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Your prospects have questions, and in some cases emergencies. To ensure they can reach you as quickly as necessary, it’s important that your phone number be easy to find. Make it prominent enough that new visitors to your site will see it as soon as they arrive, in a large font in the header.

Pro Tip: Use a call tracking solution to know which marketing channel is driving phone calls. This added transparency allows you to accurately measure ROI from marketing activities on your website. Learn how call tracker works to keep track of conversions.

The average user spends less than five seconds on the homepage before deciding whether they’ve found what they need. The content they see when they arrive on your site is incredibly important for this reason. Make the best impression possible with a strong headline that clearly demonstrates the value of your offering. Speak to the benefits of what you provide with specific, action-oriented statements.

Pro Tip: Try not to focus on scrolling banners (aka sliders). Most visitors will read your headline and begin scrolling. Odds are that they won’t even see your 2nd or 3rd slide so you’re better off just having a powerful headline with a clear call-to-action.

Include a call-to-action (CTA) above the page fold so those ready to act immediately know where to click and what to do next. This CTA should match with your headline and entice your visitors to click. You may decide to include a form right on your homepage or have a CTA button which directs visitors to a contact form or landing page. The key is to make an enticing offer and avoid terms like “submit” or “click here.”

Pro Tip: Don’t ask for too much information right away. While it’s important that you qualify your leads, asking too many qualifying questions after a user clicks your CTA can easily filter out the good leads along with the bad. Try to strike a balance by asking a few basic questions such as company name and number of computers.

One example of a CTA would be an offer for a free consultation or network assessment. This requires quite a bit of commitment from the prospect but it’s a great way to get the conversation started. If someone clicks on one of your call-to-action buttons for a consultation, they are clearly interested in what you have to offer, so do everything you can to push them over the edge.

Pro Tip: Instead of sending the visitor to your general contact form, create a separate, standalone landing page which explains the benefits of the consultation. If possible, include some testimonials on the landing page to make it more likely for the visitor to share their contact details.

The vast majority of visitors are still in the research phase, looking for information about local IT providers as they evaluate options. In such an early research phase, they are unlikely to contact you directly. A lead magnet allows you to provide something of value to these prospects. It’s a low-stakes conversion point, allowing you to capture their contact information without requiring a commitment to a phone call or meeting. If you’re able to pique their curiosity by offering an eBook or downloadable, they may be willing to share their email address in exchange for the free offer. This is a great way to gain credibility while capturing leads.

Pro Tip: Put your most attractive lead magnet on your homepage, but don’t neglect the other pages of your site. If a visitor is reading your cloud computing page, it’s likely that they will be interested in your eBook about the cloud. Pronto’s Ready-to-Go MSP eBook service can get you started with some great lead magnets.

Chat boxes are becoming more prevalent on service-oriented websites, allowing visitors to ask immediate questions in real time. They frequently convert at a higher rate than phone numbers, and they are largely passive, allowing you to grab a percentage of visitors you might otherwise not have connected with. One of the best ways to implement chat is to offer a live chat box that is monitored by your team. That way the chat can be directed to support or sales depending on the situation. Some chat software will even connect to your internal chat solution such as slack, making it even more convenient to monitor.

One of the most effective ways to engage prospective clients and showcase your expertise is to demonstrate past success. It’s one of the first things someone will ask on a sales call and one of the first they will look for on an MSP website – whom have you worked with before? A lineup of companies in the region you’ve helped can highlight at a glance your expertise and longevity in the field. To go above and beyond, consider creating a long-form case study that walks through the specific problem you solved for your client and what that solution ultimately looked like. Keeping testimonials fresh can be a challenge, but solutions like SimpleSat allow you to gather testimonials and publish them directly to your site quickly and easily.

