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Dev Marketing 101: Online Display Advertising

Since their online infancy in the 1990s, display advertisements have grown up to become one of the most prevalent vehicles for digital and online marketing. While this best practices guide will focus on traditional “banner” ads, digital display advertising has evolved from simple static images to also include new forms like video, interactive, rich media ads and more. There’s no sure-fire formula for guaranteed success with display advertising. And you certainly won’t see click-through rates (CTRs) of 44% like the very first banner ad achieved back in 1994 (a CTR of 0.1% is about average now), but if you [...]

Dev Marketing 101: Online Display Advertising2023-03-06T10:11:47-05:00

Developers Question Everything

When given a task do you carry through without hesitation or do you first question whether the task is even worth doing? Or maybe you’re the type that tends to just disregard and ignore any expectations set by others from the get-go? When you set a goal for yourself do you follow through and accomplish what you set out to do? Or are you the owner of an ever-growing list of unfulfilled New Year’s resolutions? In short, how do you deal with expectations? To answer this question, best-selling author Gretchen Rubin developed a framework to examine how we tend [...]

Developers Question Everything2023-03-06T10:11:46-05:00

Dev Marketing 101: Lead Generation

Generating new business leads is one of the most fundamental duties of any marketing professional. Doing it effectively and consistently, however, can be challenging; especially when dealing with an audience as discerning as software developers. At Developer Media, we’ve helped companies of all sizes grow their developer fanbase and convert prospects into new customers with a no-nonsense approach to lead generation. We know there are still many organizations that could be doing a better job at generating developer leads, so we’ve gathered up some the best practices we’ve collected over the years and provided them here in this guide [...]

Dev Marketing 101: Lead Generation2023-03-06T10:11:45-05:00

Dev Marketing 101: Email Marketing

We know how busy marketers are these days, being pulled in many directions and continually being tasked with researching and testing the newest bright shiny objects in digital marketing. Given how much they have on their plates, it’s easy to forget about one of the most powerful digital marketing tools available - Email Marketing. It’s as old as the Internet itself, yet email remains one of the simplest and most useful tools for communicating with a large audience quickly and effectively. Email marketing can be grouped into two basic categories: e-Newsletters and e-Blasts/dedicated email offers. Both are essential components [...]

Dev Marketing 101: Email Marketing2023-03-06T10:11:44-05:00

Meet the Developer: Introducing Marc “Challenge the Mainstream” Clifton

What about the developer? Have you ever wondered about the developer experience of your advertising? If you are marketing to developers, you absolutely should. “Meet the Developer” lets you get to know individual developers. Meet the people behind the code and learn about how they experience the advertising and content you are throwing at them. I had the great pleasure of corresponding with Marc Clifton. Marc loves writing about novel approaches to coding and challenging mainstream concepts of software architecture. That’s why he gives back and writes for developer-to-developer (D2D) communities like CodeProject. Here’s what Marc had to say [...]

Meet the Developer: Introducing Marc “Challenge the Mainstream” Clifton2023-03-06T10:11:03-05:00

Making Developer Contests Count

Nothing incentivizes developer engagement better than developer contests. Implicit in the developer contest is the requirement for engagement via participation. By collecting data about who participates in each contest, you get more than a mailing list—you immediately gain valuable insight about your audience. What rewards attract them? Who tends to participate in contests? This is valuable customer insight! Even better, properly structured, your contest is sure to generate developer buzz, influencer content and new applications built on your platform. Remember that a contest is essentially a digital event. While digital events have lower cost per headcount than in person [...]

Making Developer Contests Count2023-03-06T10:11:02-05:00

Meet the Developer: Introducing Mahsa “Always Improving” Hassankashi

What about the developer? Have you ever wondered about the developer experience of your advertising? If you are marketing to developers, you absolutely should. Our goal with the “Meet the Developer” series is to give you— the marketer—insight into individual developers. Meet the people behind the code and learn about how they experience the advertising and content you are throwing at them. I had the great pleasure of speaking with Mahsa Hassankashi. Mahsa has earned a Master of Computer Science degree, but she is looking for a Ph.D. position. Throughout her career, she has relied on the developer community [...]

Meet the Developer: Introducing Mahsa “Always Improving” Hassankashi2023-03-06T10:11:01-05:00

Meet the Developer: Introducing Mark “Context Is Everything” Downie

What about the developer? Have you ever wondered about the developer experience of your advertising? If you are marketing to developers, you absolutely should. Our goal with the “Meet the Developer” series is to give you, the marketer, insight into individual developers. Meet the people behind the code and learn about how they experience the advertising and content you are throwing at them. Mark follows Scott Hanselman’s blog. In addition to following Scott’s blog, he has contributed as an interviewee on Scott’s podcast, Hanselminutes. Funnily enough, it was Mark’s own blog, poppastring.com, that indirectly motivated him to first reach [...]

Meet the Developer: Introducing Mark “Context Is Everything” Downie2023-03-06T10:11:00-05:00

Meet the Developer: Introducing Peter “I Can Be Bribed” Kvis

What about the developer? Have you ever wondered about the developer experience of your advertising? If you are marketing to developers, you absolutely should. Our goal with the “Meet the Developer” series is to give you, the marketer, insight into individual developers. Meet the people behind the code and learn about how they experience the advertising and content you are throwing at them. Peter Kvis (a.k.a. “Sonko”) participates in the Simple Programmer developer community. He started contributing there because the site helped him so much as a student. He still feels like he gets more out of it than [...]

Meet the Developer: Introducing Peter “I Can Be Bribed” Kvis2023-03-06T10:10:59-05:00

Meet the Developer: Introducing Michael “Show Me the Info“ Washington

What about the developer? Have you ever wondered about the developer experience of your advertising? If you are marketing to developers, you absolutely should. Our goal with the “Meet the Developer” series is to give you, the marketer, insight into individual developers. Meet the people behind the code and learn about how they experience the advertising and content you are throwing at them. Michael visits Alvin Ashcraft’s blog regularly to keep abreast of the rapid changes in his industry. He appreciates how Alvin curates his list of what is going on instead of relying on some kind of algorithm. [...]

Meet the Developer: Introducing Michael “Show Me the Info“ Washington2023-03-06T10:10:57-05:00