CONNECT

Generate CLARITY

Define a solid foundation for the digital transformation of the front end of your business.

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Refine PRESENCE

Pair human creativity with machine intelligence for content that converts, ranks, and evolves continuously.

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Content AI
Website Strategy
Content Strategy

Orchestrate ENGAGEMENT

Discover how GenAI is enhancing B2B marketing with real-time personalisation and optimisation.

Target Marketing
Marketing AI
ABM Strategy

Win SUSTAINABLY

Win sustainably with smarter pipelines, sales enablement, customer support, and lasting growth.

Sales Development
Sales AI
Sales Strategy
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Target Marketing

ABM targets OEMs before they’re in market, and inbound ensures you're found when they are.

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How proactive targeting and inbound visibility work together

The value of a balanced approach

Inbound marketing ensures you’re discovered exactly when OEMs are in-market and actively searching. Through educational content, such as articles on quality compliance, agility, and supply chain optimisation, you’re speaking to prospects when they need you most. And when case studies are off-limits, these insights build trust and authority without compromising confidentiality.

Account-based marketing (ABM) empowers contract manufacturers to connect with high-value OEMs before they’re actively in the market. Instead of broad campaigns, ABM delivers personalised outreach that treats each ideal client as a ‘market of one’, aligning sales and marketing with strategic precision without relying on client attribution or core case studies.

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How to get started

Quarterly Campaigns

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AGILE Marketing
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Our ABM and inbound efforts thrive under an agile marketing framework with weekly check-ins that drive data-fueled adjustments. This cadence keeps high-value OEM accounts engaged, ensures messaging remains resonant, and aligns your sales and marketing teams around shared account insights.

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Quarterly Campaign
Rhythm

We systematically benchmark metrics from account engagement velocity to demand capture effectiveness and refine your ABM and inbound tactics. Each quarter ends with a data-driven planning cycle, where insights drive priorities, ensuring every initiative optimises ROI and pipeline progression.

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Martech for
performance

We make our martech stack work harder integrating CRM, marketing automation, intent data, and analytics tools to deliver smarter ABM and inbound campaigns. This unified approach ensures campaigns are scalable, data-driven, and precisely aligned with OEM account goals.

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Account-based Marketing

Why ABM works for growth-driven contract manufacturers

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) empowers contract manufacturers to connect directly with high-value OEMs prioritising targeted outreach before they enter the market. Unlike broad-based campaigns, ABM treats each OEM as its own market, enabling sales and marketing to deliver tailored messaging and deeply relevant engagement. 

This proactive approach builds early awareness and trust, setting the stage while inbound captures demand later. ABM is a high-impact strategy that moves beyond spray-and-pray tactics. With focused resources directed at prioritised accounts, it improves alignment between sales and marketing, shortens complex sales cycles, and delivers stronger ROI. Best practices include identifying ideal OEM accounts, mapping all stakeholders, delivering personalised multi-channel content, and measuring engagement and conversion at the account level.

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Target selection: We begin by identifying and prioritising OEMs with the greatest strategic alignment and growth potential, informed by firmographics, intent indicators, and historical fit.

Cross-team alignment: Sales and marketing synchronise account understanding and messaging, mapping influencers and decision-makers to ensure relevant, role-specific touchpoints.

Multi-channel personalisation: Campaigns are delivered with high personalisation, via email, direct outreach, digital ads, content assets, and even field initiatives, crafted for each OEM’s context.

Account-level measurement: We track meaningful ABM metrics such as engagement velocity, stakeholder touches, and conversion checkpoint progress, refining every quarter for stronger impact.

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Inbound Marketing

Why inbound matters for contract manufacturers

Inbound marketing ensures that your contract manufacturing services appear exactly when OEMs are in market and actively researching solutions.

Instead of interrupting, inbound offers a pull-based approach: using educational, SEO-optimised content to provide clarity and build credibility when decision-makers are looking. This makes your brand simultaneously visible and trustworthy at the critical moment of discovery.

