Your tech is complex.
Your message shouldn’t be.
An open source and B2B tech marketing agency
Communicate, connect, grow.
Open Strategy Partners helps B2B and open source tech companies align marketing strategy and content with your vision and technical truth to generate leads, customers, and advocates.
Capacity
“I know we should be doing content, but I don’t have time.”
We expand your marketing and communications bandwidth. Are you strapped for time? Need more capacity? With OSP, you get consistent, high-quality content for a fraction of the time you or your expert teams would need to do it on your own.
Time-to-value v Cost
“Finding and training someone takes too long and cost too much.”
Zero to first content faster than you can hire and train. We are rapid-onboarding experts. You get the benefits of our methodologies and years of industry experience fast in the form of insights, planning, and content—fast. Sales Enablement and Product Marketing help ASAP.
Priority and Utilization
“I need a whole MarComms team, but what about cost and utilization?”
We mix and match the team you need when you need it. OSP can meet your needs across many functions — strategy, planning, content authoring and editing, media, and more. Multiple, expert brains, skill sets, and experiences for the price of a headcount … or two :-) ... optimizing utilization rates and your budget.
What do I say?
“How can we all tell the same stories using the same set of facts?”
High-quality, consistent, relevant assets in your voice. We help you de-silo your technical product and service information, find your brand’s voice and tone, then produce the strategic, sales, and marketing materials you need. Our structured product marketing and sales enablement approach will help you keep on track to meet your goals.
Testimonials: "How OSP helps me."
"Saves me Time"
I still remember one of the greatest things about working with OSP while I was a client ... I could reduce my time investment to produce quality content by 90% ... from ~10-15 hours to a 1-hour interview and 30 minutes of edits.
"GUIDES US TO CLARITY"
We really appreciate the great work Open Strategy Partners has done for Lockr and Source over the last year. Outside the quality of the work product itself (which was stellar), I feel like the sessions with the OSP team have actually helped us think through and understand our own company better.
"Our outsourced MarComms"
OSP improved nearly every aspect of our communication. From the website, content structure, documentation, and our social media presence, Sulu's communications are now the same high quality that we aim for developing our product. OSP is our outsourced MarComms department, giving us perspective and a more strategic approach to communication that we can't do in-house.
"Unbeatable formula and execution"
I have been around a lot of content and marketing teams in my day. The way OSP approaches SEO (and integrates it into our strategy, planning, and content creation) is unique in my experience. OSP is up-to-date with current online needs and trends, and their formula and execution are unbeatable: rigorous, logical, clear, and valuable.
"Gives us a voice"
OSP took what we are and what we stand for and put that in words that we can share with others. We didn’t like talking about ourselves. They created a bold, confident way for us to talk about ourselves that didn’t exist before, an identity we can communicate to the outside world.
"Drives Results and Recognition"
We could afford a dedicated internal marketer, but we opted for a tighter relationship with OSP because the money is better invested due to the whole organizational power. With OSP, the whole process of recognizing us as a product company started. Until then, we were a bunch of developers who were doing something that might be cool.
OSP Expertise and Differentiators
Open Strategy Partners specializes in communicating the value of complex technology solutions, connecting you to the business and technology audiences essential for your success.
Structured, modular, and moral approach to strategy and communications
We are constantly honing our structured, repeatable processes, and our strategic and communication methodologies to get up to speed with you and start delivering strategic, valuable product communications fast.
- Structured means our processes are consistent, repeatable, and under constant improvement.
- Modular means our processes are flexible and extensible.
What do you mean by a "moral" approach to communication?
- We don’t use FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) as a tactic, we don’t write negative copy, or use violent language.
- We highlight your best features and the value you deliver, not the potential defects of your competition.
- We have a moral imperative to communicate the quality of your solution at the same quality as your solution.
Unique tools and methodologies combined with proven Marcomms approaches
OSP’s approach to designing and creating strategic materials and content assets — aka "How we work" — is informed by several factors:
- Our experience in open source, technology, agencies, and product companies.
- Our knowledge of the "classic" tools of digital marketing.
- Helping clients as Open Strategy Partners since 2017.
Along the way, we have created some OSP tools and methodologies and put it all together. Our recipe helps us live up to our own expectations, and deliver value — as high-quality content, consulting, and more — to our clients and communities.
- The OSP Value Map: a strategic insight and content enablement delivery platform
- The OSP Trust and Vibrancy Signals Audit: An actionable assessment of the cues your project, company, or product puts out into the world.
- Classic digital marketing: Personas, target audiences, buyers’ journeys, CTAs/CTVs, etc.
The OSP Authentic Communication Framework
We combine empathy, clarity, and trust to create compelling AND technically accurate content. And we enthusiastically share our knowledge and experiences with others.
Based on these principles, we have produced hundreds of hours of audio and video, written thousands of articles, and presented hundreds of conference sessions and keynotes for clients, communities, (and even ourselves now and then)!
We follow and share open and shared standards and practices.
We share how we work to enable others.
Our founders, team, and experience
We founded OSP to bridge the communications gap between the business and technical sides of the house.
- Our approach to communication was born in Jeffrey A. McGuire’s nearly 20 years of communication work, hundreds of presentations and interviews in and around open source, content management, agencies, and startups.
- Our strategic practices grew from Tracy Evan’s three business degrees and real-world experience from digital startups to managing international teams and logistics.
Open Strategy Partners has decades of collective experience in business, technology, startups, enterprise, and open source — with big doses of media, culture, communication, and community thrown in.
- We’ve been on both sides of the client/vendor equation ... working with people like you :-)
- We’ve produced thousands of content pieces: writing, audio, video, and images
- ... and done the strategic work to make them effective.
More about how we work
BLOG POST: What is Product Communications?
This post introduces how we produce copy for landing pages, infographics, and more. Learn how we help companies craft product communications — micro-messages about your product, technology, and solutions.
OSP GUIDE: The OSP Writing and Editing Guide
A guide for anyone who wants to learn the structures, workflows, and processes we use at OSP to help us communicate authentically. The guide is a living reference to help us work and learn together, improve our methodologies, and build community.
OSP GUIDE: OSP Editing Codes
Check out the system we use to be more collaborative writers and editors. Because editing shouldn’t be a black box, and we all want to learn and improve!
Learn about our Editing Codes.
OSP WORKSHOPS: Learn, Share, Repeat
"We enthusiastically share our knowledge and experiences with others." - The OSP Manifesto
Sharing our best ideas means that they can help as many people as possible, and get even better along the way.
Recent posts from our blog
Let's talk
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