Turn Your Expertise Into a Market-Leading Offering
You’re not selling your hours — you’re selling insight, nuance, and strategic thinking. But when your value is complex, generic marketing breaks down. It’s hard to explain what you do, and harder still for clients to see why it matters. We help specialist businesses — from B2B tech and SaaS to legal, consulting, and policy — transform invisible expertise into clear, structured offerings that are easy to market, sell, and scale. We align your strategy, services, and messaging so your value is instantly recognisable and unmistakably positioned for growth.
Clear Positioning Strategies
Stand out in a crowded market and become the only logical choice for your ideal clients.
Flagship Service Design
Focus your business around one core, high-value service that is easy to market, sell, and deliver.
Strategic Service Ladders
Build a full suite of offerings that guides clients from a small first step to your most premium service.
High-Converting Landing Pages
Create a powerful first impression and turn your website visitors into qualified leads.
High-Value Lead Magnets
Generate a consistent flow of leads by offering tangible, expert value upfront.
Actionable Outreach Strategies
Systematically start valuable conversations with the exact clients you want to work with.
Meet Yoni Balkind
Strategic Marketing Consultant & Flagship Service Designer
Onyo is the culmination of my experience at the intersection of law, technology, and marketing.
After qualifying as a lawyer I shifted increasingly to the digital side of the law world, launching GoLegal.co.za and growing it from zero to over 150,000 monthly readers before selling the business in 2018.
At LexisNexis, I led a flagship product division trusted by over 4,000 professionals, achieving company-leading revenue growth for four consecutive years.
I've also advised early-stage tech startups on their go-to-market strategy and worked with premier digital agencies like 10up.
This experience showed me that the models that once brought success are now failing. In a world overwhelmed with free AI expertise, the old marketing playbook no longer applies. Professional firms and B2B businesses increasingly struggle to attract the right leads. Their thought leadership adds to the noise while they chase hollow SEO metrics.
Onyo is founded on the observation that marketing can no longer function as a disconnected activity. It must be intertwined with how you design your business itself.
We don't chase fleeting tactics. We focus on the foundational work: clarifying your positioning, designing your service and pricing, and building the outreach system that gives you a true, defensible advantage in the market.
Frequently Asked Questions
Get clear answers to common questions about working with Onyo
We specialize in working with founders and owners of service-based businesses whose primary asset is their specialized knowledge. Our ideal clients typically fall into these categories:
Primary Focus Areas:
- Law Firms & Legal Service Providers looking to move beyond generic offerings and establish a reputation for their unique specialisms.
- B2B Tech Startups & SaaS Firms whose complex, technical value is difficult to communicate, often resulting in marketing that feels like a "word salad".
- Knowledge-Based Entities such as think tanks, research institutes, policy labs, and lobby groups that trade in expertise and thought leadership.
- Networked Organizations including membership-based entities, accelerators, and similar groups that oversee multiple firms and can benefit from our service design approach.
Common Challenges We Address:
- Deep expertise that's being commoditized, making it harder for their specific value to be recognized
- Marketing messages that get lost in a noisy market, causing them to blend into the background
- Reliance on scattered, custom projects that limit scalability
- Internal marketing teams that struggle to grasp technical nuances
- Experts who find it difficult to simplify and explain their offerings to the market
- Complex offerings that require educational marketing rather than traditional sales approaches
Our clients typically share a common mindset: they want to market their business authentically, prefer an educational approach over traditional PR methods, and believe marketing should be a natural extension of their expertise. They're looking for a strategic partner who understands the unique challenges of marketing complex, knowledge-based services.
We are not a replacement for your existing marketing resources; we are a strategic partner that makes them more effective. While agencies often focus on tactical execution (like running ads or social media) and internal teams are busy with daily operations, we focus on the foundational strategy that must come first.
Our core mission is to translate complex, messy ideas into clearly defined, market-ready services. We combine strategic clarity with a practical focus on service design and productisation—a critical differentiator that helps you stop competing on expertise alone and start competing on a superior client experience.
We act as a specialised strategic partner to empower your existing team. We provide the foundational blueprint—the core positioning, the value proposition, and the well-defined service offering—that your marketing department or agency can then execute with far greater impact and clarity. We provide the "what" and "why" so they can excel at the "how."
We understand that capacity is a real constraint. That's why our approach is designed to be lean and create momentum, not drain resources. We can begin with a small, high-impact engagement, such as our Clarity & Opportunity Audit. This is a single 90-minute session designed to deliver a clear diagnosis and an actionable roadmap without requiring a significant time commitment from your team.
Furthermore, our strategies are designed to dovetail with your existing efforts, allowing for incremental, manageable changes that build over time rather than requiring a disruptive overhaul.
We are at a unique juncture where market dynamics are shifting rapidly due to factors like AI disruption and extreme content saturation. In this environment, generic marketing is failing, and businesses are in a scramble to adapt.
This is a critical window of opportunity to elevate your approach, capture new ground, and build a more resilient business. Many companies will be made or broken in this period. By choosing to be bold and strategic now, you can ride the emerging wave of change instead of being left behind by competitors who do.
Our confidence comes from a combination of proven experience, a transparent process, and a focus on delivering tangible value at every step.
- Founder's Track Record: Onyo is the culmination of founder Yoni Balkind's 15+ year career in B2B service innovation. His experience founding and growing GoLegal, a leading publication for South Africa's legal sector, demonstrates a deep, real-world understanding of how to market complex professional services effectively.
- Focus on Actionable Blueprints: We don't deliver theoretical fluff. Our outputs are actionable blueprints, frameworks, and fully-defined service designs that you can implement directly into your business operations. The proof is in the immediate practicality of our work.
- Collaborative & Transparent Process: Our process is deeply collaborative. We co-create your strategy with you, ensuring it is a perfect fit for your business and that your team is bought-in from day one. This shared journey ensures the solutions are not only effective but are genuinely owned by you.
- Phased, Low-Risk Engagements: We believe in earning trust through results. We structure our engagements to deliver tangible value quickly, often starting with smaller, focused projects. This allows you to experience our methodology firsthand before committing to a larger-scale project.
This is precisely the challenge we are built to solve. Your offering is specialised and refined, and it doesn't lend itself to superficial marketing. It needs to appeal to intelligent, thoughtful buyers.
Our process recognises that you often need to educate the market and explain your offering and how it fits in. There's a level of expertise and complexity that needs to be traversed and made accessible, not "dumbed down." We specialise in honouring that nuance while building a strategic bridge to your ideal clients, ensuring your expertise is understood and valued.
The First Step Toward Clarity
Your expertise is your greatest asset. A focused conversation is the starting point to ensure it's understood, valued, and positioned for growth.
A complimentary, no-obligation discovery process, resulting in a concise report with our findings and recommendations.