LinkedIn marketing for SAP partners
SAP has scheduled the end of ECC maintenance, so customers still on ECC are choosing between greenfield, brownfield and selective data transition. Your architects have a view on that choice; we write it up, design it and post it for UK and US audiences.

“I just wanted to share that I’ve been really impressed with the work Alex is producing for several of our UK partners. The approach around multi-touch, multi-channel campaigns and the focus on more targeted, high-quality content is clearly delivering strong results.”

Results from our last three ERP success stories
Organic LinkedIn activity only, measured in LinkedIn Page Analytics.
Every PartnerEdge model, from resale to run
PartnerEdge recognises four ways to make money around SAP: sell, service, build and run. A Business One reseller and an S/4HANA integrator need very different LinkedIn content, so we start with yours.
CIOs weighing S/4HANA; SAP programme directors; Finance directors; Business One owner-managers; Industrial manufacturing; Automotive
Service partners and integrators
S/4HANA conversions, greenfield implementations and the consulting that follows go-live.
Business One resellers
Selling and implementing SAP Business One for small and midsize businesses.
Run partners
Managed services and outsourced operation of SAP, delivered as a bundled subscription.
Build partners and ISVs
Apps and extensions built on or integrated with SAP, in step with a clean core.

What stalls an SAP practice’s LinkedIn
Three problems we keep finding, each one from a real client engagement.
Posting happens when someone has time
No cadence, no content plan and no quality control.
Every channel tells a different story
LinkedIn, sales collateral and event materials say slightly different things, so your delivery strength never comes through.
Technical buyers tune out marketing
IT directors and senior decision-makers are wary of anything that reads like a sales pitch.
What we run for an SAP practice on LinkedIn
One team plans, writes, designs, publishes and reports, so your consultants stay on delivery.
Planning around S/4HANA and Business One
Transition approach, clean core, Business One growth stories and the run or support services you sell.
Writing from consultant interviews
We interview your consultants and write the posts. Nobody on your team has to draft anything.
Design: carousels and visuals
Carousels and graphics designed to a professional standard, with optional video where it adds value.
Publishing and reporting
Scheduling, a monthly report and a quarterly review of what to change.

Recent work for ERP consultancies
Each sample shows who it was for and what it was for.

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Consultant profile
Our latest win for an ERP consultancy
Structured marketing programme for a specialist IFS implementation partner
Strong delivery and IFS expertise weren’t reflected in the firm’s marketing. LinkedIn, sales collateral and event materials told slightly different stories, and there was no publishing schedule, approval process or reporting.
S/4HANA and Business One posts to start with
Proposed ideas, not a fixed plan. An SAP integrator, a Business One reseller and a run partner would each keep different ones.
Is your ECC estate ready for S/4HANA?
For customers still running SAP ERP 6.0, your consultants set out the readiness checks they run before recommending a path to S/4HANA.
Greenfield, brownfield or selective data transition
Why your architects recommended one transition approach for a client, and what it meant for custom code and historical data.
Keeping the core clean after go-live
How your team decides what belongs in the S/4HANA core and what gets built as an extension instead.
When a small firm outgrows its accounts package
A Business One consultant explains the signs a small manufacturer or distributor is ready for ERP, and what the first phase involves.
Your first 90 days
Your consultant signs off every technical claim before anything goes live.
Kickoff and consultant interviews
We learn your services, your buyers and the projects worth talking about.
Content pillars and the first month’s calendar
You approve the plan before anything is written.
Writing and technical sign-off
Your nominated consultant checks the technical claims in every post.
Publishing at the agreed cadence
Set by your scope. One ERP consultancy we work with posts twice a week.
Monthly report and quarterly review
What moved, what to change and next quarter’s topics.

