Fierce Advocate for U.S. Manufacturing + Passionate Brand Awareness Superstar + Dedicated Community Builder + Awesome Boy Mom…
Meet Whitney Koch – Marketing Communications Specialist at Welker
Do you want to learn how to build a vibrant community?
If you want to find out, join us for this MFG eCommerce Success show where we will be talking with Nicole Donnelly, Founder & President, Donnelly Marketing Group LLC, about building a vibrant community.
Here’s an exciting opportunity to hear from the amazing marketing professionals at the Industrial Marketing Summit.
Ever visited Huntsville, Alabama?
I had the honor and privilege of recently checking out the goods.
Exciting news to report!
WOWZER! Manufacturing is looking extremely strong in Huntsville, Alabama.
When you drive around the city, there is an extremely positive manufacturing buzz.
Cruising around the city you will also notice plenty
To name a few manufacturing rock stars, Toyota, PPG, General Dynamics, Dynetics, nlogic and Northrop Grumman all have a presence in there.
This all means lots of incredible opportunities for secondary suppliers.
Huntsville = Space City
Plus there is the Space Center.
That means in Space City, opportunities await.
The Space Center and NASA opens doors for innovative entrepreneurs and manufacturers.
Check out this impressive list of aerospace companies in Huntsville according to the Huntsville Chamber of Commerce and the Made in Alabama website.
If you are a manufacturer looking for new prospects, check out all of the Huntsville.
Wayne Gretzky loved to preach and credited his success by the innate ability to “skate to the puck”.
Manufacturing is alive and well in Huntsville, so take a page out of Wayne Gretsky’s book and skate to the puck” by going where manufacturing growth thrives.
Get out ahead of the competition.
Stop Being the Best Kept Secret.
Go to the manufacturing growth markets and ask how you can serve.
Express your interest in joining the party.
let them know you mean business.
Share your expertise, passion and experience on how you want to join the cause on making Huntsville a thriving hub of manufacturing excellence.
For additional information on Manufacturing in Huntsville, check out these helpful resources:
- Alabama Technology Network = the Alabama MEP
- Alabama Chamber of Commerce
- Chamber of Commerce
- Small Business Development Center
- Economic Development
- Made in Alabama
Manufacturing eCommerce Success
To Learn more about Manufacturing eCommerce Success, please check out these helpful links:
Please Leave Keys in Car! (Help Your Customers Win the Day)
Stop Being the Best Kept Secret
THE Mascot of Manufacturing + Former Top Ranked MMA Fighter + Powerful Podcast Host + Killer Keynote Speaker + Lover of ALL Things Adventurous + Awesome Dad…
Meet Eddie Saunders Jr. – Marketing Manager at FLEXARM – Flex Machine Tools
A Superstar Story Teller + Manufacturing Marketing Strategist + Brand Evangelist + Prolific Podcaster…
Meet Julie Basello – Marketing Multimedia Manager at Radwell International
Are you a small B2B manufacturer wondering if LinkedIn can help your business?
If so, you should join us for this MFG eCommerce Success show to hear Paulie Rose, Owner, Paulie Rose Consulting, Marketing Director, RCF Technologies, talk about how small B2B manufacturing companies can use LinkedIn to grow their businesses.
With a new sense of urgency for manufacturers to create a strong digital presence, Purdue MEP is hosting a discussion on the necessary steps to implement a highly effective eCommerce strategy for your business. Please join us as we tackle how custom manufacturers can join the exploding eCommerce market. This is a FREE event – register NOW, space is limited!
- Receive an eCommerce Checklist for manufacturers
- Learn to capture first page rankings on Google
- Create effective landing pages that convert into RFQs as well as sales
- Target customers with Google Ads as well as Google Shopping
- Take advantage of online marketplaces including Amazon as well as Alibaba
- Explore a step-by-step eCommerce success story with Falconer Electronics
Purdue MEP Delivers High Level Results
The Purdue Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) provides high value as well as affordable solutions to help businesses increase profitability. As advocates for Indiana’s thousands of manufacturers, our staff leverages resources in both the public and private sectors to help identify areas of improvement, streamline processes, as well as ultimately increase competitiveness.
