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Smarter Building Materials Marketing

Zach and Beth tackle your most burning questions about digital marketing for building materials and talk to other industry experts about what’s working in the building product space.

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EPISODE 169

How To Solve Labor Shortage in Building Materials

The harsh reality of the labor shortage is that professionals are overwhelmed and overworked. Product manufacturers have a growing opportunity to help builders and installers, many of whom are learning to install products on the fly. It’s a challenge that all of us in the industry, especially manufacturers, have to overcome.

EPISODE 177

TikTok Star Tony Piloseno on Being Fired To Building a Brand

He went from being fired for making TikTok videos to being the paint industry’s most viral story to date. This week, we welcome Tony Piloseno to the show to get the inside scoop on how he used social media to share his passion for paint — and find brand success.

EPISODE 172

Shark Tank Winner Joe Altieri On Building Brands That Disrupt

This week’s episode is an exciting ride in product innovation with Joe Altieri, a window industry professional who went from struggling with sales to winning Shark Tank.

EPISODE 174

How To Get More User-Generated Photos of Your Building Products

Creating an easy purchasing experience for your customers is a part of guaranteeing building product sales, but for eCommerce sites, that requires imagery. For manufacturers, getting images for your online presence is a challenge, so this week’s guest gave us a surprising strategy you might want to steal.

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Zach Williams is the founder of Venveo. Beth PopNikolov is the CEO of Venveo.

WHAT

We tackle your most burning questions about digital marketing for building material manufacturers, share proven strategies to grow leads and sales, and bring in other industry experts to share what’s working in the building product space.

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Episode 143

How Manufacturers Can Use Web Data To Drive Company Wide Decisions

Data helps us connect the dots between the different parts of an organization, whether that's product development, marketing, sales or customer service. Data plays a bigger role in a lot of the decisions that today’s manufacturers make — are you using it to your advantage?

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Episode 142

How Images & Video Can Improve Conversions & Sales For Building Materials Manufacturers

One of the most overlooked parts of the sales process for manufacturers is the visual component to the purchasing decision. If you’re planning out your marketing content for next year, it’s time to prioritize — and imagery is a great place to start when it comes to boosting your sales.

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Episode 141

How To Improve Building Materials Sales to Commercial Architects

Want a pipeline that fills itself? This week, we talked with an expert in business development on how manufacturers create a pipeline that's constantly full with commercial architects, without actually having to generate a lot of outbound activity.

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Episode 140

Social Media ROI: How Building Materials Companies Can Determine Success

The question we get asked most often is about social media and its ROI. So this week’s episode is all about the strategies and tactics we use to help building materials manufacturers succeed in the digital world. If you’re trying to level up your social media presence, stay tuned.

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Episode 139

How Manufacturers Can Get Builders To Try New Products

What’s getting builders to switch the products they typically build with? While builders and other construction professionals aren’t known to adopt new products or materials readily, we’re finding that behavior has started to shift. This week’s episode explores why.

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Episode 138

From Garage to Global: How To Build a Winning Building Materials Brand

Growing a building materials brand is about the story you’re telling. The better the story, the greater the sale. But what if you’ve got a few different audiences? What should your brand’s story sound like then? Let’s find out from a company that began their story from the ground up.

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Episode 137

Content Marketing for Pros: What Contractors & Installers Want From Manufacturers

This episode is an exploration of the professional installer and trade industry and what they want from building materials manufacturers. Plus, what does the future of the trades look like? And how can manufacturers ensure that their future is a little brighter?

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Episode 136

How One Developer Is Building Cities Amidst Land & Labor Shortages

What issues are ahead in land development and how will that affect the future of the construction industry? This week’s episode features an in-depth interview with a land developer who helps us understand the market from the inside out.

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