Manufacturing Growth Podcast
Manufacturing Growth Podcast
TANK New Media
Building a great company is a marathon, not a sprint. Each week Krista Ankenman and the team at TANK New Media take on growth challenges, explore technology, and interview business leaders that are always upping their game. If you're ready to build scalable systems to drive your business forward, this podcast is for you.
Building Your Budget: Setting a Marketing Budget to Meet Your Growth Goals
With the new year upon us, companies are beginning to set their goals, priorities, and budgets. In this episode, we discuss how to set up your marketing budget to meet the growth goals for your business.
Dec 3, 2019
12 min
Hone Performance: Maximizing Sales with Your Existing Sales Team
Forecasting will always be a challenge in business, but defining key processes will help maximize your team's effort and provide the most effect on ROI. In this episode, we are discussing how to implement the best-fit technology and how to utilize your existing sales team.
Nov 26, 2019
21 min
Generate Predictable Sales (GPS): Systemizing Your Marketing and Sales Efforts
Systemization helps tasks and recurring business issues to be dealt with consistently and strategically. To ensure a smooth and seamless experience throughout the customer journey, your sales and marketing teams should be working together to create organized systems. In this episode, we are diving into the steps involved in identifying areas of growth and implementing systemization throughout the business.
Nov 19, 2019
27 min
Anticipating Growth: Scaling a Company with the Right Vision, Resources, and Balance
As a business leader, it's crucial to predict demand and stay on top of industry trends. Market factors and ongoing growth challenges can make it tricky to focus on the end goal. In this episode, we are learning from Jonathan Lavender, managing partner of Pack Leader USA, about thinking ten steps ahead to scale a business successfully.
Nov 12, 2019
21 min
Conversational Bots: How to Create Better Experiences Using Chatbots
Along the way, you've probably heard that bots are the future. Even if you haven't heard of chatbots, chances are you've probably run into them somewhere on the internet with a sneaking suspicion that the person on the other end of the screen might be a robot. In this episode, we'll breakdown the differences between good and bad chatbot experiences and how to implement a bot on your website.
Nov 11, 2019
18 min
Content Strategy: Creating a Content Plan That Works
Companies need an effective way to create and implement content so that it's accurate, insightful, and timely. What does content strategy include? Where should planning documents live? In this episode, we are discussing how companies can develop strategic and compelling and content plans.
Nov 5, 2019
18 min
Experience Matters: Increase Customer Retention, Satisfaction, and Revenue
Achieving customer satisfaction starts with delivering on your promises and then surprising your customers by going above and beyond. In this episode, we are discussing how to create successful client interactions and why building those relationships is so important.
Oct 29, 2019
15 min
Customer Focused: Consider Every Customer Touchpoint to Improve the Buyer Experience
A customer's experience with a brand is affected by every interaction they have with it. It's important to think about every touchpoint — they either make or breaks the buyer's experience. In this episode, we discuss how to create great user experiences by thinking about customer needs and how to address them within every opportunity.
Oct 22, 2019
22 min
Encouraging Leadership: Insights from a Manufacturing Industry Leader
Becoming a successful leader is a journey, and it includes discovering and developing leadership styles and philosophies. In this episode, we welcome back Lenny Stahl, co-owner & president of Dakota Storage Buildings, who shares with us how he developed his leadership philosophy and how it has affected his business. Listen as Lenny provides advice and resources for other manufacturing leaders.
Oct 15, 2019
21 min
Scaling Your Company: A Live Look at Dakota Storage Buildings
Scaling a company is a long process and is full of challenges. In this episode, we dive into the journey Lenny Stahl has taken to get to where he is now with Dakota Storage Buildings and what advice he has for growing manufacturing companies.
Oct 8, 2019
14 min
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