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Measuring Developer Marketing Campaigns – More Than Clicks

Sorting Through an Abundance of Data Digital marketing can create endless streams of data. These data streams can be analyzed in a variety of ways to determine if marketing or advertising campaigns are effective. And that’s really the holy grail of marketing — measuring results and effectiveness — especially when you are looking for a return on your investment (ROI). But [...]

By |March 22nd, 2023|Categories: Insights and Analytics, Marketing to Developers|

The Joy of Email Marketing

Is Email Still Relevant? Way back in 1971, an engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first email, unknowingly starting a communications revolution. Billions and billions of emails later, email is still an effective advertising channel for targeted audiences. As a best practice, you should periodically evaluate every marketing tactic in your bag for effectiveness and the value each brings to your [...]

By |March 15th, 2023|Categories: Marketing to Developers|

Brand Awareness and Developers

Who Cares? No one doubts the importance of a brand. Your brand is your company personified because it evokes a complex image from a simple name and equates it to a value. The brand image positions the brand in the public’s mind by the recall of reputation, quality, price, and value. Quality is principally the responsibility of the production arm of [...]

By |March 8th, 2023|Categories: Content Marketing, Marketing to Developers|

Four Considerations for Determining Advertising Frequency

Digital advertising presents the advertiser with a lot of options, particularly when developers are the target audience. In the work of creating developer-focused marketing campaigns, it can be easy to forget that the frequency tactics that are effective for a wider audience may not be as effective for developers. This brief article offers four advertising frequency considerations to keep in mind as [...]

By |February 17th, 2023|Categories: Audience segmentation, Marketing to Developers, Research|

Email Marketing is Still More Effective than Social Media in Reaching Developers

A Dynamic Situation There’s a battle out there for people’s attention, and your choice of weapons is largely determined by the preferences of your developer audience. The key element is your outbound strategy and whether you go social or email. The biggest difference between social and email marketing remains the ability to better target your audience — specifically, group targeting with [...]

By |February 8th, 2023|Categories: Marketing to Developers|

The Secret to a Successful Landing Page

Think ConversionsDespite the importance of landing pages, simple elements are often overlooked, including making sure everything on a landing page works correctly. Landing pages are an integral part of your marketing and advertising campaigns. Landing pages shouldn’t be do-it-yourself projects, but they should be test-it-yourself to make sure everything works as advertised.Any interaction with your brand should be frictionless for your audience. [...]

By |January 27th, 2023|Categories: Content Marketing, Marketing to Developers|

How to Use Developer Curiosity to Reduce Developer FUDA (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt and Anxiety)

The Stress of Decision-Making Research has determined that there are seven steps we typically go through in the decision-making process. First, we must recognize that a decision needs to be made. Then, we need to gather information, identify alternatives, evaluate possible outcomes, make a choice, implement that choice, and evaluate our decision. The amount of thought we put into the process [...]

By |December 14th, 2022|Categories: Content Marketing, Marketing to Developers|

Does the Marketing Funnel Apply to Developers?

The Reason It’s Called a Funnel The Attention – Interest – Desire – Action (AIDA) funnel is a guide to purchasing behavior, just like the buyer’s journey. The AIDA funnel encapsulates a process; its steps are adjustable filters designed to qualify and nurture prospects along their buying journey. By customizing the 4 filters in the funnel, you can achieve your campaign [...]

By |November 30th, 2022|Categories: Content Marketing, Marketing to Developers|

Influencing the Developer

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions… Decisions can make or break a career, depending on the costs and possible outcomes, but risks are mitigated for developers if the responsibility for a decision is spread amongst the project team. And while the team leader is fundamentally the decision-maker, they will generally gather input from all team members, and may involve stakeholders outside the development team [...]

By |November 16th, 2022|Categories: Marketing to Developers|

To B2D or Not to B2D: The Nobility of Marketing to Developers

Introduction Let us consider for a moment the software developer. Many people use the terms software engineer and software developer interchangeably, but there is a distinction. Software engineers design software solutions, while software developers build those solutions to ready them for consumers. Designing and building are how things get done — for everything from houses, to cars, to reactors, to spaceships. [...]

By |October 27th, 2022|Categories: Marketing to Developers|

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