About Tom
About Thomas J. McFeeley
Tom McFeeley
Thomas J. McFeeley has served as a trusted communications advisor to dozens of companies, individuals, and organizations throughout his career. He began his career as a journalist, working for The (Stamford) Advocate and Greenwich Time newspapers in the Times Mirror and Tribune chains from 1993 to 2001. There he was a general assignment and business reporter before being appointed the Capitol Bureau Chief, guiding the publications’ state and national political coverage while attending national conventions and significant political and legislative events.
He began his public relations career as the Press Secretary for the George Jepsen for Governor campaign in 2001 and 2002, crafting communications strategies that positioned him as the challenger most likely to unseat a popular incumbent. After the campaign, Tom accepted positions to craft and execute communications strategies for a national charity, a global technology firm, and two public relations agencies. He has secured national and international coverage for clients in countless trade publications as well as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Fortune magazine, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox Business and CNN.
His strategies have resulted in: a little known franchise receiving 160 million media impressions in a 15-month period, a 1,500-word profile in the Wall Street Journal for a small upstate New York maker of dry erase boards and systems, a CNBC segment for a client that increased website traffic for a client by 1,000 percent, the opening of US markets for foreign-based clients, and ongoing coverage for a Fortune 500 client. His work has earned Tom coverage in PRWeek, the industry’s leading publication.
A social media expert, Tom has most recently designed and executed targeted strategies for clients on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. One client enlisted almost 350 industry followers on its first day on Twitter, the popular microblogging site.
A graduate of Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, Tom is also a freelance humor writer and resident of Stamford, CT . He is a proud but frustrated fan of the New York Mets and New York Jets, enabling him to channel great energy and effort into his clients’ success.
About Thomas J. McFeeley Communications
Thomas J. McFeeley Communications was created in 2008 in order to provide a complete communications platform for companies of all sizes. The company’s founder, Tom McFeeley, has extensive experience in public relations, across dozens of industries, as well as a previous career in business and political journalism. He believes every company, executive, and organization must have a clear understanding of its brand to allow for successful communications programs.
The company places a focus on developing key messages for clients, often working with organizations to identify an internal brand mantra. Using that mantra and key messages to guide all communications strategies, TJM Communications is able to deliver a clear message, a focused story to all applicable audiences.
TJM Communications excels in all aspects of public relations, such as media relations, writing and editing services, media training, collateral development, crisis communications and other activities. In addition, the company has developed social media programs with a focus on jump starting corporate campaigns on sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Clients have included a foreign exchange (Forex) software company, an entertainment brokerage firm, an intellectual property consultancy, interior designers, various small businesses. TJM Communications has also served as the PR arm of marketing and advertising firms.
