How to grade the quality of your MSP's leads

Episode 249 August 19, 2024 00:30:06
How to grade the quality of your MSP's leads
Paul Green's MSP Marketing Podcast
How to grade the quality of your MSP's leads

Aug 19 2024 | 00:30:06

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Welcome to Episode 249 of the MSP Marketing Podcast with me, Paul Green. This week…

How to grade the quality of your MSP’s leads: I encourage you to prioritise leads to focus on prospects truly worth your time. (jump to)

If I suggested you spent 80% of your time marketing your MSP, would you think I was nuts?  I believe that to grow your MSP and secure its future, you need to shift your focus from operations to marketing, making it your top priority to attract and convert new clients.  (jump to)

Pay per click CAN work for MSPs if it’s part of an overall marketing strategy: My guest this week, Corey Zieman – owner of Guaranteed PPC, explains how effective pay per click advertising can turn your MSP into a powerful client magnet in an evolving digital landscape. (jump to)

The perfect heading for your MSPs website:  Lastly, I answer a question from Greg in Melbourne, Australia. He wants advice on what headline to use on his website for maximum impact. (jump to)

Join me as we unpack these topics and learn from some triumphs and trials in the MSP world. Oh, and don’t forget to join me in the MSP Marketing Facebook group.

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How to grade the quality of your MSP’s leads

When it comes to generating leads for your MSP, not all leads are created equal. It’s easy to get excited about a new prospect, but before you dive in, take a moment to assess whether they’re truly a good fit for your business. Here are three crucial criteria to grade every lead.

1. Opportunity and Urgency: A prospect’s urgency can be a game-changer. Are they locked into a contract with another MSP, or are they desperate for a solution right now? The more urgent their needs, the higher quality the lead. Always ask about their current IT situation and pressing issues – they’ll tell you if they’re ready to move.

2. Fit: Evaluate whether they’re your ideal client. This isn’t just about budget, it’s about working with businesses that align with your strengths and preferences. If you’ve learned anything from experience, it’s that compromising on this leads to regret.

3. Engagement: A prospect who actively engages with you is far more likely to become a valuable client. If you’re doing all the chasing, it’s a red flag. A genuine partnership starts with mutual interest – don’t hesitate to walk away if that’s missing.

Prioritise these factors, and you’ll focus your energy on leads that are truly worth your time.

If I suggested you spent 80% of your time marketing your MSP, would you think I was nuts?

Many MSP owners share a common origin story: leaving an unsatisfying job to start their own business, driven by a desire for control over their work, time, and income.

In the early days, you likely faced the struggle of balancing quality with growth, hiring staff, and dealing with the inevitable drop in standards and the relentless demands on your time. As your business matured, the leads that once flowed naturally began to dry up, leaving you wondering where the next client will come from.

The solution? Transform yourself once more – this time from the owner of an MSP to its chief marketer.

Dedicate the majority of your working time to generating new leads, nurturing prospects, and closing deals. Remember, the MSPs that dominate their markets are the ones whose owners prioritise marketing, turning themselves into client magnets. This shift is essential not just for growth, but for achieving the lifestyle and financial rewards you envisioned when you first started your business.

Pay per click CAN work for MSPs if it’s part of an overall marketing strategy

Many MSPs have a love-hate relationship with pay per click (PPC) advertising. The allure of paying to get your message in front of potential clients who need help right now is strong, but the reality can be disappointing. Too often, MSPs spend a fortune on PPC campaigns only to see little return. However, as the digital landscape evolves, particularly with AI’s influence, PPC can play a pivotal role in your marketing strategy.

My guest on this episode, Corey Zieman, owner of Guaranteed PPC, argues that PPC, when done correctly, can be the backbone of your lead generation efforts. He emphasises the importance of focusing on the right keywords – those that attract serious business inquiries rather than tyre kickers. Corey also highlights the potential of YouTube as a platform, where creating niche content and leveraging remarketing can keep your MSP top of mind when prospects are ready to switch providers.

