If you are trying to capture conversation share of voice, make your life easy, and target your content marketing for the psychological moment. This is the moment at which something will or would have the greatest psychological effect. At the end of the day, it…
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When planning a career as a developer or a technical practitioner, the thought of being a writer rarely occurs as a potential future job or role. However, proficient technical practitioners who understand how to relay highly technical data effectively often find themselves becoming writers. Some…
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As Fixate continues to innovate in the area of influencer marketing by recruiting technical practitioners who create persuasive, authentic content marketing for technical markets, we find there are many aspects of this approach that are still undefined. Among them is the all-important question: What is…
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I have both a technical background and a marketing background, so I get that marketing for developers can seem like a chore. When I was working primarily in a scientific and engineering research environment, I did a lot of liberalarts-splaining where Drama majors told me…
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Marketing to nerds has its pros and cons. Pro: When they like you, they REALLY like you. Con: They believe marketing is the root of all evil. While they claim that marketing does not work on them, they are very sensitive about potentially being the…
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Who would advocate something as silly as nerd cursing in practitioner marketing? I humbly take that bow. Content marketing is not just messaging. Content marketing is a tool used to create a relationship with your customer. Practitioner marketing deploys content created by a practitioner, using…
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As the world adopts more AI, phrases like deep learning, machine learning, neural networks, and Big Data have started to become more common in general discourse. The efficacy and value of leveraging predictive algorithms to accomplish tasks across very large data sets and within complex…
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Titles are to blog posts what curb appeal is to a house. If you have a bad title, no one will read your content, no matter how good it is—just as no one is going to pay attention to your house (regardless of its interior…
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The details matter in content marketing. One of the peskier details that is difficult to get right is topic selection that can move the needle on your share of voice (SOV). When marketing to a technically savvy audience, this can become a particularly gnarly problem…
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I recently witnessed the following dialogue (true story): Queen of Marketing (QoM): “Mirror, mirror on the wall, is my metric the most beautiful metric of them all?” Mirror: “Alas, my queen, there may be one prettier still. But, beware, the metric you seek could be…
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