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I don’t have to tell you that, for the managed service provider, the sales cycle doesn’t have an end… it kind of just keeps going. While the finish line may seem to be signing a new contract, there’s a lot you still have to do to encourage continued and increased business with your new client. Much of it will depend on your ability to communicate with them.

From your sales team to all those who work with your clients regularly, everyone must remember a few critical practices when communicating with your clients and prospects.

Are you trying to find the “magic” number of times a keyword should appear in your MSP content? Keyword density remains one of the most misunderstood SEO and content marketing aspects. Here are three tips to better understand and use keyword density to rank on Google.

Are you using the most effective keywords for your MSP marketing goals? Moveover, are you using keywords in the most effective way to rank on page one? Here are the best keywords and how to use them.

Relocating your business is stressful enough; the last thing you want is to discover you can no longer find yourself on Google after the move. If you can’t find yourself, neither can your clients. Here are three things you can do to ensure leads can find you online after the move.

When you search for serbices you offer as an MSP on Google, are you finding your business? Are your competitors ranking for keywords you feel you need to attract more clients? Before you give us on your MSP marketing, take a moment to learn why you’re not ranking for your keywords and what you can do to change it.

Many MSPs believe that, as long as they have some keywords, they have an SEO plan in place. Moreover, they feel that once they have an SEO plan in place, they are done and if they don’t rise in placement then SEO doesn’t work. The reality is SEO isn’t a strategy, it’s a tactic, and SEO requires the support of other tactics in order to be successful. Here are three reasons why SEO might not be working for your MSP.

You’re a successful Managed Service Provider serving multiple cities, or even multiple states... yet when you do a Google search for IT companies in those locations, your business doesn’t come up as a result. Instead, the results are populated with local businesses which feature the location in their titles or meta-descriptions.

As marketing has shifted to predominantly take place online, it is important to understand the tools available in order to best make use of them. Google AdWords is a prime example of a tool that can provide notable marketing benefits--although it may not be the right fit for everyone.

It’s important to have original, fresh, and engaging content on your company’s website. Do you know how to build out such content? As a business owner, you’re inundated with marketing experts telling you about the need to develop good content. It turns out that creating dynamic content isn’t that hard. In fact, keeping your content simple works best. 

Ensuring that your web presence is optimized to attract the attention of search engines is a key feature of creating your website. However, some pieces are more important than others, especially in the eyes of Google. A prime example is meta keywords--do they really influence your search engine ranking?

In this five-part blog series, we’ll explore some of the best practices of search engine optimization and how you can use it most to your advantage. Here, in part one, we’ll discuss how to determine which keywords will work best for you.

We’ve spent the better part of a five-part blog series discussing the assorted aspects of your search engine optimization. Here, in part four, we explore some of the myths surrounding SEO practices so you can avoid being tripped up by them as you leverage search engine optimization as a part of your marketing strategy.

You may already know this, but keywords are an important part of any search engine optimization (SEO) strategy. The question is: are you using them effectively?

Using keywords is one of the most challenging topics for MSP businesses as they develop their SEO strategy. While best practices involving SEO and keywords have evolved over the past decade, many businesses are still using the SEO playbook from the 1990s and finding themselves having poor outcomes. Take a moment to review how keyword optimization is utilized today.

When you look at the nature of managed IT services from a sales and marketing perspective, you’ll learn that you’re never really done with the sales cycle. Even after signing an agreement, you’ll be looking to have them renew contracts, subscribe to additional services, and provide referrals and testimonials. This means that communication established by your sales team and during onboarding is sustained by all of your team throughout the course of your relationship. Here are a few concepts that your whole staff should keep in mind when communicating with customers.