For MSPs to succeed with PPC, it’s about more than just setting up ads – it requires ongoing optimisation, smart targeting, and a comprehensive strategy that integrates PPC with broader marketing efforts.

FEATURED GUEST:

Corey Zieman, Owner CEO and Senior Strategist at Guaranteed PPC, is a 12-year veteran in the direct response marketing field.

Corey has built and successfully exited multiple eCommerce companies in the aftermarket autoparts market before becoming the VP of Marketing at GetRanked1st marketing agency in Toronto, Canada.

He has also managed over 10 million in paid search spend and generated over 1 million new leads for hundreds of different brands in his career.

Connect with Corey on LinkedIn and check out his website GuaranteedPPC.com

The perfect heading for your MSPs website

Greg’s MSP in Melbourne, Australia, is facing a common challenge: finding the perfect headline for his website.

The headline on your homepage is crucial – it’s the first thing visitors see, and it only has a couple of seconds to hook them before they bounce away. When done right, it can significantly increase engagement, encouraging potential clients to explore your site and, ultimately, inquire about your services.

For MSPs that have been around for a few years and already have a solid client base, here’s a headline that works wonders: “558 Melbourne Businesses Already Trust Us With Their Technology. You Should Too.”

This headline leverages social proof, showcasing the number of users you currently support. It’s an effective way to convey credibility and trustworthiness right from the start. While that figure might represent users spread across multiple clients, it paints a powerful picture of your reliability and expertise. Just remember to update the number a couple of times a year to keep it accurate.

This simple, yet impactful headline can quickly transform your website’s effectiveness, helping to draw in more potential clients by emphasising the trust others have already placed in your MSP.

Got a question about your MSP’s marketing? Submit one here for Paul’s Personal Peer Group.

