7 Reasons to Conduct a Microsoft AppSource Listing Self-Service Audit

Summary:

While publishing your solutions on the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace seems simple, ensuring your listings are optimized is difficult. Let’s dive into the benefits of auditing your listings on the Marketplace, more specifically, your AppSource Consulting Services Listings.

7 Reasons to Conduct a Microsoft AppSource Listing Self-Service Audit

While publishing your solutions on the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace seems simple, ensuring your listings are optimized is difficult. Let’s dive into the benefits of auditing your listings on the Marketplace, more specifically, your AppSource Consulting Services Listings.

Optimizing Success: 7 Compelling Reasons to Conduct a Microsoft AppSource Listing Audit

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes
Intended Audience: Microsoft Partners

The Microsoft Commercial Marketplace is available in over 100 countries and regions and allows Microsoft Partners to reach millions of buyers across these regions. There are roughly 12,000+ consulting service listings for the North American audience alone. Your listing is competing with thousands of other listings at any given time, so how do you make yours stand out?

We developed the Maven Microsoft AppSource Listing Self-Service Audit to help Microsoft Partners like you see how you fare against your competition and maximize the value derived from your Consulting Services Listings in Microsoft AppSource. Our AppSource Listing Self-Service Audit is the first of its kind, developed from decades of experience and expertise working with Microsoft Partners in the Microsoft landscape. We wanted to make optimizing AppSource listings accessible to everyone by providing the know-how and tools to do it yourself and get more business from Microsoft AppSource.

By conducting the Microsoft AppSource Listing Self-Service Audit, you can:

1. Showcase your expertise.

Gain the tools to distinctly display your value and expertise by refining your Microsoft AppSource Consulting Services Listing. This not only enables clearer communication with prospective customers but also ensures you stand head and shoulders above the competition.

2. Enhance your visibility.

It’s not enough to simply publish your products or services on AppSource, you must ensure the backend is set up correctly. Conducting a listing audit will ensure all the correct fields are filled out for optimal findability. This makes it so that your listing is showing up in relevant searches across AppSource, resulting in reaching a wider audience and being found by more qualified leads.

3. Increase your authority.

Beyond the surface of your AppSource Listing, our audit delves into all supporting documents associated with your offering to evaluate whether your listing provides in-depth, visually appealing, and easily digestible information. By implementing our recommendations, you can elevate your credibility and enhance your authority by demonstrating your true value in the competitive space.

4. Fuel your business growth.

It may seem like a given, but the impact of optimizing your listing is profound—more visibility, more clicks, and ultimately, more conversions. Our listing audit helps you meticulously evaluate all AppSource listing elements strategically to make recommended updates, so more people engage with it, translating into more successful purchases for your business.

5. Unlock new opportunities.

Once you have your listings optimized and ready to go in the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace, you can unlock new opportunities like the potential to become Co-Sell ready and sell with Microsoft directly. Achieving Co-Sell status boosts your standing with Microsoft and garners more attention from prospective customers.

6. Display industry experience.

An optimized listing highlights your industry-specific work, proving your expertise and ability to serve customers in targeted verticals. Drive new business by showcasing relevant industry experience with the tips included in our audit. 

7. Drive brand awareness.

Microsoft Partners often underestimate the power of brand recognition. Leverage AppSource as an avenue to display your brand, spreading awareness about your capabilities and achievements. Use the recommendations included in our Microsoft AppSource Listing Self-Service Audit to improve SERP performance and contribute to increased brand recognition.

Conduct the Maven Microsoft AppSource Listing Self-Service Audit for MS Partners

You might be extremely experienced and knowledgeable in the product area you are offering consulting services for, but if your listing isn’t optimized, it’ll be difficult to reach your target audience. Conduct our simple Microsoft AppSource Listing Self-Service Audit to quickly see how your listings fare against others on the marketplace, and the best practices you can implement to improve them.


Conduct our quick and impactful audit now to assess your listings, implement best practices, and watch your business soar. Get in touch with us if you have any questions along the way!

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