Crommunity Round-Up: Exploring the marketing activities ofKitchener-Waterloo's technology companies
  • 01
  • July

Crommunity Round-Up: June 2021

Wow, OK, things really got out of hand in June: product launches, new websites, terrific content…KW’s companies were busy! Need to catch up? Check out past Round-Ups — — — ISARA simplifies cryptographic management ISARA unveiled their Advance® Crypto Agility Suite, a cryptographic management platform that reveals blind spots, surfaces actions, and equips enterprises to act. While ISARA is known as a […]

  • 05
  • January

10 timeless techniques to make your marketing do more

Marketing—especially in the competitive world of B2B tech—is tough. It’s all too easy to get caught up in day-to-day noise, to repeat patterns that are proven to be ineffective, and to look for quick fixes (the addictive Ts: tips, tricks, and technologies). But it’s much more effective (and honestly not as difficult as you might fear) to instead adopt different ways of […]

  • 23
  • July

ISARA grows awareness and demand with educational content

Many pixels have been lit up on this blog examining how B2B companies can overcome knowledge gaps when selling highly technical or very specific solutions—well, add to the list this post about creating educational content. ISARA is a Waterloo-based company that tends to fly under the radar on the local tech scene, likely because the problems they solve don’t arise in everyday […]

Follow these simple marketing hacks and your numbers can go down just like this neon arrow!
  • 29
  • June

5 fun and simple marketing hacks to decrease your effectiveness

Marketing hacks are not like gold: they’re everywhere and largely worthless. Just now I did a Google search for “marketing hacks” and got 69 million results. Just a few weeks ago I read this list of 20 growth marketing hacks and was gobsmacked by such gems as “define your ideal customer” and “go where your customers are” (I mean, it does kinda […]

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.

  • 13
  • February

Waterloo Region Technology Marketing Spotlight

Welcome! And thanks for taking an interest in this project! I hope you learn as much from reading this report as I did preparing it. As I said at the outset, my aim is to produce a report that provides us all—the technology marketers and company leaders of the Waterloo Region, and perhaps beyond—with common understanding of shared issues, priorities, challenges, concerns, […]