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[00:00:02] Speaker A: It's time. Ground control to MSP's. Your marketing mission is a go. Prepare for liftoff. [00:00:10] Speaker B: Hello, and what is happening in your life right now? Because I have a ton of inspiration and motivation for you today, here's what we're going to be talking about. How to grade the quality of your leads. If I suggested that you spend 80% of your time marketing your MSP, would you think I was nuts? And my guest reveals how to use pay per click advertising at the heart of your overall marketing strategy. Welcome to episode 249 Howard by mspmarketingedge.com. [00:00:40] Speaker A: Dot Paul Greens and MSP Marketing podcast. [00:00:43] Speaker B: So you might be spending a great deal of your marketing time just trying to generate leads. But remember that not all leads are equal. A one man band business with zero budget should not be treated the same as a 30 user business that hates its incumbent MSP and is desperate to switch. Now let's talk about three important criteria you can use to grade every single lead that comes into your MSP. [00:01:10] Speaker C: Now I'm sure that this has happened to you at some point in the past. [00:01:14] Speaker B: You've had a notification of a new lead into your business and they want to engage with you, which is great cause that makes them a prospect. It's exciting, isn't it, when that happens? And then just before you pick up the phone to call them, you just have a quick look at their website or you look over the details that they've submitted to you and your heart kind of sinks because you realize that unless their website is like years out of date, this is a micro business. And therefore they're very unlikely to pay the several hundred dollars or pounds a month that you like your clients to pay. And we all have standards for the kinds of people that we want to work with. Sometimes that is a dollar value, sometimes it's a type of business. Very often it's down to the mindset. [00:01:54] Speaker C: Of the people that we'll be dealing with. [00:01:56] Speaker B: We all have these standards, whether we stand by them every single day or not. [00:02:00] Speaker C: I know some days when you're desperate. [00:02:02] Speaker B: For cash, you will just take on any client that turns up. But long term, you want to get people that are the right fit, so you're a good fit for them and they're a great fit for you. And I'm going to give you three suggested criteria that could be a very good way for you to judge the quality of every single lead that comes into your MSP. And the first of those is opportunity and or urgency. So if someone is still in the middle of a lengthy contract with their incumbent MSP, and they're relatively happy. That makes them kind of like a low quality lead today versus them being at the end of a contract or really unhappy. Or of course, if they have a massive tech problem that's holding them back now and there's no one that can fix it for them. These are all great leads, and they're much higher quality because the more urgency and opportunity there is, the more motivated they are to talk to. You get it really clear in their mind and their heart whether or not they want to hire you and actually take action. The way to assess this, of course, is by asking them opportunity and urgency questions. So open questions such as, are you being looked after by an IT support company right now? When does your contract end? What are the biggest tech headaches or problems in your business right now? Is there something active right now that you need to deal with urgently? What do your staff say about your technology? What do your staff complain about now? Never be scared to ask these questions when you first start talking to a lead because you don't always have to jump kind of straight into tell me about your business. What do you do? What are your growth goals? Those are important questions, but you don't have to do them first. You can immediately establish whether or not they are a quality lead. Don't be afraid to ask them. How many staff do you have? How many devices? [00:03:47] Speaker C: That kind of thing. [00:03:48] Speaker B: Do you have a budget? Do you have a budget for it support? How much would you want to spend a month? If they say $12 a month and they've got two devices, it's potentially not a great quality lead for you. Now, the second criteria that you can assess them on is fit. So ask yourself a question. Are they your ideal client or not? Like I said earlier, this is the little bit that you'll compromise on, depending on how desperate you are for cash in the business. Although every time I've done that in my 19 year business career, and I've done it many times, I always ended up regretting it. Most MSP's, they never formally sit down and ask themselves, what is a perfect client to us? And this doesn't have to be a difficult process. You can just kind of figure out what types of businesses you love working with, what you want your minimum spend to preferably be every month. And more importantly than anything, what do you really not want to do, and what kind of people do you really hate dealing with? If you hate lawyers, don't deal with lawyers. [00:04:47] Speaker C: Right? [00:04:47] Speaker B: If you hate dealing with bespoke software. Don't take on manufacturing manufacturers. If you have no desire to be supporting an EPOS system, an electronic point of sale system like tils at 830 at night, don't support a restaurant. That kind of makes sense, doesn't it, really? So fit's really the easy one. The final criteria is engagement. How engaged are they? How much are they talking to you and engaging in what you