The 280 Group Difference
When you need a Product Marketing or Product Management consultant or contractor you've got lots of choices, from interim "between job" consultants to contractor mills (see below).
The 280 Group is the best choice for several reasons::
- An excellent reputation and many satisfied clients. You can be sure you'll get the highest quality work and the results you want.
- Hand-picked consultants and contractors that deliver premium results. All of our consultants and contractors come highly recommended through our networks and have been pre-screened for you, so you don't have to do the work to find them. We only work with the best of the best.
- 280 Group methodology and toolkits. Based on decades of experience, the toolkits can be leveraged to get your projects done more quickly and effectively. And you can take advantage of our training and templates to ensure your company continues to do things the right way for years to come.
- The ability to scale depending on your needs. We can provide one person or an entire team to help you accomplish your goals.
- Experience across a wide range of technologies and markets. We've worked on software, hardware and Internet products & services and have experience in Consumer, Small Business, Enterprise, Government and Education markets. As a client you get to leverage the learning from dozens of products and industries.
- Reasonable and competitive rates. We keep our overhead low, and we want to build long-term relationships with clients so that they keep coming back time and time again. You get a virtual team that you can tap into at any time without taxing your budget.
Sound good? Contact us for a proposal...
A few of your choices other than The 280 Group...
- Interim "fly-by-night"
consultants. Many of these are people who are between jobs
and decide to temporarily become consultants. Sometimes you can get
good work from these folks - many of them are highly talented. Other
times you don't get good results. The quality of the work may be poor,
or they may quit the project right in the middle because they get a
good job offer.
- Independent consultants and contractors who are professionals
and have chosen this as a way to make a living are another choice. They
can provide good quality work, although oftentimes they will already
be booked if you need them in a pinch, and you'll still have to go through
checking their references and making sure that their reputation lives
up to the quality you are looking for.
- "Contractor Mills". These are companies that keep databases of hundreds or thousands of consultants and contractors, many of which they have never even met and who have been added to their database through forms on their website. Sometimes you can get good results through these companies as well, though the value that they add in terms of pre-screening and qualifying the people they place may be questionable. You'll also tend to pay a premium price - in order to keep their contractor engine going and fund their sales force, office space, and other expenses they'll sometimes charge very high markup percentages - even as high as $100 per hour over what the contractor is being paid.
Brian Lawley runs the 280 Group, a Marketing and Product Management Consulting firm in the Silicon Valley Bay Area. For help with projects or if you need an acting Vice President, Director, or interim Product Manager or Marketing Manager contact the 280 Group.