TTO Use of Social Media: A Sneak-Preview of Our Survey Results

TTO Use of Social Media: A Sneak-Preview of Our Survey Results

If you have been following Fuentek on Twitter or looked at our newly designed Web site recently, you know that we’re currently conducting a survey on the use of social media tools by technology transfer offices (TTOs). Have you taken it yet? If not, there’s still...
How and When to Shut Down Technology Marketing Efforts

How and When to Shut Down Technology Marketing Efforts

Making the call to shut down a marketing effort isn’t easy. Even if you’ve done everything you were supposed to do in the ramp-up to marketing, sometimes you don’t getting any traction with prospects. How do you make the tough call to cancel the effort and move on? This post gives three examples of real marketing campaigns where Fuentek advised clients to close down the marketing effort.
Tailor Your Marketing Pitch through Effective Listening

Tailor Your Marketing Pitch through Effective Listening

Any good sales person knows that a one-size-fits-all approach to sales presentations never works. The same is true for marketing presentations for intellectual property. To be most effective, the technology manager must help inventors tailor their presentations to match the needs of the licensing prospect. How do you figure this out? Through effective listening.