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The Single Trick To Doubling Or Tripling The Leads Generated On Any Campaign You Run

Robin RobinsIT Managed Services, IT Marketing, IT Sales, Managed Services, MSP Marketing

As Ogilvy famously said, “On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent 80 cents out of your dollar.” John Caples wrote, “If the headline is poor, the copy will not be read. And copy that is not read does not sell goods.” All …

Removing The “Technician” Hat To Become A “R. E. A. L.” Entrepreneur (Rewarding, Easy, Attractive and Lucrative)

Robin RobinsEntrepreneurship, IT Managed Services, IT Marketing, IT Sales, Managed Services, MSP Marketing, Technology Marketing

Much of our society incorrectly describes small business owners as “entrepreneurs.” But as Gerber famously pointed out, most entrepreneurs are not entrepreneurs at all – they’re technicians suffering from an entrepreneurial seizure. Nothing is truer in our industry, where most (roughly 80%) are self-employed with helpers, generating under a couple million in sales, who are busy doing it, doing it, doing …

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How To Differentiate When There’s So Little Unique About What You Do

Robin RobinsIT Managed Services, IT Marketing, IT Sales, Managed Services, MSP Marketing, Technology Marketing

Speaking of standing out from the crowd, below is a real cereal being sold on Amazon Prime called “Poop Like A Champion.” I’m not 100% sure it’s the best name, BUT it certainly does get the “don’t bury the benefit” award in advertising. At least they didn’t put a picture of the end result on the box (LOL). BUT it …

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6 Unprofessional Behaviors Of MSP Salespeople During The Corona Crisis That Need To Stop

Robin RobinsEntrepreneurship, IT Managed Services, IT Marketing, IT Sales, MSP Marketing

Salespeople do all sorts of stupid things that cause them to lose sales on a NORMAL day, but when the world is facing a crisis like the one we’re all in now with the coronavirus, these behaviors are unforgivable and need to end. #1. Prospecting as though nothing is going on (click to watch video). Let’s consider what might be going …

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Sales Ramp: 3 Irrefutable Signs That You Need To Fire Someone

Robin RobinsEntrepreneurship, IT Managed Services, IT Marketing, IT Sales, Managed Services, MSP Marketing

Here’s a real e-mail I received from a client this week: “Robin, do you think not hitting sales quota for the past year is a reason to let my salesperson go?” Don’t laugh – we’ve ALL kept an employee long past their expiration date. On several occasions I made the mistake of keeping someone with the hopes that they – …

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3 Simple Steps Every MSP And IT Service Business Needs To Take Online Right Now

Robin RobinsIT Managed Services, IT Marketing, IT Sales, MSP Marketing, Technology Marketing

So you’re super busy handling tickets that seem to multiply like rabbits. Add to this your clients are in full-blown panic mode…and to make matters even worse…you’re down to your last case of toilet paper! In all seriousness, we know this is a temporary situation but we don’t know how temporary. When this ends, (and it WILL end) the world …

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The Dos And Don’ts Of Marketing Your MSP In An Unstable Economy

Robin RobinsIT Managed Services, IT Marketing, IT Sales, Managed Services, MSP Marketing, Technology Marketing

Right now, the economy is being upended and many of you are worried the COVID-19 pandemic will destroy your business. Unfortunately, this is not the first time I have faced this in business. NOTE: Before I go on, I’ve done a free webcast on “How To Avoid Losing Clients And Still Market Your MSP During The COVID-19 Crisis.” You can …

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Why Being A “Good” Technician, Manager, Salesperson Or Entrepreneur Is NOT Enough – You Need To Apply The “Second Effort”

Robin RobinsComputer Consultants, IT Managed Services, IT Sales

Vince Lombardi loved to talk about the concept of the second effort. In fact, it’s the basis of a short sales training movie created in 1968 that is still showed to sales teams in training programs today. Lombardi is famous for showing his players football clips of receivers who almost caught the ball, but let it slip through their fingers. …