How to get customers forSmart Manufacturing Optimization Tool

Where to find hardware manufacturers in order to convert them to customers

The idea that helps Hardware Manufacturers

Hardware Manufacturers want to optimize production efficiency. However, they can't get it because they struggle with identifying inefficiencies in their manufacturing process.

Therefore, they need to use your solution, e.g. FactoryOptime.

Smart Manufacturing Optimization Tool : FactoryOptime is a cloud-based software that analyzes production data in real-time to pinpoint areas for improvement and increase overall efficiency. Of course it is much better than the stuff from ProdEfficiency, or OptiFactory!

How to find Hardware Manufacturers

You can get insights about the pain points of hardware manufacturers if you listen to them carefully, either in person or online. Listening online is much easier because you need not ask them for a customer interview but you can observe them talking about their problems, out there in their natural habitat. They won’t even notice that you are there, watching and listening to them.

The process, step by step

One process that we can totally recommend is this:

Find out where hardware manufacturers hang out (Reddit, Mastodon, etc.)
Read what problems they talk about, and how urgent they are to them. (Did they try any solutions, yet? Did they spend money on anything, yet? Did they even cobble a homegrown solution together?)
Enter the conversation: Help them with tips, ask more about their situation and why they are in pain.
If you find recurring questions or pet peeves of hardware manufacturers, create some helpful content for them (e.g. a blog post, a podcast episode, or a video) and share it with them for free, in the same conversations. They will be delighted.
At the end of the blog post, invite them to use your solution: Smart Manufacturing Optimization Tool.

I described the process here in my blog post: Identify a hungry audience.

If you do this manually, it may take you hours each day. Automate it, with a little help from the AI in CustomerPing!

Step 1 to find hardware manufacturers

To get started, edit the values in the following 3 input fields and click “Search hardware manufacturers”.

This is what will happen

An AI will brainstorm 5 good search keyword phrases for you to find hardware manufacturers and their pain points in online forums on the internet.
With one click, you can search for each keyword phrase right away.
CustomerPing will present the search results to you.
If you think that one of those results looks like hardware manufacturers wrote it, you can create a “customer radar station” on the forum where the post came from.
You describe what makes a post relevant to your business.
CustomerPing will “ping” you 24h a day, whenever hardware manufacturers complain about their pet peeve: They struggle with identifying inefficiencies in their manufacturing process.
Good for you because this is something that you can solve with smart Manufacturing Optimization Tool, right?

What to do when you get a “customer ping”

When such an alert appears on your mobile phone, you simply tap on it and join the conversation in the online forum.

Help hardware manufacturers to reach their goal: To optimize production efficiency.

They will get to know, like and trust you. Eventually, they will buy your solution: Smart Manufacturing Optimization Tool.

Get your first customers now!

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