For MSPs & IT Services

Which channels produced signed contracts?

Match signed managed-services agreements and their recurring value to the campaigns that produced the first conversation.

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The blind spot

What's actually happening

An MSP contract is worth tens of thousands a year and takes months to sign. Judging demand generation on enquiry count in that market means optimising for people shopping for a one-off fix.

Contract value, not enquiries

Rank channels by signed recurring revenue rather than by how many people filled in a form.

Months-long consideration

An enquiry in March signed in September still traces to the campaign that produced it.

Seats for sales and marketing

The people who generate demand and the people who close it read one report.

The number you can take into a budget meeting

Not impressions, not leads, not cost per click. Closed revenue, by the channel that produced it, for a period you choose — with the portion we could not trace shown rather than quietly shared out across your paid channels.

FY2026
Total revenue $1,200,000
Attributed to a channel $732,000 61% of revenue
Average deal $35,300
Match rate 67%
ChannelSalesRevenueShare
Google Ads9$312,000
LinkedIn Ads7$264,000
Email marketing5$156,000
Direct / Unknown13$468,000

Break-fix enquiries and managed contracts are different markets

The searches that produce urgent break-fix enquiries are cheap, plentiful and almost never turn into a managed agreement. The searches and campaigns that produce managed contracts are quieter, more expensive per enquiry, and produce nearly all the recurring revenue.

Measured on enquiry volume the first looks like the winner every month. Measured on signed annual contract value the ranking usually inverts entirely, which is the single most useful thing an MSP can learn about its marketing.

Referral is the largest channel and nobody measures it

Most MSPs get a substantial share of new contracts from existing clients, vendor partners and personal networks. That revenue is real and it is not produced by advertising, so crediting it to whichever campaign ran that quarter makes the paid figures worthless.

It lands in Direct / Unknown, shown rather than redistributed. Quantifying it is often the finding that changes the plan — a firm discovering that 39% of contract value is referral usually decides to invest in that deliberately rather than accidentally.

What changes when you can prove it

You stop defending the budget and start growing it

"We generated 400 leads" invites an argument. "This channel closed $186,400 last quarter, here is the reconciliation" ends one. The teams that can show closed revenue by channel are the teams that get the next increase approved, because they are asking with evidence rather than with conviction.

You can cut the wrong channel without a fight

Killing spend is politically harder than adding it, because someone always owns the channel being cut. A number that reconciles to the sales export takes the argument out of the room — you are not overruling a colleague's judgement, you are reading the same ledger they are.

Your reporting survives the finance review

Platform-reported conversions do not reconcile to revenue, and eventually someone in finance notices. Reporting built from your own closed-sales export starts from the number finance already trusts, which is why it holds up when it is checked.

You answer in an afternoon, not a quarter

Because this reconciles exports rather than tracking visitors, it works on months that have already closed. You are not instrumenting now to learn something in ninety days — you can answer for last quarter today, which is usually when the question is being asked.

What msps & it services usually push back on

Our sales cycle is longer than any trial.

That is why the analysis is retroactive. Upload last year's signed contracts and last year's lead exports on your first afternoon — nothing had to be installed at the time, so a completed cycle can be measured immediately.

We do not run much paid advertising.

Then the most valuable output is the size and composition of Direct / Unknown, and whether the little you do spend produces anything. Several firms have used exactly this to justify starting or stopping.

Client data is confidential.

Only a contact detail, a contract value and a date are needed. No client names required, no systems connected, and the data is isolated per workspace, encrypted and deletable.

Pricing

Flat monthly pricing with no per-call, per-minute or per-form fees. The number here is the number on the invoice. Most msps & it services land on Enterprise — ten seats for the team and the highest monthly record allowance, since a year of closed deals is a lot of rows.

Starter

A single business getting started

$49/mo

billed monthly

  • 1 workspace · 1 seat
  • 500 sales records / month
  • 6-month saved history
  • Phone + email matching with confidence tiers
  • Assisted column mapping
  • Your logo on every report
  • CSV export

Enterprise

One business closing at volume

$499/mo

billed monthly

  • 1 workspace · 10 seats
  • 25,000 sales records / month (+$49 per 10,000)
  • 24-month history
  • Campaign drill-down and period comparison
  • Your logo on every report
  • Roles, permissions and guided onboarding

Agency

Reporting on many clients at once

$799/mo

billed monthly

  • 10 client workspaces (+$25/mo each)
  • 10 seats
  • 10,000 sales records / month per workspace
  • 24-month history
  • White-label reports — our mark removed entirely
  • Roles, permissions and guided onboarding

Questions msps & it services ask

Signed agreements: a primary contact email or phone, the annual or monthly contract value, and the signature date.

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