People are stubborn creatures. You can present them with a perfectly good product or service that will help improve their businesses, income, or life, but it still falls short. It’s not personal. When it comes to marketing managed services, it’s a crowded marketplace and business owners have limited time in their day to listen to boring sales pitches. You need …
Every business owner has an opinion about marketing IT services — right or wrong. The problem is, many are just that – opinions. They’re NOT based on extensive research or testing, only founded on limited personal experience. Operating on a hunch rather than data limits your marketing success and exhausts resources. To get real traction with marketing your IT services, …
How would you like to close more managed services contracts WITHOUT slimy sales tactics or “needy” follow-up? To end to price resistance or an unwillingness to sign a longer-term managed IT services agreement? To close a higher percentage of MSP contracts without discounting? Then here’s an extremely simple (yet powerful) strategy to get more clients to sign on the dotted …
When using Direct Mail the best offer is no better than the worst offer if it’s thrown away unopened before your prospect reads it. So here are a few ways to “sneak” past the human spam filter in every office and get your letters opened. 1. Make direct mail look like personal mail. Use a real, live stamp. Hand-address the …
Last month on the Q&A call, I was told by a member they had implemented one of my campaigns “to the letter” but still had gotten ZERO results. Obviously not a good way to start a call! This fired off a great discussion with Jeff and the team and revealed a need for me to document a process for what …
Attention All VARs, MSPs, and System Integrators Who Want To Generate Leads Online… By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com Before I give you these quick tips, let it be known that developing a web marketing machine is an ongoing effort that requires a commitment to testing and refining your strategy, message, offer, and graphics, as well as …
By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com Are you familiar with the late, U.S. President Garfield’s story on margins? James Garfield was born in a log cabin to poor, uneducated parents, yet he went on to become a scholar, a Civil War hero, a U.S. congressman for 18 years and, eventually, the 20th President of the United States. …
By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com Although I’ve harped on this before, I continually get marketing campaigns submitted to me from computer consulting firms for critique that contain zero benefits or reasons why a customer should pay attention, let alone respond or buy something. In most cases, I can clearly tell that they spent hours, possibly even …
By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com I was flipping through a copy of CRN the other day and was, yet again, disappointed by the unbelievably bad marketing and monumental waste of money. I think it is this incredible void of good marketing examples that makes this industry rife with marketing that just plain sucks. Not one great …
By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com #1: Simply raise your rates. Pretty ingenious, huh? That’s why I get paid the big bucks. Just type up a simple letter explaining that on X date, your rates are going up. You don’t need to apologize or get a note from your mother. Just do it. The world will not …
