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Digital advice for people who build things.

No fluff. No vanity metrics. Just useful thinking for manufacturers and industrial businesses.

Web Design

How to Write a Manufacturing Website That Actually Converts

The copy on most manufacturing websites was written by someone inside the business, for people inside the business. It is full of internal language, company history, and technical detail that...

September 9, 20265 min read
Custom Platforms

The Case for a Custom Platform in Your Manufacturing Business

Most manufacturing businesses reach a point where the tools they are using stop working as well as they need them to. The spreadsheet that tracked jobs perfectly when there were twenty of them a...

August 9, 20265 min read
Digital Strategy

Why Manufacturers Lose Deals Before the First Call

By the time a prospect picks up the phone or fills in your contact form, they have already made a decision. Not a final one, but a shortlist decision. They have looked you up, formed an opinion,...

July 9, 20264 min read
SEO

SEO for Manufacturers: A Plain English Guide

Search engine optimisation has a reputation for being complicated, expensive, and full of people promising things they cannot deliver. For most manufacturers, it is also completely untapped —...

June 9, 20266 min read
Web Design

What Makes a Good Manufacturing Website?

Most manufacturing websites look identical. Dark stock photo of a CNC machine, a paragraph about being established in 1987, a contact form that nobody fills in. They exist. They do not work.

May 9, 20265 min read
Digital Strategy

5 Reasons Your Manufacturing Website Is Losing You Leads

Most manufacturing websites were built to tick a box, not generate business. Here are the five most common reasons yours is costing you leads, and what to do about it.

April 9, 20265 min read