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  • Real relationships.
    ​Real results.

    We don’t do spec work and we don’t enter awards shows. Our best proof is the relationships we’ve built — clients who came for one project and stayed for years. Here’s how a few of those stories unfolded.

From our portfolio

They told us their problem. We found a solution that worked for them. With our approach, a challenge that expands in scope and complexity results in a successful long-term relationship.

Lifeline / Connect America

Engagement: 2015–Present

VideoDirect MailLead NurtureWeb Ads

Lifeline needed an agency partner for fast-turnaround email production for caregiver and senior audiences — with ability to scale into additional channels as needs grew.

  • Quarterly e-newsletters evolving to monthly sends for two audience segments
  • Daily outbound email campaigns with monthly performance reporting
  • Animated and instructional videos for US, Canadian, and German operations
  • Multi-channel lead nurture program processing 10,000+ daily records across email, letters, postcards, self-mailers, and robocalls
  • Ongoing data processing and analytics for campaign optimization

A single quarterly newsletter became a full-scope engagement spanning every outbound marketing channel. We became an embedded extension of Lifeline's marketing department — exactly the relationship model we build with every client.

Lifeline Web Advertising

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Lifeline Videos

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Lifeline Lead Nurture Program

A 30-day automated email sequence sent to new leads. Click any email to enlarge.

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Fulfillment Mailings

Care Recipient fulfillment mailings. Click a day to view that mailing's pieces.

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HealthForge Venture Studio

Engagement: Ongoing

StrategyWebsiteContentStartup SupportBeachhead Training Tool ↗

HealthForge is a Pittsburgh-based venture studio that guides early-stage medical device companies through three structured programs — Beachhead, Refinery, and Forge. They needed a comprehensive marketing program for the studio itself, a web presence that reflected that framework, and a communications resource their portfolio startups could actually access.

  • Engineered the digital infrastructure that brings the Beachhead program to life — giving cohort companies a structured way to document and capture their training session work, while giving HealthForge the visibility to monitor progress and mentor each group
  • Built the HealthForge website from design specs provided by the founder — taking his PowerPoint layout and turning it into a live, functional site
  • Scheduled ongoing website maintenance, and content updates will be done as the venture studio evolves
  • Established marketing and communications support for portfolio startups — from pitch materials to product messaging — on an as-needed basis

HealthForge now has a marketing infrastructure that matches the sophistication of their programs — and their startups have access to agency-level communications support without carrying the overhead of an in-house team. Exactly the model The Barry Group was built to deliver.

From Rough Concept to Working Tool

Beachhead Training wireframe concept — Team OverviewBeachhead Training wireframe concept — Beachhead SegmentsBeachhead Training wireframe concept — Value Proposition

We started with this concept and turned it into this fully functional online tool.

Digital Onboarding & Workflow Automations

Engagement: 2012–Present

New EmployeesEmployersBusinesses

Most companies collect the same information over and over — the same name, the same number, typed into one form after another. Every re-entry invites an error someone has to catch later. Every extra step is a rougher first impression for the person filling it out. And the automation that would tie it all together — across forms, records, documents, and systems that don't naturally talk — is exactly what most teams can't build or maintain on their own.

Employee onboarding is a great example: a new hire completes a W-4, an I-9, a direct deposit form, and a local tax form — the same details entered four times, four chances for a typo, and four documents for someone to collect, verify, and re-key.

We build systems where the information is entered once. That one entry is populated on every required form. We capture a genuine signature, and the employer gets a single PDF with every form they need. The workflow automation — the part most teams can't build or run on their own — connects forms, records, documents, and separate platforms into one process that works — and keeps working regardless of how the company scales.

Our online workflows serve three audiences at once — and each gets something different:

The employee is done in 3–5 minutes instead of 15–20. The business spends 60–70% less time on each one — no mismatched data to chase, nothing missing, nothing to re-key. The employer looks buttoned-up from the first handshake. One new employee, one completed onboarding packet.

And, it isn't just onboarding. For a payroll client, we integrated their CRM with their payroll platform so once a new employee's information is collected, it's immediately added and available for the next payroll run — no re-keying, no errors, and no wasted time. For another client, we've integrated their website with their Microsoft SharePoint folders, their CRM, their invoicing application, and their events ticketing platform to provide end-to-end management of all their in-person events.

