The Manufacturing Marketer

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209

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Oct 2026

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The Manufacturing Marketer aims to provide a place for industrial marketers to skill themselves up so they can provide value to their business. This show is hosted by a variety of senior marketers at Gorilla 76 including Brendon Forrest, Nihal Shetty, Aren Buresh and Peyton Warren. Each week listen to a mix of Industrial Marketing Collective Live events, topic deep dives and guest discussions. You will come away with actionable advice you can apply immediately to drive demand and build a revenue pipeline.

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October 29, 2026Episode 20850 min

More on landing pages w/ Tas Bober

Today, we’ve brought back on Tas Bober, landing page strategist and the founder of The Scroll Lab. Tas has launched over 400 B2B websites and now dedicates her time and professional interest to the art of the landing page. Listeners, you might have already caught her excellent session on landing pages with Industrial Marketing Collective: Live back in July. But we have some follow up thoughts and questions, and we’ve very glad to have her on the show to dig into them with us. Connect with Tas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasbober/ Check out The Scroll Lab: https://thescrolllab.com/

October 22, 2026Episode 20731 min

What makes a podcast worth listening to w/ Nihal Shetty | IMC Live

Plenty of in-house marketers have something worth saying on a podcast and never pitch it. They figure a guest needs a following first. Nihal Shetty doesn’t buy that. Nihal has co-hosted The Manufacturing Marketer for a little over two years. Along the way he worked out what makes a show good, and very little of it comes down to polish or personality. This episode is for you if you’re interested in starting a podcast or being a guest on someone else’s podcast or just want to learn what goes into making the Manufacturing Marketer podcast. Want to be a guest on The Manufacturing Marketer? Email nihal.shetty@gorilla76.com or podcast@gorilla76.com. This episode was recorded live on IMC Live, October 15, 2026, with hosts Allen Fennewald and Sydney Jones.

October 15, 2026Episode 20632 min

Account-based marketing for small industrial teams

Account-based marketing has a reputation as an enterprise software play, with big budgets and bigger tool stacks. Industrial companies already sell the way ABM assumes: a short list of accounts, long sales cycles, and several people in every buying decision. So what does ABM look like for a marketing team of one to three? Let’s discuss.

October 8, 2026Episode 20534 min

The video content you actually need and how to make it w/ Callahan O'Brien | IMC Live

Callahan O'Brien, video marketing specialist at Roundtable Learning, joins the collective to speak on where industrial marketers should start with video, when a high-production shoot is worthwhile, and how to get a month of content out of a single day of filming. This episode was recorded live on IMC Live, October 1, 2026, with hosts Allen Fennewald and Sydney Jones.

October 1, 2026Episode 20431 min

Increasing revenue WITHOUT new customers

Marketing isn’t just about new leads. Hang around with enough people in industrial marketing and sales and you’ll hear it pretty often: “Our customers know us for our flagship product line, but they have no idea we do all of this other stuff, too.” That’s when marketing has to step in. But how do marketing tactics change when we shift focus from getting new leads to getting more value out of the customers we already have? Brendon and Nihal are here to discuss.

September 24, 2026Episode 20229 min

Test before you spend: Building an organic to paid social pipeline w/ Brandan Davis | IMC Live

Gorilla 76 Performance Marketer Brandan Davis breaks down how to use organic social as a testing ground for paid: which engagement signals mean a post has earned a budget, what has to change about that post before it runs as an ad and what to spend when you launch. Recorded live at IMC Live, September 17, 2026, with hosts Allen Fennewald and Sydney Jones.

September 17, 2026Episode 935 min

AI search tactics w/ Wes Temple

We’ve brought back Wes Temple, Director of Growth here at Gorilla 76, to talk through how our agency is thinking about AI search, and what you, dear listeners, might want to consider for yourself. Let’s dig in. Connect with Wes on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/westemple/

September 10, 2026Episode 20144 min

Developing sales trainings that actually sell w/ Stu Accola | IMC Live

Your company spends months on a product launch. The engineering is dialed in, the messaging is ready, and then the sales team walks out of the training asking how they're supposed to actually sell it. Stu Accola has run that meeting from both sides. He's spent 17 years in B2B industrial marketing and leads marketing for several Marmon Holdings brands, and his argument is that most launch trainings stop at the product. A complete sales training covers all of it. In this episode: • The two things a rep needs walking out: a clear picture of the right customer, and confidence • What goes into a complete and effective sales training program • The importance of engineering, sales and marketing alignment • Training distributor reps who carry hundreds of brands • Earning a seat at the table, and what to say to leadership to get one Stu offers a word of advice for any marketer trying to get invited into the sales training process. Tell leadership: “I just want to help your team win.”

September 3, 2026Episode 20045 min

Career advice for industrial marketers w/ Jon Franko

This podcast has always been about equipping industrial marketers to do their best work and build their careers. So, for our 200th episode, there isn’t a more fitting topic than talking about those careers. Jon Franko, co-founder of Gorilla 76 and head honcho of all things people at the agency, has spent more time than anyone else we know talking to industrial marketers looking to grow their careers. He’s hired a bunch of them, including us. So we wanted to bring him onto the podcast to talk about what advice we can offer industrial marketers today: The skills, habits, and mindsets that set them up well. Email: podcast@gorilla76.com Connect with Jon Franko on LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonfranko/

August 27, 2026Episode 19935 min

Stay in the room: Using Google retargeting to expand your reach | IMC Live

Google's retargeting is one of the most affordable ways manufacturers stay in front of buyers who already visited the site but left without filling out a form. But on an increasingly crowded Google page, it also produces some of the most ignorable creative on the internet. Unless you do it right. That’s why we brought in Gorilla 76 Performance Marketer Brad Litwin on Aug 20 to talk through how to run Google retargeting ads that convert at a reasonable cost. Here are just a handful of things we get into: -Critical audience considerations -How to set your lookback window -The settings that quietly eat your budget, starting with ads in mobile apps -How to write and design effective retargeting ads