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

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“Kindness catalyst” Linda Cohen joins Your Marketing Moment

It was our pleasure to feature author, public speaker and "kindness catalyst" Linda Cohen on the Act 1 Partners’ podcast, Your Marketing Moment. Linda is a popular keynote speaker and the author of two books making the case for how kindness is good for our lives...

Nov 21, 2022

COMMUNITY, INSIGHTS, PODCAST

Carol Kruse Joins Your Marketing Moment

Former ESPN Chief Marketing Officer and Coca-Cola executive, Carol Kruse, joined the Act 1 Partners’ podcast, Your Marketing Moment. Carol shares how her marketing moment set her on a career trajectory that allowed her to lead some of the biggest brands in the...

Nov 7, 2022

COMMUNITY, PRESS RELEASES

Act 1 Partners Sponsors the 2022 Tennis Ball Gala

The Portland Tennis and Education's Tennis Ball Gala took place on October 15, 2022 at the Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland. This is the 25th Anniversary of the program, and featured ESPN Tennis Analyst and Commentator Brad Gilbert as a special guest. Act 1...

Oct 24, 2022

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