Additional areas where you can highlight social proof of your services include certifications you and your staff hold, awards you have received for your work, and video testimonials. Pro Tip: To get the full benefit of your testimonials, encourage your happy clients to publish reviews on Google, Bing, and Yelp. Having a lot of positive reviews on popular websites like these will increase your exposure and can even benefit your SEO. Also, don’t forget to ask your happy clients for referrals!

When someone lands on your website, you want them to read your unique value proposition, evaluate your service offerings, and click on a call to action – not just visit one of your social channels. Consider placing all your social media links in the footer of your site. This allows prospects to evaluate your profiles if they are researching companies, but doesn’t clutter the header and distract from your core message.

Pro Tip: Try to post status updates on a regular basis and include a few pictures of the team and office events. When prospects are researching your company and see that your social media accounts haven’t been updated in months (or years!), you’ll likely lose some credibility.

One of the first places prospective clients look before picking up the phone or making a buying decision is your About Us page. They want to learn what sets you apart, how your company was founded, and how long you have been in business. Provide details about your company and overall experience in the industry to support your claims of expertise. Adding bios, along with headshots, of your top executives to your About Us page is a great way to accomplish this. Most importantly, let your personality shine through. Your prospects are trying to determine if you’re a company they want to work with. Being memorable might just give you an upper hand on your competition.

Pro Tip: Include professional photos of your team and office. This can be refreshing and will really stand out from all the stock photos. You may need to invest in a photographer, but you’ll quickly recoup your costs if you gain just one new client.

Each of your key services should have a separate page on your website – IT support, IT consulting, VoIP, disaster recovery, cloud computing, etc. Search engines are crawling and analyzing site content based on the relationships between these keywords so it’s difficult to rank for a keyword if it’s not included on your site. Having said that, 20-30 pages of keyword-oriented content can quickly clutter navigation and make your site difficult to use, which can ultimately hurt your SEO efforts. We recommend focusing on 5-8 services which would be included in your site navigation. The content of these pages should be written for your prospects – not just search engines.

Pro Tip: Once you have your key services included on your site, consider adding content to your blog that answer common questions you hear from your clients and prospects. Each blog post is an opportunity to rank for long-tail keywords which can improve your SEO.

Create a separate page on your site for the main verticals you focus on. Not only does this highlight your ability to work within a specific field that might have certain IT requirements; it makes it more likely you will rank for important keywords like “IT Support for Accounting Firms in Chicago”. Much like your service pages, you don’t want to overdo it. Find a good balance by highlighting 1-3 industries in which you have specific expertise. If you have a unique story to tell, case studies, and examples of your work, they’re worth highlighting.

Pro Tip: To get the full benefit out of industry-focused pages, be sure to promote them. For example, try sending targeted email campaigns to leads from a specific industry and reference these relevant industry pages to enhance the campaign.

For most MSPs, referrals are the most reliable and effective source of new business. Whatever you can do to generate more referrals is an important part of the lead-generation process. You may want to include some incentives to further encourage referrals such as free gift cards, giveaways, or charity donations.

Pro Tip: Include references to your referral program in your email campaigns or in email signatures to remind your happy clients to refer their friends. Try promoting your referral program on holidays and get creative with the incentives.

If you’re a Pronto client, you have access to syndicated blog posts about IT related topics. The syndicated blog is great for keeping your blog active and the blog posts can even be used in your monthly email newsletter. To really stand out, take your blog to the next level by customizing your blog posts to your location and target buyer personas. This will make it more likely to resonate with your audience and can even improve your site’s SEO. Good blog content provides value and answers common questions and problems your prospects have. That can mean:

• Blog posts about recent security threats to small companies and what they can do to be protected.
• Discussions of new technologies and how they integrate into the office.
• Overviews of industry best practices for security, cloud migration, IoT, and more.

The goal of this content is not just to provide value, but to position yourself as an expert in the field – one they can trust above and beyond your competitors.

Pro Tip: Blogging can take a while to have an impact on your website traffic, but it can be hugely beneficial if you stick with it. If you’d like help developing your blog, check out Pronto’s Custom Blogging service.