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Who We Are
We are a leading management consultancy navigating cruise lines, maritime, hospitality, aviation & air/sea technology for vendors, suppliers, and buyers. We believe results are a product of analytical and collaborative thinking, and by partnering with our clients, we develop original and strategic solutions to minimize business disruptions while maximizing resources to advance company missions.
We have already helped dozens of leading institutions, Fortune 500 businesses, and governments to see the world differently and discover opportunities never imagined. AOG advises leaders on the jobs to be done, new sales growth, consumer products, passenger technology, total guest experience, product strategies, and operations across industries, geographies, and enterprises with the purpose to drive growth and profitability.
AOG was founded in 2007 and is a privately funded Florida company with partner site offices worldwide. AOG maintains a TS/SCI clearance for government contracts. We work alongside our clients as one team to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries.

AOG Client Services
Across Oceans Group, Inc. (AOG) is a market leader in advisory services for client strategy, industry networking, global sales and guest experience in travel,

Technology Strategy
Improving sales and marketing capabilities in any company today requires specialized technology applications. To help identify hot prospects, manage

Custom Solutions
Our expert consultants are accomplished and well rounded, with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We understand how sales, technology, operations

Custom Solutions
Our expert consultants are accomplished and well rounded, with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We understand how sales, technology, operations

Client Outsourcing
Improving sales and marketing capabilities in any company today requires specialized technology applications. To help identify hot prospects, manage

Client Outsourcing
Improving sales and marketing capabilities in any company today requires specialized technology applications. To help identify hot prospects, manage

Strategic Partners
Our knowledge of best-in-class software and the intricacies of sales and marketing data and processes, we design and implement the best solutions.

International Marketing
Marketing is about conversations. Our marketing focus is to create a brand voice for our customers and build strong relationships to capture greater value

Cruise Line Marketing
Global interest in the cruise sector continues to grow across established and emerging travel markets. Across Oceans Group represents many of the

Airline & Aviation
Increased competition, spiraling costs and changing consumer behavior has driven airlines to seek further cost efficiencies and revenue growth

Hotel & Hospitality
AOG has helped hotel brands increase sales and raise interest by applying cost-effective strategies including sales representation, digital marketing and
Starter
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$7,000/month Minimum 3 months
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$6,000/month Minimum 6 months
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• $5,000/month Minimum 12 months
Professional
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• $11,500/month Minimum 3 months
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• $9,500/month Minimum 6 months
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• $7,500/month Minimum 12 months
Enterprise
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• $17,000/month Minimum 3 months
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• $13,500/month Minimum 6 months
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• $10,0000/month Minimum 12 months
Project
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• $13,500/month Minimum 6 months
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• $10,0000/month Minimum 12 months
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Retail / Merchandising
Market Research
Before going to market we help clients determine the demand for products and services, and provide recommendations for furthering international development.
1. We help clients with onboard cruise line and Air/Sea PoC (Proof of Concepts) for companies to test new products, services and even brands. We translate objectives into tangible goals and implement plans with clear timelines and deliverables based on the below topics which will be expanded into sections for your success.
- Why did we do the pilot (Proof Of Concept)
- Pilot Discovery (Define all jobs to be done)
- Pilot Scope (Scope of Work / 90 to 120 days)
- Documentation Required (Vessel Selection)
- Post Pilot Summary (What worked what did not)
- Implementation Plan & Sales (After the PoC pilot)
2. Our advertising and marketing distribution extends to design, production, and placement of material across all key media channels. Collateral includes translated brochures, flyers, emails, presentations, industry trade shows, and social media.
3. We help clients with brand position and services across language, culture, demographics, and customs ensuring brand integrity and identity are sensitively managed to fit the local market.
4. We arrange distribution with key communication channels. Negotiating the target audiences, and the distributors to mass and niche customer groups. We will ensure effective communication is sent to the right audience at the right time.
The quickest and best quality results.
The world now holds cruise lines, maritime, tourism, hospitality and aviation industries to higher standards than ever before. Trust has never been harder to earn or easier to lose. Our community of solvers brings the capabilities, product sales, technology and ethical decision-making to deliver quality and sustained outcomes that companies, markets and society can count on. The biggest issues plaguing your business – low profits, persistent safety violations, and unsatisfactory returns – are only made worse by applying more pressure without addressing the root causes. Using new strategic thinking in a coordinated team will help promote an workplace attitude that is excited to adapt, advance, and grow, leading to quicker and better outcomes.
The quickest and best quality results.
The world now holds cruise lines, maritime, tourism, hospitality and aviation industries to higher standards than ever before. Trust has never been harder to earn or easier to lose. Our community of solvers brings the capabilities, product sales, technology and ethical decision-making to deliver quality and sustained outcomes that companies, markets and society can count on. The biggest issues plaguing your business – low profits, persistent safety violations, and unsatisfactory returns – are only made worse by applying more pressure without addressing the root causes. Using new strategic thinking in a coordinated team will help promote an workplace attitude that is excited to adapt, advance, and grow, leading to quicker and better outcomes.
1. Why did we do the pilot / proof of concept Phase