do? The more engaged a prospect is, the more likely they are to choose you. If you find yourself constantly doing all the chasing and kind of doing all the work, and it seems a little bit like a one way process that makes someone a much lower grade lead. Now we talk a lot about partnership in the channel and a true partnership with clients of yours. It has to be a two way thing and I truly believe that the way they behave during the sales process is an indication of what kind of client they will be when you're working together. And I really think you mustn't be afraid to walk away from a lead or a prospect that you just have a bad gut feeling about, even if actually their business would be great to. [00:05:51] Speaker A: Have Paul Green's MSP marketing podcast still to come. [00:05:55] Speaker B: Tell me have you ever tried pay per click? You know Google adverts to drive traffic to your website and generate leads? Maybe you've struggled with it. Many MSP's feel that pay per click is just a massive cash suck and it doesn't produce results. Well, my guest today will tell you how to place pay per click at the heart of your overall marketing strategy and thats coming up in the next five minutes. When you first start working on improving your MSPs marketing, there is a sudden realization that you kind of need to. [00:06:25] Speaker C: Throw resources at it. [00:06:27] Speaker B: Yep, you need some cash, definitely. [00:06:29] Speaker C: But the really important resource to kickstart. [00:06:31] Speaker B: Any marketing effort is time. And that needs to be your time. As the owner of the business, I believe the more time you can spend on your MSP's marketing, the better. In fact, if I suggested you spend 80% of your time marketing your MSP, would you think I was nuts? Hey, Im Paul Green from the MSP marketing edge, the leading white label content marketing system thats trusted by over 700 msps around the world. Check if your area is available right [email protected]. so most MSP's have a very common origin story and it often begins when the owner quits an unsatisfying job to start their own business. This is normally about gaining control over. [00:07:15] Speaker C: The quality of the work that you're. [00:07:16] Speaker B: Doing, what you do with your time, and of course, over your own personal income. In fact, was that why you started your business? Maybe in the first few years you just got too busy to do it all yourself. So you started to take on staff and you watched in horror as a. [00:07:31] Speaker C: The quality of the work dropped a. [00:07:32] Speaker B: Little, and b, you realized that buying 40 hours of someone else's time doesn't really free up 40 hours of your time. But you kept pushing the business forward, trying to run it at the highest possible quality while growing it at the same time. And of course, you're always tired from working too much and the odd sleepless. [00:07:50] Speaker C: Night, mostly from worrying over cash flow. [00:07:53] Speaker B: Right? Well, this is the rollercoaster nature of being a business owner in your first few years, and always there, lurking in the background, is that massive problem of how to get new clients. In fact, this is the biggest headache for most MSP's in the early years. You overcame that problem just through the sheer force of the energy, time and. [00:08:13] Speaker C: Passion that you put into the business. [00:08:15] Speaker B: And that activity and momentum probably opened doors, probably uncovered low hanging fruit just through word of mouth, through referrals, through sheer energy. But as the business starts to mature and you return to a more balanced lifestyle, the leads just seem to dry up. And maybe today you're in a position where you haven't got a clue where. [00:08:34] Speaker C: The next client will come from. [00:08:35] Speaker B: Is that where you are today? Well, if you are at this stage, the answer is to start taking marketing way more seriously, starting with the amount of time that you put into it. I believe that you have to transform yourself again. Once you successfully transformed from being an employee to being your own boss, and then you successfully transformed from being the MSP's primary technician to being the owner. Well, now you need to transform from being the owner of an MSP into being the marketer of an MSP. And this might mean working towards spending the bulk of your working time on the marketing of your business, generating new leads, turning them into prospects, qualifying them into opportunities, setting up sales conversations and closing deals. Now, I know, I understand that this isn't why you got into your business back then. You just wanted to help people, you just wanted to have fun with computers, right? But that was then, this is now. And things have changed, because now you want to grow your business, you want to take more money home, you want to pay your staff more, you want to invest in better tools, you want to protect your clients better, and you probably want to spend more time with your family, right? And all of these things need more clients who are buying more monthly recurring revenue services. And the only way to get more clients is to spend more time on marketing. Understand this, the MSP owners who spend a greater proportion of their time marketing their business will always end up with a dominant share of their marketplace because that constant focus on marketing turns you into a massive and unstoppable client magnet. Do you agree? [00:10:15] Speaker A: Paul Green's MSP marketing podcast still to. [00:10:18] Speaker B: Come, how happy are you with the headline on your website? Do you think that perhaps you could do a lot better