Knock off all those IT marketing one-night stands. It’s time to get serious and stop giving up. There’s no magic bullet, but there are things you can do make your marketing count. When it comes to IT marketing success, here’s what you need to know—and yes, Gandalf is mentioned at least once.
Strong, empathetic marketing accountability can turn an entire marketing strategy around and pull a team closer together. Use accountability to build your team up. Focus on solutions, not problems. Focus on the root cause, not blame. Focus on improvement, not lack of performance.
Now it’s time to focus sales follow-up. You’ve got leads coming in, after all. When monitoring your marketing, you notice that people have been opening your emails and they’ve been reading your content. Repeatedly, even. What do you do now?
Unlike advertising, marketing is all about the analytics. But before you can dig in and really analyze your marketing data, you need to understand two very important things. What constitutes good results? And what’s actually important?
By the time you get to this stage in your marketing plan, you’ll likely be sick of planning. You’ll be good and ready to actually do something. This is where the rubber meets the road. Everything to this point has been theoretical. Now it’s time to shift gears, which makes this a pivotal moment.
Choosing your marketing team, as well as who’s going to lead that team, will be instrumental to your success. But how do you know who to hire first? Where do you even begin tackling the monster that is assembling an IT marketing team? Read on and we’ll tell you.
To make your MSP’s marketing efforts successful, you need a solid IT marketing plan. But what exactly does that look like? What’s in it and how do you create one? Take a page out of the TRIdigital playbook and let us show you how to build your plan.
Which marketing activity is best? It depends on your budget and your strengths, as well as the kind of leads you need to meet your growth goals. When your expectations, resources and skills are all aligned, you’re set up for marketing success.
When it comes to your IT marketing strategy, there’s a lot to consider. But if you tackle everything in the right order, you’ll come out on the other side with a functional and effective plan in your hands.
Before you get to the fun side of marketing—creating your strategy, choosing tactics and reaping the benefits—you need to know how much you can afford to spend. Exactly how much. That’s right, kids. It’s time to talk about your marketing budget. Let’s get to it.