Marketing resellers are a key piece of the local media & advertising value chain. They help ad tech players scale by bringing their products to a long tail of local businesses. But they also face a unique set of challenges in doing so, which Tiger Pistol addresses in its latest playbook.
Entitled, From Roadblocks to Revenue: Solving the Top 3 Digital Advertising Challenges for Marketing Resellers, it offers a blueprint for maximizing scale and margins. That requires streamlining things like onboarding new clients and striking the right balance of automation and personalization.
This is an ongoing challenge as marketing resellers struggle with legacy systems, clunky onboarding processes, manual campaign execution, and siloed platforms. These elements impede margins as they create manual and unnecessary work for resellers. So ironing out the kinks is a strategic imperative.
“Marketing resellers play a critical role in helping SMBs succeed, but too many are bogged down by inefficient processes,” Tiger Pistol VP of Business Development Sarah Cucciara told Localogy. “This playbook is a call to action. It’s about moving past friction points and embracing a model built for speed, scale, and service.”
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Tangible Steps
So how is that all done? Tiger Pistol’s playbook, like the many playbooks in this series that preceded it, offers concrete and tangible steps. For example, the playbook dives into strategies such as…
- Fixing the Onboarding Bottleneck: Strategies to streamline page and account connections for faster SMB activation and improved retention.
- Scaling with Automation: How to implement subscription-based models and automation to manage thousands of localized campaigns with minimal manual input.
- Integrating Seamlessly: How to embed digital advertising solutions into existing platforms with white-label and API solutions to maintain brand control and improve user experience.
“Solving these challenges improves operations and strengthens the entire client relationship,” added Cucchiara. “When you remove friction, you unlock adoption, retention, and revenue. This playbook helps resellers deliver the kind of experience that keeps SMB clients coming back.”
Crossroads
This playbook should resonate given the size of the local marketing reseller market and the challenges it faces. Like several other sectors, local marketing resellers are at a crossroads given the culmination of several technologies such as AI. So they need direction now more than ever.
Meanwhile, a longer-standing challenge is that margins are thin for local marketing resellers. This gets back to the dilemma of being customized but not too high-touch to decimate margins. So operational efficiencies are critical in lowering customer acquisition costs, as well as execution and fulfillment costs.
“Our reseller partners know there’s demand – but operational challenges are getting in the way,” said Cucchiara. “This playbook is a blueprint for scaling smarter. It’s designed to help resellers turn complexity into clarity and open the door to stronger client relationships and recurring revenue.”
Check out the full report here, as well as our aggregated coverage of the full slate of Tiger Pistol playbooks here. And while you’re at it, we recommend checking the takeaways from our coverage of Cucchiara’s stage appearance at Localogy’s L25 conference last month.