with it? Well, many MSP's feel this way and in fact, one of them has asked if I can suggest a better headline for him. I'm very happy to help and I'll give you my suggestion which you can use as well. I'll give it to you in the next five minutes. I think most MSP's have a kind of love hate relationship with pay per click. You know, the adverts that sit at. [00:10:44] Speaker C: The top of Google search results? [00:10:46] Speaker B: They love the idea of just being able to pay for traffic, just being able to pay to get a message in front of people who've got a problem that needs to be solved right now. However, many MSP's who have tried this have discovered that they spend a ton of cash for very little return. Well, my special guest today believes that pay per click can sit at the heart of your marketing strategy, and he has some very smart ideas to share with you. Let's look at how pay per click is changing in the era of AI and whether or not you can use it inside your MSP to drive leads and win new clients. [00:11:23] Speaker D: Hello, I'm Corey Zimon, owner of guaranteed PPC and senior strategist at guaranteed PPC. [00:11:29] Speaker C: And thank you so much for joining me on the show, Corey. We are going to talk about PPC, pay per click, or basically advertising online. And it's one of the hardest things for any MSP to get right, because we all know an MSP who sunk several thousand dollars into Google Ads or some other kind of online advertising and got nothing from it. And Cory, I know that you're very familiar with paid advertising for MSP's, and we'll come on to your suggestion in a second because I think you've got a very clever strategy that you can share with us today. [00:12:00] Speaker B: Let's first of all, have a look at your background. [00:12:02] Speaker C: So what got you into pay per click in the first place, and how long have you been doing it? [00:12:07] Speaker D: Oh, basically I started marketing stuff right out of college back in 2003, and just another partner that I met up with in college and just learned the hard way, learning how to sell stuff online and then just got to be good enough at it that I started to get clients a few years later. And I've been doing it for close to 20 years now. [00:12:30] Speaker B: Wow. [00:12:30] Speaker C: That's a very long time in what is essentially a business that only really existed. Was it the late nineties that Google came up with the concept of, or either came up with the concept or adopted pay per click? [00:12:40] Speaker D: Yeah, it was 2002, 2003 when Google came out with the Google Adwords program. [00:12:46] Speaker C: Wow. So you've literally been there the entire lifestyle of the lifetime of the industry, which is pretty cool. [00:12:53] Speaker B: So what have you seen? [00:12:54] Speaker C: I mean, I guess tons has changed over those 20 years or so, but what are the big changes that you've seen that have affected b two b marketers like MSP's over the last two, three years? [00:13:04] Speaker D: Everybody says it's gotten more complicated. There's so many more levers and switches inside the account and then therefore a lot more to screw up, if you will. Prices have went up on a click and. But with that said, it also, though, puts a moat around your business. If you understand kind of the gotchas that everybody is so called, you know, everybody else will fall for, essentially, and you don't do those things and you, you have an edge on everybody else. I mean, that's, that's the better way to look at it. And what I try to tell people when they're trying to enter it. [00:13:34] Speaker C: Yeah, that makes perfect sense. So MSP's traditionally have really struggled with pay per click. There are some that do really well out of it. There are some that kind of set it up. I know they don't monitor it very well and they're spending x $1,000 or pounds a month on their ads and they're not necessarily seeing anything for it. I've got a few MSP's that I've worked directly with, not on pay per click, because it's not a speciality of mine, but where they've worked their way through either some kind of training on it or they've just sat and figured out how to optimize it. And I've got one in particular I'm thinking of who will spend, I think, a couple of month and will happily work through the nonsense inquiries. One man bands coming in saying, oh, we've got a broken iPad, can you help me? That's not a business inquiry. That's just noise, but they know if they work through enough of those, eventually they'll get a 30 user client coming in that's got a problem that needs to be solved today. What's your experience of doing paid ads with MSP's? Is it a very similar thing or have you seen different patterns and different problems? [00:14:36] Speaker D: Yeah. The main thing that you got to know when you're doing pay per click for managed service provider businesses is that the keywords that are actually going to work to get where the meat is, not where the tire kickers are, if you will, or the information seekers or people that aren't really serious. The keyword always needs to have the word agency services, companies, firms along with that keyword because that's where 80% of the business is. And the problem though is if you go into Google, if you don't know any better, you go in there and you put your keywords in there. It shows up for a lot more than that. It'll be 90% of stuff other than that. But that is where the serious people are, if you will. And if you can get your ads narrowed down to just those type of searches, it will basically generally work. [00:15:22] Speaker B: And is that where most MSP's, or. [00:15:24] Speaker C: In fact most business owners go wrong is that they see