Stop Making These Costly Email Marketing Mistakes for Your IT Business

Stop Making These Costly Email Marketing Mistakes for Your IT BusinessEmail marketing is often praised as having the best ROI of anything else. But if you’re making some costly mistakes, you could be spinning your wheels.

Do you hound people with a flood of irrelevant information after you’ve got their email address? Or do you never email them again, except once in a blue moon?

Finding the sweet spot can take a little time, but once you have a system in place and stop making common email mistakes, it can be smooth (and profitable) sailing ahead for your email strategy.

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Boost Your MSP Website Rankings Using Effective Keyword Research

Boost Your MSP Website Rankings Using Effective Keyword Research

Choosing a keyword that’s either ineffective or one that has too much competition can leave your content languishing on page 100+. Never gaining the type of traction you want on Google.

Unlocking the “key” to great keywords can propel your MSP site pages to those prized 1 and 2-page spots in the search rankings and get you the traffic and leads you’re looking for.

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Tips for Smart Package Pricing of Managed IT Services

There are many different ongoing services that IT companies can provide for business and residential customers. This makes trying to package those services into a nice organized monthly subscription more challenging.

Do you offer a “one size fits all” package or do more of a buffet of services that companies choose from?

Pricing managed IT services competitively can be confusing, especially if you’re a new MSP business. But using some best practices and tried and true strategies can definitely help get your pricing where it needs to be.

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How to Set Up & Deploy a Chatbot to Drive IT Business Sales (Part 2 of 2)

How to Set Up & Deploy a Chatbot to Drive IT Business Sales (Part 2 of 2)

Being in the right place at the right time is often how you win a sale over a competitor. But if someone is looking at your custom computer build page at 2:00 a.m., how can you answer the questions they have right then to help them make a buying decision?

If set up correctly, chatbots can act as a tier 1 customer support person. It’s like having a salesperson and support rep working for you 24/7.

In this part 2 of our 2-part series on website chats we’ll go through the basics of how to properly set up and deploy a chatbot on your IT business site to get more leads and sales.

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What Are the Benefits of Adding Live Chat to My Tech Business Site? (Part 1 of 2)

What Are the Benefits of Adding Live Chat to My Tech Business Site? (Part 1 of 2)

In an age where the “customer experience” is vital to both retaining current customers and gaining new ones, answering a website visitor’s questions promptly when they stop by is more important than ever.

Yet, some tech business owners wonder how they can man a live chat and run their business at the same time. They just aren’t sure whether it’s worth it to have one.

In this part 1 of our 2-part series on website chats we’ll go through the benefits and best practices of offering live chat on your IT business website.

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How to Create a Killer Webpage to Market Residential Managed Services

How to Create a Killer Webpage to Market Residential Managed Services

The market for managed IT services for the residential market has never been hotter. You’ve got a great solution for all those at home workers and students to keep their PCs running effectively, but how do you get the point across?

Knowing that you can help is one thing but creating a webpage that effectively explains why a visitor needs to have a managed service plan at home and gets them to sign up is another.

If you’ve been wanting to sign up more residential MSP customers, we’ve got several tips for you to build a killer webpage that will help you drive conversions.

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Creating a Tech Business Contact Us Page That Gets Results

Creating a Tech Business Contact Us Page That Gets Results

Perhaps the most important page on your website when it comes to getting leads is your “Contact Us” page. Its entire purpose is to get people to reach out to your tech business.

But too often, that page is overlooked. People just slap up a webform and maybe their phone number and think that’s enough.

How many more leads might you receive if you optimized your contact page? We’ve got several tips for creating an effective MSP website contact page that will invite people to reach out to you.

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11 Awesome Ways to Promote Your IT Business Remote Services

11 Awesome Ways to Promote Your IT Business Remote Services

It’s amazing how many computer services you can provide without even seeing a customer in person. Do your customers know about them?

During normal times, remote technology services can sometimes get put on the back burner behind computer repairs and networking jobs. This is especially true of residential cloud care and remote support solutions.

But if ever there was a time to let your remote services shine, it’s now during this coronavirus pandemic. Nearly everyone is staying inside their homes and relying on technology more than ever.

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Offering Help to Your Tech Business Clients During the Coronavirus Outbreak Can Be a Win-Win

Offering Help to Your Tech Business Clients During the Coronavirus Outbreak Can Be a Win-Win

We’re in unchartered territory as far as national emergencies go due to the global pandemic. School and restaurants are closing, events and sports games have been cancelled and everyone’s uncertain about what tomorrow will bring.

One thing is apparent however, without technology things would be much more difficult. This puts technology business owners in a unique position to be just the support their clients need at a time like this.

If you’ve been uncertain about what to focus on during this national emergency that is changing the way we live and work, read on for some suggestions on how you can be there for your customers to help them get through it, which can end up being a win-win situation.

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Want to Make a Stellar “About Us” Page for Your Tech Business? (Here’s How!)

Want to Make a Stellar “About Us” Page for Your Tech Business- (Here’s How!)

When you’re creating a website for your tech business, the About Us page can be tricky. Do you keep it simple and just put up a mission statement or do you tell people your life story?

Too often, small business owners just breeze by that About page, putting more focus on their other website content. But you might be surprised at just how much weight that page can carry with a visitor.

Creating a stellar About Us page for website doesn’t have to be a head-scratcher. If you’ve got a roadmap for what to include, it can be kind of fun to put together.

Keep reading for some great About Us page tips, plus a few awesome examples to inspire you.

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