Training / Coaching

Do your communications folk need outside expertise and coaching to speed up their learning curve? Talk to us.

Or choose from six our workshops:

Presentation Savvy, Interview Savvy, Media Savvy, Copy Savvy, Marketing Savvy and Digital Savvy. Workshop details below.

Each practical, dynamic workshop is backed up with up to 12 months unlimited on-demand coaching.

Available across Australia to you, your team or network. Face-to-face on online.

Marketing Campaigns

Develop your brand, investigate your audiences, assess your communications options and develop the plan to take you to the promised land.

Review and renew your current marketing and communications or start from sctratch.

Hootville has worked with nonprofit age care providers, foster care recruiters, employers struggling to recruit, awareness weeks, political candidates, television shows, helplines, thought leaders and conferences.

Brett de Hoedt co-founded Our City, Our Square which defeated Apple and the Victorian Government to protect Federation Square from a retail superstore.

Emcee & Speaking

Brett de Hoedt regularly takes the stage as an emcee or keynote speaker at conferences and events across Australia.

He helms awards, launches, business breakfasts, public events and exhibitions across dozens of industries. He brings wit, savvy and energy to every gig, big or small.

Using the skills gained on live radio Brett introduces, entertains, chairs panel discussions and delivers keynotes. He breaks ice, grills guests and keeps the show on the road.

Visit Brett de Hoedt’s dedicated emcee and speaking website, discover his keynote topics, read the rave reviews and get in touch.

Website Development

We tackle website development from a marketing perspective - after all your website is your key communication tool.

Don’t let a tech person give you a website that fails to be the best employee you ever had.

Hootville offers technical, design, content expertise, along with the planning, under the one roof.

Peruse some of our sites.

PR & Media Campaigns

Start a movement, gain a profile, promote your cause.

Public relations campaigns can take many forms but the best are multi-faceted, drawing on your strengths.

If you need to persuade policy makers, ignite voters or gain support, talk to us.

We love campaigns, even lending our skills free to many issues including the Our City, Our Square which defeated a popular state government and Apple to keep a superstore out of Melbourne’s premier public space.

Video & Podcasts

Brett spent years as a talk radio broadcaster on 3AK, 3MP and community radio.

His podcast The Hardest Word has twice been nominated for an Australian Podcast Award and is played on radio in the UK and Switzerland. He can help you create a podcast.

And we have created dozens of videos - we can supply concepts, crew, direction and on-camera coaching. Take a look.