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Making the Case for Cleantech

Strategic content to spur sales meetings, highlight thought leadership, and promote policy positions

Marketing Communications for B2B Cleantech Sales

Cleantech Adoption prepares Executive Briefs and Strategy Webinars to help cleantech and clean energy companies influence prospective customer decisions. How? With research, analysis, and more than 45-years of energy experience, I bolster the written content that makes the case for a buying decision, a permitting decision, or a policy position.

  • Executive Briefs

    Executive Briefs generate sales leads and position your firm as a thought-leader

    Marketing communications create sales opportunities. How? They tell a convincing story that identifies and solves executives’ critical business problems with valuable information.

    The writing should:

    • Capture executive attention in a few seconds;

    • Provide industry-specific guidance, insight, and knowledge for buyers’ decisions;

    • Avoid bland statements that AI or recent MBA graduates could write; and

    • State the argument for action.

    In addition, the text should be:

    • Scanable for busy executives;

    • Compelling, concise, and crisp to keep the reader’s attention; and

    • Specific to the clean energy industry’s regulations, policies, and technologies.

  • Advisory Services

    Strategy Webinars elevate your employees' communications to reach decision-makers

    Strategy Webinars will keep your employees updated on industry trends to effectively communicate with customers, communities, and policymakers.

    Strategic content creates executive meetings for salespeople, not just purchasing agents. Why? Executives worry about meeting business goals given industry trends and uncertainties. Therefore, salespeople must address these strategic concerns to sell at higher corporate levels.

    Purchasing agents are not the target audience because they focus on commoditizing suppliers. Their first question is, “What’s your price?”, not how does your solution solve emerging business threats and opportunities.

    Strategy webinars, tailored to a company’s products or projects, help employees speak confidently about the technology, policy, and regulatory trends affecting their customers..

Sample Client Projects

  • Investment bank evaluations of solar PV projects

    Investment Bank

    For an investment fund, I provided ongoing due diligence, analysis, and research of utility-scale solar PV investments. The project portfolio investment sizes were up to 1,000 MW. Connected the in-house team to attorneys and other service professionals.

  • Close-up view of solar panels outdoors with trees and a cloudy sky in the background.

    Corporate Real Estate

    I provided market and regulatory risk assessments for siting solar PV projects, some with battery systems, at various corporate sites across the US. The project sizes ranged from 5 MW to 200 MW. Reviewed project contracts and financials.

  • Executive advice to help a cleantech company enter the US market,

    Early-Stage Company

    I advised the CEO and Board of Directors of a start-up solar water heating technology company to sell their products in the U.S. The client was located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

  • Presentation to get approval for a set of electric vehicle chargers in a condominium garage in Boston.

    EV Chargers

    I helped obtain funding and arrange the installation of six EV chargers at Flagship Wharf Condominiums in Boston. Eversource (the electric utility) and the MA DEP provided funds.

  • Consultation with the Netherlands' cleantech companies.

    Netherlands Firms

    I met with the CEOs of two cleantech companies, Physee and IBIS Power, to review their market entrance plans for the US. I connected them to potential US customers and funders.

  • White paper on cybersecurity and utilities.

    White Papers

    For Tendo Communications, I wrote Executive Boardroom newsletters to help prospective utility customers learn how Sun’s Internet technology can solve critical business problems.

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