Marketing Refresh

Marketing Refresh We are a full-service digital marketing agency. Fueled by coffee, our experienced team helps your bu

Marketing Refresh, founded in 2009, works directly with business leadership teams responsible for growing their revenue. Our clients either don’t have their own marketing team, or need to complement their in-house talents with a more specialized skill set. Marketing Refresh develops digital marketing strategies and execution plans prioritized around business goals. Executives and business owners don’t have time to effectively do their job AND handle the marketing. And, they’re typically not sure what they should focus on, why they should focus on it, how to do it, and how to measure effectiveness. Partner with a team who works hard to understand your business, helps you create a strategy that enables your company to leverage marketing, and “jumps in the boat” with you to execute.

Should you hire another marketer or bring in outside agency support?It's a fair question, especially when the internal t...
11/04/2026

Should you hire another marketer or bring in outside agency support?

It's a fair question, especially when the internal team is already juggling a website, campaigns, reporting, and requests from Sales.

An in-house hire can bring dedicated attention and company knowledge. An outside partner can help fill specialist gaps or provide additional capacity without expecting one person to cover everything.

The right choice depends on what the team actually needs help doing.

Here's a closer look at the trade-offs for industrial companies.

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Sales and Marketing can have regular meetings, share reports, and still be working toward slightly different goals.A goo...
11/03/2026

Sales and Marketing can have regular meetings, share reports, and still be working toward slightly different goals.

A good place to start? Agreeing on what makes an opportunity worth pursuing and what Marketing can do to support the conversations Sales is already having.

When both teams are working from the same priorities, it's easier to decide where to focus the next campaign, content piece, or marketing dollar.

We're sharing a closer look at what sales-aligned marketing programs do differently.

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Getting more inquiries sounds great, but if your fabrication team keeps receiving requests for work that doesn't fit you...
11/02/2026

Getting more inquiries sounds great, but if your fabrication team keeps receiving requests for work that doesn't fit your capabilities, those extra leads aren't helping much.

For custom fabricators and metal manufacturers, marketing needs to give buyers a clear picture of the work you do, the projects you're equipped to handle, and why you're a good fit.

That clarity matters long before someone requests a quote.

We take a closer look at what brings in the right kind of work for fabrication companies.

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Happy Halloween from Marketing Refresh! 🎃May your candy bowl stay full, your costumes cooperate, and your marketing repo...
10/31/2026

Happy Halloween from Marketing Refresh! 🎃

May your candy bowl stay full, your costumes cooperate, and your marketing reports contain no unexpected jump scares.

Before deciding what Marketing should get next year, take a closer look at what this year’s budget is actually doing.Som...
10/29/2026

Before deciding what Marketing should get next year, take a closer look at what this year’s budget is actually doing.

Some investments may be helping Sales reach better-fit opportunities. Others may still be supporting a market the company wants to grow.

And some may have simply stayed in the budget because they were there last year... or the last several years.

That’s usually where the more useful strategic budgeting conversation begins.

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A paid search campaign can look healthy on the dashboard and still send Sales inquiries they can’t do much with.For manu...
10/28/2026

A paid search campaign can look healthy on the dashboard and still send Sales inquiries they can’t do much with.

For manufacturers, a form fill is really only the beginning. The real question is whether or not that inquiry turned into a path to a quote, RFQ, or sales opportunity that fits the business.

Marketers have to look beyond clicks and conversions and pay attention to actual search terms, lead quality, and what happens after the form comes in. (That means you have to talk to sales... A LOT.)

Use our B2B Paid Search Checklist for Manufacturers to see where your budget is working and where it may be going to waste.
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“What’s our AI plan?” is coming up in a lot of leadership conversations.Before buying another tool, it helps to answer a...
10/26/2026

“What’s our AI plan?” is coming up in a lot of leadership conversations.

Before buying another tool, it helps to answer a simpler question:
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲?

Maybe it’s helping with first drafts, organizing information, reducing repetitive production work, or making reporting easier to manage.

Once the job is clear, it becomes much easier to decide whether the tool is actually helping.

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Traffic can be up. Leads can be coming in. The report can look great.Sales may still be looking at the inquiries and won...
10/23/2026

Traffic can be up. Leads can be coming in. The report can look great.

Sales may still be looking at the inquiries and wondering why none of them are worth quoting.

That’s where manufacturing context matters.

Technical buyers, specifications, distributor relationships, long sales cycles, and project fit can all change what “good marketing performance” looks like.

A generalist agency may know marketing very well. The real question is whether they understand the details that shape a good opportunity for your industrial business.

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A useful sales asset usually starts with something Sales keeps having to explain.Maybe buyers ask the same question in e...
10/21/2026

A useful sales asset usually starts with something Sales keeps having to explain.

Maybe buyers ask the same question in every meeting. Maybe sales are all stalling at the same point. Maybe the salesperson keeps wishing they had a better example to send afterward. Maybe they've tried to create that example themselves with ChatGPT (OOF. Shots fired.💥)

That’s the kind of input Marketing should be listening for.

The right answer might be a case study, a technical article, a comparison, or a simple follow-up piece. What matters is whether Sales can actually use it in a real conversation and it answers real questions and concerns that are popping up during the sales process.

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A small marketing team doesn’t need to copy the org chart of a 30-person department.What it does need is clear ownership...
10/19/2026

A small marketing team doesn’t need to copy the org chart of a 30-person department.

What it does need is clear ownership.

Someone has to know who sets priorities, who keeps work moving, who owns reporting, and who decides what gets pushed back when another new request shows up.

For lean teams, that clarity matters more than having a long list of job titles.

Here’s how to structure a small marketing team around realistic capacity and the right mix of internal and outside support:
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