Elevate your brand and transform your business.

You want to be bigger and better.

We help businesses grow by knowing their market, telling their story and living their brand.

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STRATEGY

Analyze your market and build your brand while working on a plan for growth.

MARKETING

Tell your story clearly and consistently with inspirational design and messaging.

EXPERIENTIAL

Live your brand in your services, your communication and your culture.

What we Do

When potential meets partnership.

We’re a team of marketing and business professionals focused on taking your business to new heights by making your brand stand out from the competition. Through our partnerships, we help teams maximize their resources and talents to be the market leader they have the potential to be. We do this by creating innovative solutions grounded in objective market research, communicated in a powerful corporate narrative and delivered through a superior customer experience by an engaged workforce.

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A bold approach that brings brands to life.

Oftentimes in business there are no second acts, so we work with executive teams when it matters most and they can’t afford to get it wrong. Our partnerships are centered on getting to know you and your business so we truly are part of the same team. This proven approach brings stakeholders together to generate innovative solutions founded on data-driven decisions and arrived at with creativity and teamwork. And they have the most critical element to succeed: buy-in.

We’ve partnered with industry-leading brands.

“Our partnership and engagement with Act 1 was instrumental in bringing together the teams of both companies and was a boost to our integration resulting in a terrific and unifying new name and helping to establish our brand promise for years to come.”

Tim Biltz

CEO, Segra

“The branding workshop with Act 1 Partners was one of the best experiences of my career.”

N. Price

Director of Customer Operations, Spirit Communications

“During a critical time in our company’s growth, their marketing insight and leadership helped us assemble a marketing team, implement a new brand and launch a new product. They set us up for success.”

R. Risch

CEO, Phylos

PODCAST

Aligning Sales and Marketing for B2B Success

Act 1 Partners joins B2B marketing expert Pam Didner to discuss aligning sales and marketing for B2B success. John and Pam discuss the following: - Why is it so essential for B2B marketers to work with sales? - What is the one thing marketers must do when they...

Apr 17, 2021

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COMMUNITY, INSIGHTS, NEWS

Act 1 Partners’ President Featured in Guest Column

Viewpoint: Execs of this former 'unicorn' company on not counting Portland out By John Nee and Dudley Slater Mar 26, 2021, 6:20pm EDT Daunting best describes our decision to move our business to Portland in 2004. Relocating over 100 (initial) jobs, negotiating new...

Mar 29, 2021

INSIGHTS

No More Handshake (pics)!

Let Go of the Handshake Photos For More Appropriate Brand Visuals | In the words of our nation’s top infectious disease consultant Dr. Anthony Fauci: “The handshake is dead.” As many federal and state social distancing protocols remain in place, the handshake has...

Mar 12, 2021