Activ-STEP is a marketing company that blends strategic consultancy with full agency delivery. We combine a range of skills to successfully deliver effective marketing campaigns to meet our clients demanding goals. Our clients range from small local businesses to large national companies and cover business (B2B) and consumer (B2C) sectors.
Activ-STEP was set up and incorporated in January 2004 by its founding Director, Mark Carver. Prior to this Mark had a background in a number of senior marketing positions within blue chip companies working with clients in the UK, Europe and globally. Over a 15 year period, he gained extensive marketing experience having successfully completed many strategic and tactical projects. Now in his 5th year of running Activ-STEP Mark has developed a good understanding of the SME sector and has delivered many successful marketing projects for both local and national companies.
Mark’s co-director at Activ-STEP is Emily Cooper. Emily also has a background in large corporate organisations in the areas of commercial management and business development. Expertise has been gained over 12 years in industries including telecommunications, electronics and information technology. Emily understands complex sales and is able to communicate technical products and services effectively to non-technical audiences through professional copywriting and presentation material.
Matt McConnochie joined Activ-STEP in 2007. Matt’s experience enables him to get involved in a wide range of tasks in delivery of campaigns for our clients. Matt is the technical whizz behind many of the CMS and E-Commerce Websites delivered by Activ-STEP and talks in strange languages like CSS, PHP and XHTML. Fortunately he also speaks English fluently and project manages both online and offline activities for our clients.
Nicholas Thomas is an expert in online marketing, harnessing the power of the internet to generate new enquires and sales for Activ-STEP clients. Nick is Google Adwords qualified and specialises in Search Engine Optimisation, Pay per click (PPC) advertising, affiliate marketing and email campaign management.
Sarah Newey is an artist in the true sense of the word capable of drawing freehand in a variety of styles as well being a talented graffiti artist (although we promise she is not responsible for anything on the walls in Coventry – she participates in organised competitions!). Sarah is able to translate her drawings into digital form for use in print or websites and is competent in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash. With her natural artistic talent, and digital skills, she is responsible for a lot of the graphic design for websites and printed materials.
We have a network of other skilled contacts to deliver specific elements of a campaign including telemarketing, print, direct mail distribution and film production.
If you would like to find out more about the projects we can deliver to help you and your business please give us a call on 02476 226 814.
