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2. Reaching a revenue goal
remains elusive –
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3. even if it is a SMART goal
(specific, measurable,
attainable, realistic,
and time-bound).
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4. In most cases, the
problem is three-fold:
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5. 1. Most of the website
focuses on products
and services
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6. 2. The website content
only appeals to
prospects that are at
the very tail-end of
the sales process
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7. 3. The scale was
a complete
afterthought
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8. In this post, excerpted
from the eBook “Inbound
Marketing for Colocation
Data Centers,”
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9. you’ll learn why most
data center consulting
websites fail to scale
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10. – and more importantly,
what you can do about it,
so your website doesn’t
end up a source of
never-ending frustration
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11. Design Systems for
High-Volume Content
Creation
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12. Note: Since so many data
center companies are
asleep at the wheel with
Inbound marketing,
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13. it may be tempting to
give yourself a “free
pass” because your
digital marketing isn’t as
bad as the “other guys.”
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14. However, when it comes
to getting found on
search,
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15. your competition for
getting found at the top
of page one isn’t just
limited to other data
center service providers
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16. Pretty much any
company, association,
trade publication,
conference organization,
channel program, MSP,
or personal blogger
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17. that creates remarkable
content on any topic of
relevance to your ideal
buyer personas
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18. is your competition for
attracting those strangers
to your website
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19. Build for Scale
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20. Every year, HubSpot
works with a professor
or graduate student from
the MIT Sloan School of
Management
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21. to objectively analyze the
data that drives Inbound
marketing results
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22. If you only blog once a
week, you may still be
on the right track to
reach your goals
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23. -- but it just might take
you 100 to 400 weeks,
or two to eight years
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24. So, if your data center
consulting website is
like most and there’s
a Contact Us page and
perhaps only one or two
white papers,
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25. you’re going to be
severely underperforming
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26. At the minimum,
there must be at least
one landing page and
offer for each buyer
persona
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27. and each stage of the
buyer’s journey
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28. Don’t Over-Invest in
Today at the Expense
of Next Quarter and
Next Year
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29. Inbound marketing
done right is really
asset building --
not an expense
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30. One day soon these
assets will even become
so mainstream
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31. that you’ll see companies
accounting for these
assets on their balance
sheets
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33. Recognize that You
Cannot Win the Race
Across the Pool By Just
Putting Your Pinky Toe
In the Water
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34. Inbound marketing is
a cultural change and
requires a full-company
long-term commitment
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35. With more than 60% of
the buyer’s journey now
taking place before your
sales team is even aware
of opportunities,
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36. you can’t afford to lose
the content game.
Period.
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37. What have you done
to make sure that your
data center consulting
website scales properly?
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38. Share your favorite tip
in the Comments
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