What is Arena Strategies? Arena Strategies serves southeast Pennsylvania and beyond providing, political consulting, strategic planning and business development to a variety of businesses and organizations, specializing in the technology, biotechnology industries and financial services.  Arena Strategies will take your innovative aspirations and create a specialized, detailed framework making your idea a reality.  Arena uses its unique Arena matrix, a three pronged approach that asses the risks and opportunities, develops the strategy and implements the detailed campaign. Every decision, whether corporate, political or organizational, must assess public opinion. Our extensive campaign experience gives us a unique prospective that can benefit any organization.  At Arena, we invest in our clients’ needs. We understand a good organization needs to understand its clients. Thus, we utilize every available means including demographic, economic, and geographic research, to provide our clients a complete and personalized picture of their marketplace. What type of clients do you work with? Arena Strategies’ clients include: politicians, school districts, municipalities, technology companies, financial services, development, construction and engineering firms. May we contact you for additional information? Absolutely! Call or email us to see if we are what your organization needs.  We will examine your current situation and determine if we can help you reach your goals.   Where are you? Arena Strategies headquartered in Center City Philadelphia, the city of firsts, is ideally located at 1515 Market Street, Ste 1540.   How much do you cost? We will work with you to develop a plan — on a per-project basis, at an hourly rate, or on a monthly retainer — to fit your needs and your budget. Where did you come up with the name Arena Strategies? The name was inspired from a speech given by the American Lion, our 26th President, Theodore Roosevelt on April 23, 1910 at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.  His speech “Citizen in a Republic” espoused the virtues of a free society but pointed out how they came at a price.  The price is participation.  In typical TR fashion he spoke boldly, bluntly and eloquently espousing the now famous passage that inspired the name for Arena Strategies: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."                             -Theodore Roosevelt,  April 1910