Digital Marketing Post Archives
Why Chat GPT Is A Risk For SEO Content
Chat GPT is all the rage right now. Type in a few sentences about what you want and ChatGPT spits out serviceably written content to fulfill all your marketing dreams. It’s easy to see how ChatGPT can have a high potential for abuse and turn an already lazy group of marketers, into something even lazier,…
Why Referrals Don’t Scale And Create Risk For Your MSP
With the recent wave of layoffs in the tech sector, I’ve seen a big uptick in the recently departed deciding to try their hand at running their own consulting business. This has led to a lot of fresh faces in some of the networking meetings I attend asking some flavor of the same question. How…
What Goes Into Publishing A Blog Post?
I wanted to take a moment to describe what goes on during the publishing of a blog post here at Tortoise and Hare Software to give you some visibility into what engaging with us can look like. Our client base is comprised primarily of established mid-market MSPs, SaaS, and Cybersecurity firms, and our clients come…
What Are Directory Citations In SEO?
Directory citations are a form of online business listing similar to a phone book entry in the real world. Yelp and YellowPages.com are probably the two most thought of when it comes to online business directories but sites like Facebook and Google also have their own directories and there are thousands with unique positioning in…
MSP Marketing Guide To 5 Million+ ARR
In this guide, we’re going to talk about how you can use MSP marketing to generate enough pipeline to get to 5 million plus in annual recurring revenue. A lot of the things we’ll talk about in this guide can be used in larger and smaller businesses but for the purposes of this guide, we’ll…
Multi Arm Bandits And PPC Machine Learning
In today’s post, we’re going to be talking about a common PPC machine learning algorithm of which some variant is leveraged in part by many pay per click platforms called a multi arm bandit. We’ll talk about how they compare to simple A/B tests and why understanding the types of algorithms these platforms use is…
Top Online Lead Generation Tips For MSPs
According to industry research by a leading managed service provider marketing firm, 94% of MSPs self-reported lead generation as their number one challenge when it comes to growing their MSP. There’s no question that the vast majority of MSPs struggle with lead generation, especially in the earlier years of their business. It makes sense, most…
Best Practices For Responsive Search Ads
If you’ve been running paid search campaigns on Google Ads lately you’ve almost certainly noticed that responsive search ads are now the standard. Google is leaning heavily into automation and machine learning and fighting the current is not only less effective, but it’s also now not even possible in some cases. Expanded text ads have…
How To Set A Budget For Paid Search
In this post, we’re going to break down how to set a budget for paid search to run lead generation campaigns for your B2B tech org. Let’s assume for the purposes of this post that you are seeking to set a budget that will effectively establish a pay-per-click lead generation pipeline and target approximately 10…
Want To Sell Your MSP? You Need EBITDA
In today’s post, I want to open up the curtain a bit on what selling your MSP one day might look like and why many owners of managed service providers are doing themselves a big disservice when it comes to the way they are looking at how they operate their business. I want to share…
How To Automate Your Social Media Posting
In today’s world, companies that can best leverage automation to augment their company’s performance, are at a significant advantage compared to companies that aren’t able to leverage these tools effectively. Scale and volume are the name of the game, especially in B2B tech firms. In this post we’ll break down how you can leverage social…
Branding Your MSP: How To Get Started
Throughout the process of launching and running Tortoise and Hare Software these past 3-4 years there’s one thing that I’ve gotten consistently good feedback on. The brand! People who aren’t shopping for marketing, and have no relationship to the company will regularly come up to me at trade shows, or comment on my business card,…
What Is The Best Social Listening and Monitoring Tool For LinkedIn?
I’m a member of about 10 different tech or marketing-related slack groups and a question that has been popping up over and over again recently is what are the best social listening or monitoring tools for LinkedIn? LinkedIn used to be one of the most effective B2B lead generation channels, but when the pandemic struck…
How Do I Advertise My MSP? A Short Guide
Marketing is one thing but advertising is another. You may have your logo and branding in order, a polished website, pamphlets, brochures, t-shirts, stickers, and other swag, but at a certain point, that stuff doesn’t move the needle anymore. If you want to start expanding the reach of your MSP and finding new clients you’ve…
The Ultimate Guide To Paid Search On Google Ads For Managed Service Providers
Generating leads for your MSP can be a challenge. You spend so much time managing employees, making sure customer support tickets are answered, procuring hardware, and defending against cyber threats, there’s hardly time to worry about networking and doing things like posting on social media. However, you’d like to grow faster, and due to some…
The Ultimate Guide To MSP SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the most important ways to attract new business for mid-market managed service providers (MSP). If you look at MSPs that have achieved any sort of meaningful scale and grown to the 10MM ARR mark and beyond, you will almost always see a significant portion of their growth came…
Building A North Star For Your Brand
Today I had an “epiphany”. I was writing a lead magnet for the top 10 mistakes I see technology companies making when it comes to their marketing and wrote down the lack of a strong brand as the number 1 mistake. Since I typically work with companies in a post-branding lead generation capacity, I don’t…
Establishing Web Analytics And Conversion Tracking Foundations Using The Google Marketing Platform
Building a quality website is the absolute cornerstone of everything that comes next in a digital marketing context. The coronavirus pandemic has significantly accelerated a shift to digital that has been a long-time trend. Yet, there are still so many companies that don’t understand the value of digital and the impact that their website is…
The 5 Second Test For PPC Landing Pages
I’ve been having a lot of conversations recently about optimizing websites for lead generation and explaining a concept called the 5 second test. The 5 second test is a design usability test that aims to help usability testers evaluate and prove the effectiveness of user experiences designs. The idea is that you show someone a…
Business Lessons Learned From 15+ Years In Competitive Online Gaming
When I was in 3rd grade my family picked up and moved from the poor side of town to a better neighborhood on the outskirts. After my first time experiencing how much moving stinks, and losing the family cat (R.I.P Tinkerbell), I came in as a rough and tumble south sider to the north side…