For New EmployeesYou fill it out once

New Employee Onboarding
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About You
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Citizenship
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  • Enter your basics a single time — name, address, contact, SSN, date of birth
  • 3–5 minutes, not the usual 15–20
  • One short, guided session — required fields can't be skipped, so nothing bounces back
  • Click submit and you're done
Start day one feeling good about where you landed — no repetitive stack of paperwork.

For EmployersYour first impression, buttoned-up

Day 1
Welcome to Northgate Logistics, Silas
Your onboarding is complete
✓ Signed & dated📄Your onboarding packet — one branded PDF
  • Every new hire gets a polished, on-brand welcome from day one
  • One clean, signed packet — no paper chase on your end
  • Look modern and organized from the first handshake
  • Sets a professional tone that reflects who you are
New hires meet a company that has it together — before they've even started.

For BusinessesThe automation you can't run yourself

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Collect new client info — once
A new client's details captured a single time
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Their employees onboard themselves
Guided flow → every form filled & signed
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Data flows to payroll automatically
No re-keying at any step → Payroll platform
  • One entry populates every form — same data everywhere, zero transcription errors
  • Required fields enforced — compliant, nothing missing
  • 60–70% less processing time per hire
  • Integrations that carry the load — data lands in payroll on its own
How it works: collect a new client's information once → their employees onboard themselves → clean data flows straight into payroll. No re-keying, at any step.
The workflow engine most teams can't build — running quietly under your name.

Professional Association & Angel Investing Communications

PEA: 2017–Present  ·  Active Angels: 2020–Present

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Two Pittsburgh membership organizations, two different problems, one owner. PEA needs its 28 category-protected memberships current the moment anything changes — a new member, a new weekly assignment, a new speaker lineup. Active Angels needs a fast-moving investor network kept in sync on weekly virtual pitch sessions and a monthly in-person meeting, without anyone missing a notification.

For PEA, a Zoho Sites website wired directly into a CRM — member data lives in one place, and the category listings and weekly assignment postings update themselves the moment it changes. For Active Angels, TBG runs the weekly meeting notifications and formats and distributes the monthly newsletter.

Two very different member bases, same outcome — nobody's waiting on a manual update. PEA's category grid and weekly Product Table reflect the CRM in real time. Active Angels' membership gets the next pitch session and the monthly recap without anyone chasing them down.

Professional Networking Association

Attorney / Legal
Awnings & Window Treatments
Banking
Business Machines
Carpeting & Flooring
Certified Public Accountant
Commercial Real Estate
Contracting
Garment Decoration
Insurance – Life, LTC & Disability
Annuities & Investments
Insurance Adjusting
Insurance – Property & Casualty
Janitorial Commercial Cleaning Services
Landscaping
Locksmith
Mover
Painting Contractor
Photographic Interior
Printing
Electrician— OPEN
Fitness / Wellness— OPEN
Florist— OPEN
Hardware Store— OPEN
Home Health Care & Nursing Services— OPEN
HVAC— OPEN
Jeweler— OPEN
Roofing— OPEN
Category FilledCategory Open – Inquire Today
Category Open

This membership category is available. One business per category — inquire to see if it's still open.

Apply for Membership
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Product Table

GREETER

Toth Carpeting, Inc.

LEADS

Thompson Printing and Consulting

LEAD SURVEY

Thompson Gusic Insurance Group

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Rauscher Financial

SPEAKERS

  • 316 Contracting LLC
  • A&J Lawn Pros
  • Ancur Design & Supply Company
  • Central Maintenance & Service
  • Dek The Walls Photographic Designs
  • First National Bank of PA

ALTERNATES

  • GoldStar Advanced Business Solutions
  • Greentree Locksmith
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

Product Table

GREETER

316 Contracting LLC

LEADS

Dek The Walls Photographic Designs

LEAD SURVEY

Central Maintenance & Service

CLOCK

Greentree Locksmith

SPEAKERS

  • Jeffrey J. Englert, CPA P.C.
  • Pfister Adjusting, Inc.
  • Rauscher Financial
  • South Hills Movers
  • Thompson Gusic Insurance Group
  • Thompson Printing and Consulting

ALTERNATES

  • Toth Carpeting, Inc.
  • 316 Contracting LLC

Angel Investing Network

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The Barry Group is a marketing communications agency based in Marshall Township, PA, serving Pittsburgh-area businesses and clients nationwide. Contact us any time for a virtual or in-person consultation and project discussion.

Phone

  724-316-9562

Email

  joe@thebarrygroup.com

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