The Writing Coach is In

If you’re frightened by a blank page – or a blank screen – have no fear. The Writing Coach is in. If the blank screen doesn’t frighten you, you may be one of those people who can’t write a simple email message without a lot of opinion and anecdotes and unnecessary information. Content matters. Get…

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Can You Answer These 3 Questions?

Can You Answer These 3 Questions?

Who is your audience? What do you want them to know? What do you want them to do? The Activ Consulting Group enjoys a variety of clients – small businesses, non-profit organizations, hospital/health care systems and entrepreneurs. And no matter what I do for them, our marketing and communications conversation begins with those three questions.…

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A Message from the Heart

We love our clients. And we love referrals! In fact, a referral is one of the best compliments we can receive. Most of all, we love celebrating the success of activities that promote our clients’ businesses. Some highlights of what we’ve been up to recently: • Secured a live television news interview for an author-psychologist-coach…

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Is it Time to Refresh Your Website?

If your website does not reflect your current operations and changes that have taken place in your business since the pandemic began – it’s time. If your website has not been touched in a few years – it’s time. If your website really doesn’t represent you, your brand, your business, your expertise – it’s time.…

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COVID-19 Lessons in Communications

In a recent discussion about professional communications, someone asked me what I’ve learned from the coronavirus pandemic. I readily answered with this: Leaders must be truthful, and we need to rely on experts to address crisis situations.  Of course, those aren’t new lessons, but they have been strongly reinforced since the pandemic began to unfold…

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Holiday Hints for Your People

Ready or not, here they come! The holidays are upon us.  For some that is welcomed relief from a difficult year. The end of 2020 is finally in sight. For others, the holidays bring even more stress to end a really stressful year. This year’s holiday concerns are worsened by job loss or insecurity, illness…

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We have news!

In addition to our core services in marketing, communications and management, we are moving into the Fall season with a cornucopia of opportunities to help you make – or continue – your pandemic pivot and move forward. With less than three months remaining in 2020 – a year full of changes and challenge — we…

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Do You Know What We’ve Been Up to Lately?

We’ve been busy!  Recent and current projects we’ve undertaken for the variety of clients we enjoy serving include: Developed a process for a nonprofit hospital to rebrand several service lines, to better align the clinical services with what the patient wants. Helped a small business make a pandemic pivot, refreshing web content and developing a digital media strategy to target an…

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