How do I find a marketing agency for my MSP?
Ask three things. Has the agency worked with IT or cloud providers, and can a client confirm the results in a public review? Will it report on qualified pipeline rather than clicks and form fills? Does it know the compliance questions your buyers ask, such as HIPAA or SOC 2? Then ask who does the work each week, and whether the ad accounts and their data stay yours.
How do I market my MSP business beyond referrals?
Start with the buyers who are already looking: search campaigns for the services and locations you want to grow, and a Google Business profile for each office. Add LinkedIn for the accounts that aren't searching yet. Then publish the pages those buyers need, one for each managed service and one for each compliance framework your clients follow, so your ads and your SEO have somewhere to send them.
Should an MSP use Google Ads or LinkedIn to find mid-market clients?
Often both, with different jobs. Google Ads captures companies that are looking for a new provider now. LinkedIn reaches IT leads, finance heads and owners at the accounts you choose, before they search. We start with the channel your budget can test properly, add the second once tracking shows cost per qualified lead, and move budget to whichever brings more accounts that fit. Our free B2B PPC Self-Audit Scorecard is a quick first check of your Google Ads.
What is a good cost per lead for an MSP?
There's no fair single number. It depends on your location, the services you sell, your contract values and how strictly you define a qualified lead. A cheap lead from a five-seat office can cost you more than an expensive one from a multi-site account. We set the target from your contract values and close rate, and judge channels on cost per qualified lead and cost per opportunity.
How long does MSP marketing take to show results?
Paid search and LinkedIn can bring leads once campaigns and tracking are live, but judging them on signed contracts takes at least one full sales cycle. SEO and visibility in AI answers take longer and build over time. We don't promise dates. We agree the order of work and the numbers we report on, and go through them with you in a monthly report.
Can you help an MSP win regulated or government clients?
Yes, on the marketing side. We build campaigns and pages for buyers who have to check their providers: HIPAA covered entities, for whom an MSP that maintains or transmits protected health information on their behalf can be a business associate; and financial firms under the FTC Safeguards Rule. Your compliance claims come from you and your auditors, never from us.
How much does an MSP marketing agency cost?
It depends on the scope: how many locations and services you market, which channels you use, how much content you need and how much tracking has to be set up first. We scope it after the strategy call, once we know which accounts you want to win. The ad accounts stay in your name, and the data stays yours.
Will ChatGPT and Google's AI answers recommend my MSP?
Nobody can promise that. What we can do is run your buyers' questions through ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews and other engines, record who gets named and which pages get cited, and work on the gaps we find: vague service pages, missing facts, and directory or review profiles that are thin or out of date. Our free AI Visibility Snapshot shows where you stand today.