OGS Blog
The Hidden Dangers of Client Discovery Calls
Client/prospect discovery calls are a must have business practice for consultants, agency owners, and professional service vendors. They're crucial for building relationships and sealing deals. But guess what? Dangers are hiding in the background that can derail your...
Goal Setting is Futile, Unless . . .
It’s November. 2024 just around the corner. That’s goal setting time for many businesses. So here’s the question: Has your annual goal setting exercise begun to look like those New Year’s resolutions? You know the ones where you resolve to exercise three times a week...
How to Market and Sell Strategic Services
You know your clients need business, marketing and sales strategies. You want to give it to them. But they’re not buying it. They just want you to produce results – quickly!! You can recite the old bromides till you are blue in the face. You know them: Fail to plan,...
Overcoming the Evil Spirits of Strategic Planning
Its October. My neighborhood is turning spooky. Next door we have a giant spider, webs and floating ghosts. On my daily walk I encounter giant 12-feet skeletons, the married dead, Beetle Juice and yards and yards of pumpkins. It’s equally scary to encounter another...
What Bed Bath’s Failure Can Teach You
Most everything in my kitchen came from Bed Bath & Beyond. Everyone shopped there. My sister ran into Barbara Streisand shopping at one in LA. A visit to the Bed Bath at the Galleria in Roseville, CA at Christmas was a delight. The store shone with holiday magic....
How to Develop Your Marketing Dream Team
Right People. Right Seats. First popularized by Jim Collins author of Good to Great, the term means that the power in any organization is having the people best suited for the role in the role. And the power of right people, right seats goes well beyond just their...
Are You Too Busy to Grow?
Your business is moving full speed ahead and there aren’t enough hours in the day to meet all your customer, product and sales obligations. You’re slammed, so of course your business or practice is growing! How could it not be? We are serving customers, moving...
The Biggest, Most Common and Most Fatal Messaging Mistake You Can Make
As a young reporter fresh out of school I learned two fundamentals about the news business. The first was: If It Bleeds, It Leads. The second was: Never Bury the Lead. Remember old movies? The movie credits would roll for five maybe ten minutes at the beginning of...
Traditional Marketing is Dead! Now What?
It’s official. Traditional marketing is dead. The pandemic sent traditional marketing into a death spiral. Now AI has really put the nail in the coffin. What will replace traditional marketing that meets the demands of today’s AI-driven marketplace? We have an idea....
It’s Gone and It’s Not Coming Back
It’s mid-July. Half the year is gone and it’s not coming back. Where did the time go? Where did you focus your business energies? Did you hit your sales and revenue goals? Do you have more happier and referral-ready customers today than you did in January? Half of...
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