Providing high value, affordable solutions for manufacturing challenges, Purdue MEP offers the following services through on-site training/analysis projects as well as workshops:
Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
Faculty Projects
Leadership Development
Lean Manufacturing
Lean Office
Quality Improvement
Quality Systems (ISO)
Six Sigma
Supply Chain Services
Top Line Business Growth Solutions
Training Within Industry (TWI)
B2Btail is thrilled to partner with the Niagara SBDC to offer an exciting eCommerce webinar for entrepreneurs.
Tuesday – Jan 25th – at 12:00 EST.
Click here for registration: Maximizing the Power of eCommerce to Grow Your Business
Sense of Urgency for Manufacturers
This informative webinar at the Niagara SBDC focuses on helping entrepreneurs kick off their eCommerce journey.
With a new sense of urgency for entrepreneurs as well as manufacturers to create a strong digital presence, please join us for a discussion on the necessary steps to implement a highly effective eCommerce strategy for your business. In particular, we tackle how custom manufacturers can join the exploding eCommerce market.
- Receive an eCommerce Checklist for manufacturers
- Capturing 1st page rankings on Google
- Creating effective landing pages that convert into RFQ’s as well as sales
- Targeting customers with Google Ads as well as Google Shopping
- Taking advantage of online marketplaces including Amazon as well as Alibaba
- Explore a step by step eCommerce success story with Falconer Electronics as well as Voice Express
First, topics discussed during the eCommerce workshop include:
- Discover Your Ideal Buyer
- Make a Great First Webpression
- Dominate Search
- Get on the Offensive
In addition topics covered:
- Persona Exercise
- Creating consistent content: (Ex: Wire Harness Wednesdays)
- Google Snippet – Wire Harness Manufacturing – Electrical Ground Straps
Other topics covered as well include:
- Let that dream customer – Soulmates make a buying decision on Friday night at midnight
- Scale Your Proprietary Process
- Configurator – Quotebuilder
- New customized product populates into the eCommerce store
Niagara SBDC
The Niagara County Community College (NCCC) Small Business Development Center is part of a network of statewide assistance centers supported by the Small Business Administration and the State University of New York.
We’ll help you meet the entrepreneurial challenges of owning and operating your own business while continuing to promote economic growth and stability throughout Western New York.
Interested in learning how Carey Smith built his company from scratch only to sell it for $500 million?
Well, we have your back.
Join us for a fascinating discussion with Carey Smith on Friday – Jan 7th – at 1:32 EST: CLICK HERE
Check this out:
A career entrepreneur, Carey Smith founded Big Ass Fans in 1999 and served as its CEO, or Chief Big Ass as he preferred, for 18 years.
Under his guidance, Big Ass Fans grew an average of 30% a year, with offices across the globe.
The company made the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies 11 consecutive years — a feat achieved by only 34 others — and expanded from industrial products to include a line of chic, silent commercial fans.
When Carey learned that a man in Malaysia had created a revolutionary design for a residential fan, he brought the man and the fan into the company and turned it into a $60 million division: Haiku Home.
And when he heard that his industrial fan customers needed better lights, he hired lighting engineers to build Big Ass Light.
While other companies made and lost their fortunes, Carey’s contrarian business practices and relentless pursuit of new markets and high-quality products led to sustained, rapid growth.
By 2017, Carey had grown the fan and light manufacturer to nearly $300 million in annual revenue and more than a thousand employees. And he’d done it without any outside investors.
Carey Smith: Sold His Company for $500 Million
Ready for a new challenge, he sold Big Ass Fans for $500 million.
