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When credit unions onboard HubSpot to take advantage of the benefits that the CRM provides, it can be daunting to know where to start in creating workflows and how they are built. We’ve onboarded HubSpot for dozens of credit unions and found there are some that benefit practically every one.

When you spend money on marketing for your B2B manufacturing company, what kind of return on your investment should you expect? We’ll review how to calculate ROI and what ratio is considered the best for the manufacturing industry.

We update this post every month for the most current list of conferences. Credit Union conferences are a great way to learn, be inspired, and connect with industry leaders and innovators. We always come away reinvigorated with ideas for helping our clients grow. A majority of our favorite conferences have returned to in-person events, a few with virtual options. In the meantime, you can visit our credit union marketing resources page and explore various online marketing strategies for credit unions. The following 2023 conferences are currently scheduled to be in person (unless otherwise noted).

Our exclusive 2023 Credit Union Digital Benchmark Report was released in a webinar last week, in which Kristin Harrison and Howard Deskin shared the results.

What's the big deal with video marketing? Why should you add it to your content marketing strategy? Video content is here to stay and it’s not going anywhere. Content Marketing Institute found that 78% of B2B marketers are investing in video in 2023 - that's up from 69% in 2022. Wyzowl reports that 91% of all business types will use video as a marketing tool in 2023.

Equipment manufacturing companies have lagged in the use of digital marketing to generate sales leads, instead leaning heavily on trade shows and sales teams to build relationships with potential buyers. These are effective but without an effort to capture online leads, equipment manufacturers are losing countless revenue-generating opportunities. After many years as a senior strategy director of digital marketing for manufacturers, I wanted to share the most effective tactics we have found to enable manufacturers to leverage their websites to generate more business.

When it comes to marketing for manufacturing companies, there is no 'one size fits all' approach. Every manufacturing business is different, and digital marketing needs to be tailored to the specific target markets, and more specifically, the target personas within those markets.

Originally posted on September 4, 2020, this post was refreshed in April of 2022. Industrial companies like manufacturers are becoming more invested in digital advertising and content marketing to drive traffic to their website. Along with that focus on generating website traffic should come strategies for connecting with qualified traffic—capturing visitors' information so that you can start to build a relationship with them. By collecting details like your visitor’s name, email address, and the company they work for, you can input this information into your CRM, monitor their interactions, and follow up much more effectively.

As artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT explode in popularity and are layered onto platforms like HubSpot CRMs, many credit unions raise questions about the safety of using them. We have heard questions such as:

ChatGPT is the fastest-growing and most quickly adopted technology. Ever. By far. After its release in November 2022, ChatGPT exploded in popularity and in February 2023 it reached over 1 BILLION page visits. At first, professional copywriters voiced concern that artificial intelligence (AI) was going to take over their jobs. But fear has become excitement after learning that unique (human-generated) content is still prioritized by search engines. AI can help tremendously with idea generation, content planning, editing, and research to save time and fuel the brainpower that goes into content marketing.