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How do you make copy engaging when marketing to a technical audience?

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  1. Ashley Faus
    Ashley Faus

    Atlassian Head of Lifecycle Marketing, Portfolio • 2y

    If you speak the language of your audience, they will be engaged! I think it's a myth that technical topics are "boring" or "dry". These topics are VERY interesting to your technical audience, so mirroring their language on these topics is key.A few tips to help: Be specific. For example, I market to developers, so there's high overlap with interest in video games. The phrase "Level Up!" comes up as a marketing suggestion often. But what does "level up" actually mean? If you talk about leveling ...Read More

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  2. Katharine Gregorio
    Katharine Gregorio

    Adobe Sr Director of Product Marketing, Creative Cloud • 2y

    Just because an audience is technical doesn't mean the messaging needs to be boring. The core way to approach messaging is to understand as much as you can about your target - where they spend their time, what resonates with them, etc. Once you have these insights and also have the positioning for your company or product you can then test your way into the messaging that will resonate the most by creating several iterations of the messaging and testing it with current or target users. You may (a ...Read More

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