Optimized Sales Strategy Consulting

Organizational Management System (OMS)

kblacklock — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:02:21 +0000

OSS is pleased to welcome aboard our newest Consultant, Harry Lakin!

Harry has extensive sales, sales management and marketing experience. In addition, Harry is trained in Organizational Management System (OMS) and now can offer this unparalleled hiring tool to our clients along with his own Consulting skills.

OMS offers an on-line psychometric assessment available in multiple languages that takes less than seven minutes on average to complete. It is applicable to every type of job at every level in any business.

Most importantly, it is an extremely accurate gauge of future success an applicant may have with your company! Some benefits of OMS are:

Faster Hiring Decisions… More Efficient Recruitment… Higher Retention/Lower Turnover… Less Wasted Management Time… Higher Output and Performance…

Today, simple trumps complex, fast trumps slow, and automation trumps labor-intensity! Get in touch with us STAT to have Harry personally demonstrate what OMS can bring to your hiring process.

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For all of you wanting to Top Grade your organization…determine if an employee is ready for upward mobility or if you want to see what makes your best people the best….this is for you!

Call or email and we can get you set up for a consultation with Harry!

What’s new in the world of OSS you ask?

kblacklock — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:55:36 +0000

LOTS!! We apologize for the delayed posts but we have honestly been that busy!

New Clients:

Newest Team Members:

Amy Hardison White - Client Partner

Amy brings to the table over 14 years of account management experience with startups in the SAAS industry. She has a proven track record of driving success for her customers, regardless of the platform she’s working on. She builds strong relationships with customers and creates repeatable strategies that drive results for her customers.

Amy is also passionate about project management, having recently spent 2 years managing customer-facing tools from implementation to major product releases. She is skilled at setting expectations, and she’s able to manage projects with many contributors and stakeholders while keeping lines of communication open.

Amy holds a bachelor’s degree in History from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. In her free time, she enjoys time with her husband and young daughter, reading books, and traveling the world.

Harry Lakin – OMS Specialist

New to the Austin area, Harry Lakin is a serial entrepreneur and noted businessman from the Phoenix area. A graduate of the Arizona State University Cronkite School of Communication, Harry did post-graduate studies at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. Harry has formed, owned, operated and sold numerous businesses during his career including organizations in retail, service and transportation. Harry’s sound reasoning skills, exceptional people skills and strong business acumen in sales, marketing and navigating change makes him an ideal Consultant to emerging or struggling businesses.

Trained in OMS (Organizational Management Systems), Harry offers the valuable OMS psychometric survey tool to aid companies with employee selection, interviewing, hiring and motivation..

Harry also spends a good deal of time giving back to his community. He has served as Chairman of the Arizona State Personnel Board (appointed by then Governor Bruce Babbitt), on the State Board of the Arizona Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, The MetroOrg Board for the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Phoenix and is now getting involved with Austin Charities such as A.G.E. and Be Hive.

More to come in regards to what OMS is!!

July is getting to be busy!!

kblacklock — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:03:40 +0000

I hope everyone had a fantastic 4th of July! It was a bit rough having it in the middle of the week, but it did make for an interesting Thursday!

I wanted to give everyone a quick update on what we have going on in July…

This month we have added on another new client: Mutual Mobile. This puts us at 22 clients and growing!

Mutual Mobile is a Mobile Solutions Company here in Austin. They are a trusted provider of custom mobile business solutions for market-leading companies.

Their results-focused methodology combines strategy, design, and engineering to improve the performance of companies and enrich the human experience. With a demonstrated track record of success across industries, their mobile experts bring an informed approach to product development, marketing, and internal mobile initiatives.

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Also as of this month, our little team has grown to 19 consultants! I feel so blessed and honored to be working with such an amazing group of people. All specialists in their fields and all offering something to learn from.

Keep watching as there is more to come!

New Client Announcement!

kblacklock — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:51:12 +0000

We are excited to announce that National Instruments is a new client!

