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7 Tips for the One-Person Marketing Team

Before joining the TREW Crew, I spent three years working in-house as the one and only member of the marketing department. When you’re responsible for all the marketing tasks for a company, it can be overwhelming and daunting at times, so here are seven tips to make your job easier.

What I Learned Interning at TREW

My name is Clare Combs and I am about to begin my junior year at the University of Mississippi. I am an Integrated Marketing Communications major with a double minor in business and philosophy. Living in Oxford Mississippi is great, but it’s nothing compared to Austin. When I got my internship at TREW back home for the summer, I couldn’t have been more excited. I had been looking for a marketing internship where I would be a good fit, and TREW Marketing seemed like the perfect environment for me (Spoiler alert: it was better)!

New Marketing Equation from INBOUND 2019

Delight Your Customers + Remove Friction = Grow Better More than 26,000 attendees joined HubSpot at its annual marketing mecca, INBOUND 2019. If you didn’t make it to Boston and are curious about the latest and greatest HubSpot platform updates, no worries, we’ve got you covered. 

Grow Your Reach, Web Traffic, and Leads with Partner Co-Marketing

Do you want to grow your brand reach, drive more traffic to your website, and increase your leads? For most small-to-medium-sized businesses the answer to this question is wholeheartedly, “yes, please.” Partner co-marketing is often overlooked during the marketing planning process, a significant missed opportunity to extend your brand in an economical manner.

Trust Drives Results – Core Values of TREW Marketing (Part 1 of 2)

This is a 2-part series – this post focuses on the founding of TREW and the importance of building trust, and the 2nd post will follow with examples of companies who are committed to building trust and the outstanding results they've delivered.

2019 Trends in Industrial Marketing: Content, Inbound & ROI

IEEE GlobalSpec, a provider of data-driven industrial marketing solutions designed to help companies promote their products and grow their businesses, recently released its annual Trends in Industrial Marketing survey. The survey found that industrial marketers' most common challenges include:

Technical Marketing Writers: Why You Need One When You Already Have an SME

They are questions that arise often at the beginning of marketing planning. You’re in the middle of content calendar creation and ready to start marketing to engineers and assigning subject matter experts (SMEs) and writers to each task. You wonder aloud, “Why should we have a writer handle these content projects? Can’t our engineers write the content?”

5 Web Hero Headers that Capture Technical Buyers' Attention

Whether you’re meeting in-person at a trade show or a customer finds your company via Google search, first impressions are important. Companies were once judged based on their store fronts or conference rooms. Now, buyers are making judgments and gathering information about you based off of your website.

How to Message Meaningful Differentiators

You must know and define your brand if you expect others to follow it. For your brand message to stand out, it has to be distinct, defining you as different than your competitors. 

Branding 101: Make Your Customer’s Life Easier

Many companies will say they want to create a strong brand, but what they really want is strong brand recognition and high sales metrics. However, branding is more than getting people to remember what your logo looks like, and it isn’t a ploy to get people to spend more money on your brand. Instead, brand positioning and messaging is showing potential customers how you solve their biggest problems.