pay per click as a, it's a complicated one off setup and then they're kind of loathe to go in and fiddle with it. I guess you guys make your money just going in and optimizing campaigns every single day of the week. [00:15:38] Speaker D: Yeah. Yep. They think it's a one time setup. Google, you know, makes it look like that when you go in there, it's, it makes it, you know, they want your money, of course, and they make it simple and 15 minutes to set up your ads and rarely is that going to be good enough. You have to go in there and make sure Google isn't just wasting your money because they love to have your ads show up again for other stuff that you don't want to show up for and then where there isn't actually any customers there for you, and then it's just the death by 1000 cuts. If you show up for enough people that don't need your service and are just clicking well, you're not profitable anymore. [00:16:10] Speaker C: Yeah, that's an interesting point. So, you know, obviously that the managed services sell is a very long sell. Someone will stay with an MSP for I don't know, three, five, seven years, and then they reach that level of dissatisfaction. They go and look in that very, very small window, their mind is open and they'll go and look at two or three other providers with the intention of switching. [00:16:30] Speaker B: From a pay per click point of view, how? Well, let's say from a marketing campaign. [00:16:34] Speaker C: Point of view, because I know that your mind thinks a lot bigger than pay per click. [00:16:38] Speaker B: What would you do using paid ads. [00:16:40] Speaker C: To reach those people at the point that they're ready? So let me complicate that further by splitting that out into a couple of different questions for you. [00:16:47] Speaker B: So what kind of ads would you. [00:16:48] Speaker C: Run for an MSP? And then what would your overall marketing strategy be? [00:16:52] Speaker D: Yeah, so the main three things that the customer or client is always going to want to know from you right up front, or to decide who they're going to go with in that small window of time, as you describe, is can you do what I came to Google for? Can you cover my area and can I trust you? That's what the consumer always is going to want. Can you communicate those three things quicker than your competition there on Google? Because if you can, you're going to end up with a lion's share of the business that's coming through. Google actually wants to promote that person who does that better than the other people that are there on top of Google advertising for the same keywords that you have, because that provides Google's users a better experience, makes them want to click on ads in the future. So I would figure out with my ad, how can I communicate that better than my competition versus the other ads that are there? And when they click and go to my website, how do I do that better? In a lot of the cases, it's going to be not just one ad for everything and one page to take them to for everything. It's to identify that different users have different needs. So I'm going to communicate with people on an individual basis and an individual need so that my ad, when you're looking at four ads and you're trying to decide which one to click on, this ad right here clearly understands what I need. And they didn't bait and switch me and take me to the homepage of this guy's website and they didn't, you know, it's clear that they really weren't listening to me. And now I've got to really struggle to see if what they said on the ad is even true. It's accurate. That's the magic formula right there, per se. [00:18:21] Speaker C: So essentially, if I was to summarize that, if you can make it easier for the person who's searching, then the chances of you actually getting that inquiry just goes up dramatically. [00:18:30] Speaker D: Yeah, exactly. [00:18:31] Speaker C: Okay. If I'd known it was that simple, why aren't I in pay per click? Well, that's right, because you have to be there doing settings and stuff all day. That's not the kind of thing at all. So in terms of the overall marketing strategy, how do you recommend MSP's use pay per click? As you know, you talk there about how to target the right kind of people, but how else would you use pay per click? And what other types of marketing strategies would you use around pay per click? [00:18:53] Speaker D: Yeah, so Google search is a great base of, but it's going to be limited. There's only like, as you say, there's a small window of time when somebody is willing to switch and they're going to come to Google, make those searches, you can still get those and that still can be profitable. However, you have a lot more available to you because people will have individual questions that they ask and any more, where do they go? If they have a question, they go to YouTube. Be the person that answers that question. When they have that one off question on YouTube, they can find you easily. Specifically by creating niche content that answers questions. YouTube is a how to answer question platform. Still, at the end of the day, that's what it's for. And a lot of people forget that it is a search engine first and foremost or people are looking for specific answers. You can actually provide good answers to people. You'll be surprised in your space how few people are giving specific advice to specific questions that people have in your space on YouTube accurately without a lot of fluff or what's there is being taught by somebody who's not a real expert. And then what you can do just by satisfying that user's question at that time. Now you've got familiarity with that prospect and you have a foot in the door