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Work with Product Entrepreneurs
Joey Tamer was invaluable in helping us
develop a strategy and put it into action.
She’s both a brilliant strategist and a practical,
down-to-earth, get-it-done person. Joey is smart, flexible,
quick to understand, a terrific business person, and
wonderful to work with.
HarperCollins Publishers:
Janet Wikler, former Group Vice President and
Director of Advanced Media
Working with Joey over many years, I
find her brilliant mind drives clarity to complex
situations. She
quickly defines priorities both from a market standpoint as
well as corporate standpoint. She identifies and navigates the politics of the boardroom.
She defines and redefines, positions and repositions
markets and strategy with razor sharp accurateness and
lightening speed. Well
worth more than her weight in gold, (or capital)!
Teradata/NCR:
Pamela Sansbury, Vice President, BearingPoint Global
Partnership, Strategic Partnerships
Prior
to the acquisition of Blockbuster by Viacom, we were in the
process of developing a strategic plan to respond to the
emerging alternative forms of distribution for entertainment
product. Joey was invaluable in assisting us with this plan
by helping us understand the competitive landscape and the
alternative strategies available to us.
Blockbuster
Entertainment: Mike
van der Kieft, former Director of Business Development and
VP Strategic Relations
Joey's
been the most intrepid and inspirational partner. If
we hadn't found her to help us organize our mission, we'd
have been lost.
Empower Production
Management Systems: Keith Addis, CEO
Joey
Tamer played a key role in developing iSuppli's capital
strategy when it really mattered most, at the start. Joey
then helped iSuppli implement the strategy and was brilliant
in her due diligence. iSuppli: Derek
Lidow, CEO, founder
Joey speaks what she thinks, and isn't concerned if that loses the client. That makes her a very valuable person to review a business plan. She understands what investors are looking for, and provides valuable insight and direction in shaping up the plan.
Karagosian MacCalla Partners: Michael Karagosian, President
Joey
helped us structure our Internet ESD business plan via her
extensive background in software distribution. She provided
us with a framework for making distribution deals that
protected us from potential liabilities and reduced our
customer support costs. Today we sell and deliver over 500
third-party software products directly online, thanks to her
guidance. EarthWeb: Nova
Spivack, Executive VP, strategy & development, founder
Joey
helped us early on as we prepared our capitalization
strategy and worked out some kinks in our business model.
She made some amazingly accurate predictions on the market
and on the state of high tech venture capital.
Spooky-accurate! She has a terrific mind for understanding
and seeing trends in high tech. High value add.
SuperSig:
Matthew Burgess, founder
You
were a strategic bootstrap! The time you spent with us was
invaluable. You cut right through the noise giving us a
clear vision of the future. You forced us to think
strategically and you gave us the guidance we needed to work
more effectively. One year later the proof is in the
pudding. We’ve doubled in size and clients, and a
significant part of that growth is due to the initial
strategizing with you. You got us focused in the right
direction.
Smash
Advertising: Dave
Driemeyer, Director of Technology
As a serial start-up CEO, I've come to appreciate Joey's broad
view, unfailing sense of balance and tough brand of
fairness. She's a top-line asset that drives bottom line. E-Refer: Mark Lambert, CEO
Joey
Tamer has the uncanny ability to cut through hype, right to
the heart of the matter, shedding new light on stale
business practices and communicating useful solutions based
on her experience in related industries and disciplines.
Joey always leaves us charged to implement the solutions
that we identify together through her unique style of
"CEO coaching" and we consider her among our most
important strategic advisors.
InterActive
Agency: Tony Winders, President and co-founder
Joey has proved to be
an invaluable resource to the well being of my
business. More than simply delineating the mechanics
of better business, Joey has helped me change the way I
perceive my business. Consequently, we are more
efficient in our planning and are now focused on a strategy
that has already yielded remarkable results.
Shimahara Illustration: Craig Shimahara, CEO
The extraordinarily talented Joey Tamer came along at a critical time in my family's publishing business and consulted brilliantly for us.
Youth Connection: Keith Kohler, SVP
I am thankful that you taught me so much and even more so, that you helped me find the courage to just go for it.
J. Sibley Law, President, founder, Saxon Mills
Work with Service Entrepreneurs
I hired Joey Tamer as a consultant to help us with some difficult restructuring of our company and she was amazing. She is a brilliant negotiator and an expert in dealing with people at all levels of the organization. Joey learned our niche offering in the IT consulting business quicker than most consultants I’ve seen, and was able to add value to the organization immediately. She is smart, dedicated and not afraid to deal with tough issues.
Aspen Software Consultants: Mary Turner, President & CEO
I found it intriguing that you function as a consultant to consultants. I have been very impressed how quickly you assimilated all of the information I provided and focused in on the core issues…. Thanks to your guidance, I finalized the strategy and successfully presented my position. It has been a pleasure working with you, and I'm pleased to recommend you to other professionals.
The Valere Group: Don Matso, founder
Joey is a strategist's strategist -- she
consults to me as I prepare my strategic planning work for
my clients. She creates a kind of primary strategy --
even after my strategy work is in process, and after my
clients believe they have covered all the bases. She
critiques my strategic plans in draft form, the way an
editor critiques a manuscript: asking the topline
questions the client has overlooked, challenging the
client's unexpressed or untested assumptions, applying the
market realities and real-world timelines which may alter
implementation and sales projections, questioning the
underlying goals of the project within a larger company, or
the exit strategies of the smaller company.
And she does it all swiftly and precisely, and I get
high marks and ongoing work for bringing this level of
strategic questioning to my client in my plan. She
coaches me on all my strategic planning projects.
Jessie Robertson, CEO, founder, Robertson & Associates.
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