• 01
  • September

Hey, it’s our birthday!

One year ago today, on September 1st 2018, Cromulent Marketing officially launched. It’s been a terrific and fun year, and I just want to say thanks: To the friends who’ve had our back since even before day one To the people who referred us into new opportunities To the companies who’ve put their trust in us To the podcast guests and blog […]

  • 27
  • August

Testing a Market Hypothesis: Q&A with Miovision’s Matt Trushinski

Recently, we helped our friends at Miovision with a bit of an exploratory project. They wanted to test a market hypothesis about a specific use case for their smart traffic solutions. Testing a market hypothesis—as opposed to investing in projects regarded as ‘sure things’ or making only incremental adjustments to existing activities—is a rarity these days. Just because we thought it was […]

Cover of "Dejero Smart Blending Technology" paper, which helps achieve technical differentiation by relating features of Dejero's solution to real-world technical challenges
  • 22
  • August

How Dejero uses content to create technical differentiation

Does this sound familiar? You know—I mean really, truly know—that your solution is uniquely capable of solving some really thorny market problems. Unfortunately, “the market” sees all solutions as being basically the same. That is, there’s no technical differentiation. You just know that if you could show your technical differentiation and—crucially—why that differentiation matters, then you’d be able to win more deals, […]

Condenser mic plus Dan Deeth with a Velociraptor bearing down on him
  • 05
  • July

Talking Data-Driven Thought Leadership with Dan Deeth (Crommunity Podcast)

Seasoned corporate communications pro (and Senior Manager, Corporate Communications at eSentire) Dan Deeth shares his knowledge of public relations, media and analyst relations, and data-driven thought leadership.

Title slide: "Selling Technical Solutions in a World that Doesn't Understand—a Brooks/Trushinski Joint"
  • 27
  • June

Selling Technical Solutions in a World that Doesn’t Understand

Technical marketing is hard.

Just having a great solution—even the best solution—isn’t sufficient. And the news gets worse: it’s hard for many reasons, so there’s no quick fix.

But the good news is that there are proven strategies that can increase your chances of success.

This post explains some of those strategies.

  • 24
  • May

For RouteThis, new messaging was just the beginning

With a proven track record of delivering results for smart home brands, small- and mid-market ISPs, and innovative large ISPs, RouteThis had already shown that they can improve the customer support experience for everyone. So why did they reach out to Cromulent for assistance with messaging? Graduating into a new world As the world’s leading ISPs showed interest, RouteThis’ leaders understood that […]

  • 14
  • May

Crommunity Podcast | Episode 2019-04 | Jacqui Murphy (Part 2)

“Really thinking about the mental health of the people on your team, and what might be going on in their lives outside work, I think is something that is super important that we don’t necessarily talk enough about.” Jacqui Murphy A few months ago, I sat down with Jacqui Murphy, Chief Marketing Officer at Auvik Networks. We had a terrific conversation, covering […]

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