Gracone is the only resource on the internet where you can learn about PDH Marketing – a soft-sell marketing strategy whereby you educate engineers on a topic related to your product and issue them PDH credits. Everything you need to know to start and operate your own PDH Marketing program is clearly spelled out here at Gracone.com.

Additionally, Gracone provides consulting and lead generation services to help industrial manufacturers develop and execute their PDH Marketing strategy. With 18 years experience in the PDH continuing education space, we know how to build a successful PDH program to reach engineers.

Gracone was founded by Edward (Eddie) Brunet, Jr., P.E., an innovator in the engineering continuing education industry. Eddie began his professional career in the 1990s working as an engineer on multi-billion-dollar oil & gas projects. While working on a project in South Korea, Eddie struggled to find ways to earn the PDH credits he needed to renew his PE license. So, in 2003, he founded one of the first companies to provide online PDH courses and webinars for professional engineers.

In 2016, Eddie acquired two competitors that provided courses-by-mail and live seminars, respectively, for engineers to earn PDH credit. All told, Eddie’s family of continuing education companies has awarded nearly 700,000 hours of PDH credit to professional engineers.

Shortly after acquiring the seminar company, Eddie began approaching industrial manufacturers to speak at the seminars. At a seminar in St. Louis, he observed a back-of-the-room discussion between a speaker and an attendee that resulted in a $250,000 purchase order for a heat exchanger. After witnessing the positive interactions between the speakers and attendees in cities throughout the country, Eddie realized that he needed to start Gracone so that he could help more industrial manufacturers connect with the engineers who are searching for their products.

Gracone is a repository of the knowledge Eddie has collected through his years of experience working with industrial manufacturers and engineers. This information is offered freely to help industrial manufacturers develop their own PDH marketing program.

Gracone also provides services to industrial manufacturers who wish to outsource elements of their PDH marketing program, including PDH program certification, online course hosting and content development. Additionally, Gracone provides lead generation services to industrial manufacturers – drawing from our database of more than 20,000 professional engineers to connect industrial manufacturers with engineers using free lunchtime webinars.

Edward (Eddie) Brunet, Jr., P.E.

Founder, Managing Director

Gracone