Playbooks for growing agriculture and machinery businesses

How to turn rural demand into sales-qualified leads, and sales-qualified leads into revenue. Written by the team that has managed $115M+ in ad spend.

The five questions every machinery buyer asks before they enquire, and how to answer them

The five questions every machinery buyer asks before they enquire, and how to answer them

Price, timing, fit, trade-in and service. Answer them on the page and buyers ring you, not the dealer down the road.

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Selling used machinery online when every unit is a one-off listing

Selling used machinery online when every unit is a one-off listing

Every unit sells once, then the page is dead. Here is how I build machinery campaigns that survive stock turning over.

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Why your cost per lead looks fine while your cost per sale climbs

Why your cost per lead looks fine while your cost per sale climbs

Cheap leads and flat sales are the same problem. The form fill is not the finish line, and your bidding is learning from the wrong thing.

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Booking the inspection: the one conversion step machinery dealers skip

Booking the inspection: the one conversion step machinery dealers skip

The enquiry is not the win. The date in the diary is. Most dealers never actually ask for it.

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Finance pre-qualification as a lead magnet for high-ticket machinery

Finance pre-qualification as a lead magnet for high-ticket machinery

Brochure downloads tell you nothing. A finance pre-qual form tells you if the buyer can actually write the cheque.

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Trade-in enquiries are the warmest leads in your dealership, and most of them die in an inbox

Trade-in enquiries are the warmest leads in your dealership, and most of them die in an inbox

Most dealers treat a trade-in form as an admin job. It is the closest thing to a buyer putting his hand up before he shops around.

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Why a 30,000 person rural audience is not too small for Meta Ads

Why a 30,000 person rural audience is not too small for Meta Ads

Most rural audiences that look too small are just being fed too much budget and one tired ad.

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Demand Gen for machinery dealers: getting in the shed before the search

Demand Gen for machinery dealers: getting in the shed before the search

Farmers pick their two dealers long before they type anything into Google. Demand Gen is how you get in early.

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Pricing transparency on machinery pages: publishing a band beats price on application

Pricing transparency on machinery pages: publishing a band beats price on application

Price on application does not stop the price conversation. It just moves it to a competitor page that gives the buyer a number.

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Speed to lead in rural markets: why 24 hours is already too late

Speed to lead in rural markets: why 24 hours is already too late

A farmer who fills in your form at 6am is in a paddock with no signal by 8. Ring back tomorrow and you're the fourth call, not the first.

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Bidding strategies for low volume, high value machinery accounts

Bidding strategies for low volume, high value machinery accounts

Smart Bidding needs volume a machinery dealer will never have. Here is the bidding order I run instead, and when I finally switch.

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Retargeting farm equipment buyers: the campaigns most dealers miss

Retargeting farm equipment buyers: the campaigns most dealers miss

Most dealers run one retargeting ad to everyone who hit the website. That is why it does nothing.

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When to scale spend in agriculture marketing, and when to hold

When to scale spend in agriculture marketing, and when to hold

Most ag advertisers spend evenly all year and wonder why it never works. The season decides the budget, and the lag decides the verdict.

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CRM and pipeline visibility for agribusiness sales teams

CRM and pipeline visibility for agribusiness sales teams

Most agribusiness CRMs I open are a graveyard of half-filled records. Here is the setup that survives harvest.

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How to sell farm machinery on Facebook and Instagram without discount-chasers

How to sell farm machinery on Facebook and Instagram without discount-chasers

Cheap leads are easy. I would rather pay $90 for a bloke with a shed full of gear and a budget.

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Qualifying rural leads: separating buyers from tyre-kickers automatically

Qualifying rural leads: separating buyers from tyre-kickers automatically

Half the enquiries you get are never going to buy. The fix is not more leads, it is a system that sorts them before you pick up the phone.

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The rural sales follow-up sequence that closes more machinery quotes

The rural sales follow-up sequence that closes more machinery quotes

Most machinery quotes are not lost on price. They are lost because nobody rang back on day nine.

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Why machinery brands lose to competitors on speed, not price

Why machinery brands lose to competitors on speed, not price

Buyers do not compare your price to a rival's. They compare your answer to whoever answered first.

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Shopping campaigns for equipment dealers: feed setup that wins the click

Shopping campaigns for equipment dealers: feed setup that wins the click

Most dealer feeds are built by a plugin and never touched again. That is why your Shopping ads get scrolled past.

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Conversion tracking for agriculture: measuring sales, not just form fills

Conversion tracking for agriculture: measuring sales, not just form fills

A form fill is not a sale. Here is how I track ag and machinery leads all the way through to the invoice.

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The anatomy of a machinery landing page that actually books inspections

The anatomy of a machinery landing page that actually books inspections

Most machinery landing pages read like a brochure. Here is the structure I use to turn cold traffic into booked inspections.

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Building a lead magnet that agricultural buyers actually want

Building a lead magnet that agricultural buyers actually want

The generic ebook is dead. Here is what farmers and machinery buyers will actually trade their contact details for.

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Performance Max for agricultural machinery: settings that stop wasted spend

Performance Max for agricultural machinery: settings that stop wasted spend

The exact Performance Max settings that stop ag machinery budgets leaking on junk clicks and browsers.

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Agricultural machinery lead generation

How agricultural machinery dealers generate more sales-qualified leads online

The end-to-end playbook: from search demand to qualified enquiries your sales team can actually close.

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Farm equipment Google Ads

Google Ads for farm equipment and machinery: what actually works

The Search, Shopping and Performance Max settings that win high-intent rural buyers without burning budget.

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