It’s far more expensive for your company to have SMEs jumping on calls, to suffer from stalled sales cycles, to be ignored in the marketplace, or to overspend on digital than it is to invest in scalable, shareable technical marketing content.
“Canadians in general need to feel like they can be successful at scale. I think we need to have some courage. We also need to recognize our value, and that I think is where sustainable scale will come from.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to Kitchener wasn’t the only big thing happening in Waterloo Region on Tuesday; as most people were heading […]
“Something as complex as a whitepaper or a technical showcase marketing document might take you 20 hours to produce. And people are like, ‘I don’t have 20 hours right now, everyone’s really busy.’ Over the next quarter, your CTO might be on 50 hours’ worth of calls…it’s a no-brainer in terms of an asymmetric investment in your business: it helps everything scale.” […]
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, […]
While the region’s companies scale pretty much as expected up to a point – about 100 to 150 employees – they appear to run into a real problem crossing particular thresholds: at roughly the 200-, 250-, 500-, and 1000-employee marks. In preparing the Waterloo Region Technology Marketing Spotlight, I gathered a great deal of data. In crunching that data, I’ve come to suspect that Waterloo […]