HabitStack Podcast
Join us for honest, informal conversations with startup and agency founders who are deep in the trenches, actively growing their businesses.
Instead of glorified success stories, we share authentic experiences about the ongoing battles, everyday wins, and relatable struggles.
Perfect for entrepreneurs navigating the challenging middle stage of growth, this podcast offers real insights and genuine advice from peers who are right there with you.
HabitStack Podcast
From Event Coordinator to Agency CEO: Wendy Covey's Journey Building TREW Marketing
In this episode of the HabitStack Podcast, host Scott Ward interviews Wendy Covey, CEO and co-founder of TREW Marketing, author of Content Marketing Engineered, and podcast host. Wendy shares how TREW Marketing pivoted during the 2008 financial crisis from serving diverse clients to specializing exclusively in marketing to engineers, leveraging her 15 years at National Instruments to create an advantage in a crowded market. The conversation explores how AI is transforming their technical content development through research augmentation and persona testing rather than replacing writers. They discuss Wendy's philosophy of controlled growth at 15-30% annually to maintain work-life balance and team retention, her mistake of creating a separate brand for educational content that caused confusion and inefficiency, and the lessons from over-hiring based on optimistic revenue projections. Wendy explains how their annual State of Marketing to Engineers research report became a credibility-building engine that informs strategy and generates endless repurposed content. They dive into implementing EOS-light with L10 meetings and rocks, the importance of assigning accountability to avoid unforced errors.