Oilfield HUB (Current)

Men Just Don’t Communicate Well

Posted June 25, 2015

  Communication Breakdown, It’s Always The Same. There it is. Have you heard this before? Of course you have. We hear it all the time, mostly from our spouse, when we just aren’t telling her how we feel about Bruce Jenner becoming a woman or how one of the Kardashians…
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Why Do I Need Oilfield HUB When I Have Google?

Posted June 25, 2015

  Monkey Does, What Monkey Sees! But This Ain’t Monkey Business! I recently had a few prospective clients ask me this question: Why do I need Oilfield HUB when my company can already be found on Google?” This is a fair question if you think of the HUB simply as an…
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40 Ways Operators Connect With Service Companies

Posted May 21, 2015

  It’s Not A Roll Of The Dice Any Longer!  My role at Leadstone Group is to help energy services companies grow their business.  With the current downturn in the oil industry, service companies are concerned now more than ever with controlling costs and increasing their market share.  When it…
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They Already Know Who Their Vendors Are!

Posted May 21, 2015

  “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe…” Do you think buyers at operating companies sit around feeling bamboozled, because they don’t know what suppliers to use for an upcoming drilling or completions project? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Suppliers are probably the least of their worries considering there are over 15,000 energy…
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A Little Bit Marketing – A Little Bit Sales

Posted April 21, 2015

  The Right Ingredients Make A Big Difference When we are calling on new potential customers to join the Oilfield HUB online business community, we have a bit of an uphill battle to fight and more than a few myths to break.  It doesn’t take long to realize  many, if…
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Who Goes First?

Posted April 21, 2015

  The Leader Of The Pack!  It seems to be in our DNA. The reluctance to take the first step, to be the one to jump before anyone else, in essence, to be the leader. We exalt leaders because they are different. They stand out because they are willing to…
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The HUB’s Rules of Engagement

Posted March 19, 2015

What’s Your Game?  In the services sector companies range from small one man shows, to multi-national organizations. The same can be said about our clients who have made the decision to incorporate Oilfield HUB into their sales and marketing strategies. The Engagement Benchwarmer! First, we have the ‘I’m from Missouri’…
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SCM – The Holy Grail of Oilfield HUB

Posted February 19, 2015

So what’s SCM?  Supply Chain Manager, or better known to Operators and EPCs as the place they go in Oilfield HUB to initiate sourcing inquiries, dispatch bid requests and award authorized orders.  The buck stops here!  SCM is where producers, and their contracted EPCs, as well as the suppliers (aka…
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Strength in Numbers = Sales Success!

Posted February 18, 2015

Work in the oil and gas business for any amount of time and you soon realize that networking is a big deal with all the salespeople prowling around downtown Calgary.  All those coffees, lunches, dinners, and drinks in between, and…. well…. you get the picture.  Get out there often, darken…
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HUB Byte – Refer a Service Company Rewards Program

Posted February 1, 2015

Did you know there’s a reward program for introducing us to new contacts at energy services companies? Every salesperson in the oil and gas industry understands the value of being introduced to new prospective customers. These introductions help open doors to create warm leads for your products and services and...
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