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It’s one thing to attract new people to your business initially… it’s quite another to keep their interest over time and cultivate a professional relationship with them. As such, it is important that you look beyond pure engagement… past the sizzle, so to speak… when communicating with your audience.

You also need to consider how you should follow up on your engagement efforts to reach a sale and how to keep these new clients engaged with your services and interacting with you long afterward. Let’s discuss a few strategies you may consider in your attempts to do just that.

Seeking out the right businesses for your managed IT service offering is critical to your success; otherwise, you’ll find yourself trying to make deals with people who simply aren’t the right fit. This means that you need to seek out these businesses mindfully and strategically.

Let’s break down how you can more effectively identify who makes up your ideal audience and optimally target them. 

Capturing leads is only the first stop. Turning them into clients? That’s where the real challenge lies. Success isn’t just about making a good first impression—it’s about maintaining the momentum. A well-crafted email nurture sequence bridges the gap between the initial interest and long-term commitment, providing a scalable, strategic way to guide leads through the sales funnel. 

Social media is a hugely helpful tool for businesses, especially those that function as providers for other companies. Using social media to promote your B2B operations helps you communicate directly with your target audience… provided your target audience actively follows you on your business profiles.

Let’s talk about ways you can organically build your business’ following (and, crucially, engagement) on social media.

Cybersecurity is essential for every business. Many decision-makers are now actively seeking cybersecurity solutions, which opens up valuable opportunities for MSPs to provide these critical services. If cybersecurity isn’t yet part of your service offerings or isn’t regularly featured in your marketing, website, and QBRs, now is a great time to consider integrating it to meet evolving client expectations and stay competitive.

Leads are an invaluable asset for any business, so generating the high-quality, engaged ones your organization needs to attract is essential. There are numerous ways to do so online, so let’s discuss some methods for encouraging these leads. 

Sometimes, viewing your business in terms of its different departments—less of a cohesive workforce and more disparate teams—can be too easy. This is often a dangerous pattern to watch develop, especially where your sales and marketing are involved.

Let’s discuss why this pair needs to work collaboratively for your business to see optimal success and explore ways to encourage these behaviors in your organization.

We spend a lot of time discussing how beneficial a blog is to a managed service provider—or any B2B organization, really—as it serves as a simple means of attracting attention from search engines, demonstrating your business’ value, and boosting awareness of what problems you can solve for them. One question remains, however: 

How do you get the appropriate eyes on your blog?

Since its very inception, LinkedIn has been a social media platform specifically for business affairs. This makes it an excellent platform for B2B marketing opportunities.

We want to explore how you can fully utilize your business’ LinkedIn presence. 

The difference between success and failure isn’t just about how motivated you are. Most of us in the IT industry are very detail oriented, and it’s easy to get tangled up in the small details. Sometimes, getting stuck on the minutiae can really get in the way of launching and succeeding. Let’s talk about some common pitfalls MSPs often get stuck in that prevent them from driving business forward.

If there’s one thing marketing needs to be successful, it’s consistency. Sure, it needs to be informative, engaging, and convincing, but if your audience doesn’t see it regularly, it just will not be as effective as you need it to be. Of course, to create this level of consistency, you need to be consistent in your activities.

That’s why we’ve outlined five things that you should do each and every day to help make your marketing as effective and impactful as possible.

As MSPs, delivering value goes beyond just providing services—it’s about giving knowledge to our clients and prospects. However, with so little time in the day to manage and maintain your existing client base, how can you even think of providing this information, too? This is a question our MSP blog service answers. 

In a word: very.

Today, every business needs cybersecurity. In some industries, we (and other MSPs) are starting to see more and more decision-makers actually come to us and request it. If you are an MSP and cybersecurity isn’t a part of your service stack, and you aren’t talking about it each and every week on your website, in your QBRs, and in your marketing, then you are going to be left in the dust.

Let’s talk about how you can maintain that balance with some strategic marketing and culture-building.

With so much focus on digital marketing nowadays, it can certainly be tempting to focus solely on these efforts… often, to the detriment of other forms, like print. We wanted to take a few moments to address this temptation and talk about how print marketing, specifically in the form of printed newsletters, still has a lot of value to offer businesses… particularly, managed service providers.

Hiring a full-time social media guru isn’t in the cards for most small businesses, and chances are, you’re among these businesses that just can’t swing a dedicated hire for social media management purposes. What you can do, however, is improve your own skills with social media to help make it as effective for your business as possible.

Email continues to remain a steadfast tool for B2B marketers. However, like all tools, its effectiveness can dwindle if misused. By following these six best practices, you can harness the full potential of email marketing to your business’ benefit.

Digital newsletters are a common marketing tactic used by small, medium, and large businesses alike due to the low cost and ease of putting one together. Because of this, it’s likely that the contacts on your list are already receiving multiple eNewsletters in their inboxes each and every month.

Businesses of all sizes and all industries recognize at least in part that they need to promote themselves if they want to find new customers and grow their company. However, even if they recognize this, it doesn’t mean it is actually happening.

It’s possible most of the people you want to know about your managed services probably don’t have a clear understanding of what it is that you do, what makes you different from any other provider of IT services, or what services you offer at all. So, how do you reach out to prospects like these and convince them to become clients?

This is why every business—especially a managed service provider—needs a marketing strategy.