Geoff Sharp now also a founding partner of the newly formed Social Business Consulting Group

March 24, 2011 - PRLog -- Geoff Sharp has a rich background in Internet technologies as a co-founder of several successful Internet search companies. He understands the challenges that executives have in keeping up with the fast evolving Internet environment. To meet this need he has joined with 17 other founding partners to form the Social Business Consulting Group (Sobizco), an international social media consulting firm in Silicon Valley with offices around the world. “I’ve joined a great team with broad technical and business expertise. Our goal is to help large enterprises create competitive advantages through social media strategy and execution. “ said Sharp. “Because we have such a great complement of business experiences we are uniquely positioned to help companies plan, develop and optimize their social media programs across the organization.”

The Social Business Consulting Group, was formed by Axel Schultze, (founder of the Social Media Academy) together with experienced certified social media strategists from Europe, the US and Asia Pacific, with international experience from well known organizations including Dell, Franklin Templeton, Sun Microsystems, GE, Oracle, Rockwell, Southwest Airlines, Symantec, Lockheed-Martin and Western Union.

Sobizco has emerged out of the need to solve a major, growing management problem.
•   Businesses are now discovering that their customers, partners and competitors are increasingly engaged in social media.  
•   As the customer purchase decision-making process shifts to online forums and peer reviews, the traditional sales process is being rapidly replaced by the need to develop strong social media programs across multiple departments, including sales, marketing and customer services.  
•   This has led to enormous pressure on management to quickly comprehend and apply truly effective social media programs and also to know how to avoid costly mistakes and pitfalls.

Sobizco is uniquely positioned to meet this need with qualified social media strategists and a proven methodology for planning and optimizing social media programs across the organization.

The Social Business Consulting Group is the world’s largest social media consulting group with certified social media strategists. The firm’s purpose is to help executives create an exceptional competitive advantage by leveraging social media. The firm takes a holistic approach where all market facing departments leverage social media to create a mutually beneficial business relationship with customers and partners in the social media ecosystem.

The Social Business Consulting Group is considered a thought leader in applying social media in large corporations and is able to quickly deploy teams of certified consultants to help business leaders and their respective teams make strategic business decisions and create measurable economic success. The Social Business Consulting Group is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information go to http://www.sobizco.com

About:
Geoff Sharp, a Founding partner of the Social Business Consulting Group, co-founded successful Internet search companies including Transium, acquired by Alta Vista, and Dialog, acquired by Knight-Ridder. He is a certified social media strategist and has recently developed effective social media programs for clients in the publishing, information technologies and hotel industries. Geoff has extensive experience in the information industry, product development and business development and served on the Boards of PLS, Individual, and RDS. Geoff has an M.A. in Mathematics from California State University at San Jose, and completed executive leadership programs at Lockheed, Knight-Ridder and Stanford University.

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The Social Business Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm with focus on social media. The firm’s purpose is to help executives create an exceptional competitive advantage by leveraging social media. http://sobizco.com