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IT Marketing Tips Help Achieve Measurable Success

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IT marketing is essential to your business. The more effective your marketing is, the more clients you’re likely to have; and the more clients you have, the more sustainable your operations will be. 

Following are tips to help you hone marketing to a reliable quantity: 

 

Strategy Defines Tactics, Meaning It Must Be Considered First 

IT marketing can’t put tactics ahead of strategy, because strategy A may not be compatible with tactics from strategy B. For example, you don’t want to combine a mail-out program with a referral program, as these tactics may require multiple automated emails which become spam in the folders of target clientele.   

A better way to go about it would be directly defining your ideal strategy and keeping tactics aligned with it. Working with SEO agencies can help you define tactics and strategy in a way which is sustainable and doesn’t incidentally undermine you.  

 

Ensure Leads Arrive in Sustainable Numbers 

Leads must necessarily be continual. Provided you’ve got sustainable leads, you can use associated metrics to define expected turnover and continuously hit those numbers. That means you can estimate growth within mere percentage points annually. 

If you don’t have sustainable leads, this isn’t possible. Referral programs, marketing outreach, top-tier SEO, and continuous qualitative content production all contribute to increased leads; as does attendance of varying conventions and professional meet-ups.  

 

Establish Time-Sensitive Goals and Hit Them 

When you put an expiration date on a tactic, that increases your likelihood of hitting the numbers you need to. Having a goal that must be met by X date provides you and your team motivation. Goals without due dates get lost in the prioritization shuffle. 

 

Achieving Dependable Marketing Solutions 

IT marketing requires careful management, but with time-sensitive goals, sustainable leads, and tactics defined by strategy, you’ll have a better chance of seeing the numbers you’re driving toward. Working with SEO professionals specializing in MSPs can additionally prove very helpful. 

Scott Anderton

Mr. Anderton is the managing partner of an IT Support & Managed IT Services provider based in Orlando, ION247. ION247 is also one of the best IT Companies in Orlando that focuses on providing state-of-the-art and the surrounding area. Prior to starting ION247, Mr. Anderton held the position of Vice President for NTT Data Inc. the 6th Largest Information Technology (IT) service provider in the world with operations in 35 countries and over $16B in revenues. Mr. Anderton managed relationships and client engagements in Financial Services, Healthcare and Public Sector verticals in the Southeast US. Prior to NTT Data, Mr Anderton was a Vice President for the Revere Group. The Revere Group is a business management and information technology consulting company with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. In this position, Scott partnered with client CxOs, primarily in the Southeast market, to maximize investments in technology. Mr. Anderton has more than 25 years of business and Managed IT Services experience in Orlando. He has led multiple IT Strategy engagements and served as an interim CIO for several NTT Data and Revere Group clients. The first 10 years of his career were with Fortune 500 companies AT&T and Sprint. His positions included Manager of many like Advanced Network Services and Director of Systems Engineering. Prior to his role with the Revere Group, Mr. Anderton was President and founder of Technology Management Solutions (TMSI), a technology management consulting firm providing outsourced information technology services in the small and medium business markets. TMSI was acquired by the Revere Group in 2006, when Mr. Anderton joined as a principal. In addition to his technical background, Mr. Anderton has expertise in strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, business process design, IT due diligence, and IT Organizational Change Management, and Transition Services Agreement execution. Mr. Anderton received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Computer Information Systems from the University of Florida in 1990. He also has completed the Executive Management program at the Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College. He resides in Orlando Florida with his wife Lisa and 3 children. You can click here to visit the website.