Test Your Attendee’s Knowledge
Sage Solutions provides you with a series of trivia quizzes you can send your attendees. Not only does this enhance your attendees’ experience, it gives you the opportunity to better understand your attendees’ knowledge prior to the conference so you can design programing to meet their needs.
Services Provided During the Conference
Live Trainings
Let Sage Services make an hour of your programing headache-free. We can provide a live training during your programing.
We know that your attendees learn best from each other. Connect us with a member of your leadership and we will work with them to co-facilitate the training.
Do you have bad or practical news to share with your attendees? Let us know and we can step-in during our training to be the barer of bad news.
Scavenger Hunt
Help boost your social media presence and make the event more fun for your attendees by letting Sage Solutions create and manage a scavenger hunt challenge for your attendees. This friendly competition engages your attendees, encourages them post photos on social media and encourages followers to attend next year.
Attendee Support
Your attendees deserve white-glove treatment while in Washington, DC. Sage Solutions can help you provide it while they are on the Hill. We can:
- Attend congressional meetings with new attendees, members of your leadership and those attendees who may have a personal agenda
- Sit in the Senate or House cafeteria to address onsite questions or solve logistical concerns
- Help corral attendees for a group photo in front of the Capital
PAC Booth Staffing
If you have a PAC, its presence is a necessity during your fly-in but the staff with the specialized knowledge necessary to operate the booth are typically in charge of the programing or could further increase donations if they could mingle with attendees. Sage Solutions can operate your PAC Booth and free your staff to attend to other tasks. We can also design and operate live donor boards during the conference or create and implement fundraising challenges during the event.
Other Booth Staffing
Why bring headquarters staff into Washington, DC to staff registration, information or fundraising booths when Sage Solutions is already here! With minimal training and limited oversight, we can step-in to operate these booths.
Delicate Solutions
Fly-ins are a notorious mix of leadership, engaged members and big egos. Sage Solutions can help by delivering the bad news during a training, attending meetings with an attendee who has a personal agenda or handling any other delicate situation that may arise. Let your attendees blame us and not your staff.
Pricing Solved.
Sage Solutions is here because we respect your time and want you to do more with less. We charge a mutually agreed hourly rate that works with your budget. Learn more by contacting us!
