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In the manufacturing industry, one of the biggest challenges marketers face is translating complex technical information into engaging, accessible content. The knowledge gap between subject matter experts and marketing teams can lead to missed opportunities and ineffective messaging. However, with the advent of AI language models, we now have powerful tools to bridge this gap. Here's how you can leverage AI to transform technical expertise into compelling marketing content.

Salesforce is a powerful CRM platform, but its value is only as good as the data that lives within it. For industrial manufacturers, poor data quality in Salesforce can lead to missed opportunities, wasted time, and frustration for sales and marketing teams alike. Integrating Salesforce with HubSpot can help enhance your Salesforce data quality and usability, leveraging HubSpot's intelligence to fill in gaps, correct inaccuracies, and surface valuable insights.

In today's competitive landscape, alignment between sales and marketing is more critical than ever. However, many industrial manufacturers struggle with disconnected systems and processes that create blind spots and missed opportunities. Integrating Salesforce and HubSpot can help close the loop between sales and marketing, providing full visibility into a lead's journey and enabling seamless handoffs between teams.

As an industrial manufacturer, your sales team likely relies on Salesforce to manage customer relationships and close deals. But if your marketing activities are disconnected from your Salesforce data, you miss valuable opportunities to nurture leads and drive growth. Integrating Salesforce with HubSpot's marketing automation platform can help you amplify your Salesforce data and elevate your marketing efforts.

ChatGPT and other AI tools have taken the world by storm. When ChatGPT was first released, people in countless professions worried that it might threaten their jobs. Now after several months of application, the realization is that AI is a powerful tool with enormous potential to disrupt how business is done. And those who use it regularly find it becomes more helpful the more they use it.

Equipment manufacturers and B2B marketers typically have a niche target audience that makes broad advertising tactics a waste of money. Instead, campaigns targeted to specific industries, companies, and positions within those companies are more effective because the marketing budget can be honed in on the right people - potential buyers.

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.