Category: News

Fueling the Frontline Health Care Workers on the MidPen


When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the Middle Peninsula community in 2019, we all rallied around our heath care teams, working to provide them as much support as possible as they dealt with a public health crisis unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Today, as the pandemic surges to new…
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On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Read, Watch, Listen, Grow


“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” These words from Martin Luther King Jr. resonate with all of us at Consociate Media. We’re storytellers eager to lead the dialogue. We’re listeners who want to contribute to the conversation. We’re doers determined to make…
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Don’t overlook these 5 things when going Live on Facebook


If you’ve decided on a Facebook Live to promote your business’s next major announcement or a reveal of a new product or service, congratulations! You’re using one of social media’s most versatile tools to engage with your audience. Need a few tips and tricks to get started? Glad you asked!…
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Black History is Our History


As social media blacked out Tuesday, June 2, 2020 – taking a poignant time out to encourage us all to think about our history and our future, our thoughts and our actions – Consociate Media’s family took time to have some heartfelt conversations. We talked with each other. We talked…
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Nominations Wanted: Stories of Strength Inspired by YOU


“How wonderful it is that nobody need to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank said that. And boy is it resonating with our entire team at Consociate Media during this novel coronavirus crisis. Each and every single day we’ve heard about or seen firsthand…
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Support Each Other…Even When Apart from Each Other


By Stephanie Heinatz, Consociate Media Partner At this point, I can’t recall who shared it, where I found it, or how I navigated to it, but it was the headline that grabbed me. “This Can Be Our Finest Hour-But We Need All Of You.” I’d lost count of how many…
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5 Apps We’re Loving for Marketing in 2020


Vision 2020. Bringing 2020 into focus. Get focused in 2020. The list goes on and on for all the ways we can set this year – 2020 – up with inspiration to make it the strongest yet for your organization and brand. So to help get you started, if you’re…
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The Three-Legged Stool Approach to Telling Stories, Pitching Journalists


By Stephanie Heinatz, Consociate Media Partner Back in the day, while working as a newspaper journalist, I learned early on my biggest weakness. I was addicted to story. To human conflict and how people overcome adversity. To the tales of people doing good for each other…just because. My first newspaper…
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The Marathon of Business


By Stephanie Heinatz You didn’t think this was going to be easy, did you? It was mile 14 of the 2019 Richmond Marathon and those were the words of my father, an experienced endurance athlete, Boston Marathon veteran, and retired U.S. Army sergeant major, as he jogged alongside me for…
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Consociate Media Expands, Welcomes Acclaimed Virginia Wine Marketer Michael Kimball to Team


Formerly of The Williamsburg Winery, addition to Consociate Media launches new partnership between the two companies. GLOUCESTER and WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia – Stephanie Heinatz, Managing Partner of Consociate Media, and Patrick G. Duffeler, Founder and Chairman of The Williamsburg Winery, are pleased to announce that following eight years serving in various…
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