Carey shared these thoughts about selling his company with Inc Magazine:
“At the end of the day, though I really cared for the business, it’s not my child. You always love the people, but fans are a product. We wanted to make sure the buyer didn’t simply open the doors and tell everybody to leave. But other than that, it’s like buying a stick of gum: It’s mine until you pay me for it–and then it’s yours.”
The company’s stock appreciation rights program paid out $50 million to more than 100 loyal employees. Those who shared Carey’s work ethic with 15 that became overnight millionaires.
Following the sale, Carey founded Unorthodox Ventures. This Austin-based investment company that seeks to provide everything venture capitalists lacked. Carey discovered this when they approached him near daily at Big Ass Fans.
Carey’s team consists of high level experts. All of who help founders become serial entrepreneurs. In particular, by providing support for everything from engineering and marketing to customer service and logistics.
Learn more about Carey Smith at unorthodoxventures.com.
Check out our recent blog post: Niche Down Til it Hurts…So Good
The Montana State University MEP teamed up with B2Btail.com to offer an exciting eCommerce virtual workshop for manufacturers which features examples of case studies to help you with your eCommerce journey.
This exciting program takes place on February 26th at 11:00 EST/9:00 MT
Click here to register: Manufacturing eCommerce Success
Sense of Urgency for Manufacturers
With a new sense of urgency for entrepreneurs and manufacturers to create a strong digital presence, please join us for a discussion on the necessary steps to implement a highly effective eCommerce strategy for your business. In particular, we tackle how custom manufacturers can join the exploding eCommerce market.
- Receive an eCommerce Checklist for manufacturers
- Capturing 1st page rankings on Google
- Creating effective landing pages that convert into RFQ’s as well as sales
- Targeting customers with Google Ads as well as Google Shopping
- Taking advantage of online marketplaces including Amazon as well as Alibaba
- Explore a step by step eCommerce success story with Falconer Electronics as well as Voice Express
First, topics discussed during the eCommerce workshop include:
- Make a Great First Webpression
- Dominate Search
- Get on the Offensive
In addition we cover:
- Persona Exercise
- Creating consistent content: (Ex: Wire Harness Wednesdays)
- Google Snippet – Wire Harness Manufacturing – Electrical Ground Straps
Other topics covered as well include:
- Let that dream customer – Soulmates make a buying decision on Friday night at midnight
- Scale Your Proprietary Process
- Configurator – Quotebuilder
- New customized product populates into the eCommerce store
We also explore eCommerce Opportunities with Online Marketplaces including:
In addition, the program features B2B Experts such as…
- MFG Out Loud
- Exit Your Way
- protocol 80
- True Focus Media
- Bowman Digital Media
- FELT Marketing
- WinBound
- Voice Express
- ChocMo
- Saniflow
About the Montana Manufacturing Extension Partnership
The Montana Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Center is a statewide manufacturing outreach as well as assistance center staffed by full-time professionals with extensive experience in manufacturing and business in a variety of industries. In particular, our mission is to grow Montana’s economy by helping manufacturers succeed.
We serve the manufacturers of Montana by helping them assess as well as improve their manufacturing operations, providing trainings and workforce development, and leveraging research and technological developments at Montana State University to keep manufacturing competitive in the state.
MMEC is housed in the the Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering at Montana State University in Bozeman, with remote offices in Billings, Missoula, Kalispell, as well as Great Falls. Furthermore, our expertise includes staff with decades of combined experience in manufacturing.
We are also part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) National Network. NIST is a non-regulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce that promotes U.S. innovation as well as industrial competitiveness. MEP is a public-private partnership with centers in all 50 states aw well as Puerto Rico dedicated to serving small and medium-sized manufacturers.
MMEC has an advisory board that helps guide how we serve Montana’s manufacturers. We receive financial and program support from MSU, the State of Montana, the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)Manufacturing Extension Partnership as well as other partners.
Wrapping It Up
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