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This week, you'll learn how data center integrators help streamline operations and maximize IT infrastructure efficiency and effectiveness. Then, get tips on how companies in the data center industry attract and convert more of the right leads.

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Data Center Lead Generation 101

People in the data center industry have completely changed how they research and make purchase decisions. Is your?lead generation strategy?keeping up with these massive changes?

It doesn’t matter whether your company provides colocation, edge, modular, hyperscale, technology, facilities, construction, or real estate. Your buyers are in the driver’s seat and no longer want to spend much time with your sales team until they’re?very close to purchasing.

Gartner found that as much as 83% of the buyer’s journey -- researching, comparing options, and evaluating pricing -- now happens before you even meet a prospect.

This massive change in buyer behaviors -- where prospects have essentially rejected your sales overtures -- has frustrated many old-school sales and marketing teams.?

But these changes present enormous, game-changing?market share opportunities?for those who can get found early -- as trusted advisors.

Register for the Webinar: Data Center Lead Generation 101

Upcoming Events

• Data Center Lead Generation 101 (This Wednesday)? ? ??
• Learn About DCMSI Data Center Go-to-Market Strategy (GTM) Consulting (This Friday)

What Is Data Center Integration?

Data center integration companies play a crucial role in helping enterprise data centers and data center providers streamline their operations and maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their IT infrastructure.

There are several different ways that integrators provide value to their data center clients, including their ability to

• Integrate various hardware and software components within a data center environment:?They ensure that servers, storage devices, networking equipment, and software applications work seamlessly to meet the organization's specific needs. This integration minimizes compatibility issues, reduces downtime, and enhances the data center's overall performance.
• Help with system optimization and scalability:?They assess the data center's current state, identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies, and propose solutions to improve resource utilization. This includes implementing virtualization strategies, load balancing, and cloud integration, enabling data centers to scale up or down as demand fluctuates.
• Assist in data center migration and relocation projects:?They plan and execute the seamless transition of data and applications from one data center to another, minimizing disruptions and risks associated with such complex endeavors.

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Data Center Go-to-Market 101

This issue of the Data Center Sales and Marketing Newsletter (DCSMI) is sponsored in part by Data Center Go-to-Market 101.

(For Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Product, and Channel Partnership Professionals in the Data Center Industry)

The way that prospects and clients research and make data center-related buying decisions has changed. Quite dramatically!

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It doesn't matter whether your company is a data center provider -- or in technology, facilities, construction, real estate, or sales and marketing.

Data center GTM teams have had to update their strategies to help their teams, companies, and clients achieve their goals.

And because go-to-market strategy is a highly competitive team sport, it takes a village to move the needle.

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However, most data center providers -- as well as the technology, facilities, construction, and real estate companies that sell to or partner with data centers -- are largely unprepared to confront this once-in-a-generation change in purchasing behavior.

?When you watch Data Center Go-to-Market 101, you’ll learn how to:

• Adapt your sales process to support your prospects’ and clients’ buying process
• Build your team with the right mix of generalists and specialists, modeled after some of the most successful professional baseball teams on the planet
• Connect the dots between marketing, sales, customer success, and product, so you approach go-to-market as a team sport
• Get on the radar screen of the right strangers, in the right places, at the right time, and in the right context
• Plan your content strategy for maximum relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness across the most popular formats
• And much more!

?Watch the Webinar Recording: Data Center Go-to-Market 101

How Data Centers Attract and Convert Leads

To attract and convert their leads, data centers must educate prospects on how to solve their challenges.?

It is essential for businesses to build trust with clients and prospects to ensure they believe in your team to fix their problems. Content is the key to developing a trusting client relationship.

Teach prospects how to solve their biggest problems—even if they are not directly related to your data center.

Your content should be used as a resource to educate and build trust among prospects. The content must be obsessively focused around your buyer personas; it should be so ridiculously valuable that you could charge for it.?

Attracting and converting leads is crucial for thriving in the competitive market for data center providers. Data centers can build trust and credibility with potential clients by educating prospects on how to solve their challenges.?

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How You Can Consult With DCSMI

The Data Center Sales & Marketing Institute (DCSMI) offers initial and ongoing Go-to-Market Strategy (GTM) Consulting for the Data Center Industry.

These programs are designed for data center providers -- as well as IT, facilities, construction, real estate, and sales and marketing companies that partner with data center providers.

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