with that person essentially. And then with other follow up, you can actually get that client. Maybe they're just not fully ready to switch, but they're not quite satisfied either. Or one day that the current provider isn't doing what they need him to do and then you're first in line for that business at that point in time. [00:20:22] Speaker B: And what's the technicalities of how you'd actually do that? [00:20:25] Speaker C: Corey? [00:20:25] Speaker D: Yeah, so you go ahead and you set up your YouTube channel to answer the questions for the user just as if you're trying to build up a channel like anybody else does that. Once you've done that though, the magic is in setting up what they call retargeting or remarketing through a Google advertising account that you set up for your business. You can actually have video ads then show up for somebody who watches your channel, even if they just watch just one video of yours. And then you can have other videos now show up for them while they're, you know, watching other videos while on YouTube for months, essentially. And then you can just continue communicating with that user over time, providing them more education, also providing them, you know, saying what you do, what you, what the benefits of working with you are. So it's all done through something called retargeting. And that's all done through setting up a simple YouTube ad campaign in your Google advertising account that you can set up for your business. [00:21:25] Speaker C: Okay? So that makes perfect sense. So you're using your, if you like, your traditional pay per click to drive traffic into your business, into your website, and potentially also onto YouTube, and then using remarketing to get people, which I guess also answers that question of getting the, or the problem of getting the right message in front of the right person at the right time. [00:21:44] Speaker B: Let's change direction a little bit. [00:21:45] Speaker C: And I want to ask you about changes that are happening within the search market now. I need to give a caveat that we're recording this interview right at the end of June 2024. And the reason that I mention that is because so much change is happening so quickly with search engines, with everything in regards to AI. And as we're recording this now, Google has just sort of done a whole bunch of AI generated answers in certain. [00:22:11] Speaker B: Markets and it backed away from that. [00:22:13] Speaker C: Very quickly because obviously the answers were nonsense in many of the cases. Alongside that, we've seen Bing grow in popularity. It's still nowhere near Google, I don't think. [00:22:25] Speaker B: But what kind of changes have you. [00:22:26] Speaker C: Seen over the last six months and what do you think is going to happen with AI and with search engine preferences in the next six months? [00:22:33] Speaker D: Yeah, Google, it's been the case over years that they've been slowly displacing the organic search results on Google with a response that they give the user that's based upon AI or scraping websites. And they're doing that more and more all the time now with AI. They're actually having AI generate the search result for their users. However, at the same time, though, they've been also been promoting YouTube videos very strongly in the search results as well. So going back to what I was saying just a moment ago, if you are the one producing video content, you're not being replaced, at least at this time. I don't know, maybe in the future, at some point in time, Google will have AI video. To answer your question, when you come to Google with the question. So if you go with video, you're actually getting more placement than you were. Whereas if you have an article on a blog or something like that, you're actually getting less placement than you were. So for that reason, I would recommend doing video. And for that matter, though, in an MSP business, they're buying you. They're not buying a. They have to trust you. And video is the best way to gain trust with the user. You're not going to seem like a commodity once you have that video that you've educated them and that they've seen from you and they trust and respect you now. So really that's, if you got an MSP business, that's where I'm going to go for sure. [00:23:53] Speaker C: Yeah, I love that. That's a really smart way of looking at it. Okay, final question for you, Corey, and then we'll talk about how people can get in touch with you. [00:24:00] Speaker B: If you could wave a magic wand. [00:24:02] Speaker C: And make everyone you work with understand one thing about pay per click, perhaps demolishing a common myth, what would that be? [00:24:11] Speaker D: Yeah, generally speaking, there's no overnight success with it. Ultimately, PPC is a process. You invest money into the process. You learn what works, what doesn't work. Then you scale what works, and then you try new things. And ultimately what people do is they see the competitor that they have spending all that money. They're always at the top of Google with their ads and then ultimately they say, how can they afford to do it? And I can't. And then they get discouraged. The reality is that person that you see that's constantly at the top of Google running their ads, chances are they've been doing that for many years already to get to that point. And they started at the small level, spending that thousand dollars a month and they took that thousand and they worked it and they turned it into 2000 and that's how they eventually got there. So very rarely does somebody come to the Google with the little bit of budget and then overnight, boom, it just works. Like that's not the default expectation