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Manufacturing Marketing Operations

A building-products manufacturer unified trade-show marketing and sales with Marketing Cloud

A building-products company replaced disconnected ActiveCampaign email with Account Engagement integrated to Sales and Service Cloud, finally tying trade-show spend to results.

At a glance

Industry
Manufacturing
Platforms
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Service
Migration, Integration

The challenge

Marketing ran in ActiveCampaign while contacts lived in Salesforce, trade-show leads were captured with minimal information, and there was no way to measure cost per lead or attribute revenue to campaigns.

What we did

  • Account Engagement configured as a single source of truth with Sales and Service Cloud
  • Lead scoring and grading so sales could prioritize high-value prospects
  • Campaign tracking and attribution for trade shows and other initiatives
  • Migration of templates and segmentation from ActiveCampaign, plus website form integration

The results

The manufacturer eliminated the marketing-to-sales disconnect, established clear lead-source and ROI tracking including trade shows, and gave reps intelligent lead prioritization on one platform.

We’re hoping this will… really send out better targeted campaigns.

Client, Manufacturing

Does this sound like your team?

  • Email campaigns go out from a separate tool, so reps cannot see what a contact received or clicked.
  • Trade-show badge scans come back with little more than a name, and follow-up depends on who remembers the conversation.
  • Leadership asks what a show or campaign returned, and marketing can only estimate cost per lead.

Where we would start

Make Salesforce the single home for contacts, connecting Account Engagement to Sales and Service Cloud, so marketing and sales see the same records. Set up a campaign for each trade show before the next event so every captured lead carries its source. Scoring and grading then help reps choose whom to call first. Migrate only the templates and segments you still use from the old tool.

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