Data Center Lead Generation Consulting and Go-to-Market Strategy
Consult With DCSMI to Increase Your Data Center Lead Generation, Reach the Right Decision-Makers, Improve Brand Awareness, Enter New Markets, Grow Your Sales Pipeline, and Scale Customer Acquisition
You're about to launch a major initiative.
There’s at least $1M+ (or your local currency equivalent) in new growth opportunities out there, but you’re unsure how to get there. And you'd like DCSMI to work directly with you and your team, over the next 12 months, to ensure that you’ve considered all of the possible lead generation, sales acceleration, and go-to-market opportunities for reaching decision-makers.
However, the way that people research and make their purchase decisions has changed quite a bit in recent years.
Gartner found that 83% of the buyer’s journey -- researching, comparing options, and evaluating pricing -- now happens before buyers engage with your sales team.
For comparison, it wasn’t always this challenging. Ten years ago, 56% of a typical buyer’s journey was over before vendor contact.
And these aren’t just outliers or edge cases: McKinsey discovered that 70%-80% of buyers now prefer a self-propelled buyer’s journey.
Has your company kept up with these dramatic changes in buyer preferences?
Or are you burying your head in the sand, betting your company’s future on an outdated sales, marketing, and go-to-market playbook from 10+ years ago?
The Data Center Sales & Marketing Institute (DCSMI) offers Go-to-Market Strategy (GTM) and Lead Generation Consulting for the Data Center Industry.
Consulting Starter
What's Included With Consulting Starter?
- 4/Year Private Workshops For You
- 4/Year Recordings and Transcripts of Workshops
- 2/Year Go-to-Market Scorecards
- 2/Year Review of Website Homepage, Segmentation, and Navigation
- 2/Year Review of Company Social Media Profiles and Recent Posts
(For details on each, see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) below.)
Who Is Consulting Starter For?
- 1 Participant from Your Company
- For Startup Founders, Solopreneurs, and Solo Consultants
- You Market, Sell to, and Service/Support SMB/SME Clients and Mid-Market Clients
Your Annual Investment for Consulting Starter: $1,500/Year
Consulting Professional
(Most Popular Annual Program)
What's Included With Consulting Professional?
- 12/Year Private Workshops For You (and Your Team)
- 12/Year Recordings and Transcripts of Workshops
- 12/Year Go-to-Market Scorecards
- 12/Year Review of Website Homepage, Segmentation, and Navigation
- 12/Year Review of Company Social Media Profiles and Recent Posts
- 2/Year Campaign Feedback Reports
- 2/Year Partnership Introduction Matchmaking Workshops
For details on each, see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) below.
Who Is Consulting Professional For?
- Up to 3 Participants from Your Company
- For Companies with 1-50 Employees (Your Company's Headcount)
- You Market, Sell to, and Service/Support Mid-Market Clients and Enterprise Clients
Your Annual Investment for Consulting Professional: $7,500/Year
Consulting Enterprise
What's Included With Consulting Enterprise?
- 24/Year Private Workshops For You (and Your Team)
- 24/Year Recordings and Transcripts of Workshops
- 12/Year Go-to-Market Scorecards
- 12/Year Review of Website Homepage, Segmentation, and Navigation
- 12/Year Review of Company Social Media Profiles and Recent Posts
- 12/Year Campaign Feedback Reports
- 12/Year Partnership Introduction Matchmaking Workshops
- 4/Year Customer Insight Research and Strategy Blueprints
For details on each, see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) below.
Who Is Consulting Enterprise For?
- Up to 8 Participants from Your Company
- For Companies with 51-200 Employees (Your Company's Headcount)
- You Market, Sell to, and Service/Support Mid-Market Clients and Enterprise Clients
Your Annual Investment for Consulting Enterprise: $35,000/Year
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Data Center Lead Generation Consulting and Go-to-Market Strategy
Yes, this program and its private workshops are for you and your team. (Depending on your program level, up to eight team members can participate.)
Once you sign up, you'll find the scheduling calendar on the confirmation page, where you can select the date/time that works best for you. When you schedule your first workshop, depending on your program level, you’ll be able to list the names and email addresses of additional participants from your company.
For the recurring workshops, we try, wherever possible, to accommodate the same timeslot.
(Most self-booking calendar availability is optimized for the Americas and EMEA. If you/your team are located in APAC, DCSMI will request your scheduling preferences that align with weekday evenings in the U.S.)
Private workshops are 1 hour.
All workshops are virtual (Zoom Meetings video conferencing).
