When you are shopping vendors, knowing their competition is helpful — Maybe not in the large company procurement sort of way, but in understanding the ecosystem and the nuances between offerings. This is especially true when investigating an agency, where the advantages can be highly…
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All your marketing creativity has to be harnessed for one thing—revenue. In saturated markets, that’s not easy. You have to build a relationship with the market with practices like practitioner marketing. It takes a lot of effort, and it can be hard to connect that…
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On a recent trip to meet my co-workers in Israel, software developers who I had known for 6 months at this point, one of them hit me with a funny surprise. Right after we met in person, and said our first “hello’s”, he said to…
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Joining the startup community is exciting. Even more exciting is being able to execute in such a knee-jerk environment. Technical startups are often founded by technical people—People who don’t have a lot of marketing experience, but they know they need it. And when pressured by…
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Medium, a popular platform/social network for blogging, found a natural spot in the hearts of application developers. It’s easy to use, does a great job of putting relevant content in front of people, and has that “I’m a techie” vibe. A problem is that companies…
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Introduction Trying to advertise to developers is a lot like dating. You want to get into a relationship with them — a customer relationship. Maybe you are responsible for developer marketing or developer relations, and you want to pursue a deep developer relationship for your…
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When you get right down to it, deals are made when you have the right contact information from the right person who has a budget and a need. All this stuff we do in marketing to build credibility, awareness and brand needs to boil down…
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Introduction Developer relations (DevRel), once waning, is back in vogue, and often in surprising companies. As companies try to compete in a digital world, even those selling in-person services find that they need a software application ecosystem in order to create a customer experience that…
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They are everywhere—platforms and blog mills that offer content as a commodity. Content to feed the content marketing blog beast. It’s cheap, it’s convenient, and it’s a costly mistake. The nature of a commodity is that it is undifferentiated from what is produced by another…
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Every healthy business needs to build a press kit—especially technology businesses that deal with jargon-laden terms and complicated subjects. What is a press kit? A press kit is a packet of information presented physically or digitally that gives an overview of your company, access to…
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