Archive for the ‘Channel Marketing’ Category

5 Online Marketing Tools Every Tech VAR Should Be Using

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Internet-Marketing-ToolsEvery time we do a kick off call with a new 3Cs Program client, I’m surprised to discover that so few VARs are using some of the most important and widely-used marketing tools that are freely available on the web.

Successfully marketing your ERP software and technology solutions requires more than guesswork and shot-in-the-dark tactics.  You need tools and data that gauge the impact of your efforts and provide insight to make adjustments when needed.

In this article, we’ll take a peek at some of those tools … not surprisingly, many of them are provided free from Google.  After all, Google is still the king of search and search visibility is good for business.

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Juice Marketing: A Few Recent Projects (March 2012)

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

… Some of the Sage partner marketing projects we’ve been working on lately.

It has been a busy few weeks here at Juice Marketing. We’ve been helping our clients achieve some pretty amazing things and creating fresh-squeezed marketing and content in the form of newsletters, press releases, success stories, and brochures.  Here are a few of the exciting projects we’ve completed recently for Sage partners.

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5 Tips for a Killer Newsletter

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

… That Your Prospects Will Actually ReadERP_Newsletter_marketing

Newsletters are the “swingman” of marketing (a basketball reference indicating someone who can play multiple positions).

This flexible piece of marketing communication appeals to multiple audiences and keeps you top-of-mind with customers, prospects and alliance partners.

By consistently providing timely and relevant information, newsletters can bolster your firm’s technological expertise, provide value to your existing customers, and keep your brand front-and-center until prospects are ready to buy software.

But your customers and prospects are inundated with email, junk mail, and just plain busy.  So here are a few tips for creating a killer newsletter that will rise to the top … and that your prospects will actually read.

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Looking for a Sage Authorized Partner in Canada

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

That was the title of a post in the Sage Nonprofit Solutions group on LinkedIn.  I clicked on it thinking there were going to be a TON of responses from Sage Fund Accounting partners looking to help out and maybe pick up a new customer.

The post went on to say “I’m interested in finding out more about Sage Fundraising Online and Sage Millennium, so I need to find an authorized reseller in Canada. Feel free to message privately.”

And to my surprise …

There was just ONE response.

And it gets better …

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6 Critical Elements of an Effective Success Story

Monday, January 30th, 2012

erp success storySuccess stories are a highly effective marketing tool.  They lend credibility to your firm’s technological expertise in a format that prospects can easily relate to and understand.  A well-written story delivers compelling evidence of your ability to provide ERP, CRM, HR, and other technology solutions that help your prospects become more efficient, profitable and competitive … which may ultimately help you get the deal closed!!

But developing an effective success story is as much an art as it is a science.  At Juice Marketing, we’ve developed several best practices that enable us to deliver success stories to our clients that are compelling and resonate with their prospects.

So let’s take a look at 6 critical elements of an effective success story.

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Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 Newsletter January 2012

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Juice Marketing has just published the first issue of our Sage ERP MAS 90 and MAS 200 newsletter for 2012- part of our Sage Newsletter Marketing program designed to help Sage Partners provide ongoing communication with customers and stay top of mind with prospects and alliance partners.

This new Sage ERP MAS 90 and 200 newsletter issue features:

- National Accounts … Managing Large Customers with Multiple Locations

- Is MAS 200 SQL Right for Me?

- FRx Data Conversion Utility… It’s Almost Ready for Primetime

- Building Customer Loyalty with Sage CRM

Click below to check out the sample issue

Be sure to contact us if you’d like a copy of this newsletter to send to YOUR customers and prospects. We’ll personalize it with your logo and company colors and provide you with a formatted PDF, HTML email, and article content with each issue.

Sample Issue (Click Image Below)

Sage MAS 90 Newsletter - January 2012

Sage ERP MAS 90 200 Newsletter


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The Social Media “Secret” that Small Businesses Need to Know

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

Social Media SecretI hear it from Sage and Microsoft partners all the time … “I don’t see the value in social media.”

The reason they don’t see value, they say, ranges from “it’s a silly fad for teenagers” and “I don’t care what someone had for breakfast this morning” to “I don’t know anybody that’s made money or closed a deal through social media.”

But there’s one elusive secret about social media that most of those same folks are missing – something you need to understand in order for social media to work for you.  And that simple secret is this …

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How to Keep Visitors On Your Website Longer

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Since we’re a channel marketing firm, we visit a lot of channel partner websites and often discover very simple things you can do to keep visitors on your site longer.  Here are two of them:

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Hey Sage, What Happened to “Differentiate or Die?”

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Stand Out with Original ContentIt seems every bit of communication we see coming out of Sage these days has some sort of plug push promotion for Zift syndicated content.

So, what is syndicated content?

In a nutshell, it’s ready-made blocks of content that you plug in to your website.

But here’s the problem …

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Software Sales: The Argument for Fixed Pricing (Ownership) or Monthly Subscription (Rental)

Sunday, November 27th, 2011
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This is a guest post by Nicole Laurier of Fisher Technology – the North American distributor of Business Process Management software for Sage ERP, Microsoft Dynamics, and SAP.

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Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of debate on various discussion boards about what Sage Software’s plans will be when they announce their new pricing model and how it will affect their Value Added Resellers (VAR’s) and the Businesses that purchase their software.

Traditionally software has been purchased and implemented on-premise (i.e. at a customer’s place of work) where it is often maintained by an internal IT person, with a VAR offering additional support.  But with the advent of Software as a Service (SAAS), many businesses have been taking their traditional on-premise technology to the ‘cloud.’ (more…)

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