read what our customers say
Since forming our business in 2006 our service has grown three fold. Now leading the UK market in online marketing within the engineering sector MTD continues to deliver results on a daily basis.
Our product delivers the following - high volumes of traffic to websites, enquiries as a direct result of listing machinery on the website and most importantly sales valuing 10's of thousands of pounds as a collective result of the machine tool direct service.
We regularly update our testimonials section in order to show potential new customers how rewarding our service can be.
Over the past three years MTD has been responsible for sales of machine tools and accessories valuing over ten million pounds - and these are only the ones we know about!
Below is just some of the feedback from our customers throughout the UK in 2009 and 2010 alone
August 2010
A really unique tool delivering results..
We have been working with MTD for three years now, starting back in 2007 when their business was significantly smaller than it is now. We see products like this as the future for marketing and we especially like the way with MTD we can monitor what benefit we get, this makes it easier then to justify further spend in the future. Unfortunatly most other forms of marketing don't offer the tangible evidence that MTD does - good work keep it up.
Tim Whitehouse MD - Whitehouse Machine Tools
July 2010
The most successful emarketing we've tried in this market...
We have tried many forms of marketing over the years and still believe you need to practice as many differing aspects as you can including magazine, direct mail and email. We have also used various businesses in our plight to promote our stock and to date always been successful, however this is on a different scale, we generated over 30 enquiries for new products on one email campaign, MTD are a real wizz at this, their design/send system is great equally is their up to date database. Thanks.
Mike Jenness - MD
July 2010
Another year? Yes please....
XYZ Machine Tools have just agreed another years internet marketing with MTD. The Machine Tool specialist based in Devon will look to MTD to continue to generate enquiries for their lathes, machining centres and turret mills throughout the course of the year.
'Over the next twelve months we have some new and exciting features being launched on our range of machine tools, MTD is a great platform for the promotion of these. Last year we had some great results from Machinetooldirect and now firmly see the internet as a major part of our marketing' commented Nigel Atherton MD.
June 2010
MTD Database delivers great results
Nick Frampton, Mills’ Managing Director chose to send the latest Mills e-broadcast via the MTD emarketing service. With the dual aim of reaching a new, wider audience of precision engineers and generating awareness and promoting Doosan machine tools currently in stock at Mills. Now delivered, Mills have begun to see the benefits of using the MTD database. “This exercise really worked for us, we wanted to broaden the net by using MTD’s emarketing service, this has certainly been the case, their data provided us with a great campaign"
Nick Frampton - MD / Mills CNC Ltd
May 2010
Already having an impact..
We subscribed to the Machine Tool Direct website just over a month ago. We have been extremely impressed with the proactive nature of their online marketing, consequently we've already had customers call and email us requesting more information about machines advertised. We really are looking forward to the year ahead working with MTD.
Alan Birch - Sales Director
Victor Europe Ltd
April 2010
Another Machine SOLD
XYZ sold a CNC turret mill thanks to MTD, the customer saw the ex demonstartion CNC mill, rang XYZ, visited the showroom and subsequently bought the machine. 'Electronic forms of marketing are really powerfull and changing the face of this industry' remark Jason Sanders.
Jason Sanders - XYZ
March 2010
80K Machine SOLD - Lead from MTD
As a great fan of MTD its no suprise to us that we sold another machine last week generated from a lead via the MTD website. The MTD internet marketing service is really refreshing, we can monitor the results which makes it easy for us to see the return on our investment.
Nick Remington - Managing Director
March 2010
It works for us - a complete marketing service
We have been working with MTD for several years now, their internet marketing is very proactive and certainly a lot different to any other service available in our market. We use the MTD website with all the options including the emarketing suite to drive traffic and enquiries to our business and it delivers results, we get enquiries most days of the week. Keep up the good work.
Eric Dugard - Managing Director
February 2010
Great service that we can monitor the results from
Mills CNC have been a user of the MTD internet marketing product for 3 years now, year on year they have increased their subscription to include more features after finding the service of great value, in particular the 'enquiry wall' is very effective - remarks Nick. 'We can also measure directly what the MTD website delivers by viewing our statistics and enquries which come directly through the website and its very impressive - great product!'
Nick Frampton - Mills CNC
January 2010
Machine Sold after receiving email newsletter
In January XYZ used our emarketing service to promote in stock used and ex demo machines, the email was broadcast to a wide audience and generated lots of enquiries and over 1000 referrals to the XYZ website. One company who received the email turned up at the XYZ showroom and bought one of the offers - Good News!
Jason Sanders - XYZ Machine Tools
December 2009
Really great way of marketing, with results.
We have used MTD for several years, realising that the Machine Tool industry was evolving we needed to gain good online presence as well as attention through the magazines. MTD provide an internet marketing service thats ideal when looking to achieve this, we promote our stock and our special offers on the website and use the emarketing service to promote both our news and special offers. Great product!
Dave Waghorn (MD) - Hurco Europe
October 2009
Email campaign generates over a dozen new machine enquiries
During October MTD designed and delivered an email marketing campaign personalised for us. It hit there database in one day, the response was great we had lots of new machine enquiries. Roll on the next one.
Simon Rood - Hardinge Machine Tools
September 2009
used machine sold from private seller
I use the MTD website regulary to keep tabs on news and what deals are available on new machines, when I wanted to buy a new machine I had to shift a Hurco VMC, I listed it on MTD and sold it within two weeks - Best and only website in this industry worth using.
Robin Ashby - Ashby Engineering
August 2009
Microloc Kit sold in under an hour
We had a phonecall from a company, they asked if we still had the stock Microloc kit listed in the special offers section on MTD. Upon confirming its availability we agreed a price, the customer then placed an order. This was a brand new customer to us. This provided an instance return on our years investment.
Mike Jenness - Microloc
July 2009
Datron Technology 65K VMC sold!
We recently listed one of our vertical machining centres on MTD, got a call from a potential new customer - he said he saw the machine offer on MTD, he then came and viewed the machine and consequently purchased it. Great stuff
Colin Chinn - Datron Technology
July 2009
Really great service!
I contacted MTD in July last year as I thought, um, this looks interesting. We subscribed to the gold package - the response in terms of enquiries was great, lots of engineers use MTD, they really do. The email campaigns are great. This is a hugely cost effective route to market.
Matt Chedgey - Haas Automation
June 2009
SEO work from MTD has a great impact
We were after great search engine positioning on google, we were struggling ourselves. We approached MTD and within 4 mths we were 2nd in google for 'wire erosion machines' these guys are great, first class response for all our requests.
June 2009
Huge referral rate from MTD website
We have been an MTD partner for 10 months, recently we started to monitor our referral rate every month. MTD is by far the biggest referrer to our website of any directory or machine tool site. In Dec 2008 it provided 10 times more traffic than any other web based product we subscribe to.
Bob Horton - Dugard Machine Tools
May 2009
We found our new cnc mill using MTD
We were looking for a new cnc milling machine, came across MTD, searched for a new vertical with Heidenhahn control, saw the YCM. Was a great find, bought the machine!!
Sabre Defence - Guy Savage
April 2009
Vertical lathe SOLD thanks to MTD
Had a vertical lathe in stock, new machine, MTD listed in the ex demo area, customer called, viewed the machine, sold the machine. Over 200K in value. Thanks MTD.
Nick Frampton - Mills CNC