Do you know the old saying about how the shoe cobbler always has holes in his boots? As an MSP, you are always thinking about the compliance of your clients, to the point where you might put your own security on the back burner. It’s easy to shove your website to the furthest corner of your to-do list, so let’s take a quick look at a couple of things you definitely should be thinking about.
Today we’re going to be talking about Cookie Laws and how your MSP should handle them.
Of all the shady scams on the Internet, image copyright infringement scams are among the worst. Let’s talk about what they are, who they victimize, and how you can beat them.
Your website is the roadway for all digital information about your company’s services, products and vision. Leveraging your website to generate and convert leads is pivotal in today's digital landscape. In this article we will discuss six marketing tools that, when utilized adeptly, can guide potential customers directly to your digital doorstep.
The landing page is the apex of your marketing funnel. It’s where you want everyone to end up and (hopefully) convert. As you might imagine, this makes the quality of any given landing page a critical consideration and something that needs to be prioritized on your website.
Let’s go over the process of building up your landing page so that it is as effective as possible in achieving your goal.
Despite reports to the contrary, 404 errors do not directly hurt your SEO and marketing practices. They can, however, indirectly cause issues. We’re going to examine how, but rest assured Google doesn’t look at a 404 error and take points from your site as if it was a punishment.
When did you last take a good, hard look at your business’ website, and overall web presence? When did you last check to see whether or not your business’ website was doing a good job of representing your business?
Websites, particularly older websites, can be outdated to the point where it hinders an MSP's ability to attract customers. If your MSP website has been around for some time, it probably needs a refresh. The underlying structure may make it challenging to adhere to current best SEO or marketing practices. Here are five mistakes you should avoid when you change your website.
An important part of your website and your MSP marketing strategy are landing pages. However, a lot of small businesses don’t understand how to effectively use them. In this blog, we’ll cover the general components of an effective landing page, and ways that your MSP should be using them.
You've got a shiny new website and it's time to start turning those visitors into leads, and then turn your leads into prospects. There are a lot of different paths you can take to do this, but first you'll need a basic understanding of the web marketing funnel.On your website, you need to have an offer. Frankly, you should have a few offers to cater towards the different ends of the marketing funnel.
URL—or uniform resource locator—is the technical term for the web address used to navigate to a website. Historically, the URL has always begun with “www,” to signify the “world wide web”... but is it really necessary to include this information on your marketing materials?
As you probably know, the most effective phishing attacks tend to push a sense of urgency on the user. Hurry, don’t think, just click!
Your website is the primary marketing tool for your MSP, and as such, it must look and operate as expected. It has become a pretty standard practice for smaller businesses to use prebuilt WordPress or Joomla templates as opposed to paying a designer to build a custom website from scratch. It saves money, and it gets you, essentially, the same end result. However, not all templates are created equal. An inferior template or theme will end up costing you in the end.
A website is a key component to any business’ marketing these days. For MSPs, there are a lot of options out there for pre-built or templated websites. This includes our Ultimate MSP Website, which comes with over 100 pages of content to choose from, several different designs, and a ton of features. In addition, we can also build custom websites. Let’s explore the differences.
When a potential lead visits your website, you want to know who they are so that you can continue to hit them with marketing touches in an attempt to move them through your sales funnel. In order to get this visitor’s contact information, you’ll need to obtain it.
There are six main types of deliverables that any MSP should have at least one of on their website. Here, we go over what those are and where you should be putting them if you want them to be seen by your website visitors.
Making a website is easier than ever. Not only are there a myriad of companies offering pre-built websites, but you can also use a number of drag-and-drop, WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) website builders to create your own website with little-to-no web design training.
Your bounce rate is one of the fundamental metrics in determining whether or not your website is attracting an audience and relevant traffic. While you can’t have an audience without traffic, traffic without an audience is just noise.
Any website you visit online is designed with a certain purpose in mind (whether or not it’s designed well, is a different story). As a managed service provider, your website needs to have just as much forethought and planning as any other - in fact, it should probably have more. Let’s discuss a few requirements that a good MSP website needs to represent.
About five years ago, your MSP’s website went through a huge redesign. The difference was HUGE! Your clients were happy that your website was finally easy for them to navigate, and prospects were converting after visiting your website at rates you hadn’t previously seen.
If you were to rank the pages of your website by importance to your clients, your first instinct might be to put your more personal pages--like your About Us and Staff pages--somewhere near the bottom of the list.
That would be a mistake.