you should have. [00:25:08] Speaker C: Yeah, absolutely. I completely agree with you there, Corey. [00:25:11] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:25:11] Speaker C: That's been such an insightful interview. I think the remarketing is the big takeaway from that. Essentially, pay per click has to be part of an overall marketing strategy. [00:25:20] Speaker B: Tell us a little bit more about what you do for MSP's. And what's the best way to get. [00:25:24] Speaker C: In touch with you? [00:25:25] Speaker D: We have a advertising firm where we manage just specifically online ads for clients. And with that, what we do is if we take a look at your business and we identify, you know, what kind of goals that you need to have in terms of leads that needs to be generated from a starting advertising budget. We go through with you, try to figure out what would make you successful, profitable, with, you know, how much you're earning and, you know, closing rates on leads and stuff. And then we come up with a plan and then we also offer a so called guarantee with that plan to where we can get you a certain amount of results on your campaigns upfront to get you to break even or similar. And we'll not take our fee until we've gotten you a little bit, you know, closer to that mark at the very beginning. And so we really do it all from start to finish, from start to finish. We build the ads, the landing pages, the critical tracking that you need, that entire sales process and that funnel that you need to really do well when running ads to make the whole process work. We manage it for you and you're basically just paying a fee to get the results at the end of the day. [00:26:29] Speaker C: Corey, just tell us your website address and the best way to get in touch. [00:26:33] Speaker D: Yeah, the website is guaranteed. [00:26:36] Speaker A: Ppc.com Paul Green's MSP marketing podcast Paul's personal peer group so every week we. [00:26:44] Speaker B: Jump in and answer a question from an MSP somewhere around the world. Producer James, what have we got this week? [00:26:51] Speaker E: Well, this week, Paul, we are traveling to Melbourne, Australia, and Greg's MSP is based there. His MSP's website is in dire need of a refreshed and his keyboard is taking the brunt of his problem. He keeps typing stuff, deleting it, typing stuff, deleting it. He's getting very frustrated. And his question is, what is a great headline for my website? [00:27:14] Speaker B: Oh, this is a great question because the headline on the homepage of your website is so important. In fact, the headline and the main image, they kind of work together to grab people's attention and hook them into your website. In fact, you only have really a. [00:27:29] Speaker C: Couple of seconds to do this before they hit the back button and leave. [00:27:32] Speaker B: The site, which is known as a bounce. But if you get someone engaged in your site quickly, then you have a much better chance of them reading about you, potentially being interested in you. And obviously we want them to inquire with you. So let me give you a headline that works really well for MSP's. Well, this works really well for MSP's who already have clients. So this isn't something that you could use if you're a startup or you're kind of in your first year or so, but a more mature MSP that's been going a few years will be fine. Here is the headline. Get ready to write this down and copy this. 558 town named people already trust us with their business's technology. You should do the same. Let me say that again. 558 town named people already trust us with their businesses technology. You should do the same. So that number at the start, that's the number of users that you support. It needs to be a real number. And the idea behind this headline is to use it as a bit of social proof because if so many people already trust you, then you must be really good. Right now, you and I know that. [00:28:36] Speaker C: Those 558 people are spread across like 20 or 30 clients or whatever it. [00:28:41] Speaker B: Is, but it sounds an impressive figure. And remember, these people, they do trust you because you're supporting them on a daily basis. You're the place they go and they have a problem. So don't worry about using that number. Don't overthink it. [00:28:55] Speaker C: All right? [00:28:55] Speaker B: It's a great headline. [00:28:56] Speaker C: It's a great use of that number. And obviously you just update that two or three times a year. [00:29:01] Speaker B: Now there are many, many great headlines that you could use. [00:29:04] Speaker C: To me, that's a really easy one. [00:29:06] Speaker B: And a super quick win. If you've got a question about anything in your MSP that you'd like help with, just go to the contact [email protected]. dot. And of course, for help finding new clients for your MSP, we've created an easy to follow marketing system. You can get that and all the content to go in [email protected]. [00:29:25] Speaker A: Dot coming up, coming up next week. [00:29:28] Speaker B: Thank you so much for listening this week, next week I am so excited because we are going to hit our 250th episode. And so I've got a special for you. I'm going to be interviewing a business growth expert who helps people move from being a business owner to truly being an entrepreneur. And it's all about the way you think and the actions you take. He's a real inspiration, and I can't wait to bring you that fascinating interview. [00:29:54] Speaker A: Next week for MSP's around the world. Around the world, the MSP marketing podcast with Paul Green. Now go put rocket fuel in your marketing.

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