A Go-to-Market Scorecard is a one- to two-page overview of how your company is doing across the DCSMI Eight-Step Go-to-Market Methodology. By regularly providing actionable insights and feedback, the Go-to-Market Scorecard helps your company adopt a holistic go-to-market growth strategy, so you can close the gaps standing in the way of achieving your growth goals.
Campaign Feedback Reports offer you the flexibility to get written feedback and recommended action items from DCSMI on any of 10 supported areas:
- Buyer Persona and Buyer's Journey Map Review
- Go-to-Market Strategy Plan Review
- LinkedIn Campaign Manager Review (Ads Campaign)
- LinkedIn Profile and Page Review
- Pitch Deck Review
- Portal Review for HubSpot CRM
- Premium Content Review
- Webinar Campaign Review
- Website Review (Home, Navigation, and Segmentation)
- YouTube Channel Review
Campaign Feedback Reports are usually two- to three pages long and include 10+ action items.
The turnaround time on Campaign Feedback Reports is 10 days. Each Campaign Feedback Report includes 30 days of email support following the delivery of the Campaign Feedback Report.
Partnership Introduction Matchmaking Workshops allow you to request that DCSMI introduce you to other companies interested in partnering with your company.
These workshops are scheduled for 30 minutes and provide a way for your company to get acquainted with a potential strategic growth partner. The week before each Partnership Introduction Matchmaking Workshop, DCSMI will schedule a 30-minute preparation session with you to fine-tune your approach to this particular partnership. Each Partnership Introduction Matchmaking Workshop includes 30 days of email support following each Partnership Introduction Matchmaking Workshop.
For Partnership Introduction Matchmaking Workshops, please allow up to 45 days to coordinate schedules among multiple stakeholders from both companies. (Many in the data center industry travel 25% to 50% of the year.)
Each Customer Insight Research and Strategy Blueprint includes
- Ideal Client Profile (ICP)
- Segmentation Strategy
- Buyer Persona
- Buyer's Journey Map
- Job to Be Done
- One-Year Content Calendar for Video/Blogging
- Full-Funnel Lead Generation Strategy
- Full-Funnel Outbound Email Copywriting
- LinkedIn Ads Strategy Brief
In a nod to AWS’s hyperscale impact on the data center industry, DCSMI strongly believes in Jeff Bezos’ infamous two-pizza rule.
(During Amazon's early days, Bezos implemented a guideline stating that internal teams should be small enough to be fed with just two pizzas.)
If your company needs more than 8 people participating on a regular basis, DCSMI recommends segmenting participants into small working groups/teams for this program.
The Data Center Sales & Marketing Institute works with data center providers, IT vendors for data center providers, facilities vendors for data center providers, and marketing/sales vendors for data center providers. This includes colocation, wholesale, hyperscale, edge data center providers -- as well as IT-, facilities-, and real estate-related companies that sell to or partner with data center providers.
DCSMI’s methodologies encompass a variety of vertical industry applications, including AI SaaS, application development, data center construction, data center engineering, data center facilities, eCommerce, financial services, healthcare, managed IT services, media, and telecommunications.
The Data Center Sales & Marketing Institute specializes in go-to-market (GTM) and webinar-led growth (WLG) for the data center industry.
The firm empowers data center professionals across GTM teams, including sales, marketing, customer success (CS), product, channel partnerships, and C-suite executive sponsorships.
The Data Center Sales & Marketing Institute also produces and hosts several related media properties, including the Data Center Go-to-Market Podcast, Data Center Sales and Marketing Newsletter, and Data Center Sales and Marketing Webinars
Its CEO and co-founder -- Joshua Feinberg -- started working with colocation data centers in 2015. This specialization grew from Joshua’s work with managed IT service providers (MSPs) dating back to the late 1990s -- as a contractor for the Microsoft Small Business Server product team and Microsoft Direct Access channel partner program, as well as the author of a groundbreaking book for Microsoft Press.
Along the way, Joshua Feinberg has also presented some of the highest-rated educational sessions at regional, national, and global conferences for audiences of small business-, sales-, marketing-, and IT professionals, including Critical Facilities Summit, Data Center World, Datacenter Dynamics Colo+Cloud, HostingCon, and MSPEXPO. Learn more about Leadership @ The Data Center Sales & Marketing Institute
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Not Ready Yet to Work One-on-One with DCSMI on Your Lead Generation and Go-to-Market Strategy?
For a limited time, you can enroll in the self-paced training course -- Go-to-Market Strategy Reboot Camp -- for only $500/participant. (Note: Once you sign up, please allow up to one business day for your enrollment to be confirmed and added to the proper course modules in our learning management system. )
The Data Center Sales & Marketing Institute (DCSMI) offers 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.
