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How to Optimize Your Service Partner Profile to Get Found by the Right Customers

Written by Ali Winberry

Website

  • Add the URL to your website.

About: your about section should quickly communicate:

  • Who you specialize in serving

  • The problems you solve

  • Your core services

  • Your areas of expertise

  • What differentiates your approach

  • The outcomes customers can expect

Avoid: generic claims like “We are a leading full-service agency.”

Instead: be specific about customer, problem, service, and outcome.

This also aligns with how directory experiences generally work: customers search/filter based on services, location, industry, and other characteristics, so specificity makes a profile more useful to the person actually trying to find a partner.

Media

  • The main area on your profile to showcase visuals. We recommend uploading JPGs or PNGs that reflect your work, your value proposition, and your social proofs. There are 6 media slots available - make sure to use all available slots!

Turn the six media slots into a strategy:

Idea of a nice media portfolio:

  1. Hero: What you do / your positioning

  2. Proof: A customer result or case study

  3. Work: Strong example of your deliverable

  4. Expertise: Your methodology/process

  5. Social proof: Testimonial or recognizable customer

  6. People: Team/expertise/certifications

Videos

  • Another opportunity to showcase your work, value proposition, and social proofs. This might be screenshots of work examples, or the team.

Client Logos

  • Boost your company's credibility by emphasizing your client's loyalty and endorsement of your brand.

Resources

  • A useful catch-all section where you can add URLs, JPGs, PNGs and PDFs that helps to inform directory visitors about your work.

  • These might be case studies, content marketing pieces, blog posts, etc. There are 6 media slots available - make sure to use all available slots!

  • If you link to a Resource item using a URL, you can again use a UTM link to traffic visitors from your directory profile.

  • Every resource should reinforce the type of work you want to be hired for.

Filters: these often include language, location, budget, and services offered

  • Filters are typically set by the directory owners. The goal is to allow the company's customers to find an appropriate partner to help them with a specific job.

  • Don't think of filters as administrative fields. Think of them as the words and categories a potential customer will use to decide whether you're relevant.

  • Make sure your selected services, locations, languages, and other attributes accurately reflect your ideal customer and actual capabilities.

Before you submit your profile for publishing:

  • Can a visitor understand who we help in 10 seconds?

  • Is our primary positioning obvious?

  • Have we clearly described our core services?

  • Does our profile use the same terminology customers use when searching?

  • Do our images demonstrate our actual work?

  • Do we have recognizable or relevant customer proof?

  • Do our resources support the services we want to sell?

  • Have we filled every available profile field?

  • Are our links current?

  • Are we using UTM parameters on relevant external links?

  • Would an ideal customer immediately understand why they should contact us?

Please contact support@partnerpage.io for further help and guidance!

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