Tag: MSP Marketing
Smarter MSP’s top 10 posts of 2018
2018 has been an eventful year for us here at Smarter MSP, as we have continued our mission to deliver resources to help you develop your managed service business and make it more successful. We were fortunate enough to have...
Ask An MSP Expert: Any MSP marketing pitfalls to avoid in 2019?
Q: What are some MSP marketing mistakes that you see often and how can we avoid them in 2019? In the world of MSP marketing, there are many trends and practices that quickly become popular, and it will suddenly seem...
Ask An MSP Expert: What are some MSP marketing musts for 2019?
Q: We recently hired a new marketing team member starting in the New Year. While we’ve done marketing for our IT service business in the past, it’s always been in fits and starts. I want to make sure our new...
In 2019, make your MSP’s website a lead generator, NOT just an IT services brochure
Years ago, I worked as an independent computer consultant — back when that was still a pretty novel idea. Computers weren’t ingrained into every small business the way they are now. Not every organization, large and small, was connected to...
How easily are you FOOLED by a rookie in an expert’s costume?
John Edwards, the psychic medium known for talking to people’s dead relatives, makes millions selling tickets to two-hour events all over the world. At these events, he performs (key word: PERFORMS) his psychic feat to people wanting to believe in...
6 cybersecurity stats for MSPs to share with customers
For MSPs, cyber security is top of mind much more often than it is for your customers. With some SMB customers, it can be a struggle to not only illustrate the importance of this topic, but to explain that security...
Never offer a free technology audit when pitching MSP services
As a managed services provider, your “process” is more than just how you provide services to your clients every single day. It’s your key value differentiator — the rock-solid foundation upon which your competitive advantage is formed. Nobody does what...
Eliminating IT services competition through differentiation
How many times have you lost an opportunity to a competitor? It’s happened to me countless times over the years, and it never feels good. It’s even worse when I’ve invested hours—sometimes way too many—into crafting the perfect proposal, sometimes...
As an MSP, you can’t just be a marketer. You also need to be a storyteller
According to a recent study, in the 1970s people were exposed to roughly 500 different ads per day. That was when you took into account television ads, ads you would see reading the newspaper or magazines, and other things of...
MSP sales and marketing; a little process goes a long way
All too often, communication between sales and marketing fails — which can lead to missed opportunities. Then the debate begins, are the leads bad or is the rep unskilled? Maybe neither, maybe both. In either case, a defined process and...
