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Not To Be A Jerk - MSP Marketing

“Not being a jerk, BUT…”

The English language has a small, hardworking family of phrases whose only job is to save face and hold the door open for whatever’s coming through it next: “No offense, but…” “With all due respect…” “Not to be rude…” Last week, someone added to the collection and posted this to one of my Rants: “Not being a jerk but my attention span and attitude only made it through your first two sentences. Staying more with less in an Executive summary could be more effective in your influence. The details c...

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Love Marketing, HATE Selling

The argument happened during a Rapid Implementation Workshop I was hosting. In the room were about 50 MSP business owners, all there to learn how to implement a...

Control Without Responsibility

I watched the Fauci hearing the other day for as long as I could tolerate. He clamped down tighter than the sphincter of the new guy in a prison shower. I’m not...

Lifetime Achievement Award

Last week at the Q3 Producers Club meeting, I was given the Lifetime Achievement award that I was supposed to receive back in December at the MSP Titans event i...

But I Wore The Juice!!!

In 1995, a man named McArthur Wheeler walked into two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight, no mask, no disguise, and robbed them both while grinning up at the se...

Would You Be Good Enough?

Before websites. Before email. Before Google put the entire world’s knowledge at your fingertips. Before cell phones. Before social media. And LOOOONG before AI...

Freeeeedooooommmmm!

America turns 250 years old on Saturday and my husband’s been smuggling fireworks across state lines for this event since July 5th of last year. This time he's...

Peddlers, Promoters And Pretenders

According to a Wall Street Journal investigation that dropped last week, Polymarket, the hot crypto “prediction market,” was caught paying TikTok influencers $2...

Respect Your Customer

Ron Johnson — the genius behind the Apple Store — was hired as CEO of JCPenney to grow the company. His plan: ditch the coupons and the loyal middle-aged, middl...

Trust But Verify

Less than a week ago, a 21-year-old woman died after falling 130 feet headfirst when the bungee jump instructors failed to attach the safety cord to her harness...

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What To Do When An MSP Prospect Goes Dark After You Deliver A Proposal

Prospects do not ghost you because they are rude or disorganized. They ghost you because you gave them an easy out by emailing the proposal, you did not secure...

Why MSPs Are Invisible In AI Search (And What To Do About It)

Answer engine optimization means structuring your content so it gets used as the direct answer inside AI-powered tools, rather than just ranking as a link. For...

How To Overcome Price Objections In MSP Sales

You do not overcome fee resistance by telling a prospect your service is better once they have already stated that your price is too high. At that point you’re...

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What To Do When An MSP Prospect Goes Dark After You Deliver A Proposal

Prospects do not ghost you because they are rude or disorganized. They ghost you because you gave them an easy out by emailing the proposal, you did not secure...

“Not being a jerk, BUT…”

The English language has a small, hardworking family of phrases whose only job is to save face and hold the door open for whatever’s coming through it next: “No...

Why MSPs Are Invisible In AI Search (And What To Do About It)

Answer engine optimization means structuring your content so it gets used as the direct answer inside AI-powered tools, rather than just ranking as a link. For...
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