Manufacturer leads for SEO agencies

Build your own list of manufacturers, fill in missing emails and offer your search engine optimisation and local search services to them in small, personal batches.

Public sources for manufacturers
Fields that fit the industry
No credits, no rented data

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Audience overview in Riftjaw with daily audience, new contacts and most engaged people

Selling search engine optimisation and local search services to manufacturers

Manufacturers range from small workshops to large plants, and buying decisions involve owners, plant managers, engineers and purchasing. Sales cycles are longer, and suppliers win on reliability, technical fit and total cost.

SEO agencies often find clients by spotting businesses with weak search visibility and reaching out with a specific observation. Keeping those prospects in your own lead database lets you record what you noticed about each site and follow up at the right moment.

The manufacturers that need search engine optimisation and local search services are listed publicly. What most SEO agencies lack is a list they own, with the right fields, that shows who was already contacted.

What SEO agencies run into with manufacturers

Your audit notes per prospect are scattered over documents and spreadsheets.

Add custom fields and notes to every record, so the finding you want to mention sits next to the contact.

Many small business websites list no email address.

Email from domain turns the website into role addresses such as info@ and hello@ without credits.

Manufacturer lists are broad and cover many unrelated sectors.

Record sector and processes in fields and send each campaign to a narrow segment.

The right buyer sits behind a generic address.

Add purchasing@ as your own prefix in email from domain alongside info@.

A week of prospecting in Riftjaw

Monday: collect

Export a batch of manufacturers from public listings and import it. Duplicates are skipped.

Paste and collect in Riftjaw: a pasted web page turned into a table of companies — Paste and collect in Riftjaw: a pasted listing page turned into columns of companies.

Tuesday: fill in

Derive missing emails with info@, sales@, purchasing@ and enquiries@ and tag the records that look like a fit.

Database in Riftjaw with active contacts, segment, lead file and source — The database in Riftjaw: concept, active and archived contacts, each with its lead file and source.

Wednesday: reach

Send one mail about your search engine optimisation and local search services to the new segment, in small batches.

Segments in Riftjaw, each with its own name and number of contacts — Segments such as property managers in London or roofers in the North, each ready to use in a campaign.

Friday: follow up

Opens and clicks show up on each record. Set the ones who answered to Replied or Customer, so the follow-ups of the campaign skip them.

Campaign results in Riftjaw with sent, opened and clicked per contact — After a campaign, every contact shows whether the mail was delivered, opened and clicked.

Angles that work with manufacturers

Use one angle per campaign, so the results show which one gets manufacturers to click.

Lead with a concrete technical problem you solve in their process.
Talk about uptime, scrap rates or energy use rather than general benefits.
Offer technical documentation or a site visit as the next step.

Campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and set the button — A new campaign in Riftjaw, with segment, status and tag filters, a test send and a preview.

Fields worth recording for manufacturers

Add these as fields in your lead file. Any column in your import can become a field.

Field	Why it helps
Company name	The key field. Duplicates are checked on it or on the website.
Website	Needed to derive an email when the export has none.
Sector	Food, metal, plastics or electronics plants buy very different things.
Processes	Machining, moulding or assembly shape equipment needs.
Sites	Multi site manufacturers often have central purchasing.
Certifications	Quality standards they hold matter to suppliers.
Purchasing contact	The buyer or plant manager when you find them.

Questions people ask

How do I narrow a manufacturer list to one sector?

Add a sector field and fill it on import or from research. Then save a filter per sector and use it as the campaign audience.

Can I add purchasing@ as an email prefix?

Yes. Besides the standard prefixes you can add your own in email from domain. The results are likely addresses, not verified ones.

How do I get email addresses for manufacturers in your area?

If your file has an email column, that wins. If it only has websites, tick the prefixes you want, such as info@, sales@, purchasing@ and enquiries@, and Riftjaw derives addresses from each domain. Derived addresses are good guesses, not verified, so start with small batches.

Is it free to start?

Yes. The Free plan runs the whole pipeline on one list with small campaigns, and you do not need a credit card. Move to Pro when you want more lists, segments and bigger campaigns.