In this episode of the Industrial Marketing Leaders Podcast, Jacob Baldwin of United Grinding shares how his team uses video content, the scientific method, and macroeconomic insights to guide industrial marketing strategy. He explains why understanding customer pain points and industry trends—like EV growth and legislation—is key to crafting relevant content and lead generation campaigns. Jacob also discusses how storytelling, automation tools like HubSpot, and alignment with sales teams drive measurable success in the manufacturing space.

🔍 Episode Highlights: Jacob Baldwin highlighted how United Grinding uses video to tell customer stories, spotlight application success, and bring the manufacturing process to life—moving beyond polished, sterile imagery to capture the true grit and skill of their clients’ work. He explained that video’s ability to show nonverbal cues, emotion, and real results not only builds trust and authority with prospects but makes customer-driven storytelling far more compelling than anything produced solely from the company’s perspective.How macroeconomics drives marketing decisions at United Grinding: Jacob explains how tracking legislation (like the CHIPS Act), regulatory updates, and industry-specific market forecasts directly informs their content calendar, campaign focus, and resource allocation. Advice for marketers at smaller companies: Stay focused on core principles—knowing your ICP, mapping pain points, and building on customer-driven foundations regardless of budget or team size.

🔑 Takeaways: Understand how to time your marketing efforts and messaging around real-world economic and policy changes—whether it’s new government incentives fueling demand in semiconductors, electric vehicles, or defense, or signals from macroeconomic analysis firms. Jacob shares why building long-term relationships inside multi-stakeholder buying groups is non-negotiable for industrial sales and loyalty. Get actionable ideas for content types that work: customer success videos, timely industry white papers, AD testing for message refinement, and digitally automated lead qualifying with HubSpot. Hear how United Grinding uses a mix of trend analysis, customer feedback, and strategic sales enablement to keep both marketing and sales teams pulling in the same direction.

🙋🏻‍♂️ About Jeff Long, The Industrial Marketing Leaders Podcast, and True Focus Media:

Jeff Long has owned his marketing agency, True Focus Media, since 2003. His mission with the IML Podcast is to showcase industrial manufacturing marketing leaders. True Focus Media specializes in helping industrial companies improve their marketing, sales, and training efforts. Jeff’s experience ranges from working with large international corporations to smaller machine shops. Known for pioneering content marketing strategies like "Video Value Bombs" and Trade Show TNT, Jeff helps companies grow by sharing clear strategies and practical marketing ideasYou can learn more about him at: https://truefocusmedia.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffdlong/https://videovaluebombs.com/https://tradeshowtnt.com/https://industrialmarketingleaders.com/

🤝 About Our Guest:

Jacob Baldwin’s background bridges tech startup culture and the industrial sector. His approach centers around customer focus, agility, and relationship-building, making this episode a valuable listen for anyone in B2B manufacturing marketing.

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