Three options. Only one actually works for your business.
MSPs win on per-user-per-month seats. Break-fix shops compete on hourly. Your website needs to make the case.
An IT support enquiry from a 30-person SMB is not really an IT enquiry, it's an operational anxiety. The office manager has been getting blasted with Microsoft 365 sign-in problems, the team can't access the shared drive after the last Windows update, and someone in finance fell for an invoice-redirect phishing email last quarter. They Google 'IT support [suburb]', read three or four sites, and decide whether they need a break-fix shop who'll bill them $180/hour to fix the next outage, or an MSP who'll charge $120 per user per month and just make the problem stop. The MSPs that fill their seat count are not the cheapest, they are the ones whose website explains the per-user-per-month value proposition clearly (the SLA tiering, the EDR-and-MDR included, the Essential Eight maturity baseline, the monthly executive report), whose service pages are split by tier (Bronze for the 5-person law firm, Platinum for the 50-person manufacturer), and whose Google Business Profile says 'Managed Services Provider' loudly enough that the algorithm doesn't lump them in with the break-fix shops and the home computer-repair guys.
Good MSP marketing is three things, in this order: a tier-page library where each plan you sell (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum) is its own page with the per-user-per-month indicative price, the SLA response times, the inclusions (Microsoft 365 management, EDR, managed firewall, VoIP support, after-hours on-call, Essential Eight baseline review), and the typical-SMB profile each tier fits (5-person law firm, 15-person creative agency, 30-person professional services firm, 50-person manufacturer); a credentials wall foregrounding the ACSC Essential Eight framework, Microsoft Solutions Partner designations (Modern Work, Security, Infrastructure), SOC 2 Type 2 if you have it, ISO 27001 if you have it, and your PSA and RMM stack (ConnectWise, Datto, Autotask, Kaseya) so prospects know you run a real shop; and a tight LinkedIn-plus-Google Ads strategy that targets office managers, operations directors and CFOs at 5-50 person SMBs in your service cities, because that's where the MSP-buying decision sits, not the IT manager (most SMBs don't have one).
Six agents, working in your accounts.
Account Lead, Web, SEO, Advertising, Social Media, and Content. One platform, one bill, you approve the work.
Builds your annual plan around the MSP tiers and SMB profiles you actually want to fill (5-15 employee professional services on Bronze vs 15-30 employee creative-and-allied-health on Silver vs 30-50 employee manufacturers-and-clinics on Gold) rather than chasing every IT search. Briefs the other agents so the tier pages, the LinkedIn office-manager ads, the Essential Eight content and the cybersecurity-win posts all reinforce the seat count and the ARR per seat you actually need.
Imports your existing site so you stop paying for WordPress hosting plus plugin licences plus a maintenance subscription, and makes spinning up a new tier page or a new vertical landing page ('MSP for [law firms / allied health / accountants] in [city]') a five-minute job. Ships tier pages with the per-user-per-month indicative pricing, the SLA matrix, the included stack, the Essential Eight inclusions, and a 20-minute fit-call CTA, in two taps.
Goes through your live site for the things that actually move B2B MSP rankings: tier-and-city keyword optimisation, ProfessionalService and ManagedServicesProvider schema, Essential Eight and Microsoft 365 content internal linking (tier pages linking to vertical pages linking to compliance content), and a Google Business Profile that says 'Managed Services Provider' loudly enough that the algorithm stops sending you 'home computer repair' searches. Auto-applies the low-risk fixes.
Runs a layered ad strategy: Google Ads on the high-intent long tail ('managed IT services [city]', 'MSP for law firms [city]', 'Essential Eight Sydney', 'Microsoft 365 migration [city]') where break-fix shops don't bid, plus LinkedIn campaigns targeting office managers, operations directors, CFOs and practice managers at 5-50 person SMBs in your service cities by job title, industry and company size. Loads 'home computer repair', 'iPhone repair', 'cheap IT' as negatives. Drops broad 'IT support' bids that bleed against the break-fix shops.
Turns every Essential Eight maturity uplift, Microsoft 365 migration, phishing-incident-prevented and successful SOC 2 audit into a LinkedIn post in your real account: a carousel of the maturity uplift from ML0 to ML1, a client testimonial after a successful cyber insurance renewal, a screenshot of the monthly executive report. Builds the credibility moat that converts a 5-50 person SMB office manager from 'we have an IT guy' to 'we should switch to an MSP'. You text one screenshot or photo per week, the agent drafts the caption in your voice, you approve.
Drafts the long-form pieces SMB office managers and CFOs Google before they switch to an MSP: 'what does Essential Eight Maturity Level 1 actually cost for a 30-person business', 'managed IT vs break-fix: a 5-year cost comparison', 'cyber insurance is asking for SOC 2 or Essential Eight, what now', 'Microsoft 365 vs Google Workspace for a 25-person SMB in 2026'. Two drafts a month, in your voice, that pull in the operations decision-maker months before they're ready to switch.
Your first 30 days.
- Site imported, WordPress + plugin bills killed
- Annual plan against your tier mix and target verticals delivered by Sam
- Google Business Profile re-categorised to Managed Services Provider
- Bronze + Silver + Gold tier pages indexed with per-user-per-month pricing
- Google + LinkedIn ads live targeting office managers at 5-50 person SMBs
- First fortnight of Essential Eight and Microsoft 365 win captions queued
- Microsoft Solutions Partner + SOC 2 / ISO 27001 credentials wall shipped
- 'Essential Eight ML1 in 90 days' service line page + cost guide drafted
MSP is a seat-count business with a positioning problem layered on top. The break-fix shops own the broad 'IT support' search and the SMB office manager doesn't always know the per-user-per-month model exists. Your job is making sure the office manager who Googles 'IT support [city]' lands on the MSP value proposition (per-user-per-month, included EDR, SLA-backed, Essential Eight baseline) not the $180/hour break-fix shop. The tier pages, the credentials wall, the Essential Eight content and the LinkedIn office-manager ads do that work at scale, while you triage tickets and run engagements.
Agencies are too dear to actually run the tier library and the LinkedIn office-manager ads for $3.5k a month. Tools are cheap but the Essential Eight ML1 service line stays in a Google Doc. In-House is the third option: for $299 a month the agents ship the tier pages, launch the SMB-targeted ads, post the Essential Eight wins and draft the MSP vs break-fix guides. You stay in the driver's seat, two taps to approve, minutes a day. Stop competing with the break-fix shop on the same Google result.