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Filling Your Data Center Space With Full-Funnel

Inbound Marketing

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The Traditional Data Center Marketing Playbook is Broken.

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And You're Probably in Denial

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Today people use technology like priority inbox, caller ID, adware blockers, satellite radio, and DVRs

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to put an end to annoying, interruption marketing

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Instead people do their own research and seek out the information that they want,

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when they want, on their own terms through search engines and social media

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If your website has helpful, educational content that answers the questions of your ideal prospects,

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you earn a seat at the table as a trusted advisor

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But if you don't and you're still marketing like you did five years ago,

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well then there's a pretty good chance that your data center is now completely invisible to a large cross-section of your best potential clients

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In this post, excerpted from the eBook "Inbound Marketing for Colocation Data Centers,"

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you'll learn some important tips for filling up your data center space

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Marketing Must Be Measurable

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Over a century ago, advertising pioneer John Wanamaker was famously quoted as saying,

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"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half."

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Many in the Inbound ecosystem firmly espouse,

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“In God we trust. All others bring data.”

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Or more simply, if you can’t measure it, don’t do it

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Like many data center companies, a decade ago SP Home Run also had literally more than a dozen different Internet marketing tools that couldn’t speak to each other

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Valuable data was scattered in something like 14 different databases

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This made for extremely time-consuming comma-separated values (CSV) file imports and exports with which to wrestle

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Silos Kill Return on Investment (ROI)

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The problem with all of this: Solutions in silos, that can’t communicate with each other, fail to deliver positive ROI

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So, what’s really needed is an end-to-end holistic solution for:

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• Website traffic generation

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• Website lead generation

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• Website client acquisition/revenue generation

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• Website ROI analysis

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And that’s precisely what the Inbound methodology addresses in its four core phases:

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Why Marketing and Sales Don't Get Along

(And That Friction Shortchanges Their

Employers)

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If you're struggling to fill up your data center space,

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these silos must come down and everyone needs to be focused on the same goal:

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driving more revenue with the right kinds of data center clients.

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What have you found to be most important when trying to fill up your data center space with new clients?

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Does your current game plan reflect how modern humans navigate the buyer's journey?

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Or is your company stuck in the past?

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Let us know your take in the Comments below

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