Since 1976 (a great year) National Instruments has equipped engineers and scientists with tools that accelerate productivity, innovation, and discovery. NI’s graphical system design approach provides an integrated software and hardware platform that simplifies development of any system that needs measurement and control. Engineers and scientists use this platform from design to production in multiple industries, advanced research, and academia. The company’s long-term vision and focus on improving society through its technology has led to strong, consistent company growth and success of its customers, employees, suppliers, and shareholders.

Welcome to the OSS Family!

Social Media INSANITY!

kblacklock — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:56:09 +0000

Maybe this is the reason General Motors went “mental” and pulled its Facebook ad budget.

Digital marketing is confusing—really confusing—as this insane graphic shows (below).

Trying to navigate through the various new social media categories, blogs, sharing sites, and social media firms is an absolute mess.

This depiction of the digital marketing landscape was shown at a Buddy Media event marking the launch of the social marketing software agency’s new suite of measurement tools.

You can click to enlarge it, but that won’t make it look any simpler.

May Updates

kblacklock — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:52:24 +0000

We’d like to first welcome our newest client:

Adlucent is a progressive marketing technology startup in Austin, Texas that has been twice named to Inc 500’s list of fastest growing companies in the US. We design marketing automation technology to help premium brands like Buy.com, Oriental Trading Company, Anthropologie, and JTV reach millions of online shoppers.

We think differently, move quickly and innovate endlessly to build game- changing technology. We are passionate about beautiful design and invest heavily in building an inspiring and creative environment where everyone can progress.

Our customers love working with us and we love working with them. We also love working with each other. For four consecutive years now, our team members have voted Adlucent a “Best Place to Work” in the Austin Business Journal’s annual competition. Better yet, we were recently named as one of the top 40 advertising companies to work for in the US by Advertising Age!

We are super excited to have such an incredible new partner!

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We want to give a shout out to Alex Henley of Ensite of Austin, for our awesome new website! Thanks Alex…we love you!

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Our little team here at OSS Consulting is no longer little…we are now up to 17 consultants! I’d like to personally thank all of our clients and my incredible team! I’m excited to see what the next few months bring!

Springcreek Systems

kblacklock — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:40:05 +0000

Our very own Kalyn Blacklock has recently joined the Board of Advisors for Springcreek Systems!

Springcreek Systems is an Austin Start-Up that allows you to maximize your investment in marketing automation by minimizing duplication and appending valuable data about your leads and customers to your CRM profiles.

We are excited to not only added them as a new client, but to be involved with such an incredible new organization!

New Year Update!

kblacklock — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:24:02 +0000

It’s a new year and business has been incredible! We are officially at 16 consultants for the new year and we have specialist ranging from sales training to Salesforce.com, staffing and sourcing, process creation and contracts.

Client base is some of Austin’s newest and brightest Social Media and SaaS companies. We have Spotzen, Mass Relevance, Invodo and our newest client…

Eloqua’s marketing automation and revenue performance management platform arms marketing professionals with the power to succeed. In fact, more marketers rely on Eloqua than all other marketing automation platforms combined.

We are excited to welcome all our new family members and consultants!

2012…is looking good

We are open for business

kblacklock — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:44:49 +0000

Thank you all so much for your support and encouragement!

It has been a blast getting OSS Consulting off the ground and we want to thank everyone who has helped make all this possible. The new year looks very exciting!

Many more updates to come…in the mean time…We wish you all the Happiest of Holidays!

We did it!

kblacklock — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:29:33 +0000

After working with some incredible people, companies and the best of the best Venture Capitalists in Texas and California; I have decided to open a new firm and hire an elite team of consultants made up of Austin’s most wanted!

Optimized Sales Strategy (OSS) Consulting has been a brain child of mine since the begining of 2010. My mission is for the team is to work with our clients to determine what needs to be done then provide them a solution that is specifically tailored to the client’s budget, desires and needs.

A short-term investment in our services will result in significant ongoing returns for our clients by leaving them with a more effective, efficient, and flexible Sales operation.

OSS Consulting is still a work in progress. Please bear with me while I get everything situated.