SAM GEIST
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Why Should Someone Do Business With You...Rather Than Someone Else?
(business strategy)
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Execute or Be Executed (moving from ideas to execution)
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Would You Work For You? (leadership for today’s marketplace)
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Look Out! Here Comes Tomorrow! (change management)
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If I Hear Customer Service One More Time, I'll... (customer service)
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Differentiate... Or Die (marketing strategy)
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You Pay Bills With Dollars...Not Percentages (merchandising)
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Meeting the Challenge of Goliath (strategies to compete)
Sam Geist’s business roots were
first established in a small sporting goods store in Toronto, Canada.
With his belief that at start-up, business operation is 90% hard work,
10% know-how, he gradually grew The Outdoor Stores into a 15-store
national sporting goods chain. In 1980, he sold his multi-million dollar
organization to his largest competitor. That experience was invaluable
in clarifying his understanding of sales and marketing, the marketplace
and its customers.
Capitalizing on this extensive
experience, Sam opened his own advertising, marketing and consulting
firm. His 14 years of agency experience taught him well about the rigors
of marketplace demands—and marketplace unpredictability. He was able to
hone his marketing skills, while he developed a valuable double-edge
perspective—that of client and marketer.
He closed the
agency in 1994 to concentrate on lecturing, presenting seminars and
consulting. For the last 13 years, he has worked as a professional
speaker, consultant, and facilitator to companies and associations
across the globe. He has extensive experience consulting to companies
involved in restructuring and is the author of a book on business
strategy entitled Why Should Someone Do Business With You…Rather Than
Someone Else? and one on leadership entitled Would You Work for You?
His customized programs focus
on business strategy, leadership, customer service, the changing
marketplace and maximizing staff productivity.
Before each session, Geist conducts industry-related and
company-specific research. Utilizing his years of experience he prepares
and presents a variety of specialized actionable programs.
While he has,
over the years, spoken to organizations in a great many industries,
recently he has stood in front of clients in the automotive, finance,
insurance, banking, construction, manufacturing, government, retail,
franchising and service sectors.
His most
requested programs include: “Why Should Someone Do Business With
You…Rather Than Someone Else?” (strategies to get and keep customers);
“Execute…or Be Executed” (implementing specific actions); “Would You
Work For You?” (preparing for leadership); “Look Out! Here Comes
Tomorrow” (managing change actively); “If I Hear Customer Service One
More Time, I’ll . . . ”(customer service); “Differentiate . . . or Die”
(marketing to maximize competitive advantages).
As a
facilitator during hands-on, interactive discussions and brainstorming
workshops, Sam uses the Socratic method to encourage participants to
question themselves, to think about their business in new ways in order
to change, improve, and grow. He insists that asking tough questions—and
answering them honestly—is crucial to the well being of every
organization. He shows participants how to capitalize on their
resources, and how to turn their knowledge into action.
Sam Geist is the author of "Why
Should Someone Do Business With You… Rather Than Someone Else?" an
interactive book on business strategy that has assisted thousands of
marketers to re-view, renew and move ahead of the marketplace. His
second book, "Would You Work for You?" is a thought-provoking guide that
encourages leaders to better see themselves, their relationships and
their skills to enable them to lead their organizations effectively. He
has also written two short business guides—"Make It Happen: 20 Ways to
Execute Your Strategy Every Day" and "Why Should Someone Do Business
With You… Rather Than Someone Else: Eighteen Strategies to Get and Keep
Customers." His third book, “Executed… or Be Executed” will be
available in the fall of 2007.
By each program’s end,
participants have so much more than “just stuff” to think about. They
have the ammunition, know-how, and incentive to turn their strategic
thinking into strategic doing.
"We have access to everyone who speaks".
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