The data center industry includes
- Colocation, wholesale, hyperscale, and edge data center providers
- IT-related companies that sell to or partner with data center providers
- Facilities- construction-, and real estate-related companies that sell to or partner with data center providers
- Marketing and sales vendors that sell to or partner with data center providers
These data center-related companies typically sell to mid-market clients (50-500 employees) and enterprise clients (500+ employees).
The primary point person on these engagements is usually the CEO, founder, president, owner, or equivalent. Depending on client preferences, up to two additional stakeholders from your team can be included in the workshop(s).
Learn More About Data Center Lead Generation Consulting
- Register for the Upcoming Webinar to learn more about DCSMI Lead Generation Consulting for the Data Center Industry
Reviews and Recommendations
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Joshua's expertise helped me gain clarity on various aspects of my sales approach and identify areas for improvement. Overall, the consultation was a highly valuable experience, and I would highly recommend Joshua for anyone seeking guidance in B2B sales.
Sachin Singh Co-Founder and CTO of Fabulate (Adtech/Martech)
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"Joshua is the quick-witted advisor and strategic thinker you're looking for to grow your tech company! I have had the pleasure of working with Joshua over the years, with our first connection being through the HubSpot community and SaaS industry at-large. He excels at communicating his extensive knowledge about digital marketing and sales in a way that is actionable and quite insightful. His enthusiasm for chelping businesses grow, and his passion for providing ways for individuals learn is positively infectious!"
Angela Hicks Director Of Education And Training at TapClicks (marketing technology)
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"Joshua gave incredible advice! 5/5 highly recommend!"
Rachel Draelos, MD, PhD CEO at Cydoc (healthcare AI SaaS)
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"What a tremendous amount of value for an initial consultation. Will definitely be working with Joshua again in the future."
Josh Ablett Co-Founder and CPO at ChaosTrack (cybersecurity)
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"I worked with Joshua in my capacity as conference director at HostingCon. He is a wealth of knowledge on all things data center related, is extremely professional and is an excellent and engaging speaker."
Cheryl (Kemp) McColgan Content, Events and Marketing Executive (Former Director, Community & Conference Content at Penton)
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Joshua's copywriting work is engaging and to the point, and the end result never needs any updates. I liked the quality of marketing research. Joshua is not afraid to take the initiative, and requests don't fall through the cracks. Definitely skillful in HubSpot - helped us to get familiar with it and set up various components by himself.
Alek Pirkhalo Co-Founder of Infiniwiz (Managed IT, software development, IT consulting)
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We worked with Joshua for more than six months. Thanks to him, we were able to kickstart our marketing campaign and begin actual marketing activities in AgileVision. Joshua and his team helped us with creating our first eBooks, identifying buyer personas, and checking several hypotheses. Joshua is a very professional person and always ready to help.
Volodymyr Rudyi CEO of AgileVision (custom software development and integration)
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Joshua Feinberg is an amazing STRATEGIST and TACTICIAN, capable of seeing complex data center relationships from beeps and bauds all the way through the business development that encourages companies in the tech industry to thrive.
Machen Mathews Founder of FunnelJet (Former Business Development Manager at Limestone Networks)
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I've enjoyed working with Joshua several times as a prospect, client, and contributor on his podcasts. He's the consummate professional and represents his company and brand very well. He's able to showcase his expertise in a way that brings comfort and displays confidence to his audience. Your brand is in good hands, with Joshua leading the charge.
David Singletary Founder and CEO of DJS DIGITAL (IT consulting, managed services, workflow automation, and business analytics)
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Excellent advice, concise and to the point.
David Cerf Chief Disruptor of Disruptive Business Solutions (data science, cybersecurity, and virtualization)
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"Joshua is an exceptionally knowledgeable and friendly person - a true expert who provided so much insight and wisdom during our call. I'm grateful for not only the incredible amount of thoughtful suggestions he provided (he even went above and beyond what I expected), but for also the encouraging words behind the mission of my work. Joshua is someone I will definitely turn to in future - and I cannot recommend him enough to others."
Jessica Bensch Founder at Vanguard Voices (psychological safety in the workplace)
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Very Highly Recommended! DCSMI's diagnostic consultation provided me with clarity in a word and validation of my thoughts on focusing on data centers as a market niche.
Jim Phene President of Epiphene (water filtration systems for cooling data center facilities)
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Thanks, Joshua. The Diagnostic Workshop was very productive and has provided some useful insight into where we should be focusing.
Nick Leishman General Manager of Auckland Data Centre Limited (the most connected carrier-neutral data centre in New Zealand)