2. Pilot Discovery:



3. Pilot Scope:



4. Documentation Required:


5. Post Pilot:



6. Implementation Plan (After The Onboard Pilot) This is Phase 2:



Worldwide Impact
Creating value and revenue for our AOG partners and delivering a top-notch user experience is important to us; it is in our core DNA.
Our scale, scope, and knowledge allow us to address the job to be done and identify problems that no one else can see. Partnering with Across Oceans Group eliminates years from your sale’s cycle by helping establish close relationships with key decision-makers within the industry at the right time.
Whether your business is (Air, Ocean, or Ground) AOG has the expertise and know-how to meet your needs. AOG accelerates sales, support, and marketing process by allowing you to take advantage of our decades of industry expertise and relationships. Our track record for helping to transform the world’s great companies into sharper, smarter, better versions of themselves is quite remarkable.
Project Stages
Project Launch
- Learning
- Discovery
- Calibration
Strategy
- Key Contacts
- Product Innovation
- Risk Profile
- Stakeholder Buy In
Execution
- SMART Execution
- Status Reports
- Agile - Responsive
Sales
- Early Adopters
- Financial Model
- Scale
Methodology
We take on today's most pressing business challenges. Get in touch and let's get started.
Conception & Initiation
- Project Initiation
- Project Kick Off
Definition & Planning
- Scope & Budget
- Work Breakdown Schedule
- Communication
- Risk Management
Launch & Execution
- Status & Tracking
- KPIs
- Quality
- Forecasts
Performance & Control
- KPIs
- Quality
- Forecasts
Project Close
- Post Mortem
- Project Punchlist
- Reporting
SQERT Project Management
Scope, Quality, Effort, Risk, & Timing helps us understand project constraints
Across Oceans Group was founded on the notion that we could help companies succeed by bringing them expert, candid advice and an outside perspective on their business. The analysis and perspective generated by that talent can be found below with a few of our highlighted case studies and thought leadership produced by our people.

Smart Framework
Goals are SMART = Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic & anchored within a Time Frame
Details what exactly needs to be done
Achievement or progress can be measured
Objective is accepted by those who are responsible for achieving it
Objective is possible to attain (important for motivational effect)
Time period for achievement is clearly stated
Our culture of innovation empowers employees as creative thinkers, bringing unparalleled value for our clients and to any problem we tackle. Be the future. Work with us.

Starter

GLOBAL SALE

PROFESSIONAL

PROJECT

Starter
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$7,000/month Minimum 3 months
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$6,000/month Minimum 6 months
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$5,000/month Minimum 12 months

GLOBAL SALE
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$11,500/month Minimum 3 months
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$9,500/month Minimum 6 months
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$7,500/month Minimum 12 months

PROFESSIONAL
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$17,000/month Minimum 3 months
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$13,500/month Minimum 6 months
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$10,0000/month Minimum 12 months

PROJECT
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$13,500/month Minimum 6 months
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$10,0000/month Minimum 12 months
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Pilot & PoC
New ways of thinking help spur creativity and promote new responses to today’s constantly adapting world. Employees who fight against change, are slow to adapt, doubt it can be done, and cannot come up with new solutions are victims of a bad frame of mind. Our program help spark those new ideas and types of brainstorming that break through “can’t do” attitudes, increase your company’s efficiency and productivity, and promote new ideas.

