Recently during a Q&A call, I had a member inquire how to design a logo. It’s a question I get a lot when customers are creating their IT services marketing plan. He’d gotten quotes ranging from $500 to $5,000 — he wanted to know what needed to go into creating a successful logo and brand, and what it would cost.
Public speaking produces more fear and anxiety than death, according to the “Book of Lists.” But delivering a seminar presentation is a fast, cheap way to earn trust with your audience and increase revenue, profits and clients. And IT professionals who overcome this fear will ultimately win more sales.
Are you getting paid what you’re worth? One of the biggest reasons computer consultants don’t charge premium prices is a misplaced fear that they’ll lose clients and limit their prospect pool. That couldn’t be farther from the truth.
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 …
Losing sales to competitors who undercut your rates. Lowering profit margins to compete. Clients pushing back on proposals. Any of these scenarios sound familiar? You’re not alone. As a trusted advisor to over 8,000 IT services business owners, I hear the same feedback from clients repeatedly. It’s not your services that are the issue, it’s about how you approach your …
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, …
Online marketing has changed the game for selling IT services. The cost of developing and hosting a website is insignificant to the amount of money it can generate. With more people going online for purchase information, companies with a strong, compelling online presence will ultimately win more IT services sales.
Successfully delivering email messages is more difficult than ever. If a spam filter doesn’t snag your message, there’s a good chance the recipient will delete or ignore it. But IT email marketing is an incredibly easy and downright cheap method to stay top of mind with IT leads.
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 running an IT services firm, it’s easy to fall into the lure of acquiring new IT business. But in the grind to attract new customers, IT businesses mistakenly overlook the diamonds in their own backyard. As Ron LeGrand says, they’re “stepping over dollars to pick up dimes.”
