Signals from the Field

Big news for manufacturers and equipment buyers: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) restored 100% bonus depreciation on capital expenditures. That means if a company installs qualifying equipment in 2025, it can deduct the full cost from this year’s taxes. And here’s the kicker, even purchases installed in 2026 remain fully deductible. 

In today's fast-paced sales environment, efficiency is vital. When one of our clients approached us with the challenge of managing over 500 monthly form submissions and assigning them to the correct sales territories and representatives, we knew we had to leverage the power of marketing automation. Here's how we used HubSpot to streamline their process and save countless hours of manual work.

In B2B sales, a "no" doesn't always mean "never." At WebStrategies, we recently helped a client turn a lost deal into a significant win, resulting in a $107,000 equipment sale. Here's how we did it and how you can apply these strategies to your sales process.

The Challenge: Outgrowing Act-On

Our manufacturing client has been using Act-On for their email marketing campaigns for several years, and it is integrated with their on-premise Microsoft Dynamics CRM via nightly batch updates. However, they faced growing frustrations:

• Difficulty setting up workflows
• Inconsistent workflow performance
• Limited platform usage (primarily quarterly emails)
• Underutilized landing pages for regional sales managers

In the manufacturing industry, technical documents like data sheets, manuals, and specifications are treasure troves of information. However, these documents often remain underutilized in marketing efforts due to their complexity and technical nature.

With the power of AI, marketers can now unlock the potential of these resources and transform them into engaging marketing materials. Here's how you can use AI to breathe new life into your technical documents.

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.