The Foreign Buyer You’re Not Reaching: Why 70% of Export Passes Through Channels You Don’t Control

Wenn Ihr Unternehmen exportiert — und im Spezialmaschinen-Bau gilt das für die große Mehrheit der Hersteller — dann sind die meisten Ihrer potenziellen Kunden mit Ihren aktuellen kommerziellen Werkzeugen nicht erreichbar. Sie sind nicht auf Ihren Mailinglisten. Sie kommen nicht zu Ihren Messen. Sie haben keinen lokalen Agenten, der sie zu Ihnen führt. Sie suchen … Read more

Trade Shows, Agents and Google: How Procurement Is Changing in Specialised Industrial Machinery

Those who sell specialised industrial machinery tend to assume their customers come from trade shows, local agents and word of mouth. And they are right — for the customers they already know. The problem is everything else: buyers who are searching, do not yet know who to approach, and start with Google. This is the … Read more

The Sector That Doesn’t Get Found: How Specialised Industrial Machinery Loses Buyers Before the First Contact

We analysed an entire sector of specialised industrial machinery manufacturers — Italian companies, European competitors, and producers from other continents. Same product category. Same potential buyers. Overlapping markets.

The finding is consistent across all geographies: almost none of them organise their product information the way a buyer searches today.