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Website management for manufacturing associations
A website team that already speaks manufacturing
Industrial Marketing builds and runs websites for manufacturers associations, NTMA chapters and an aerospace and defense consortium in New England. You get a site your staff can update, a member directory that says what members really make, and one team that handles hosting, care and the technical side every month.
What manufacturing association website management covers
Manufacturing association website management means one outside team owns the build, hosting, updates and security, while your staff keep control of news, events and member updates. We do it for associations, chapters and consortiums whose members make things, so the site and its directory read the way manufacturers and their buyers talk.
A buyer who opens a member directory is usually looking for a capability: a shop that runs five-axis aluminum, a plater with the right spec on file, a molder with clean-room space nearby. We set listings up around process, material and certification, so the buyer finds the member who runs the work.
Who it's for
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Manufacturing associations
State and regional associations whose members range from job shops to OEMs.
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NTMA chapters
Chapters that need events, training and member news kept current without a full-time web person.
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Aerospace & defense consortiums
Groups whose members sell to primes and need to look procurement-ready.
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Regional manufacturer groups
Tooling, machining and supplier networks that want buyers to find their members.
What we do
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Website build
A new or rebuilt site, planned around what members and the board need it to do.
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Hosting and care
Hosting, updates, backups and security every month.
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Member directory
Listings that say what each member makes, by process, material and certification.
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Events and news
Event pages, registrations and member news your staff can post themselves.
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Discovery Suite for member companies
A discovery program that writes down what member plants can really do, so their own sites can say it.
How a partnership works
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Step 1, OP 10
A conversation
Your executive director or board lead tells us what the site has to do and what isn't working now.
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Step 2, OP 20
We look at what you have
Current site, directory, events and who updates what. We tell you what to keep and what to replace.
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Step 3, OP 30
A written scope
What we'll run, what your staff will run, the timeline and the cost, on paper your board can approve.
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Step 4, OP 40
Build or take over
We build the new site or move the current one onto our hosting, with your domain and accounts kept in the association's name.
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Step 5, OP 50
Hand-over to your staff
We show your team how to post news, events and member updates, and write it down.
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Step 6, OP 60
Monthly care
Hosting, updates and fixes every month, and a named person to call.
Member-benefit ideas
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Idea: member capability profiles
Each member's directory listing written from what the plant actually runs, so buyers can search the association by capability.
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Idea: Discovery Suite cohorts
Member companies go through discovery together, each ending with a written record of what their plant can do.
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Idea: chapter-meeting sessions
A short talk at a meeting on how buyers and AI assistants read a manufacturer's website.
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Idea: a regional capability search
One place for buyers to search the region's members by process, material and certification.
Run a nonprofit? We'll help run your website at no fee.
Associations, chapters and consortiums keep manufacturing strong. If you run one, we'll help keep your website current, secure and working, at no fee. Tell us what you have and what it needs.
Questions associations ask
Who owns the website?
The association. Your domain, content and accounts stay in the association's name, and if you ever move on, they go with you.
Who updates the content?
Your staff post news, events and member updates themselves; we show them how. Anything bigger, or anything they'd rather hand off, we do.
What happens to member data?
Member data belongs to the association. We use it only to run the site and directory. Member companies' own records stay theirs, and nothing goes into IKE or any other directory without the association's and the member's agreement.
Do members have to work with you?
No. The site serves every member equally. Members who want marketing help can talk to us like anyone else.
Can you take over the site we already have?
Usually, yes. We look at what you have first and tell you plainly whether to keep it, move it or rebuild it.
What does it cost?
Scope and cost go in the written scope your board approves, once we've seen what you have. Nonprofits can also ask about our no-fee website help.
Talk to us about your association
Tell us what your site needs to do for your members and your board, and what isn't working now.