Robin Robins

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There is no doubt about it: Robin Robins has helped more MSPs and IT services businesses to double – even triple – sales, profits and MRR growth than any other marketing consultant in the IT services industry, period. As a trusted advisor to over 9,000 IT services business owners for over 18 years, Robin knows a thing or two about what it takes to grow sales, recurring revenue streams and a profitable client base for an IT services business. To discover how you can double your MSP leads, appointments and sales without spending a dime on marketing, go to www.toolkitlive.com/double

Shiny penny marketing
Robin Robins: The Shiny-New-Penny Syndrome

Robin Robins: The Shiny-New-Penny Syndrome

One of the 1,100+ Boot Camp attendees wrote a rather extensive note, providing feedback that the sessions were worthless and nothing of value could be gained or learned. She mentioned the “lack of new campaigns” as one of her main...

/ April 30, 2018
USP
Robin Robins: You’re NOT fooling anyone with your weak USP

Robin Robins: You’re NOT fooling anyone with your weak USP

At Technology Marketing Toolkit’s Rapid Implementation Workshop, we cover the USP, or unique selling proposition, in detail: what it is, what it is not, how to develop it, and how to use it in your sales and marketing to unseat...

/ March 28, 2018
close more sales
Robin Robins: Close more sales, unseat more competitors by becoming the LEAST RISKY choice

Robin Robins: Close more sales, unseat more competitors by becoming the LEAST RISKY choice

At Technology Marketing Toolkit, one of the most difficult things for our members to get their head around is the USP, or unique selling proposition. Without one, you’re pushing a rope uphill, fighting price sensitivity and the high hurdle of...

/ February 26, 2018
Robin Robins: How to know with absolute certainty what customers want and will buy

Robin Robins: How to know with absolute certainty what customers want and will buy

Are you having trouble figuring out what additional services your customers want? What offers will get the best response? What you need to be able to do or say to get welcomed in to talk instead of being blocked, screened,...

/ January 24, 2018 / 2 Comments
MSP sales leads
Robin Robins: The simplest way to close 2 to 3 times as many leads as you are now

Robin Robins: The simplest way to close 2 to 3 times as many leads as you are now

One of the biggest LOSSES in business is the grossly inadequate follow-up on opportunities and prospects. Based on a number of sales research reports, it’s estimated that 80 percent to 90 percent of all sales leads never get followed up...

/ December 13, 2017
ugly marketing
Robin Robins: Embrace the power of UGLY marketing

Robin Robins: Embrace the power of UGLY marketing

She May Be Ugly But She Sure Can Cook: That’s a line from a country-and-western song, and it applies to a lot of the “ugly” marketing I produce. Over and over again, in direct response marketing circles where REAL metrics are...

/ November 15, 2017
MSP fears
Robin Robins: Let’s talk about what should REALLY scare you as an MSP

Robin Robins: Let’s talk about what should REALLY scare you as an MSP

Fears are odd things. I met a guy once who makes a living wiggling into tiny, dark crawl spaces under houses where mold, feces, poisonous spiders, snakes, rats, and other unsavory things abound, and he was impressed by my fearlessness...

/ October 25, 2017
MSP marketing opportunity
Robin Robins: MSP Marketing 101 – When Opportunity Comes Your Way, GRAB IT

Robin Robins: MSP Marketing 101 – When Opportunity Comes Your Way, GRAB IT

By the time you read this, Hurricane Harvey will be old news (I’m writing this just AS it’s starting to pop up on the news radar). As one client pointed out on the Technology Marketing Toolkit member portal, how many...

/ September 27, 2017 / 1 Comment
marketing media
Robin Robins: Fortune-making truths about media, money, and marketing process

Robin Robins: Fortune-making truths about media, money, and marketing process

Here’s a truth many small business owners DON’T want to embrace, much less give recognition to: The more marketing media you can use simultaneously, the more money you’ll make. You’ll also be a LOT less FRAGILE and vulnerable to an...

/ August 23, 2017
Lead generation
Robin Robins: What a casket sales company can teach you about lead generation

Robin Robins: What a casket sales company can teach you about lead generation

Here’s a product you don’t see advertised very often: caskets. So when I saw a company advertising them one morning on national TV, it caught my attention. Unfortunately, I missed the company name — however, the biggest, most glaring FAIL...

/ July 19, 2017