Strategy & Consulting

Marketing and Sales Strategy Partner for Professional Services Firms

OTM is a B2B marketing and sales strategy partner for professional services firms. Whether we are filling a leadership gap or working alongside an internal team, we keep the work aligned to the strategy and use what we learn to evolve the approach over time.

OTM team mapping the Path to Growth on a whiteboard
Set the Strategy
Align the Work
Evolve What Works
Two Starting Points

Set the Strategy. Align the Work. Evolve What Works.

Whether we are filling a leadership gap or working alongside an internal team, we keep the work aligned to the strategy and use what we learn to optimize and evolve the approach over time.

Filling a Leadership Gap
No Senior Marketing Leader

We help define the market position, priorities, and plan needed to drive meaningful business outcomes.

Alongside Your Team
An Internal Marketer on an Island

We bring outside perspective, experienced thought partnership, and implementation support around the skills already in place.

SetAlignEvolve

The measure of a good strategy isn’t a nice, polished document. It’s what your team does differently next quarter.

Definition

What Is Marketing Strategy Consulting?

Marketing strategy consulting sets the direction a marketing function works toward: who the firm serves, what it's known for, which activities earn priority, and how progress gets measured. It operates above the campaign level and outlasts any single project.

Done well, it produces a set of decisions your team can act on and defend.

Market PositioningWhat you’re known for
Ideal Client ProfileWho you serve
MessagingWhat you say
Channel PrioritiesWhat earns priority
ReportingWhether it’s working
OTM strategists reviewing a buyer journey map
Fit

Who We Work Best With

Firms with a strong solution, real market traction, and the ambition to grow, but that need a clearer strategy and a more intentional system for turning that ambition into results.

Establishing the Foundation

Prove the Strategy

We clarify positioning, ideal client profile, messaging, and priorities, then test them against the market rather than relying on assumptions.

Established, but CEO-Dependent

Build the System

We connect sales and marketing, strengthen the strategy, and build the infrastructure and accountability that let the broader team drive growth.

Typical Client Revenue
$2M to $15M

What matters more is readiness. Best-fit clients are willing to:

Engage meaningfully
Make strategic decisions
Invest appropriate resources
Evolve based on what the market tells us

Is This You?

The firms we work with are not lacking effort. They need the strategy, process, and accountability that turn that effort into consistent growth.

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The Account Strategy Engagement

How OTM Delivers Marketing Strategy

The anchor of every OTM client relationship. Flexible enough to fit the way your team works, but consistent in the leadership, momentum, and accountability it provides.

Your dedicated Client Success Manager is a blend of:
Fractional CMO
Project Manager
Thought Partner
Enabler
OTM Client Success Manager working alongside a client team member
The RhythmOne Quarter · 13 Weeks
Weekly

Embedded Strategic Partnership

Weekly touchpoints through meetings, calls, email, Slack, WhatsApp, or the systems your team already uses, so we can make decisions, solve problems, and keep strategy connected to the business.

Continuous

Continuous Forward Momentum

Your Client Success Manager coordinates the people, priorities, and projects behind the plan, so campaigns keep moving, work reaches completion, and results are captured as they happen.

Monthly

Monthly Performance Analysis

We bring the work and results together to evaluate what is working, what is not, and where to improve, turning performance data into practical next steps.

Quarterly

Quarterly Strategic Reviews

Multiple OTM team members review your positioning, performance, and overall strategy, then adjust priorities or revisit assumptions based on what has changed.

This rhythm keeps the strategy active: implemented, measured, challenged, and strengthened as your business and market evolve.
Results · Karrikins Group
47.88%

of the sales pipeline from net-new opportunities, within one year.

Previous three yearsLittle to none
Year one with OTM47.88%

After partnering with OTM to reposition the firm and launch a new go-to-market engine, the global leadership consulting firm made a significant shift in where its pipeline comes from.

“Where they added the most value was in our rebranding strategy and market positioning efforts. This was no easy feat with a highly complex ecosystem, multiple segments, a wide variety of audiences, and a broad array of products.”
Liza AdamsSVP & Head of Marketing
The Difference

Why OTM

Most consultants hand over a plan and leave. We stay to lead the work.

Work With Us

Strategy Through Execution

Unlike consultants who hand over a plan and leave, OTM stays to lead the work.

A Playbook Built for Professional Services

After 18+ years in marketing and sales, we know buyers choose expertise, judgment, and people they trust. Our approach makes that expertise visible and strengthens trust throughout the buying process.

Cross-Client Intelligence

Every B2B engagement adds pattern recognition across verticals, firm sizes, and growth stages: what positioning resonates, which channels perform, and where firms of your size get stuck.

Sales-Led, Marketing-Supported™

Every marketing activity is reverse-engineered from sales outcomes. We start with what sales needs to close more business, and the marketing follows.

FAQ

Common Questions

Fractional leadership, results timelines, and what it takes from your team.

A fractional CMO is a senior marketing leader who works with your firm part-time, setting strategy and steering the work without the cost of a full-time executive hire. OTM also brings a team to execute the plan, not just advise on it.

You get the same senior strategy and leadership, plus a team to execute, without the full-time salary. OTM also helps you see when it’s time to hire in-house, and for which role.

Most consultants deliver a strategy and leave execution to you. OTM extends from strategy into implementation through The OTM Path to Growth®, so the deliverable is an operating growth engine, not a binder.

It depends on your stage and how much foundation needs building, but the engagement isn’t structured to hold results until the end. In Prove the Strategy, most firms see meaningful early wins within 60 to 90 days: validated positioning, a clearer sales conversation, and leadership aligned on ICP and differentiation. Those wins compound through Prove the Tactics and Prove the Model. The timeline is set by the evidence each stage produces, not by the calendar.

Leadership time in the monthly cadence, access to sales conversations and pipeline data, and one decision-maker who can approve priorities. OTM supplies the strategy and the team to execute it; the one thing it cannot supply is your firm’s commitment to the plan.

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