Inbound marketing is exceptionally cost-effective. It generates more leads at a lower cost, with firms reporting up to 62% lower lead acquisition costs.

For contract manufacturers operating behind the scenes, inbound serves as a powerful conduit using thought leadership, technical insights, and educational content to build trust, visibility, and credibility without exposing sensitive client relationships.

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Brand Marketing

why brand marketing matters for contract manufacturers

In traditionally hidden industries, contract manufacturers are often overshadowed despite their vital role. Effective brand marketing elevates your presence helping you emerge from the background and communicate reliability, expertise, and capacity for partnership. 

This is especially crucial in markets threatened by commoditisation, where standing out isn’t just strategic, it’s essential. A focused brand strategy lays the foundation for sustained growth. Defining your mission, values, tone, and visual identity ensures every inbound asset, digital touchpoint, and campaign reflects a unified and trusted image.

In competitive landscapes, whether fields like plastics, electronics, or medical devices consistency in brand execution across channels drives recognition, trust, and ultimately, loyalty among OEM buyers.

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Analytics & Reporting

Measuring performance with precision

Account‑based marketing demands measurement that’s as strategic as your targeting. Measuring performance with precision ensures that every OEM account’s engagement and progression are tracked, analysed, and optimised to meet your growth goals. 

This starts with looking beyond surface-level leads, focusing on account-level insights that power ROI, pipeline velocity, and cross-functional alignment.

Account Engagement Score: Measures how actively your target OEMs interact across touch points, email, site visits, downloads, events, social. Higher scores mean stronger resonance with your messaging.

Pipeline Velocity: Tracks how swiftly target accounts move from first engagement to opportunity. Faster cycles often indicate alignment, relevance, and campaign effectiveness.

Coverage and Stakeholder Reach: Monitors penetration into the buying group, ensuring all relevant roles (e.g., champions, decision-makers) are being engaged.

Revenue & Expansion Metrics: Includes pipeline value from target accounts, average deal size, and account expansion or cross-sell opportunities. These metrics directly reflect ABM’s impact on value delivery.

Programme-Level ROI: Calculates return on investment per account, measuring performance and guiding smart resource allocation.

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What’s the benefit of using an agile approach for campaigns?

An agile approach allows you to quickly adapt to market changes and evolving customer insights. By using weekly consultations and regular data reviews, your campaigns remain resource-efficient and responsive. This flexibility not only helps in optimising performance in real time but also ensures that your strategies are continually refined for maximum impact and ROI.

Why combine inbound and account-based marketing for manufacturing?

Inbound marketing builds deep content foundations and gathers crucial customer insights, while ABM leverages that knowledge to identify high-value accounts and customise campaigns just for them. Combining the two approaches is a smart use of resources, letting you repurpose and personalise existing high-impact content to speak to specific sectors and individuals. What’s more in the age of AI it’s an approach that’s becoming easier to deliver at scale.

How many OEM accounts should we pilot in ABM?

It’s best to start small—typically 5 to 8 high-potential accounts. This allows you to experiment, refine messaging using real signals, then scale strategically.

Can we run ABM without sharing client case studies?

Yes. Focus on process-based narratives, anonymized outcomes, and operational excellence to demonstrate capability while maintaining confidentiality.

How long before inbound marketing efforts start delivering results?

Inbound is a long-term investment—think months, not weeks. Over time, your content library and SEO authority grow, lowering lead costs and building credibility.

How do ABM and inbound marketing complement each other?

ABM targets specific OEMs before they’re actively looking, fostering relationships early. Inbound ensures you’re visible when OEMs do go looking—so you’re front-of-mind when opportunity arrives.

What metrics should we track for ABM + inbound success?

Measure at the account level: engagement velocity, stakeholder coverage, pipeline stage progression, and influence on revenue  with quarterly reviews to optimise.

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