AOG Client Services
Across Oceans Group, Inc. (AOG) is a market leader in advisory services for client strategy, industry networking, global sales and guest experience in travel, cruise lines, hospitality, international waters retail merchandising, shipping, offshore and aviation industries. Our consulting services have helped many Fortune 500 companies worldwide solve their most critical sales, technology support and marketing challenges. We have expertise in the demand generation process, from identifying customer needs, developing effective value propositions and creating marketing strategies to designing channel strategies as well as deploying and compensating the sales force. We bring rigorous research and analysis, critical thinking, and thought leadership to decisions that are often otherwise based on intuition. We bring science to the art of demand generation. We work with companies to determine the parts of their sales and marketing strategies and organizations that need to be improved.

Technology Strategy
Improving sales and marketing capabilities in any company today requires specialized technology applications. To help identify hot prospects, manage promotional activities, focus on the greatest opportunities, and improve operational efficiency, companies are investing in CRM customer relationship management, BPM business process management and optimization, enterprise information management, business reporting, analytical tools and mobile devices. Across Oceans Group helps companies define their technology strategy. We also help them to execute that strategy by designing, building, and operating the information management, reporting, and analytic systems that are at the core of their sales and marketing operations.

Custom Solutions
Our expert consultants are accomplished and well rounded, with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We understand how sales, technology, operations and marketing functions operate and how to improve them and reduce costs. We break down processes to identify opportunities and challenges, using data, facts and rigorous analysis to drive our recommendations. Our experts uniquely understand the interconnections in the entire sales, technology and marketing system of each client. As a result, we develop solutions that improve their overall system, not just one piece of it, and not one piece at the expense of another. We also know that a new process design which may make sense on paper might be impossible to implement in reality.

Client Outsourcing
Improving sales and marketing capabilities in any company today requires specialized technology applications. To help identify hot prospects, manage promotional activities, focus on the greatest opportunities, and improve operational efficiency, companies are investing in CRM customer relationship management, BPM business process management and optimization, enterprise information management, business reporting, analytical tools and mobile devices. Across Oceans Group helps companies define their technology strategy. We also help them to execute that strategy by designing, building, and operating the information management, reporting, and analytic systems that are at the core of their sales and marketing operations.

Strategic Partners
Our knowledge of best-in-class software and the intricacies of sales and marketing data and processes, we design and implement the best solutions. In doing so, we reduce implementation costs and timelines. More importantly, we design the solution with your people’s needs front and center. Through the deep expertise in introducing far-reaching change, we know how to get your sales and marketing professionals to embrace new technology. We have an outstanding track record in implementing technology solutions because we intimately understand how people in every aspect of sales and marketing work and think. In our role as a strategic partner, we often bridge the gap between our clients’ sales, marketing organizations and their IT organizations.

International Marketing
Marketing is about conversations. Our marketing focus is to create a brand voice for our customers and build strong relationships to capture greater value from customers in return. The resulting strategy integrates sales with traditional and online marketing to ensure a cohesive communication plan is delivered to market. Across Oceans Group international marketing expertise covers a complete portfolio of services covering trade and consumer to ensure customers are identified, understood, located and promoted to, with a strong commitment to brand management and a firm understanding of the return on investment. Our sales teams know the trade, the movers, the shakers the big players and the small guys. Our sales teams understand how to achieve revenue growth and are armed with the tools to succeed. Our sales teams combine local talent with a strong support structure. Our sales teams protect what exists, but focus on what is missing. Our sales teams are fresh, energized, autonomous, hungry and profit driven.

Cruise Line Marketing
Global interest in the cruise sector continues to grow across established and emerging travel markets. Across Oceans Group represents many of the leading cruise brands through careful application of sales and marketing strategies. Our track record of revenue delivery is a testament to the popularity of this sector. We assemble a team to sell your products and services to a particular group of agencies, specialty accounts, or agencies out of reach geographically or by revenue volume or potential for field sales. Whether dedicated or portfolio representation, Across Oceans Group can target a specific sales channel or a mix of sales channels, ranging from interline, corporate, agency sales.

