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5 Industrial Website Design Examples For CNC Machining Companies

According to Thomas’ latest industrial buying habits survey, 73% of those surveyed pay attention to your website. One respondent said, “You MUST have a website. On it, be very clear and detailed about your supply capabilities and lower limits. Include all public contact and social media channels, locations and areas served, your business structure, history, and mission/vision.”

As more manufacturers shift toward traditional growth methods to digital marketing tactics, here are five industrial website design examples to get your CNC machining website geared for more leads.

Persona Targeting For Manufacturing Companies: The 3 B2B Buyer Personas

In today’s increasingly digital world, there are numerous ways for manufacturing companies to reach potential buyers — email blasts, eBooks, blog posts, social media, and even SMS texts can all be used to connect with target audiences and increase brand awareness. Inbound marketing aims to entice your target customers to come to you on their own by providing valuable content that will help them reach their goals. But before embarking on any of these efforts, it’s crucial to fully understand the types of buyers you’re looking to target. So how do you go about creating the content that will attract the customers you want? Well, that depends on the customers themselves.

Impressive Brand Awareness Campaigns From Manufacturing Companies

As a manufacturing professional, you’re more than familiar with industrial companies large and small. But if you ask someone who isn’t intimately involved in the space which company he or she thinks of in relation to manufacturing, the results will surely be limited. Perhaps a couple of the biggest names will come to mind. 

These companies are well-known because they’ve created a name for themselves over the years. They’ve spread awareness about their products and services, and now they’re ubiquitous and prevalent in people’s minds. 

But manufacturing is changing, as anyone in the space will tell you. The population of young people entering the industry is different than it was just a few years ago, automation is increasing, and the landscape is shifting with no end in sight. Marketing for this field has also had to change. The biggest names in the industry have been successful with this, but now smaller manufacturers are turning to industrial marketing experts to get their business found too.

32 Industrial Lead Generation Tips, Tricks And Ideas

Generating leads is one of the most important aspects of marketing.

When you turn a site visitor into a lead, and then that lead becomes a customer, you’ve done your job, but you need to follow up on that accomplishment. As the experts at HubSpot say, “A successful lead generation engine is what keeps the funnel full of sales prospects while you sleep.”

How To Grow Your Industrial Cleaning Services Company

Many manufacturers are experiencing changes in demand, slow down, or a spike in services. For the industrial cleaning services sector, there are opportunities to set themselves apart from competitors. Here are some business best practices industrial cleaning services and manufacturers can adopt to deliver a better customer experience and grow their company.

Questions To Ask Your Manufacturing Marketing Agency

A lot of time, effort, and energy go into operating a manufacturing business. Many business owners feel like they don’t have leftover effort for marketing their business. However, if you want to boost manufacturing sales and grow your company, you need a commitment to marketing.

Partnering with a marketing agency can take some of the pressure off your shoulders, allowing you to focus on running your business while they handle things like establishing or strengthening your online presence using tactics like content marketing, email marketing, SEO, and social media.

How To Increase Your SEO Traffic (An 8-Day Planner)

There is no magic bullet or quick fix for good SEO. The algorithms that search engines use to rank sites and pages — Google’s are particularly challenging — constantly change. This negates any possible SEO “hacks” you could try.

The true key to good SEO for manufacturers is a long-term strategy that uses proven best practices but remains flexible as situations change. It doesn't matter if you're well-seasoned in the search engine marketing field or are just wrapping your head around what you need to do to get started, here's what the first few days of a 30 day plan looks like to increase your SEO traffic.

New Suppliers on Thomasnet.com for July 2020

If you're always on the lookout for new suppliers, you're in luck: we added over 600 new suppliers to our platform during June alone. We've picked out ten of the most interesting from this batch to share, including a contact lense polymer manufacturer, a marine robotic arm manufacturer, and a mask company founded in response to the pandemic. Let's dive into the list.

New and Noteworthy Categories on Thomasnet.com for July 2020

The wave of reopenings across America has shifted the directions of industrial sourcing, as is reflected in our list of top suppliers during the month of June. As industry shifts, however, so do we, continuing to support businesses by adding new and pertinent categories to our collection of over 70,000 so you can source for the exact products and services you need. We're diving into our 15 favorite new categories below.