Introduction What makes a landing page developer-worthy? If you are struggling with getting developers there, parsing your messaging for your advertising, and trying to come up with a clever catchphrase to get a click, you might be focusing on the wrong part of the bait. It’s likely that what your landing page is offering simply isn’t what developers want. Begin with the end in mind Are you seeking to convert developers to leads? Or do you need them to try your product so they can make a recommendation to the decision-maker in their company? Perhaps you are looking for [...]

Content marketing may be king, but it sure doesn’t feel good to be the king, particularly when you are asked to justify the performance of your blog. Any marketing team can struggle with keeping their blog traffic high and the market-qualified leads flowing, but it is an inestimable challenge when that blog is for the modern developer. Challenges Perhaps the most daunting part of creating a relevant, compelling blog that satisfies the modern developer or modern IT audience is that it must be technical. On the surface, this seems easy to solve—after all, you are responsible for marketing a [...]

Whether you are speaking to the modern developer, modern IT, or the DevOps engineer, public documentation may be the first content they consume. As the first face of your product or company a developer prospect sees, it needs to be a good one. That’s why your public documentation deserves to be part of your content marketing strategy. It also deserves to be written by a practitioner from outside your company. Public Documentation is Practitioner Content Marketing Undoubtedly you have documentation already written by your product team. However, it was probably written for another member of the product team. They already [...]

When we interviewed developers, several indicated they would only click on product advertising if they recognized the brand. So before you launch your product marketing ad campaign that invites them to click through to a trial or an API, it’s best that they recognize your brand. That’s why it’s so important to put brand awareness first. One-Two Punch Content and promotion. Give developers content they want to consume and share, and also promote it. The most effective way to become known to developers is to help them learn something. Sonko, as he’s known to his friends, will click on [...]