• 10
  • January

In conversation with… Harneet Singh

Harneet Singh heads the marketing department at Aterlo Networks, the builders of Preseem—a quality of experience monitoring and optimization tool for wireless ISPs. Harneet and I met a few years ago at a Communitech Peer-to-Peer session and I’ve kind’ve watched from afar as Aterlo sunset their first product (NightShift) and have now attained new heights thanks to excellent product-market fit and effective […]

  • 07
  • October

Building a Technical Marketing Library: Q&A with Richard McClurg, VP Marketing at Dejero

In the August edition of the Crommunity Round-Up, we wrote that Dejero had completed their technology marketing tripod—meaning that they now have technical marketing resources covering three foundational technologies (these three are part of a larger technical marketing library). We thought it might be helpful for marketers at start-ups and scale-ups to learn from Dejero’s experience, so we remotely caught up with […]

  • 19
  • September

Deep Divin’ into a Product Page

Has this ever happened to you? You want to learn about a particular product, so you go to the appropriate website and dutifully navigate to the product page (or, more likely, so you Googled the product name and went straight to the page). The page loads. And then you get some high-level fluff that doesn’t give you any of the information you […]

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, […]

  • 12
  • February

Announcing the Waterloo Region Technology Marketing Spotlight!

By combining a top-down study of publicly available company information with a bottom-up survey of technology marketers, we just might have conducted the most comprehensive study, ever, of the Waterloo Region tech scene. I’m excited to announce the release of The Waterloo Region Technology Marketing Spotlight: an examination of the Waterloo Region tech scene, with a particular focus on technology marketing. As I […]