Ascension vs the alternatives
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What our ERP clients say
"Alex has been instrumental in supporting our social media campaigns and marketing materials. He is great to work with and is always looking for new ways to develop content and ideas, with a clear drive to make sure our marketing and brand stand out."
“Substantial traffic increase across all media platforms and increased leads.”
“Pleasure to work with. Responds promptly, and always happy to listen to the team for our feedback to get the required finished article.”
“Agile and smart thinking to quickly achieve outstanding outcomes and tangible results.”
Three ways to run LinkedIn with us
A monthly retainer, scoped to the services you need. Commitment is agreed at scoping.
Strategy & Direction
A LinkedIn plan and templates. Your team does the posting.
Done With You
We create the content with your team’s input.
Before you brief us on SAP
Answered honestly, before your first call.
By anchoring every post in published facts and your own method. SAP publishes its maintenance timeline: an end to mainstream maintenance for SAP ERP 6.0, an optional extended maintenance period after it, and a long-term maintenance commitment for S/4HANA. Beyond those milestones, the content describes how your team assesses readiness, custom code, data volumes and interfaces, rather than quoting durations a CIO might hold you to. Where an anonymised example helps, it describes the shape of a programme, not a promised go-live. Your nominated consultant signs off each technical claim, so no post commits your project managers to a date they would not put in a statement of work. Good formats include a readiness checklist carousel, a short explainer on what optional extended maintenance means for budgeting, and a consultant’s view on sequencing finance before logistics or the reverse. Each is designed to open a conversation rather than close one. Programme governance, data migration rehearsals and hypercare are other phases where your consultants’ experience can be described without promising dates.
Yes, by keeping one decision per post. SAP describes three approaches: new implementation, system conversion and selective data transition, each with a different stance on legacy custom code and historical data. A carousel can compare them in five slides; a follow-up can show why your architects picked one for a particular kind of client, say a manufacturer with decades of custom reports or a group consolidating several ERPs after acquisitions. We interview the architect, write it in plain English for a CIO or finance director, and keep the deep technical argument for the sign-off conversation, where your consultant makes sure the simplification is still correct. Selective data transition deserves particular care, because it suits groups running several ERP systems after mergers and acquisitions, and that audience reads differently from a single-company CIO. We tailor examples to the landscapes your team actually handles. Brownfield clients often ask what happens to years of custom ABAP code, so a post on how your team sorts it into keep, rewrite or retire can attract exactly the right readers.
Not if the calendar separates them. Business One is SAP’s product for small and midsize businesses, so its posts talk to owner-managers and finance leads about outgrowing spreadsheets or an entry-level accounts package. S/4HANA posts talk to CIOs and programme directors about transition risk, clean core and RISE with SAP. Those readers rarely overlap, and a Business One buyer who lands on a post about selective data transition will assume you are too big for them. Each product gets its own pillar and posting slots, and the quarterly review shows what worked for each audience so we can adjust the mix. Business One content also suits shorter, practical formats, such as a walkthrough of a sales order or a checklist for leaving spreadsheets behind, whereas S/4HANA audiences expect deeper analysis, architecture diagrams and programme-level lessons. Partner accelerators, preconfigured packages or industry templates can be highlighted where they genuinely shorten projects.
No. We interview your architects and functional leads about the projects worth discussing, then draft, design and schedule everything ourselves, including carousels and captions. What we need from them afterwards is accuracy: a nominated consultant confirms that terms such as clean core, system conversion and RISE with SAP are used correctly, and that module names and version references match what customers run. SAP vocabulary is easy to get slightly wrong in ways an SAP audience notices immediately, which is exactly why that check exists. If your architects are on a cutover weekend, we plan around it and keep approved posts in reserve. One conversation with an architect can yield several pieces: a carousel on the decision, a short post on a lesson learned and a quote card for their own profile. That keeps demands on senior people modest while giving the calendar real depth. Diagrams of system landscapes are redrawn simply for LinkedIn, then checked by the architect for accuracy.
Only if you want it. LinkedIn Ads are optional and carry their own budget; ad spend is not included in the retainer. They can be useful for putting an S/4HANA readiness guide in front of IT and finance leaders at a defined list of ECC customers. Outbound messaging to named accounts is also outside the retainer, and it is the job of a separate service, the Outbound LinkedIn ICP Campaign. Organic posts from your company page and leadership profiles carry the main load, and paid or outbound activity works best when it points back to that content. For Run partners, promoting a managed service explainer can make sense because the buying committee reaches beyond IT; for Business One resellers, a local organic presence usually matters more than spend. User group conferences can also justify a short burst of promotion around your session or stand.
By showing what customers experience, because a managed service is bought on trust. PartnerEdge describes Run partners as delivering SAP as a managed or outsourced service under a bundled subscription, so the buyer is weighing continuity, response and control rather than a project plan. Posts can explain how your team handles an urgent incident at a difficult hour, how changes are tested before they reach production, and how you protect a clean core while keeping the system up to date. Service delivery managers make good interviewees, and the CIO or IT director is the usual reader. Figures such as response times or availability appear only where you can evidence them and the customer has agreed. Your nominated consultant checks each operational claim before scheduling, so no post promises a service level your contracts do not.
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Talk S/4HANA and Business One content with our team
Tell us which PartnerEdge model you work in and where your S/4HANA pipeline is thin. We’ll propose the first pillars.