The Toolkit for Small (But Mighty) Marketing Teams
It can be overwhelming to be a solo or small-team marketer targeting highly technical audiences.
In this toolkit, you’ll find resources on brand positioning and messaging, marketing strategy and planning, sales and marketing alignment, and content creation. Additionally, you’ll find productivity tips and tricks from marketers who were once sitting in your seat.
Survival Tips for the Solo Marketer
Being a solo marketer at a technical company can be lonely and challenging. Hear tips for gaining influence, working efficiently, and how to stay sane wearing all those hats. If you are a solo marketer, Julia Fellows has walked in your shoes. In her former role at a technical engineering company before joining TREW Marketing, Julia was responsible for all things marketing....all by herself.
Marketing Management
Content Development
Website Design & Management
Sales Enablement
How to Manage Marketing as a Solo Marketer
Being the only person responsible for an entire company’s marketing efforts can be intimidating, to say the least. You have to manage the brand, plan and generate content, support your sales team, and continue learning, all while sticking to a timeline! In this blog post, we’re sharing some of our best tips for solo marketers.

How to Create a Technical Brand Through Storytelling
Engineers are a unique group and respond differently to marketing than many other audiences do. They’re typically less trusting of marketing, so building credibility with engineers is crucial. Storytelling for Technical Brands is an on-demand webinar where TREW Marketing Senior Brand and Content Strategist Morgan Norris will teach you how to tell your brand narrative and build your audience’s trust by making them the hero of your story.

How to Start Content Planning
If you’ve never built a content marketing strategy, figuring out how you’re going to create enough content to fill a year might seem impossible. Download the Getting Started with Content Marketing: Year One guide to learn how to develop a content plan that meets your audience’s needs.

How to Write Content that Converts Technical Audiences
In this webinar, Morgan Norris, Senior Brand and Content Strategist at TREW, steps through the end-to-end process for writing content that’s at the crux of marketing campaigns, including blog posts, white papers and ebooks, case studies, news releases, infographics, interactive content, and corporate slide decks.

How to Work with Technical SMEs
Most marketers don’t have a technical background, so they have to rely on subject matter experts (SMEs). The relationship between marketers and SMEs can be difficult to navigate. In this blog, we’ve provided some tips for creating content with your SMEs to attract and inform engineers, and build trust in your brand.

Website Design and Management
Your website is always working, even when you’re not, showcasing your brand and the products and services you offer. More than 70% of a prospect's interactions with your brand happen before they talk to sales, and many of those interactions will be through your website.
Sales Enablement
Talented salespeople are highly valuable resources for your company, and you want to ensure that every hour they spend is applied in the most impactful way possible. A strong pipeline management strategy sets your sales people up to consistently sell more effectively, utilizing the most impactful content, processes, and tools.
How to Get Sales + Marketing to Work Together With Alignment Sessions
The ultimate goal for marketing is to get people to buy your product or service, right? Studies show that when working together, your company is 50% more likely to achieve or exceed sales quota. A key way to foster this teamwork is through thoughtfully planned working sessions with both teams. We’ve gathered our top 6 topics for sales + marketing alignment sessions to guide you through your alignment meetings and to ensure that you’re getting the most out of them.

Ongoing Marketing Education and Support
Marketing trends and best practices evolve. Staying current on these trends and best practices is important to the success of your marketing strategy. Below are some ways that you can stay up-to-date.
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Read Marketing Blogs
Smart Marketing: TREW Marketing’s blog focuses on tips, discussions, and insights on using the inbound marketing methodology to reach engineering and technical audiences.
HubSpot Marketing: HubSpot’s blog includes posts with news, ideas for content planning and marketing execution, and how to leverage new marketing tools and tactics.American Marketing Association (AMA): AMA is a professional organization that shares valuable insights on current and upcoming marketing trends.
Engineering360, Powered by GlobalSpec: Engineering360 can provide you with insights on trends within your audiences' industries.
Adobe Blog: Focused primarily on multimedia experiences, the Adobe blog shares news and tips for creating visually compelling content for your audiences.
MarketingProfs: One of the most comprehensive B2B marketing advice websites, MarketingProfs has newsletters, articles, and trainings for marketers.
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Listen to Marketing Podcasts
Content Marketing, Engineered, hosted by Wendy Covey: In this podcast, Covey sits down with a variety of marketing professionals to discuss industry trends, challenges, and best practices for marketing to engineers and technical audiences.
Marketing School with Neil Patel & Eric Siu: In this podcast, Patel and Siu provide a myriad of marketing tactics, tips, tools, and how-tos.
Manufacturing Happy Hour: In this podcast, Chris Luecke interviews makers, founders, and other manufacturing leaders about the latest trends and technologies impacting modern manufacturers.
The Marketing Book Podcast: In this podcast, Douglas Burdett interviews thought leaders about their new marketing and sales books.
LinkedIn Ads Show: In this podcast, AJ Wilcox provides news, how-tos, and actionable insights about the LinkedIn Ads platform.
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Read Marketing Books
Content Marketing, Engineered by Wendy Covey: This book is a comprehensive guide to creating marketing content for engineering audiences that will educate and inform, and build trust in your brand.
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek: This book can help you find the "why" of your business, inspire your team to become better brand ambassadors, and compel clients and customers to work with you.
Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Hadley: This book is a go-to guide to attracting and retaining customers through stellar online communication.
Inbound Marketing: Attract, Engage, and Delight Customers Online by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah: Created by the founders of HubSpot, this book serves as a comprehensive guide to increasing online visibility and engagement.
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffry Moore: This book provides advice on getting cutting-edge products past the vast chasm between the early adopters and the early majority.
Good to Great by Jim Collins: This book demonstrates how great companies triumph over time and maintain sustained performance.
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Sign Up for Classes
Content Writing, Engineered Training: This course combines on-demand lessons with live coaching to teach you how to write and promote compelling technical content that will attract and convert your audience.
HubSpot Academy: HubSpot Academy offers free courses that focus on so much more than their suite of software.
LinkedIn Learning: LinkedIn learning offers a wide range of professional development courses, including various marketing topics.
StackSkills: offers a variety of courses for professional development.
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Attend Marketing Conferences
INBOUND is an annual conference focused on the inbound marketing methodology. The conference, hosted by marketing, CMS, sales, customer service, and CRM software platform developer HubSpot, includes large presentations, debates, and in-depth breakout sessions lead by marketing professionals around the world.
Content Marketing World is an annual conference hosted by Content Marketing Institute that gives attendees the chance to take a deep dive into content marketing and to network with other content creators. It features a one-day Industrial Summit specifically for content marketers in technical industries.
10 Keys to Success as a Technical Marketing Manager
To be a successful technical marketing manager, you must understand how to apply marketing best practices in the context of a nuanced technical audience. These 10 keys – which focus on brand, positioning, website plans, content marketing strategy, and awareness and loyalty campaigns – will strengthen the skills and knowledge you need to be a successful marketing manager in a technical, B2B company.
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