Airline & Aviation
Increased competition, spiraling costs and changing consumer behavior has driven airlines to seek further cost efficiencies and revenue growth opportunities. Across Oceans Group is perfectly positioned to help airlines develop their growing International strategies to grow and compete by employing our expertise and local know-how to help plan and implement an effective airline sales and marketing solution.

Hotel & Hospitality
AOG has helped hotel brands increase sales and raise interest by applying cost-effective strategies including sales representation, digital marketing and traditional brand development activity. Effective application of our people and technology approach delivers strong results across all local channels.

Market Research
We help customers determine the nature of its customers and competitors across international markets, the demand for products and services, and provide recommendations for furthering international development. Product positioning: Across Oceans Group provides a distribution platform for companies to test new brands, products and services. We translate client objectives into tangible local goals and implement plans with clear timelines and deliverables. Advertising and marketing collateral: our advertising and marketing distribution extends to design, production and placement of material across all key media channels. Collateral includes translated brochures, flyers, email, presentations and social media positioning through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Branding: Across Oceans Group helps clients position their products and services across language, culture, demographics and customs ensuring brand integrity and identity are sensitively managed to fit the local market. Distribution: our local offices know the key communication channels, the negotiating players, their target audiences, and the distributors to mass and niche customer groups. With extensive local databases segmented by channel, we ensure effective communication is sent to the right audience at the right time.
We also have a time tested science behind all our pricing, we ask all our clients the below 45 questions about your products, solutions, pricing, goals and jobs to be done. The below questionnaire will take you about an hour to complete and your responses will help us craft the perfect path forward to help us together to achieve the impossible.
- What is the problem you are solving for your customers?
- Why is it worth solving?
- Why is now the right time to solve it/
- Does the team have the vision and the wherewithal to build this company?
- What is the competitive angle (competitive barrier to entry and/or go-to-market) that will enable this company to succeed where others have tried and failed?
- Who does Your company sell to?
- Which customers have used the product and how have they received it?
- How much is each customer worth? (Customer LTV Lifetime Value)
- How does the company acquire customers cost effectively?
- What are the unit economics (customer acquisition cost, contribution revenue, and churn rates)?
- Does the company have the revenue model to build a big (>$100M annual revenue) business with good margins (gross ~ 50 to 60% / net ~15 to 25%) under reasonable assumptions?
- Can the market enable or bear a $100M revenue? Alternatively, is this product in a quickly growing market or riding a disruptive wave?
- Does it look like your customer base is growing?
- Do your customers like your product?
- Does it look like your business/product can actually scale?
- What kinds of people, groups, or organizations have that problem?
- How many are there, where are they, what do they do about it now?
- How are you different?
- Who will you compete with? How are they different?
- How will you make money?
- How will you make money for your investors?
- How fast can you grow your business? Can you scale up volume without proportional scaling up headcount?
- What’s proprietary? What are you going to do to defend that?
- What traction have you made?
- What milestones have you met?
- How are you going to get the word out?
- How are you going to close sales?
- How are you going to get started?
- How are you going to spend investors’ money?
- What makes your team suited for this business?
- How was Your company Founded?
- Why did you decide to (some marketing, product, or financial decision in the pitch)?
- What about some objections related to market, competition, and financial plans?
- Who are your investors so far?
- How strong is your patent?
- Could you grow faster with more money?
- Do you realize you’re vastly underestimating your marketing expenses (or sales expense, or margins through channels, or headcount for direct selling)?
- Do you know comparable numbers for similar businesses?
- Why don’t you do this without funding? (Meaning, why do you think you need investors?)
- What sales have you made so far?
- Have you actually talked to those companies?
- Who else is interested?
- Who else have you shown this to?
- What is your valuation?
- How did you come up with that valuation?
New responses to today’s constantly adapting world.
Employees who fight against change, are slow to adapt, doubt it can be done, and cannot come up with new solutions are victims of a bad frame of mind. Our program help spark those new ideas and types of brainstorming that break through “can’t do” attitudes, increase your company’s efficiency and productivity, and promote new ideas.