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Client Success Stories

FastSpring – Sell More Compete Big

Challenge: FastSpring, an e-commerce platform for software companies, was having a challenging time positioning itself and its value in the marketplace. While many companies offer point solutions that software companies can piecemeal together, FastSpring’s real value...

ForgeRock – Access the Future

Challenge: ForgeRock is a leader in the Identity and Access Management space. Having been founded in 2010, ForgeRock has broad platform capabilities and an amazing global customer base. ForgeRock's platform provides solutions across both employee, customer and IOT...

DeepFactor – Launching Into A Developer Blind Spot

Challenge: DeepFactor was founded by two industry veterans who deeply understood some of the challenges across security, performance, and compliance that face today's software development teams. Having built an initial product, DeepFactor needed to translate the...

FireEye – Modern Malware Exposed

Challenge: Ken engaged with FireEye in late 2009. At the time, they had revenues in the low millions of dollars, primarily in the .EDU market. FireEye came to Ken to help them better explain their value to buyers who could not fit them into a current category in the...

Jumio – Trusted Identity as a Service

Challenge: Ken engaged with Jumio in late 2016. Jumio, a provider of real-world identification technology and services, had a differentiated offering, but was challenged in communicating why this mattered to prospective customers. They too often found themselves...

Some Thoughts on B2B Marketing Part 3, March 29, 2020 : Getting in Tune

Hello again from my home office. A few days ago we had a hailstorm here in Menlo Park. I figure we have now added hail to pestilence in the list of 2020 plagues. Hopefully we wont be seeing any frogs, boils or bloody rivers anytime soon, but I guess at this point I...

Some Thoughts on B2B Marketing Part 2, March 22, 2020 : Tone, Channel and Content

Hello from my home office. We've all had a once in a lifetime few weeks, and the future remains uncertain, kinda scary, and unprecedented. I managed to get a social distanced walk in with my friend Neil yesterday, and it was nice to have the interaction and the fresh...

Some Thoughts on B2B Marketing on March 17, 2020

I want to start this ENTIRE post with two caveats. First my motivation is to share ideas not to sell anyone anything. In this upside down time, I want to share for two reasons; first to see if I can help folks with ideas and thoughts and second because writing is how...

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Marketing InSecurity Podcast

Episode 17: Marketing in the Time of COVID, Part 3: Assessing a Changing Future

On this episode of The Marketing InSecurity Podcast, Ken talks with Atri Chattejee of Forge Rock about how they helped their customers navigate the changes brought on by COVID19.