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Multi-Channel Campaign Integration: Breaking Down Silos for B2B Food and Nutrition Success

📅 3 November 2025  |  ⏱️ 4 minute read

We’ve seen it happen: marketing teams running brilliant campaigns, sales chasing their own goals, and content scattered across platforms without a clear thread to tie it together. But these silos don’t just slow you down, they dilute your message. In a fast-moving digital-first B2B world, buyers don’t move in a straight line but across touchpoints. One moment they’re reading an article or industry report; the next, they’re clicking through a LinkedIn carousel post or engaging with an email. And let’s not forget the direct engagement or trade shows attended.

Yet, many food and nutrition marketing and sales teams still operate in silos with disjointed messaging and disconnected data. The outcome is missed opportunities, duplicated efforts, and an inconsistent brand experience that weakens impact. In comparison, unified messaging and integrated multi-channel campaigns build familiarity, trust, and momentum.

In this blog post, we’ll explore how breaking down channel silos can transform your marketing, what goes into a truly integrated campaign, and how you can create seamless experiences across every touchpoint from web and email to social. Let’s dive in.

Who are we? An Informa Markets brand, Smartcore is your best-in-class B2B food and nutrition digital marketing solutions partner and the official digital marketing provider for exhibitors at Vitafoods Europe and Fi Europe. We help ingredient suppliers boost visibility and reach their buyers, nurture them across their buying journey, and drive business growth. Our invaluable first-party data of 409,000+ buyers, data-driven insights, and specialised digital content channels and solutions set us apart from the rest. Download Smartcore's 2025 Digital Media Kit.

Benefits of Multi-Channel Integration in B2B Food and Nutrition

Multi-channel integration is more than running ads or emails in parallel. With a customer’s buying journey rarely being direct – they might come across you today, visit your website weeks later, and only respond to your outreach months down the line – multi-channel integration builds a narrative that connects every touchpoint from awareness to nurturing and beyond. 

When teams share a common data foundation and channel strategy, they can: 

  • Improve customer journey mapping – When data from different platforms comes together, you gain a complete view of your audience. This helps identify which touchpoints drive engagement and where you might be losing momentum. 

  • Maintain consistent cross-touchpoint messaging – A cohesive narrative across web, email, and social media builds brand recognition and credibility. When your audience hears the same message reinforced across channels, it creates clarity not confusion. 

  • Measure overall performance – Integrated campaigns let you measure the bigger picture. Rather than tracking channel performance in isolation, you can evaluate how each piece contributes to conversions, brand lift, and ROI. 

Core Components of an Integrated Multi-Channel Campaign

A truly integrated campaign is powered by shared data, insights, and goals, where every channel needs to operate as part of one ecosystem. The core components include:

  1. Centralised data hub: Your customer relationship management (CRM) or customer data platform (CDP) acts as the backbone of integration, uniting insights from every touchpoint. It helps marketing and sales work from a single, up-to-date view of the customer.

  2. Coordinated content calendars: Planning your content across platforms ensures timing, tone, and creative elements complement each other. Whether it’s a social teaser, email follow-up, or blog post, each piece should reinforce the campaign’s story. 

  3. Unified KPIs and dashboards: When teams track the same metrics, they move towards the same outcomes. Integrated dashboards bring visibility to every stakeholder, encouraging accountability and continuous optimisation. 

This connected foundation is what turns campaign activity into unified digital storytelling—where every impression, click, or view works towards one measurable outcome.

Best Practices for Breaking Down Silos in B2B Food and Nutrition

Breaking down silos requires both tools and teamwork. Here’s how you can make it happen: 

  1. Cross-team collaboration: Create shared goals across marketing, sales, and customer success teams. Regular check-ins and planning sessions ensure everyone works towards a combined strategy rather than isolated wins. 
  2. A single source of truth: Consolidate customer data from multiple systems into one accessible platform. This eliminates duplication, ensures accuracy, and empowers your teams with real-time insights. 
  3. Automated workflows: Automation bridges the gap between systems and speeds up response times. Use it to connect your campaigns, trigger email sequences, or alert sales when a prospect engages.

Partner With Us

Multi-channel integration is more than just connecting platforms and content. By breaking down silos and aligning your campaigns, you can strengthen engagement, streamline your operations, and get more returns from every investment. 

At Smartcore, we help B2B food and nutrition brands achieve this through integrated data-driven strategies and smarter multi-channel solutions, designed for every stage of the digital marketing and sales funnel. Find the perfect fit for your business needs from our range of packages and standalone digital products here.

Discover interviews with satisfied clients, including Zooca®, Uelzena Ingredients, and IMCD Food & Nutrition, and see how our multi-channel campaign integration has helped them drive brand awareness, lead generation, and thought leadership success in the industry. Get in touch today to learn how we can help you.   

Written by Serena Botelho

Serena is a digital marketing enthusiast with a passion for storytelling that empowers businesses to elevate their successes. Determined to inspire audiences, she enjoys collaborating with expert marketing teams to produce insightful content tailored to B2B audiences. In her free time, Serena loves cooking, creating content, and playing music.